After hearing the Chinese government's statement, Stalin's mind was mixed for a while, but he also had to admit that the Chinese leaders did have insight. Historically, Outer Mongolia is in a very peculiar situation, as the whole world knows that it is a vassal state under the control of the Soviet Union, and on the other hand, the whole world considers it to be part of China. Therefore, the Chinese government is not wrong in saying that the Soviet army opened fire on Chinese soil, but the defending side actually became the aggressor, and it is really difficult to find a second example in the history of the world

The Chinese government's accusation that the CPSU, and indeed Stalin himself, had betrayed Lenin's line on the national and national question (which social-imperialism mainly refers to) was indeed a sharp point. Perhaps because Lenin was a Jew, his concept of the state and nation was not very strong, and he could be called a true internationalist, so he was able to look at the aggression of Tsarist Russia against China more objectively, whether before or after the October Revolution, he had severely criticized the original Tsarist Russia's aggression against China and the massacre of Chinese civilians, and did not care at all about his identity as the leader of Russia, and once publicly stated that he would abolish all the unequal treaties that Tsarist Russia forced China to sign, Although it is not explicitly stated that the land occupied by Tsarist Russia will be returned to China, if the idea is expanded, it cannot be said that this understanding is wrong, at least the personnel sent to China by the CPSU once propagated this kind of propaganda, but it was not denied by Lenin himself

Stalin, on the other hand, was a nationalist, although he did not value Georgia, the nation to which he belonged. Rather, it is his cultural ethno-Russian. It is precisely for this reason that, unlike Lenin, who put the interests of the international communist movement above the interests of the Soviet state and the Russian nation, Stalin always attached greater importance to the interests of the Soviet Union and the Russian nation.

Although Stalin did not dare to openly deny Lenin in order to ensure the legitimacy of the regime, in terms of specific policies, the CPSU after Stalin came to power was very different from that of Lenin. Take the attitude towards history as an example, after Stalin came to power, the CPSU has always deliberately avoided this black history of Tsarist Russia's invasion of China, and the CPSU has never mentioned Lenin's promises back then. Stalin was reluctant to release even Outer Mongolia. And even more so those lands that have now become the territory of the USSR?

Therefore, the Chinese government, or the Chinese Red Party, is not wrong in accusing Stalin of betraying Lenin's line, but in Stalin's view, the leader of the Chinese Red Party is not much different from him in this respect. It also puts the interests of the state and the nation above the international communist movement. Now, in order to have a "reasonable basis" for reclaiming those lands, they have moved out of Lenin's internationalist line, which they have also abandoned. Isn't that ridiculous?

But at the end of the day, for Russians who worship strength, including spiritual Russians, strength is what counts. But the problem is that the comparison of strength between the Soviet Union and China today is completely different from that of the Anti-Japanese War.

Although the Soviet Union has now regained almost all of its lost territory, the damage caused by the war is so great that even the population has been reduced by nearly 20 million (more than 30 million soldiers and civilians have died, but there are still more than 10 million new people added during the Soviet-German war). Compared with 10% of the total population of the Soviet Union before the war, and most of them were urban dwellers, industry depended on people to produce after all, and if there were fewer people, industrial output would naturally decline accordingly (the factor of increasing labor productivity was not taken into account here), not to mention that the loss of machinery and equipment was actually much greater than the population.

Therefore, although it once became the world's second largest industrial country before the war, by 1948, the Soviet Union's industrial strength did not have much advantage compared with China, and in terms of technology and equipment, although the Soviet Union had obvious quantitative advantages, it may not be able to balance China's quality advantages. But the real killer is that the Soviet Union's manpower has been exhausted, and it is difficult to bear the huge casualties as it did at the beginning, and China, which claims to be "700 million people and 700 million soldiers, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains and thousands of battalions." The world's largest mobilization capability is even more fearful for every country bordering it on land.

Originally, the Soviet Union also hoped that the international faction within the Chinese Red Party would jump out and drag its feet in due course, or that the Chinese People's Liberation Army had already worn out its fighting spirit after several years of peace. But the former has long since declined, and Taizu skillfully raised the banner of Lenin so that they could not attack. Although Lenin's claim that Lenin wanted to return the lost territory to China was not confirmed due to various reasons such as resistance within the Bolshevik Party and the fact that China was still ruled by the Beiyang warlords at that time, the personnel sent to China by the Bolshevik Party at that time preached it everywhere in order to win over the Chinese intellectual youth, which had a great impact. Although Stalin has been talking about this since he came to power, the Chinese Red Party believes, or at least declares to the outside world, that they believe that Lenin advocates the return of the lost territories in the north, so those internationalists, who have already lost power, do not dare to jump out and deny Lenin as a mentor.

In fact, the Chinese government's revival of the old story in order to regain the "legitimacy" of regaining the lost territory in the north was originally aimed at domestic public opinion, and as for international public opinion, with China's strength and Taizu's boldness, it did not pay much attention to it at all

For example, Sun Liren, the commander of the 15th Group Army (all-motorized troops), the number one main force of the Northwest Military Region, and Fu Zuoyi, the commander of the North China Military Region (under the jurisdiction of another all-motorized group army), were both generals of the national army before, so naturally they would not have any good feelings towards the Soviet Union; Although Ma Zhongying, commander of the 51st Army (China's only armored army), known as the "First Army of China", had the experience of staying in the Soviet Union, he did not leave any good memories in the Soviet Union, but always held a grudge against the unfair treatment he was subjected to; Hu Weidong, secretary of the Northwest Bureau, who was granted the supreme command of the Soviet Union from the very beginning of joining the Red Party, showed anti-Soviet ideological tendencies everywhere

Coupled with the anti-Russian propaganda of the Red Party over the years (Note 1), the grassroots commanders and fighters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army generally held back their anger against the original Tsarist Russia, so there was no psychological barrier to taking action against Big Brother.

Note 1: The purpose of only opposing Russia and not opposing the Soviet Union is to leave room for peace talks, otherwise if a protracted war is fought, although China is not afraid, it will continue to entangle with the Soviet Union under logistical constraints and the impossibility of completely destroying the Soviet Union, which will fulfill the wishes of the Americans. (To be continued......)