March 18, 1922, Moscow, Soviet Union, Kremlin.

"Chairman Mao ZD, Comrade Zhou Elai, the most important issue now is to support the German revolution, which is our bounden duty as internationalists!" It was the great mentor Lenin who spoke, and the one who listened to Lenin was naturally Mao Zd, chairman of the Chinese G, Zhou Elai, secretary of the Northwest Bureau, and Zhong Zhijie, head of the Chinese and G international delegation to GC -- among them, Zhong Zhijie urgently returned to Moscow after learning the news of the German March Revolutionary Party, and Mao Zd could have arrived in Moscow before the German March Revolution, but he went around Xinjiang to pick up Zhou E, although there was an airship to ride, but it was still delayed for a few days. As a result, as soon as I got off the train in Moscow, I saw that the streets were full of people marching with red flags. After asking Zhong Zhijie, I learned that it was the German Revolution that had won.

On the afternoon of their arrival in Moscow, Mao Zd, Zhou Elai, and Zhong Zhijie received a notice from the Kremlin that Comrade Lenin would personally receive the two of them. Before that, Zhong Zhijie also conveyed to Mao ZD and Zhou Elai the attitude of the Nationalist Government towards the German revolution -- China cannot recognize the freshly baked German Soviet Government! After Zhou Elai (Mao ZD refused to say anything) conveyed this meaning to Comrade Lenin, the teacher's face darkened at that time, and he also raised the name of internationalism.

"Oh? Both our government and the Chinese GCD believe that the most important thing at the moment is to avoid the outbreak of World War II. For the German Revolution...... Our party is spiritually supportive, but the first consideration of the Chinese GCD is the interests of the Chinese people. The Chinese do not want the country to be embroiled in European disputes. Hopefully, Comrade Lenin and the Soviet GCD can understand our position. Zhou Elai said lightly, it seems that he did not take the great teacher of the world revolution in front of him too seriously. His words were relayed to Lenin by Zhong Zhijie, who was acting as an interpreter on the spot. A hint of displeasure flashed across the mentor's face.

"GC International will issue a call to support the German revolution to the proletarians of the world!" Lenin insisted. "And the Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is ready to take a direct part in the struggle to help the working people of Germany!"

After listening to Zhong Zhijie's translation, Mao ZD and Zhou Elai's faces changed a little, and Chairman Mao, who had not spoken all this time, finally spoke: "Then what does Your Excellency the Chairman mean is to let the Red Army advance to Poland...... You, the Soviet Union, have no borders on Germany, and if the Red Army were to take a direct part in the German revolution, it would only be a violation of Polish sovereignty! ”

"Not a violation of Polish sovereignty!" After waiting for Zhong Zhijie to finish relaying Mao's words in Russian, Lenin stood up abruptly and retorted loudly: "Since Britain and France will inevitably invade the nascent Soviet Germany, the Soviet Red Army will provide direct military help to the German people." For this. We have already asked the Polish government to open its borders and agree to allow the Red Army to send Polish territory to aid Germany. ”

"What if Poland doesn't agree?" Zhong Zhijie didn't wait for Mao ZD and Zhou E to propose, so he asked himself.

Lenin waved his hand vigorously and replied loudly: "That would mean that White Poland is helping France, Britain to strangle Soviet Germany!" That would be tantamount to war against Soviet Germany, and the Soviet Red Army would remove by force an obstacle that had been placed before our aid to the German revolution! We hope that the Chinese GCD will stand with us and the German people at this critical moment that will determine the future and fate of the world revolution! Fight for the cause of human liberation! ”

He spoke righteously, as if the invasion of Poland was a matter of righteousness. Mao ZD and Zhou Elai frowned and listened to Zhong Zhijie's translation, looked at each other, and shook their heads slightly. Although they are all leaders of the Chinese GCD. He also sympathized with and supported the German Revolution in a certain way. But it is still impossible for them to agree that China will take the Soviet chariot and fight a world war -- Zhou Elai is against it from the bottom of his heart. And Mao ZD knew very well that the whole party was ready to help the Soviet Union fight a world war, and there would be no more than thirty people in the whole party! So he wouldn't approve of this kind of thing.

"Comrade Lenin," Zhou said in Russian, he knew a little Russian, but he didn't speak it well. "The world revolution has come too early for us, our first five-year plan has just begun, and socialism in Xinjiang has just begun...... Our strength is limited and we cannot afford to fight a world war. ”

Before he could finish his sentence, Lenin let out a short, shrill laugh, and then began to speak quickly in French to Zhou Elai, who had studied in France. French is very good, but Zhong Zhijie, who is the translator, does not understand this language, so he has to smile at Mao ZD awkwardly. As soon as the words of the GC teacher stopped, Zhou Elai turned to Mao ZD and said: "Comrade Lenin believes that there will be no world war, as long as China and Russia stand together - it will be the union of the most populous country in the world and the country with the most vast land!" Britain, France, and the United States would never dare to go to war with such two countries. Therefore there will be no world war, and the enemy will retreat and obediently cede Germany - Comrade Lenin was convinced. When the time comes. The countries with the most advanced industrial technologies in the world will also become part of the socialist camp. With German technology and the labor and resources of China and the Soviet Union, as well as the superiority of socialism, in less than 10 years we will surpass capitalism in industrial production. ”

When Zhou e came to translate. Lenin took out a pocket-sized map of the world from a desk drawer and made a few strokes on it with a red ink pen. As soon as Zhou Elai's voice fell, he handed over the map to Zhong Zhijie. "This is the area we plan to liberate in the near future, and it's all marked with a red five-pointed star. Including Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Hungary and, of course, Germany...... Now more than 1 million Soviet Red Army troops have secretly concentrated on the Soviet-Polish border, and Comrades Trotsky and Vatsettis have arrived in Minsk to take command! If you really don't want to join the war, then the Chinese GCD should also call on volunteers to come to Europe to fight in order to make a partisan stance. I don't have anything more to say. ”

After Zhong Zhijie translated his words, the Great Mentor suddenly showed the kind smile that can only be seen in photographs. Changing the subject, he asked, "How are you doing with the socialist practice in Xinjiang?" Is there anything else we can help with? ”

Zhou Elai said in blunt Russian: "Comrade Lenin, tell you the truth, the socialist construction in Xinjiang is proceeding very slowly, very, very slowly...... In fact, socialism has not really emerged in Xinjiang. At the moment our focus is again on attracting immigrants, and I provide each of them with fertile arable land, which is owned by them personally, and they will become kulaks in the next few years, but they will not be landlords, because no one will rent their land. The biggest problem we are facing now is how to transform Xinjiang's economy, which is dominated by rich peasants, in the future. ”

Hear the word "kulak". Lenin smiled. "The kulaks are not a problem, it is enough to confiscate their property and put them under the watchful eye of the poor peasants."

"But......" Zhou Elai shook his head. Comrade Lenin, you don't understand what I mean. In order to attract people from the interior to Xinjiang, we have offered very favorable conditions. Every newcomer gets 10 acres of fertile land along the Ili River for free! If calculated according to the calculation of five people in one household, every agricultural household in Xinjiang now owns 50 mu of land...... By Chinese standards, these people were kulaks, even landlords! Moreover, the soldiers of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have also allocated land according to this standard......"

"You mean," Lenin had a puzzled look in his eyes. "There are no poor middle peasants in Xinjiang now?"

"We estimate that in the future, there will be no poor and middle peasants in the socialist real areas."

"There will always be class divisions." Lenin shrugged his shoulders and said, "Because there are differences between people." Some people are industrious, some people are lazy

Lazy. Some are smart, some are stupid...... And there is also the element of luck, as well as the factor of having children. If there are more children, there will be less land per capita, and then the poor middle peasants will be born. ”

Zhou Elai hesitated and asked, "What do you mean...... The poor and middle peasants are all lazy and stupid unlucky people who can only have children? ”

Lenin pondered for a moment and said earnestly: "It cannot be said that the main thing is that the social system in which man exploits man is not good...... We are now going to eradicate this system in the whole world! After saying this, he nodded to the three Chinese, turned around and left the meeting room.

Zhou Elai looked at Lenin's back and said: "Probably by the way, we will eliminate the hard-working and intelligent human beings who have fewer children......

The three Chinese did not say a word. They left the Kremlin and entered the city of Moscow, which had turned into a sea of red flags - and the parade celebrating the victory of the German revolution continued! Long queues formed around some of the temporary recruitment points for "internationalist fighters".

Due to the crowds marching everywhere, the car in which the three Chinese were traveling was slow and often stuck in traffic jams.

"Chairman, do you say that the masses in Nanking would be so agitated when they heard the news of the German Revolution?" Zhong Zhijie, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked at the crowd of people in the march and suddenly asked this question.

"Nanjing?" Mao ZD had already lit a cigarette at this time and was smoking it in one sip. "There won't be a few people there who will be excited. Perhaps some people would be afraid if a million Soviet Red Army crossed the Soviet-Polish border. ”

……

March 19, 1922.

At dawn, nine hundred kilometers west of Moscow. At 3:15 a.m. The artillery of the Russians, along a front more than seven hundred kilometers long. From the borders of Poland and Lithuania up to the borders of Poland and Czechoslovakia, rumble bombardment! At the same time, under the night sky where the morning star remained, the marching columns of cavalry and infantry divisions—endless young and strong GC warriors, wearing peaked caps and grass-green uniforms, marched across the vast Eastern European plains leading to Warsaw, Bialystok, Lublin, and Krakow, toward the west, which was shrouded in a thick night.

Shortly after the sun rose, in Berlin, the capital of Soviet Germany, a Soviet Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, full of anger and exuding righteousness, told the Polish ambassador in Berlin that since Poland was clearly going to help imperialism in attacking Soviet Germany, an ally of the Soviet Union, Comrades Lenin and Trotsky had wisely ordered the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to support Germany by all means necessary. It is said that the elderly Polish ambassador was stunned on the spot by the righteous and awe-inspiring declaration of war by the Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union! Because his homeland, Poland, is now completely unprepared for a war!

According to the historical information that was later revealed. The Polish government at that time did not believe at all that the Soviet Union would really invade. Although the order for mobilization had been given, it was not carried out seriously before the March Revolution in Germany. When the Soviet Red Army began its offensive on 19 March, the total strength of the Polish Army was less than 300,000, about a third of whom were newly drafted recruits, who had neither the necessary training nor the weapons to equip them - Poland was an agrarian country with little heavy industry, and was completely dependent on Britain and France for weaponry. Before the March Revolution in Germany, Britain and France did not believe that the Soviet Union would really invade, so they did not send enough weapons and equipment to Poland in time. And now. The guns and ammunition supported by France and Britain had not yet been loaded onto ships, but the Soviet Red Army had already set foot on Polish soil.

It was not only the Polish ambassador who was stunned, but the whole of Poland as well. In Poland, Pilsudski was probably the only one who was not surprised by the sudden Soviet attack, although he was not now president or defense minister. Therefore, this offensive of the Soviet Red Army achieved unprecedented tactical success at the very beginning. It was a battle in which a million armed men suddenly attacked 300,000 armed men, and more than 3,000 artillery pieces of various kinds, hundreds of aircraft, and hundreds of light tanks and armored vehicles were concentrated. And the most powerful cavalry corps in the world at that time! It's almost the original remake of the historical blitzkrieg.

According to the memoirs of Tukhachevsky, the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army, who was specifically responsible for directing the battle at the time, the war seemed to have happened suddenly. In fact, it was premeditated. In his memoirs, he wrote: "...... Already at the beginning of November 1921, the General Staff of the Red Army received top-secret instructions from the Political Bureau and the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic. The directive demanded that we develop a plan of operations for a surprise attack on Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and the three Baltic states in the first half of 1922!

In its order, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic proposed: it was possible for Germany to have a proletarian revolution in the first half of 1922 and a brief establishment of a Soviet republic! The German Revolution would cut off the whole of Eastern Europe from the West, and the three major imperialist powers of the West would inevitably concentrate their attention on extinguishing the German Revolution. This will give us a golden opportunity to liberate the oppressed peoples of Eastern Europe!

The battle plan was therefore based on the premise of a revolution in Germany. We thought at the time that the German Revolution, even if it had taken place, would not have been able to achieve a final victory - and this view was proved by later facts. And we must achieve the greatest victory before the German revolution is extinguished, so that the Soviet Union can gain the most favorable shape in the subsequent confrontation with the West.

It is based on such considerations. I rejected the idea of a simultaneous attack on the Baltic states, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary, which most of my comrades at that time advocated. Instead, we will concentrate all the forces of the blow on White Poland - as long as White Poland is crushed, the three Baltic states will be surrounded by the Soviet state, they will be defeated, and we will be able to establish Soviet power in East Prussia in Germany, which is equivalent to moving the western border of the Soviet state hundreds of kilometers westward to the German border! If the imperialist and German reactionary forces had not yet extinguished the revolution by that time, we would have considered entering Germany for a decisive battle against the enemy. Oust them from the lands of Soviet Germany! If by that time the German revolution had been extinguished outside East Prussia, we would have established a strong defensive position along the Polish-German border with the nascent Soviet Poland, and at the same time would have exported the revolution to the south to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, etc., to distract the Polish pressure......

But the basis of this qiē is in the shortest possible time. Crush Poland with the most violent means! Because only in this way can we show the whole world the might of the Soviet state. As Comrade Trotsky said: to make the enemy afraid, because the frightened side tends to take a defensive posture, and this is exactly what the Soviet state needs!

This was our strategic guideline at that time: to quickly crush the Polish war, to move the Soviet state to the west, and at the same time to deter Western imperialism.

In order to achieve this goal, we believe that it is necessary to concentrate our efforts on a series of campaigns that are interconnected in time and can lead to victory on all fronts. We call this the 'Theory of Continuous Campaigns' or the 'Theory of Large-Depth Operations.'" According to this theory, we formed a Western Front with a force of 1 million troops and carried out the task of destroying White Poland. And months were spent secretly preparing for the campaign, mainly logistical, which was the key to the success of successive campaigns. The width of the main offensive zone was set at 400 kilometers, facing the direction of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and the depth of the battle was determined to be 250 kilometers, that is, the approximate distance from the Soviet-Polish border to Warsaw! We will take the capital of this white Poland in the first wave of successive offensive campaigns! ”