Chapter VII: The Great Trial of History

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September is the most beautiful time in Vladivostok in the Far East of China. Under the golden sun, the colorful clouds on the horizon are erratic, and the mirage in the old dream looms in the ice-free port. Under the sparkling clouds, the blue sea, flowers are in full bloom, and the railways in the city and the roadside are all clumps and patches of green grass.

In a seven-story building in the center of Vladivostok, although the outer walls of this building have been mottled and peeled off, and moss has grown, the steps in front of the house have been worn off the edges and corners, and some are still dripping out of the pits by the water from the eaves, but the interior is newly decorated, the United Nations flag is flying high, and the entrance is guarded by peacekeeping soldiers provided by China, Germany, Britain, the United States and other countries, solemn, and solemn, and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East is located here.

In September 1910, the United Nations Security Council authorized the promulgation of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, announcing the establishment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East to conduct a major trial of Dzerzhinsky and a large number of other Bolshevik war criminals. Judges are to be jointly appointed by China, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and other countries.

China had the richest intelligence gathering on the Bolsheviks and was well aware of their crimes, and after consultations among various countries, China appointed a person to be the president of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Song Xiaofei considered again and again and nominated Wu Tingfang, China's former foreign minister, to be the president of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Wu Tingfang was 68 years old in 1910, had retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, he studied in England at his own expense in 1874, entered the London College to study law, and was admitted to the bar, he was the first doctor of law in modern China, presided over the revision of many laws, put forward a series of advanced ideas including the abolition of torture, the implementation of jury and the lawyer system, and was also the first Chinese member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. In addition, he served as China's Minister of Foreign Affairs for many years. Politicians and media in Europe and the United States have great trust in his ability and character. Song Xiaofei nominated Wu Tingfang as president of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, which was quickly unanimously approved by the United Nations Security Council.

This is a great opportunity to leave a name in history, Wu Tingfang is idle in his hometown in Fangcun, Guangzhou after retirement. Being the president of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East can not only give full play to his legal expertise, but also give Chinese a long face in the international community. can still uphold the justice of mankind, Wu Tingfang happily accepted the order, packed his luggage, and took the train to Vladivostok, China.

Passing through Beijing, Song Xiaofei met with Wu Tingfang. Wu Tingfang asked Song Xiaofei what he wanted from this trial, and Song Xiaofei smiled and said: "In Taixi, judges represent fairness and justice, and even the president cannot interfere with the trial of cases. You can try it according to the law. My personal expectation is that you will seek truth from facts, do not fabricate any facts, do not wrongfully accuse a good person, and do not let go of a bad person, so that this great trial can stand the test of history!

At 9 a.m. on September 15, 1910, more than 500 observers and more than 100 domestic and foreign journalists entered the main courtroom of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East to the sound of the military music of the United Nations. As soon as the military music ended, Wu Tingfang, who was wearing a black* official robe, got up and rang the gavel. The opening of the court was announced.

The Tribunal first confirmed the identity of the war criminals who were present. After Lenin's arrest, he learned that he was about to be tried by an international tribunal, and his mental pressure was enormous. Gradually, he became intolerant of noise, his temper became more and more irritable, he sometimes lost his self-control, and he was overly sensitive to things, and he could not even tolerate the sound of the violin. Coupled with the fact that one bullet passed through the lung and left in the collarbone after the assassination, and the other stuck under the neck, both bullets remained in his body, plus a family history of cardiovascular disease caused by his father's high cholesterol, and syphilis that affected the nervous system. So that Lenin died early.

The biggest leader of the Bolsheviks who was present at the trial was Mikhail Murphy, chairman of the All-Soviet Central Executive Committee. Ivanovich. Kalinin, followed by Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the notorious "Cheka". And Nikolai. Ivanovich. Bukharin and other high-ranking Bolsheviks, a total of 1,250 war criminals of all levels.

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East prosecuted the Bolsheviks for the first and foremost crimes of constitutional sabotage. Cherniksky, a prosecutor from Belarus, stood up and complained: "After the formation of the Soviet government. Russia holds elections for the Constituent Assembly. But the election resulted: only 9 million of Russia's 36 million voters voted for Lenin's Bolshevik Party, and nearly 21 million voted for Kerensky's Socialist-Revolutionary. Of the 707 seats in the Constituent Assembly, the SRP won a clear majority with 370 seats. The Bolshevik Party won only 175 seats, while the rest were held by parties such as the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and ethnic minorities. Lenin and the Bolshevik Party, however, were not reconciled to defeat and immediately issued an order in the name of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviets to dissolve the Constituent Assembly, impose a one-party dictatorship, and abolish freedom of the press. Lenin's transformation of the Soviet power from a multi-party regime into a one-party regime by the Bolsheviks aroused not only the hatred of the military generals and politicians of the overthrown old regime, but also the opposition of all other parties, especially the Socialist-Revolutionaries representing the interests of the peasants, thus triggering the Russian Civil War and killing more than 10 million Russian people. ”

When asked what the defendant's defense was, Bukharin took out Lenin's original words from Pravda as his defense: "If someone accuses us of the Bolsheviks of being a one-party dictatorship, we say yes, we are a one-party dictatorship, and that the illegitimate individual dictatorship has become the manifestation, representative, and executor of the dictatorship of the revolutionary class." We say yes, the interests of the revolution take precedence over the legal rights of parliament, and the law should be subordinated to the government produced by the revolution, otherwise it will only disappear. We have never spoken of freedom, but only of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The Bolsheviks were the only legal political party in the country and did not allow any party to publish ideas that poisoned people. ”

The reporters quickly jotted down Bukharin's statement, and there was a lot of discussion, and there was a commotion in the courtroom, and Wu Tingfang once again struck the oak table with a gavel and shouted: "Silence." I now invite the prosecution to continue the charges. ”

Cherniksky, the prosecutor of Belarus, stood up and continued to file the accusation: the second major crime was the massacre of innocent people. Including Lenin's order for the secret execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, who had long been imprisoned, as well as five young children.

Wu Tingfang asked Dzerzhinsky: "Was it Lenin himself who ordered the execution of the Tsar, his wife, and their five children?" ”

Dzerzhinsky said: "At that time Tsar Nicholas II threatened our regime......"

Before Dzerzhinsky could finish his sentence, Wu Tingfang interrupted him: "You haven't reached the time to defend yet, now you just need to answer yes or no." ”

Dzerzhinsky bowed his head and said, "Yes." ”

Cherniksky, the prosecutor of Belarus, went on to accuse, saying: "The most indicative of the Bolshevik massacre of innocent people was the repression of the Kronstadt sailors. After the Bolsheviks came to power, in order to cope with the intervention wars of various countries, they resolutely pursued wartime policies, which led to the collapse of the economy, and the people were not free and lived in extreme hardship. Peasant uprisings broke out everywhere, and workers went on strike. Kronstadt sailors stationed near the waters off Petrograd also rose up in revolt, denouncing the Bolsheviks' policy of bloody destruction and demanding new and completely free secret elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and assembly, equal distribution of food, the abolition of trade restrictions, the free development of handicrafts and small industries, and the prohibition of restrictions on the peasants' stockkeeping. Lenin, having sent Kalinin to persuade the sailors to stop the rally, decided to resort to force to suppress it. Trotsky ordered that if the sailors did not surrender, they would be killed one by one, as if they were shooting a target. Sure enough, not a single sailor was willing to lay down his arms, and the resistance was so fierce and resolute that about 10,000 Red Army soldiers were killed, maimed or missing. The Kronstadt sailors consisted of about 10,000 people, 1/10 of whom were members of the Bolshevik Party, and not a single one of them surrendered. Those who were captured, a few were executed after trial, and the majority were executed without trial or sent to Cheka concentration camps. ”

Wu Tingfang asked the chairman of the All-Soviet and Central Executive Committee Mikhail. Ivanovich. Kalinin: "Are these all true? ”

Kalinin, a peasant boy who had been employed by a landlord in his youth, had an extremely cowardly character, and his wife, who had historically been innocently sent to a concentration camp and did not dare to defend herself, stood in the dock of the court, trembling with her legs, and replied in a low voice: "It's true." ”

Another of the Bolsheviks' great crimes was charged and tried for crimes against humanity. Lenin, with his natural zeal, instilled in the Bolsheviks hatred of religion, especially Orthodox Christianity. He pointed the finger at the Russian Orthodox Church and tens of millions of believers.

The indifference between good and evil made the Bolsheviks free and lawless at home. Acts of religious desecration are flourishing under the umbrella of State policy. Lenin put forward the slogan "the complete elimination of the church and the old prisons" and resorted to terror against the church.

After the successful coup d'Γ©tat, Lenin's first resolutions against the Church were aimed at the Russian Orthodox Church, which he considered the greatest enemy of the Bolsheviks, and the monasteries and churches were confiscated by the state. Lenin instructed "ruthless and massive measures of terror against the priests". At his initiative, the activities of the regional synod were banned.

For example, the barbarism of machine-gun shooting of the Kremlin. Those who have been to the Kremlin should know that the Kremlin, which means "inner city" in Russian, has 18 towers on the red wall, which are scattered in a staggered triangular wall, the most spectacular and famous of which is the Savior Tower with its bells. The golden-domed churches of the Kremlin are Orthodox holy places. The first of the religious complexes is the majestic Cathedral of the Assumption, built in the late 15th century, with its gabled arches and golden round towers, which has been the place where the Tsar held his coronation. The Church of the Annunciation, built a little later than the Cathedral of the Assumption, has a beautiful shape and nine golden domes at the top, and is the place where the children of the royal family are baptized and married. The Cathedral of the Angels was built in the early 16th century as a burial place for the emperors of Moscow Park before Peter the Great. From a military point of view, the Bolshevik firing was unnecessary, because the nobles who occupied the Kremlin had already left the place late at night. (To be continued)