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"The reason for this is that they are afraid that the arrival of capable foreign entrepreneurs will pay their workers more salaries, which will cause envy and resentment among the workers of the state-owned enterprises. These circumstances should be unknown to Herio. Danshi, 'There is not and cannot be a victory for the Left Commonarians. Comrade Lenin added: 'The problem is that the unjust refusal of England to allow us to participate in the conference has aroused extreme indignation in Russia, uniting not only the right communarians with the left, but also the non-party workers and peasants of the Russian broad-mindedness.' This would be tantamount to a complete burial of the lea concession. ”

"In his last question, Helio referred to the recent arrest of agents of a number of foreign companies in Russia, and he asked: 'Does this mean the resumption of nationalization and confiscation policies?' Comrade Lenin told him not to believe this, and Comrade Lenin said that it was not industrialists who were arrested, but 'some foreign exchange dealers on the black market' who were carrying out the activities of silver and gold, reselling them abroad. Comrade Lenin told him that at this regular session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the whole work of the government was to fix in the most firm form in law what was called the 'New Economic Policy', in order to exclude any possible deviation from it. ”

"On October 31, four days after the publication of Comrade Lenin's reply to the question posed by Helio, I learned that Comrade Lenin was going to address the morning meeting of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the 'parliament' of the Soviets. It was his first public speech since April. The guards at the Kremlin Dam-n gate looked at my documents and showed me the way to the Tsar's Palace. ”

"Fifty-eight wide staircases made of marble stone are laid upwards from the hall of the population to the hall leading to the hall of Kluang. At the top of the staircase, Repin's painting of Alexandra III receiving representatives of the peasants occupies the entire wall. A long corridor leads to the Golden Luang Hall, which is decorated with tall stone pillars and a jar of jīng made of huā more than one person high. The Golden Luang Hall itself is a lavish DA hall. It is illuminated by hundreds of tiny light bulbs, which are mounted on ten Jīng-made glass DA-shaped chandelier stands. The walls still hang the graphic emblems of the emperor's family—double-headed eagles, crowns, and so on. Danshi now takes the place of the throne on a platform that rises above the ground. On top of the platform was a long table covered with red cloth. Behind the table sat the leaders of the Soviets. Lenin and Stalin were not present. ”

"Nikolai? Krylenko first made a report on the Soviet Ministry of Justice M-N. The delegates, some dressed in the leather jackets worn by the political commissars, some in military tunics and French military blouses from the Civil War, and rough leather boots on their feet, wiped themselves on the ornate parquet floors, and sat in groups on the small gilded chairs used in the ballroom. I sat among them and didn't feel any restraint. ”

"After a while, Comrade Lenin walked in by M-N without any escort (there were both Russian representatives and Russian and foreign journalists). He sat in a gilded chair. For a moment at first, no one paid attention to him. Danshi then the people began to turn their heads to him, and then there was a whisper: 'Comrade Lenin', and then there was applause. The chairman of the conference invited Comrade Lenin to the podium. ”

"In the eyes of the average person, Comrade Lenin was not tall, bald, with dry, brownish S-skin, and a reddish and yellow-yellow s-beard that was small and scarce. He seemed to be hurrying to the pulpit on tiptoe. Then there was another round of applause. There were neither high cheers nor shouts of 'Banzai' in danshi. He pointed to the pocket watch he had taken out of his pocket and told the family that the doctor had not allowed him to speak for more than 20 minutes. I couldn't understand a single sentence of his speech, or at best, I could say that I only understood 5 or 10 sentences, but then I read the original text of his speech, and not long ago I read it again. In terms of quality, this speech is no less than the one he gave at the height of his mental power. ”

"Comrade Lenin started with two pieces of news: the Red Army had driven the last remaining White Guards out of Russia the other day. He said: 'It is not only the exploits and liliang of the Red Army that are at play here, but also the international situation and our foreign activities. I am confident that our foreign family will be able to defend the interests of the federal republics and the Russian Federation (which is actually appeasing the 'independent' republics. ）”,

"Lenin then turned the subject to the internal affairs of the le, saying: 'What we have achieved in this regard is not small.' Examples of these achievements are: the adoption of the LE Labour Code, which established the LE eight-hour workday. In the capitalist countries, where unemployment is rampant, and the capitalists are organising an attack on the working class, we have the lowest level of education, the least developed productive forces, and the worst ability to work. It is because we are aware of all this, and are not afraid to say from the podium, that we have more liliang than any other country to change this situation, and because of this, we will be able to catch up with them at a speed that other countries cannot dream of. ’”

"Comrade Lenin also congratulated the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on the adoption of the Land Code and the Criminal Code. He said that necessary changes to these codes may soon be necessary. Of course, you guys are well aware of this, and the speed of legislation like ours that no other DA country may have never had. It will be interesting to see whether, in the near future, they will have to try to catch up with Soviet Russia a little bit in this respect. ”

"Comrade Danshi Lenin also noted that the struggle against the bureaucracy proceeded much slower than hoped. In August 1918, the Bolsheviks conducted a survey of the Moscow apparatus, at which time there were 231,000 state and Soviet functionaries, both central and Moscow. At that time, it was decided to jīng simple organization. In October 1922, another investigation was conducted. I thought that the institution must be shrinking. But it turned out to be 243,000 people. Comrade Lenin said, 'Such institutions, which are more than double the size of the country, often work not for us, but against us, and this is a reality that there is no need to be afraid to say it, even from the rostrum of the highest legislative organ of our republic.' ’”

"Comrade Lenin hoped that this phenomenon would improve. Danshi also pointed out: 'It will be many years before we can improve our state apparatus and raise it to a higher level of literacy, not for individual individuals, but for the whole apparatus.' ’”

"After Comrade Lenin's speech, he announced a break. At this time, all the delegates began to set up and prepare to take group photos. Some of the delegates lay on the floor with their bodies stretched out. In the central row, from left to right, sat Kamenev, Lenin, Zinoviev, Kalinin and myself, as well as a number of other foreign guests. After posing and the photographer's request to 'take one more photo', we surrounded Comrade Le Lenin. Congratulations on his recovery. Lenin replied in English with a smile: 'I don't know Chinese. He turned around and ran away from the foreign guests with a smile. ”

"Comrade Lenin, having returned to Moscow from Gork on October 2, returned to his old habits and began to urge those with whom he worked again. This was caused by his nervous disturbance, which in turn made his nerves even more disturbed. Danshi, if he cared about his health, he would have been even more nervous, and he would have a premonition that some unexpected disaster was coming. There is no doubt that Comrade Lenin's administrative talent and abundant jīng power saved the Soviet system from extinction at his youngest age. Comrade Lenin not only achieved the Le10 event, but also protected the Le** from extinction in the difficult years that followed. ”

"From November 5 to December 5, the Fourth Congress of the LE Third International was held in Moscow and Petrograd. Comrade Lenin met with many delegations and personal representatives. At the beginning of November, as usual, he drew up a detailed outline of the report he was to make at the delegates' meeting. On November 13, he made this presentation in the Kremlin's Golden Luang Palace. I and other bourgeois journalists came to listen to the report. This time Comrade Lenin spoke German, and I understood German. ”

"The Russian Bolshevik Party is the head and purse of the Third International, but it agrees that it should formally submit itself to the jurisdiction of the Third International, and that it should therefore be like the delegations of other countries and must make a summary report at every congress of the Congress. It was this report made by Comrade Lenin. ”

"Comrade Lenin's voice was quite loud when he made his report, as fast as a machine gun. He said: 'The scope of my lecture is very limited. The title "The Fifth Anniversary of Russia and the Future of Shijie**" is too broad and too dale, and it is simply impossible for a person to explain it thoroughly in a single speech. Therefore, I will touch on only a small part of the subject, which is the issue of the 'New Economic Policy'. Comrade Lenin said that this was an important question, and since he himself was "studying this question at the moment", it was of the utmost importance to him. ”,

"As before, he spoke first of state capitalism, and referred to one of Le's own old arguments: 'State capitalism, though not a form of social benevolence, is a more appropriate form for us and for Russia than the existing one.' In other words, it is a more advantageous form than 'wartime communalism'. He admitted. They were unprepared for such a retreat. He reminded the delegates that that was his view of state capitalism in 1918. These few short lines of polemical x-ng were by no means a retreat plan at the time. For example, the very important point of freedom of trade, which is fundamental to domestic capitalism, is not mentioned here in a single word. This confirms the preliminary view of Comrade Lenin that by state capitalism he meant the capitalism of the people, as permitted by the state, and not to the ownership of enterprises by the state and the management of enterprises by the state. ”

"Comrade Lenin asked the foreign party comrades present (including our representatives of the Chinese Party) the question of a possible retreat. He said: "This is a problem that we must pay attention to at a time when there is such a fundamental change in shijie as the overthrow of capitalism and the very difficult construction of social benevolence. When it comes to **, there are often times when the enemy is caught off guard, and if we attack them at such a time, it will be easy to win. But this is not a problem, because if our enemy is quite calm, he will assemble Liliang and so on in advance. Then he would easily provoke us to attack and throw us back to where we were years ago. So even from a practical point of view, any party that is preparing a direct attack on capitalism in the near future should now consider how to secure its retreat. ’”

"Comrade Lenin continued: 'At the end of the Civil War, we were confronted with a very great - and I think the most - political crisis within Soviet Russia. This internal crisis was violent not only to the discontent of a considerable part of the peasants, but also to the discontent of the workers. Now, a year and a half later, at the end of 1922, we can make some comparisons. I think we can answer with a clear conscience that the past year and a half has proved with absolute certainty that we have withstood this test. ’”

"'Let's start with our financial system and the well-known Russian ruble. The amount of the Russian ruble is more than 1000 trillion, and in my opinion, this alone is enough for the Russian ruble to be famous. That's a lot. danshi is true even from an economic point of view, because zero can be crossed out. If we can stabilize the ruble for a long time, and then forever, then we will win. At that time, these astronomical figures, trillions, trillions, trillions, were nothing. In 1921, the price of the paper ruble remained stable for less than 3 months. In 1922 yijing lasted more than 5 months. To this day, we have learned to move forward. Now that we have learned this, I believe that we can learn to achieve further on this path in the future, as long as we do not do anything particularly stupid. However, the most important thing is commerce, that is, the flow of goods. We've been getting business up and running for two years, so I think it's fair to say that we can be happy with that. You know, we're alone. ’”

"Later, Comrade Lenin spoke again about their social goals. The main thing, of course, is the peasants. In 1921, the peasants became dissatisfied with the Bolsheviks, followed by a famine, in the words of Comrade Lenin, 'the evil fruit of the civil war'. His words give the impression that there had never been a famine in Russia. It was as if the armed grain convoys of the Bolsheviks had nothing to do with it. Danshi, Comrade Lenin said again that for a year the peasants paid the state a grain tax of several hundred million poods, 'and hardly any coercive means were used. Before 1921, peasant uprisings could be said to be a general phenomenon in Russia, but today there is almost no lean. The peasants are satisfied with their present situation, and we can rest assured that this assertion is made. ’”

"Comrade Lenin then spoke of light industrial production, that is, the production of daily necessities. Here Comrade Lenin pointed out that 'there is a general upsurge in light industry, and consequently there is a certain improvement in the living conditions of the workers in Petrograd and Moscow. This is worse in other areas,' and then Comrade Lenin referred to the question of heavy industry: 'We do not yet have a profitable concession project. The commercial yijing of the Danshi enabled the Soviet government to devote certain capitals of about 20 million gold rubles to the development of heavy industry. To save Russia, it is not enough to have a good harvest in agriculture, and it is not enough to have light industry in good condition, we must also have heavy industry. Heavy industry needs to be financed by the state. If we can't find such funds, then we will perish, and we will not be able to become a civilized state, let alone a socialist-charitable state. danshi 20 million rubles yijing has le. It can be seen that we have achievements. ’”,

"Comrade Lenin said: 'There is no doubt that we have done and will do many stupid things in the future. No one can judge this better and see this more clearly than me. Why do we do stupid things? This is not difficult to understand: first, we are a backward country. Secondly, the level of education in our country is extremely low. Thirdly, we do not have access to foreign aid. Those so-called civilized countries are against us. In fact, it often happens that here, above, where we are in charge of state power, the functionaries of the organs are still barely carrying out their duties, but below they are often opposed to our measures. In order to train new staff members, we have run Soviet schools and preparatory schools, so that in a few years we can produce a group of young people who can radically change the face of our institutions, provided that we do not do it in a hurry. ”

"Towards the end of his report, Comrade Lenin exhorted the delegates: 'I think that the most important thing for our family, both Russian and foreign, is that after the success of Russia, we should learn. Party organizations in foreign countries should absorb some of Russia's experience. Our learning is general learning, and your learning should be special learning, which is to truly understand the organization, structure, method and content of the work. If this is done, I am convinced that the future of shijie** is not danshi, but very good. ”

"Finally, Comrade Lenin stepped down from the rostrum amid the enthusiastic cheers of the delegates and guests."

Writing this, the young man in prison held the round glasses on the bridge of his nose and took a long breath.

Although he didn't understand why those who arrested him wanted him and his fellow victims to write "self-statements", he didn't care about them now. At this time, his thoughts were like ch-o, as if he was in the golden hall of the Kremlin again.