Chapter VII: The All-Out Civil War in Russia
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On the third day after Lenin's assassination, Yakov. Sverdlov hastily executed the "murderer" Kaplan. Watermark Advertising TestWatermark Advertising TestFor a long time, Sverdlov was one of the youngest leaders in the Bolshevik Party and was regarded as Lenin's close assistant, so he soon got his wish and replaced Lenin as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviets, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (CPR). Although at this time Tsar Nicholas II was still in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, anxiously planning a counterattack.
Sverdlov's prestige in the Bolshevik army was insufficient, so he sent a telegram to Trotsky in the Urals, telling him to rush back to Moscow as soon as possible: "Comrade Lenin is already lying in a hospital bed, unable to move, and we should join forces to carry on his cause." The All-Russian Central Executive Committee is ready to appoint you chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Soviets. ”
Soon Trotsky quickly returned to Moscow, and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee appointed Trotsky chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Soviets. Sverdlov also appointed his confidant Zagorsky as party secretary of the Moscow city party committee, and Yurovsky as the head of the Kremlin guard and mastered the Cheka, and he quickly took control of the situation and finally enjoyed the supremacy of the Bolsheviks.
Sverdlov, in order to consolidate his power, issued the "Red Terror Order" on behalf of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviets, and the slogan of the Red Army at that time was: "Raise the banner of the class struggle higher, let the blood of the enemy flow, let's step on their mountain of corpses to the **!" "After this decree was issued, the Red Army arrested people who opposed Sverdlov in various places and killed innocents indiscriminately. Tens of thousands of innocent lives were taken, and the Bolshevik region was plunged into a sea of terror.
Another important leader of the Bolsheviks, Bukharin, expressed his displeasure with the assassination of Lenin, as well as the speedy execution of Kaplan, at this time. He felt that things were not simple. Secretly went to meet Dzerzhinsky, the former head of the Cheka. Dzerzhinsky had already been relieved of the Cheka chairman by Sverdlov on the pretext that he "did not defend Lenin well".
In a dacha on the outskirts of Moscow. Bukharin visited Dzerzhinsky late at night. Dzerzhinsky was smoking, cigarette after cigarette, smoke covering his thin face, and his wife was packing.
Dzerzhinsky meets Bukharin. Taken aback, "Comrade Bukharin, why are you here?" No one is following you, right? ”
Bukharin, who walked into the house and saw that the family was packing their belongings as if they were going out for a long time, was also very surprised, and asked: "Comrade Dzerzhinsky." What are you? ”
Dzerzhinsky said: "Comrade Bukharin, I am going to Switzerland for a vacation. ”
Knowing that he was going to flee to Switzerland, Bukharin sighed and said: "Comrade Dzerzhinsky. Comrade Lenin is not dead, and you are afraid of that Jewish mongrelrel? ”
Dzerzhinsky asked: "Where is Comrade Lenin now?" ”
Bukharin said: "Now the village of Gork on the outskirts of Moscow. I went to see him, and the doctor said that it was absolutely not life-threatening and that he might be back to health soon. ”
Dzerzhinsky shook his head, "How long is it soon?" Ten days? One month? Or three months? Comrade Lenin's surroundings are now certainly Sverdlov's men. ”
"At this critical juncture, I want you to stay," Bukharin said. The Cheka needs you, the Bolsheviks need you, Comrade Lenin needs you, Comrade Dzerzhinsky. Sverdlov has not been able to fully command the Cheka now. ”
Dzerzhinsky waved his hand and said: "Because Sverdlov is not able to fully command the Cheka now, I will be his biggest threat, and I have to leave, otherwise, what awaits me will be a cruel ice axe." I know that the Cheka has at least a hundred methods that can make people miserable. You also take care, Comrade Bukharin. ”
After speaking, Dzerzhinsky gave Bukharin a military salute. Bukharin knew that he had made up his mind, and said: "Go ahead, and as soon as you arrive in Switzerland, send me a telegram with your contact address." I will inform you as soon as Comrade Lenin's health improves. ”
Dzerzhinsky nodded and wrote an address to Bukharin, "Contact when the time comes." ”
Sverdlov's good dreams didn't last long. The shooting did not kill Lenin, on the contrary, Lenin got better day by day in the village of Gork. And Sverdlov, who was busy suppressing all kinds of opposition, went so far as to ignore the possibility that Lenin might wake up. Because he knew that the bullet that assassinated Lenin was poisonous. But the bitter cold weather in Moscow saved Lenin's life.
That day, Yurovsky ran to Sverdlov's office and told him the exciting news: "Comrade Lenin has woken up and is now able to get out of bed and move. ”
"What, what did you say?" Sverdlov was so shocked that the document in his hand fell to the ground with a "snap". Yurovsky repeated what he had just said, and Sverdlov's mind went blank, and he waved his hand to signal Yurovsky to go out first, and he wanted to be alone and quiet. Yurovsky turned and left.
Sverdlov paced alone in his office, from east to west of Lenin's office, and back, over and over again, anxious and anxious.
Half an hour later, Sverdlov finally quieted down. Wearing a large gray trench coat and a hat with a low brim, he went to the Kremlin's prison for serious offenders. The big iron lock on the cell door was once again clattered open, and the shaft of the heavy and huge iron door made a muffled sound like a mixer, and Sverdlov went in and saw Uranoyan, who was pale, with his hair unkempt like a bird's nest, and heavy shackles on his feet, who had not escaped that day at Moscow University, and who had been arrested for having a Browning pistol in his arms.
Sverdlov exchanged a few words with Ouranoyan, and then looked straight to the point, "Young man, I'll give you a chance, you go to the village of Gork to assassinate a person, and I can give you freedom!" Otherwise, you will spend your life in this basement. ”
Ouranoyan did not know that he was going to assassinate Lenin, and did not think that he would have a chance to get out, so he agreed to Sverdlov's request. Sverdlov nodded and said, "Very good, I will arrange everything." Your task. Just pull the trigger and kill the person in the hospital bed. ”
In the middle of the night, Uranoyan was taken by a car to the village of Gork to begin this secret mission. He clenched on the Browning pistol. Pushed open the door. Quietly walked in, Lenin in the hospital bed was dressed in a patient's striped gown. Keep your eyes closed. When Ouranoyan approached, he raised his pistol and was about to pull the trigger, but at this time. Lenin woke up, opened his eyes, the moonlight outside the window shone on Lenin's face, and Uranoyan, recognizing Lenin, was stunned at once and forgot to pull the trigger, at this time. Outside the door, two henchmen arranged by Bukharin noticed the anomaly in the ward, rushed into the room, and "bang" two shots hit Uranoyan and one shot in the chest. With a headshot, Ouranoyan, with those big innocent eyes, collapsed in a pool of blood and was killed on the spot. His bright eyes seemed to have too many questions about this dusty world. But all this still has nothing to do with him, a dead man.
Bukharin immediately replaced all of Lenin's bodyguards, and immediately reported to Lenin the suspicions about Sverdlov's swift execution of Kaplan. For Sverdlov, the bigger nightmare was when he found that Lenin had realized that his closest comrades-in-arms were trying to kill him in order to replace him. Because the next day, when Sverdlov heard about the shooting in the ward, he rushed to visit Lenin, found Lenin with a serious expression, showed indifference to his concern, and asked to return to the Kremlin immediately to recuperate.
Sverdlov had no choice but to perfunctory Lenin and say: "Comrade Lenin, your office in the Kremlin is being renovated, it will take some time. ”
At the same time, back in the Kremlin, Sverdlov immediately called Trotsky and the others. Members of the Central Committee, at a meeting, adopted a resolution: for the cause of the proletariat, the great Comrade Lenin "must" recover completely before he can return to work.
When Bukharin told Lenin about this resolution, Lenin immediately became furious and said: "Sverdlov, this conspirator, he is seizing power!" Immediately recall Dzerzhinsky from Switzerland to Moscow! ”
After Dzerzhinsky returned to Moscow, Lenin signed an order to restore Dzerzhinsky to the post of chairman of the Cheka Committee, and he soon regained control of the Cheka.
Bukharin went to Trotsky's office, and as soon as they met, Bukharin got straight to the point, "Comrade Trotsky, you now have two choices, continue to follow that Jewish mongrel, or go back to the great Lenin." ”
Trotsky smiled and said something meaningful: "I have never left Comrade Lenin. ”
Three days later, accompanied by Dzerzhinsky, Bukharin, and Trotsky, Lenin resolutely returned to the Kremlin despite all obstacles, and Sverdlov was taken aback and sensed that the tide was turning, but Sverdlov was not reconciled and tried to regain Lenin's trust, but he found that it was in vain. Lenin, who had already been through the ghost gate, no longer trusted Bukharin and Trotsky, let alone him.
Sverdlov panicked and ran to Ukraine to hide for a while, however, Ukraine was quickly recaptured by the troops of Tsar Nicholas II, and Sverdlov had to return to Moscow from Ukraine by train.
On the way back to Moscow, the situation was chaotic, and Sverdlov gave a speech at a rally of railway workers. However, the hungry workers had no intention of listening to his empty preaching, shouting: "You flattering liar, we want bread, we don't want it!" ”
A crowd of agitated young workers, shouting "You liar", rushed towards Sverdlov like a tidal wave, and one of them, with a sharpened iron pipe, pierced Sverdlov's chest! He plunged a sharp iron pipe into his heart, and his blood flowed down the cold iron pipe, staining the dirty ground red. The Cheka, who was present, was busy dispersing the crowd, and Sverdlov, the second man of the Bolsheviks, lay on the cold ground and died suddenly after returning to Moscow.
After Sverdlov's death, the Cheka searched Sverdlov's personal safe and made a shocking discovery: the safe was stuffed with gold bars, precious stones, important documents and foreign currency, in addition to foreign passports with various false names. Previously, the Bolshevik propaganda apparatus had portrayed Sverdlov as a revolutionary ascetic, but the new discoveries in the safe were completely out of proportion to this. When Lenin learned of this, he immediately ordered the safes to be sealed. Because at this time, if the "number two" of the Bolshevik Party were known to have betrayed the revolution and wanted to murder the great revolutionary leader, the effect would be unimaginable, and at least it would cause serious ideological confusion within the party.
So, in response to Sverdlov's sudden death, the Bolsheviks claimed that he had died of a severe cold virus, but in a document to the upper echelons of the Bolsheviks that Sverdlov had been assassinated during a public address to railway workers. Soon after Sverdlov's death, the Bolsheviks held a solemn funeral for him, and Lenin and all the other Bolshevik leaders collectively staged a play, pretending to be deeply saddened by Sverdlov's death and shedding tears of sadness. Lenin even stroked his chest and said bitterly: "Sverdlov's absence is an incalculable loss for the Soviets, and we will have to organize another agency of several dozen people in the future to complete his work alone".
Shortly after Sverdlov's funeral, another man ran to the window of the office of Zagorsky, the party secretary of Moscow, and threw a bomb into it, killing Sverdlov's close friend.
As a result of this toss-up, coupled with the Bolsheviks' "wartime" economic policy at home, a great famine broke out in the Bolshevik-controlled areas, and millions of people starved to death in one winter. The army of Tsar Nicholas II took the opportunity to counterattack, and the fighting on both sides was fierce, and a full-scale civil war broke out! The Bolsheviks under Lenin's leadership were in crisis and had no choice but to turn to China for help.
Song Xiaofei received Lenin's distress telegram and immediately convened an emergency meeting to convene Xu Shichang, Duan Qirui, Liu Buyun and others to discuss whether to send troops to support Lenin. According to Song Xiaofei's idea, this is a good opportunity to carve up the Tsarist Russian Empire, and can unite with Britain or Germany to split Tsarist Russia into more than ten countries such as Ukraine and Belarus, so that the pressure on China's northwest defense line can be greatly reduced! Or, just as the Soviet Union had taken all the industrial facilities in northeastern China back home, China could send troops to Moscow and other places to transport Tsarist Russia's industrial equipment and machinery to the Far East and Northeast China, and in this way, China's industrial strength could be greatly enhanced.