Chapter 312: The Philosophical Ship
After Lin Zixuan finished speaking, Jiang Jingguo breathed a sigh of relief.
He was really afraid that Lin Zixuan would make a remark criticizing the Soviet policy, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
He came to Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow for more than half a year, and although he spent most of his time studying at the university, he was not deaf or blind, and he could always read the news of Moscow through the newspapers.
The Soviet government showed no mercy to ********** people, and Moscow was filled with an atmosphere of repression.
He went through it in his mind and felt that Lin Zixuan's statement was not a big problem, so he organized the language and translated Lin Zixuan's speech.
The Soviets at the symposium came from all walks of life, from workers, peasants and soldiers, to some sociologists.
No one took up the topic of "the primary stage of socialism" raised by Lin Zixuan.
This topic involves the issue of the exposition of Marxism, and if it is not said well, it is a wrong line and it is easy to cause accidents.
They looked at each other, and the atmosphere became weird.
Finally, a scholar spoke, and Jiang Jingguo translated it and reminded Lin Zixuan to answer carefully.
"Comrade Lin, how do you think we can make the leap from the primary stage to the advanced stage faster?"
This question is indeed difficult to answer, and it concerns the direction of the state policy of the Soviet Union.
Lin Zixuan can't say that you don't want to practice a planned economy, you must practice a market economy, and you need to bring advanced technology from Western countries in order to develop rapidly, otherwise you will go bankrupt and dissolve.
Regardless of whether these proposals were suited to the conditions of the Soviet Union, if he had said them, he would have been regarded as a spy of the Western bourgeoisie.
Fortunately, Lin Zixuan is not a political figure, he is a novelist, and there is no need to answer such serious questions.
"I don't understand economics, I think it will require the joint efforts of the Soviet people." Lin Zixuan responded.
This sentence made Jiang Jingguo and the people present relax, and no one wanted to cause trouble.
Then they talked to themselves. I didn't ask Lin Zixuan's opinion anymore, for fear that this Chinese writer would say something surprising.
At the end of the symposium, as is customary, a copy of the minutes of the meeting will be sent to the Soviet intelligence services for the record.
This was the treatment of foreign celebrities in the Soviet Union, and every Soviet citizen was obliged to report to the government the words and deeds of foreigners.
Lin Zixuan was not in the scope of the close monitoring of the Soviet intelligence services, but only slightly attracted the attention of the intelligence departments.
After all, the USSR had huge interests in China. Lin Zixuan is a little famous.
The minutes of the meeting were sent to the intelligence department, and there were professionals who analyzed the intentions of Lin Zixuan's words, and there were two main points in this paragraph.
One is that "poverty is not socialism", which is a dissatisfaction with the current state of poverty in the Soviet Union.
Another important point is the "primary stage of socialism", which is a characterization of the nature of the Soviet state.
From this passage, it can also be analyzed that this Chinese believes that the Soviet Union should first develop agriculture, achieve food and clothing, and then develop industry.
This was a wanton interference in the domestic economic development policy of the Soviet Union.
The analyst felt that the problem was serious and had reached the level of the nature of the state and the theory of revolution.
So, he wrote his opinion. The information was presented to the higher authorities.
The higher authorities also carried out an analysis, and unable to judge the intentions of the Chinese novelist, specially invited Marxist theoreticians in the Soviet Union to study the problem of this "primary stage".
Some theorists flipped through Marx's classic works and finally found that Marx had not said this question!
In Marx's time, the question of whether socialism could be realized was discussed, not how socialism could develop.
So, should socialism in the Soviet Union adopt this kind of stage division?
These theorists can't call the shots. It could only continue to be reported, and it was eventually sent to the Kremlin.
Lin Zixuan didn't know that Soviet intelligence officers were so serious and responsible. I didn't expect the content of the symposium to be sent to the intelligence agency, he just said it casually.
He continued his journey to Moscow, visiting various historical monuments of the Tsarist era with Feng Chengcheng.
Moscow is the capital of a country, like Xi'an and Beiping in China, with remnants of different eras.
Two days later, he was invited to an exchange event organized by the Soviet Writers' Association.
The theme was the exchange of literary circles between China and the Soviet Union. Showing the new style of the vigorous development of Soviet revolutionary literature.
Lin Zixuan looked at the list of participants and didn't find any writers he knew.
He did not know many Soviet writers, some of whom had not yet engaged in literary creation, and many of whom had been expelled abroad.
In 1922, an event took place in the USSR that became known as the "philosophical ship".
In that year, the Soviet Union began a systematic and systematic expulsion of intellectuals.
Late at night on August 16, 1922. Operational teams from the Russian State Security Service carried out a large-scale manhunt in Moscow, Petrograd and Ukraine.
The targets of the raid were professors, researchers, engineers, scientists and writers at the most important universities in Russia at that time.
The manhunt lasted until August 22, and a total of 225 high-ranking intellectuals were included in the list.
After being interrogated, the Russian intellectual elite was expelled from their homeland on two German ships and headed for the West, most of them settled in Berlin or Paris.
The Soviet authorities believed that only by eliminating them could Russia be "purified".
During this period, the Soviet Union expelled these ********** intellectual elites, unlike the persecution that later took place during Stalin's rule.
It's their luck.
Lin Zixuan didn't know these Soviet writers, and these Soviet writers didn't know who Lin Zixuan was.
Lin Zixuan's books were not translated into Russian, and his novels were not revolutionary, full of bourgeois sentiments, and could not be published in the Soviet Union at all.
In this way, the so-called communication becomes a formality.
Soviet writers talked a lot about revolutionary literature, criticized bourgeois literature, and criticized all Western writings, and only those writers who praised or were close to the Soviet Union could get their praise.
Lin Zixuan hadn't read their writings, so he couldn't talk about it.
He originally wrote a manuscript about the origins of Chinese culture and Russian culture, but when he saw this situation, he gave up and talked about the development of new Chinese literature.
It was just a general remark, and he had no expectations for this exchange meeting.
At the end of the meeting, someone took Lin Zixuan to visit the honor exhibition room of the Writers' Association to introduce the famous writers of this period in the Soviet Union.
There are many portraits hanging in the exhibition room, and the portraits of each famous writer have their books and honors underneath.
Gorky was in first place and received the most honors.
The person in charge of the writers' association was full of pride and introduced one writer after another, and one of them, Zamyatin, introduced it very briefly, and it ended with just the name being said.
This aroused Lin Zixuan's interest. (To be continued.) )