"Now, hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers' regiments, armed by the German-Austrian imperialists, have become the most powerful supporters of the White Bandits, and our forces in South Russia are even a third of them. Now we have lost Tsaritsyn, and the White army is approaching Saratov, Voronezh. And the Czech Legion was also in the same league as the White Army, and the stations along the railway line from Penza, Samara to Chelyabinsk had fallen, and the entire Soviet power was now at a critical moment of life and death! "In the Kremlin's large conference room, the head of the Supreme Military Council, Trotsky, was making a war report to the Supreme Council of the Socialist Workers' Party.

It is true that the present state of affairs in the country has become more and more unfavorable to the Soviet power, and since the promulgation of the Agrarian Program, the landlords and kulaks have sided with the Soviet power, and the implementation of the Decree on the Collection of Surplus Grain has caused the broad masses of the peasants to rise up against the Red power.

But for the Soviet power to survive, the size of the Red Army was rapidly expanding, and the interests of the "low-consciousness" peasants could only be sacrificed, after all, the terrible Bolsheviks who went on strike had learned many times, including that the tsarist regime and the Provisional Government were actually buried by the workers with their hands.

And the scattered peasants obviously don't have much of a climate, although they are numerous.

"Rely on the sappers and peasants!" This was the slogan of the Soviet power, and in fact the workers and soldiers were the decisive factors.

"That illustrates a problem. The old officials, the officers under the Tsar, who have now been overthrown, have colluded with the capitalists, the landlords, and the kulaks, in a vain attempt to overthrow the red regime that we have established. The opposition in the dissolved State Duma - the Constitutionals and the Mensheviks - have already joined forces, and they have responded to each other with the support of the imperialist forces abroad, on the one hand openly launching an armed rebellion against the Soviet power, and on the other hand co-opting opportunistic elements in the party who are not firm in their positions to carry out all kinds of conspiracy and sabotage within us. We must fight against the counter-revolutionaries by extraordinary means! "The most urgent task now is to defend the nascent Soviet power, to put a stop to the subversive activities of the counter-revolution, to eliminate all possible hostile forces, and we will use revolutionary violence to suppress and destroy all counter-revolutionaries!" For this reason, I propose the establishment and formation of an "All-Russian Extraordinary Committee" to be responsible for the work of purging counter-revolutionaries, and propose that Comrade Dzerzhinsky be personally responsible for this work! ”

This was clearly a well-thought-out proposal by Ulyanov, who had always advocated strong repression to eliminate the counter-revolutionary forces that might exist.

This mention was soon made known at the Central Committee.

Subsequently, on the settlement of the issue of the Chinese Workers' Corps, Ulyanov put forward a new "Declaration on China." In fact, at the beginning of the Soviet regime, the new Foreign Minister Garrahan issued a "Declaration on China" in accordance with the resolution of the Central Committee of the Russian and Buenian Party Central Committee, but it did not receive a response from the Beiyang government.

Now Ulyanov has put forward a new plan: to establish a new Far Eastern Republic with the Great Yenisei River as the boundary, and the historical problems of the past will be resolved by the Far Eastern Republic through consultation with the Chinese Government.

This idea immediately provoked a fierce reaction in the Central Committee, which was strongly opposed by Bukharin, believing that it amounted to the abandonment of Russian territory. Bubnov, Uritsky and Lomov supported Bukharin's claims.

"I'm not saying that we have abandoned the Far East and Baikal, but we must bring the Chinese to the negotiating table, at least to get them to withdraw from their current support for the White Army." This is especially important for our nascent regime to gain respite. We simply do not have the strength to defend the Far East and Transbaikalia, a large number of Japanese troops have begun to enter the Far East under the pretext of intervention, and American warships have also sailed into Vladivostok. If we do not temporarily renounce that region, it is possible that hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops will reach Europe via the Guò Trans-Siberian Railway to support the White Bandit regime. We are simply not capable of resisting the Japanese aggression now. Ulyanov continued to explain his point, "The purpose of the establishment of the Far Eastern Republic was to limit the scope of Japanese activities to that region, but the Chinese obviously would not abandon that region, and our Declaration was to abrogate the secret treaty between Imperial Russia and China, like the interests and privileges obtained in Manchuria and China in the 1895 Sino-Russian Secret Treaty." As for the territories of the Far East and Transbaikalia, which are officially established by the public exchange of letters between the two countries, such a treaty, of course, is not within the scope of our renunciation. Of course, as for what the Chinese think, then that's their business. The illusion that you have created is exactly what we need, so that we can avoid being accused of being traitors and have a valid reason to return to the Far East at any time! ”

Indeed, perhaps the Chinese will pin their hopes on negotiations, and as long as the negotiations drag on indefinitely, then after the Bolsheviks have consolidated power, the initiative in the Far East will soon return to the Soviet power, and then it will be too late for the Chinese to regret it.

Now, let the Chinese go and fight each other with the Japanese for the Far East, it is better that they can fight first.

Ulyanov's claims were not initially communicated by the Central Committee. The Russo-Boer Party is now divided into three major factions, with Ulyanov, Bukharin, and Trotsky all having a great deal of say, and the majority of the people in the conference did not contribute to Ulyanov's ideas. But after a heated debate, Ulyanov had no choice but to propose that if the Central Committee could not agree with him, then he would resign and resign from the post of chairman of the Supreme Soviet and withdraw from the Central Committee.

Ulyanov's threat worked nevertheless, and in the face of the grim domestic situation, Trotsky began to turn to Ulyanov, and under his influence, the Russo-Borainian Central Committee finally passed the resolution on the establishment of an equal "Far Eastern Republic".

"What do they mean by doing that?" It was in Yekaterinodar that Xu Shuzheng saw this diplomatic declaration issued by the Soviet government, "recognizing the status of an equal government of the Far Eastern Republics?" ”

"A piece of meat tied to a rope!" Chernin, who is active in Ukraine, said, "They could announce the merger of the Far Eastern Republic with Soviet Russia at any time, but they do give you reasons and excuses to meddle in the affairs of the Far East and regain lost territory." As for whether you can get it in the end, it depends on your strength. In international relations, in the end, it is the size of a fist that speaks. ”

"It's just a cake for us." Jiang Zuobin said.

"It's not the same, you at least have an excuse to swallow it, and if you have the strength to keep it, you can not spit it out." Chernin said that Austria-Hungary would certainly welcome the Chinese to do so, and that China and Russia would become mortal enemies, a situation he would certainly be happy to see.

"Good!" Xu Shuzheng said, and he didn't know what he meant.

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