Generally speaking, Li Xiaofeng's study life at the Central Party School was not so pleasant, he felt out of place with everyone there, the teacher who studied according to the script, the classmates who followed the crowd, and he only had two and a half friends in the entire study class.

A friend was Ruzutak, an old comrade thirteen years older than him, but an out-and-out revolutionary, who joined the party in 1905, was arrested by the tsarist government in 1907, and was not released until after the victory of the revolution in February 1917.

Ruzutak, who was in his thirties, was not educated, and came from a family of farm workers who did not have the opportunity to receive a systematic education, was born in the revolution at the age of 18, and was arrested at the age of 20, and by the time he was released from prison, he was already in his prime.

How many decades in your life can you splurge? For Ruzutak, after his release from prison, he threw himself into revolutionary life and belonged to the famous workers' leaders of the party. Especially after he met Lenin for the first time in May 1918, his enthusiasm for the revolution grew even stronger.

In fact, the tutor also admired this comrade worker, and from the first meeting until Lenin's death, Ruzutak worked under Lenin's personal leadership and was a close assistant to Lenin.

Ruzutak constantly receives instructions and advice from his mentor to learn how to solve national political problems. On more than one occasion, Lenin consulted with Ruzutak, exchanged notes and letters with him, and, of course, often spoke on the phone, summoned him to the Kremlin and sent him urgent letters with the words: "Comrade Ruzutak (Lenin restricted)", "Ruzutak received", "Ruzutak received: what should I do?" ”； In some of the letters, it was written: "Comrade Ruzutak personally opened. Secret (Lenin's silence)".

It can be said that Lenin, when solving important questions, often asked: "Have you consulted Ruzutak?" He often asked his secretary, "Please tell me the details." "Can you get Ruzutak to come sooner?" On the copy to Ruzutak. Lenin usually wrote "from Ruzutak" and kept it in the most important documents.

Even Lenin pointed out in one of his speeches: "Finally, I would like to tell you one thing, for which I should yesterday have scolded myself for being a fool, and that is that I have ignored Comrade Ruzutak's theses...... This is a good program, which is better than what Comrade Trotsky wrote after much thought, and what Comrade Bukharin wrote without any thought...... It's a hundred times stronger. All of our Central Committee members who have not worked in the trade union movement for many years. It is necessary to learn from Comrade Ruzutak......"

Of course, it was because of the trust of the Mentor and the integrity of Ruzutak that when the purge began, he constantly tried to speak for his former comrades, constantly trying to get to the bottom of the matter. And for Stalin back then, such behavior was undoubtedly intolerable.

On May 24, 1937, a congratulatory telegram from the leaders of the Party and the government to the conquerors of the Arctic was published in the newspapers. Ruzutak noticed that his name was not in the middle of the telegram's signature! But I obviously asked him to sign it...... Could it be that the journalist is wrong again?

And not something "wrong" about that time. Almost every day, Ruzutak loses friends and comrades-in-arms – devilified and removed from office, expelled from the party. He tried to speak for some and asked for a closer look at the "case" of others. Not much effect. And quite dangerous!

Soon it was his turn, and in May of that year, Ruzutak was arrested at his villa in Nicolina Hill. The accusation is cookie-cutter and unfounded: "espionage for Germany". There was no interrogation, no investigation, and no explanation was requested. There was no confrontation, especially with the party leaders. But you have to know how many years he has been working together with these leaders!

Throughout the year, full of mental and physical pain, Ruzutak never admitted his "crime", and he resolutely refuted all accusations. Until July 29, 1938, he was executed. A Politburo member was killed without pleading guilty and without any evidence to back it up.

Li Xiaofeng did not know that Ruzutak would rise to prominence from 1920 onwards, and that he had risen to the throne of a member of the Central Committee from the very beginning of his body (he had to thank Colontai and the workers' opposition, and Lao Lu had resolutely sided with his mentor and insisted that the trade unions be brought under the party's command). And in 23 years he became an alternate member of the Politburo, and after the fall of Trotsky, he quickly filled the vacancy left by the old Tolot, until he was unjustly imprisoned in 37.

What really makes Li Xiaofeng close to Luzutak is that this person has a good personality, in the eyes of other classmates, a certain immortal is an outlier, he is not serious in class, likes to desert, and he is so young that he is a mess, and his position is a mess, which makes them very unpleasant to look down on these old revolutionaries.

However, Ruzutak did not have such thoughts, as a roommate of a certain immortal in the same dormitory, he took care of a certain immortal like a brother, and he always smiled at the dissatisfaction and gossip of other old revolutionaries: "Comrade Andrei is still very young, it is normal to jump out of it...... And for a full-fledged college student like him, the current course may be a bit boring......"

Anyway, Luzutak is quite kind, and a certain immortal has always been quite polite to a kind person, needless to say in life, with the financial resources of a certain immortal, delicious food and drink are nothing. And for Ruzutak, he doesn't attach much importance to material comforts, and what really makes him feel that a certain immortal is good is that a certain immortal will patiently tutor him in his studies.

This is not a joke, as mentioned earlier, Ruzutak's education is very low, how low is it? Almost illiterate. Born into a farming family in Latvia, he attended the church for only two years as a teenager before leaving his hometown alone at the age of 16 after a major conflict with his employer. He was constantly wandering the streets, doing odd jobs to make ends meet, unloading wagons, paving roads, and even working as a gardener for two years.

It has to be said that gifted people can shine anywhere, and after his arrest, because the minor, Ruzutak received "leniency", and the tsarist government sentenced this "most dangerous political prisoner" to only ten years of hard labor.

In Butlki prison, Ruzutak was given "preferential treatment" in solitary confinement. At that time, the jailer said to him: "No one can come out of Bhuthelki's solitary cell!" "Most prisoners in solitary confinement can't stand the isolation of people. I chose but I was left alive. Ruzutak, on the other hand, is different. He actually learned three foreign languages in those ten years!

Let's put it this way, the illiterate Ruzutak has been in prison for ten years, and by the time he was released from prison, he had become a generation of scholars. Of course, it is a bit of an exaggeration to describe it as a scholar, it is true that Ruzutak's cultural level has increased significantly, and it is the penance of these ten years that has made him understand the importance of culture.

The reason why he was able to stand out among the many old revolutions was why he was able to win Lenin's appreciation. Thanks entirely to his own efforts. At that time, there were many illiterate people who participated in the revolution like him, and there were still illiterate people after the victory of the revolution, such as Kaganovich, a sworn friend of steel, this shoemaker was a dead shoemaker, without Stalin's vigorous support, and his level of illiterate words, let alone a member of the Central Committee, it was enough to be a grassroots party secretary.

Ruzutak is passionate about learning, and a certain immortal is more or less a college student in this regard. I still have some understanding of the mechanical industry, and I only focused on the liberal arts before. For Ruzutak, who didn't have much experience in science, a certain immortal was the best and most patient teacher.

In addition to Ruzutak, the second good friend Li Xiaofeng met was the later famous Bulganin. Of course, the current Bulganin is not the prime minister of the Soviet Union, he was born in 1895, and in 1918 he entered the Cheka work, at this time he was not a student of the Central Party School, but a Cheka staff responsible for protecting the students.

To the rest of the old revolutionaries, Bulganin was just a nobody, but Li Xiaofeng remembered this boy, who was five years older than him, who ran errands under Voroshilov during the July 1917 incident, and at that time he wondered how such a powerful and glittering figure could be mixed up as an errand runner. I originally wanted to woo this future big man, but then I forgot about it because of injuries and a lot of things.

It wasn't until he saw Bulganin again in the Kremlin that a certain immortal remembered the poor fellow. What surprised him even more was that this one actually worked in his Cheka. Isn't this the same as the talent sent to the door? A certain immortal naturally laughed at it.

And for Bulganin, the appreciation of a certain immortal was an unexpected joy, he did not expect that Comrade Andrei, who had only one side of the relationship, would still remember him as a nobody, and he could not imagine that Comrade Andrei, who was so awesome and shining, would appreciate him. For him, there are such big thick legs to hold, so don't hold it tightly!

As for the so-called half of a friend, it was also a bull man - Kuibyshev! Kuibyshev, who was one year younger than Ruzutak, was also an old revolutionary, and he was also an old revolutionary with a high level of education, who was admitted to the Academy of Military Medical Sciences that year, but he was too enthusiastic about the revolutionary movement during his studies, and led his classmates to strike classes and was expelled from school. He was arrested eight times, imprisoned four times, and exiled to Siberia four times. In 1904, he joined the party at the age of 16 (even more awesome than a certain immortal!). ）。

From 1917, Kuibyshev was Chairman of the Party Committee of Samara, Chairman of the City Soviet, Chairman of the State Party Committee, and after the outbreak of the October Revolution, he launched and led the armed uprising in Samara. After the outbreak of the Civil War, he served as Political Commissar of the First Army and a member of the Revolutionary Military Council. Later, he became the political commissar of Frunze.

At the age of 30, he is naturally also favored by his mentor, and this time he is allowed to study at the Central Party School, which is undoubtedly a great preparation before use. In fact, it is true, in 1921 Kuibyshev was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee, in 1922 he was rectified, and in 1926 he was elected a member of the Politburo.

As a roommate of an immortal, the two sides have the same position on some issues, but there are also differences on others, but on the whole they are friends.

I have to say that the bedroom where a certain immortal is located is too good, in addition to Ruzutak and Kuibyshev, there was also a third Politburo member in history in 1926 - Mikoyan. Counting Bulganin, who was a guard at the door outside, and a certain immortal himself, all the people who came out of this room were members of the Politburo, which can be said to be a miracle.

But. For some. This is not surprising at all. As the important successors of the Leninist faction, it is undoubtedly very important for them to get acquainted with each other as early as possible and let them enhance their friendship.

Of course, there is no friendship between Li Xiaofeng and Mikoyan, and it is not easy for the two sides to tear their faces in Moscow during the October Revolution, and it is not easy not to sneer at each other. Kuibyshev had a good relationship with Mikoyan. Ruzutak also doesn't appreciate Mikoyan's character very much, and can only say that the relationship between the two parties is okay.

In the study class, the closest relationship with Mikoyan was Kirov, this guy who could only pat on the back was also thrown into the Central Party School by Stalin, and he was assigned to another dormitory, as long as he met a certain immortal, there was always some friction between the two sides. The big back is quite grudgeful, and a certain immortal is also quite unpleasant to him, and he really wants to find an assassin to do this thing more than ten years in advance, which will make him annoyed.

All in all. The relationship between a certain immortal and his classmates is not very good, but it can be regarded as knowing a few big cows that can be used in the future. As for the teacher who followed the class. Except for the instructor who came to the class in person, a certain immortal was not too interested in the course. In his spare time, he got to know a great figure who played a pivotal role in the history of the proletarian revolution in the world - Plekhanov.

Historically, Plekhanov died in May 1918, and he was also a hardcore Menshevik, and since 1902, when he parted ways with Lenin, the old mentor and the great mentor have not been able to pee together.

This remained the case after the outbreak of the October Revolution, and Plekhanov was negative about the October Revolution, openly calling for cooperation between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, otherwise "the whole country will perish." He also made a point of mentioning an Irish myth about two aggressive cats who refused to give in to each other, and both were left with only one tail.

In short, Plekhanov believed that the present Russia did not have the objective conditions for a socialist revolution and that the proletariat could seize power only when it was dominant.

When Plekhanov was mobilized to take part in the overthrow of Soviet power and asked him to be the head of the new government, he firmly refused: "I have devoted 40 years of my life to the proletariat, and I will not shoot at it, even if it is going down the wrong path." ”

After the victory of the October Revolution, Aksherrod and others went to the Urals to form a new provisional government and convene a new Constituent Assembly, they once wanted to take the old man away, but the old man's condition was quite critical for a while, and he really wanted to toss him to go to the Urals, and the old man was about to breathe halfway, and in desperation, they could only leave the old man in Petrograd for treatment.

After entering 1918, with the arrest of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Menshevik counter-revolutionaries by a certain immortal, the number one Menshevik naturally came into the Cheka's sight. At that time, the old man was arrested on his hospital bed, and then caused a certain immortal to be called over by the mentor and reprimanded for a full hour.

At that time, Li Xiaofeng realized how high the revolutionary prestige of this old man was, and even if he clearly held a counter-revolutionary position, Lenin and Trotsky would have to sell him face. Historically, too, the Bolsheviks did not give up their concern for his daily life, despite being the number one "counter-revolutionary", and Lenin, while leading the revolutionary work intensively, repeatedly commissioned the staff to send food and winter clothing to Plekhanov.

In February 1918, Plekhanov was transferred to a sanatorium in the Finnish city of Teriok for treatment due to his aggravated illness, and the Soviet government negotiated with the German minister to obtain the Finnish authorities' consent for the Russian side to send personnel to take care of Plekhanov.

After Plekhanov's death on May 30, 1918, on June 4, a joint meeting of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and the Moscow City Trade Unions was held.

Lenin also made it very clear that all of Plekhanov's philosophical works should be included in the compulsory communist textbooks. Even steel did not dare to be disrespectful to the old mentor, and in his time in power all Mensheviks were bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods, but not counting Plekhanov, who also built the Plekhanov memorial in 1928!

Of course, that was the attitude of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin towards the old man, and a certain immortal did not have so much reverence for the old man, and the old man, who should have been dead, actually lived until the end of 1918, and it was not a problem to live another year or two with his face.

"Hey, old man, do you want a cigarette?"

A certain immortal didn't care to greet Plekhanov, who lived in the Kremlin to recuperate, and for him, the entire Kremlin was only where the old man lived, which was a little more comfortable. In other places, there is either a serious atmosphere of study, or a revolutionary atmosphere in full swing, and a certain immortal does not match either of these atmospheres, and when a person is bored, he will come to tease the old man.

Plekhanov suffered from a serious lung disease, but he was not a small addict to smoking. No one in the Kremlin dared to give the old man a cigarette, except for a certain immortal, a daring fellow.

"Little bastard, it's you again!" Although Plekhanov was scolding, the smile on his face couldn't be stopped, and he teased: "You slipped away again?" This is not a revolutionary attitude! (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to the ordinary Magister, hzwangdd, the dog who played with frogs, the earth flying, the lazy reader, Juventus, the sstar_xh, the fat man Lu Fei and the comrade who held the Broken Lunzi!