Sverdlov caused a storm, and everyone sitting in the room knew his determination and knew that he would never compromise and make concessions. This storm of small Si is gathering strength, especially if Trotsky also contributes to this storm, and this storm will be unstoppable!

"Comrade Yakov is right when he says that we Communists must not accept this treaty, which is despicable and shameful, and that the little benefit it will bring in the future will not at all outweigh the bad effects it will cause. I am also against this treaty, and if the treaty is approved by the Central Committee, then I can only withdraw from the Politburo, from the Central Committee, or even from the party! This is a matter of principle that is extremely strict, and I will never compromise! ”

The members of the Central Committee were stunned that the two giants of the Politburo had declared war on the non-aggression pact, and they were still fighting to the death, and even Stalin's die-hard supporters had to hide from weighing the weight of it.

In particular, Lenin, who had been recuperating with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes and declared: "I agree with Comrade Yakov and Comrade Trotsky that this treaty is indeed out of date, that the Politburo had previously told it that it was only a last resort, and that the time has come to correct this mistake!" ”

Even Lenin bluntly said that the non-aggression pact was a mistake, so who would dare to sing the praises of this pact? Stalin drooped his head, Kalinin was even more dead-faced, they knew very well that this decisive battle had been lost, and they had lost so much that there were no pants left, and at this moment, even if Sverdlov and Trotsky were going to beat the water dogs, they would not dare to fight back.

September 3. At an emergency meeting of the Central Committee. Non-aggression pacts were repudiated. At the same time, Chamberlain's cabinet, which had been struggling for two days, was forced to make the decision to declare war on Germany. It's a day to remember, but there were quite a few shocking events that took place on this day.

At 11 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Ulitsky and Dzerzhinsky, who had arrived at the meeting in a hurry, once again detonated the meeting, and they gave a detailed account of how Malenkov and Merkulov interfered in the work of the commission and how they used despicable means to cut off their ties with Moscow. What is even more frightening is that Ulitsky and Dzerzhinsky also bluntly accused Malenkov and Merkulov of trying to kill people.

"It's unimaginable. Is this still the territory of the USSR? Is this still the world of the Communist Party? We were hunted down by our own comrades and almost killed. What an appalling thing this is! ”

Dzerzhinsky's anger almost knocked off the ceiling of the venue, and anyone could see that the Man in the Iron Mask was really angry, and the Man in the Iron Mask was angry, not to mention the rivers of blood, how could he have to ask for a few heads to make an explanation, and the one who lost his head had to be at least at the level of the Alternate Central Committee!

Of course, the first two people to lose their heads are already a certainty - Malenkov and Melkulov, these two will definitely not be able to escape.

"Malenkov and Melkulov are to blame, these two men are seriously suspected. Arrest must be made immediately! ”

No one objected to this resolution, and no one dared to oppose it. Even Stalin and Kalinin did not dare to say a word. Even they could not even privately inform Malenkov and Melkulov to run away, because according to Lenin's order, no one was allowed to leave the venue until the meeting was over!

In fact, Malenkov and Melkulov were just appetizers, because then it was Li Xiaofeng's turn to perform: "According to Yezhov's account, he single-handedly planned the attack on Comrade Trotsky's plane, and he was instructed by some comrades in the Politburo to instruct Malenkov and Merkulov to cause this tragedy, the purpose of which was to prevent us from forming an alliance with Britain and France against fascist Germany. The specific implementation process is as follows......"

To be honest, for the bigwigs of the Central Committee, how this case was carried out, they did not have much interest, they wanted to know more who was behind the scenes, did Yezhov already give an account of Stalin?

"Comrade Andrey, who are some of the comrades of this Politburo that you are talking about?"

Faced with this question, Li Xiaofeng replied calmly: "Because it involves the leaders of the party and the state at the highest level, and the investigation of the case has not yet been completed, I cannot draw conclusions casually. The name of this comrade, who is suspected of serious dà, cannot be disclosed for the time being. But soon, after the truth of the case is revealed, the KGB will disclose all the documents to the Central Committee, and everyone will naturally know about it at that time. ”

The members of the Central Committee thought about it, and it was also true that such a fatal case involved a struggle at the highest level, and where could it be casually announced. Even if it is to be announced, the Politburo must first reach an internal agreement. What the Central Committee should know, what can continue to be communicated to the grassroots, and what can be made public to the public are all particular, and we must be cautious at the current moment when the international situation is complicated!

An emergency meeting of the Central Committee was scheduled to take place for one day, and after voting on the non-aggression pact, the members of the Central Committee went to their respective homes. But with the sudden return of Lenin, Trotsky, and Dzerzhinsky and Ulitsky, the session was extended.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Central Committee members continued to discuss international relations and preparations for a future world war. The Politburo, on the other hand, held an enlarged meeting, or rather a critical meeting. At this closed internal meeting, Stalin and Kalinin suffered a heavy blow, and the two men were almost criticized to the point of not being able to hold their heads up, especially Stalin, who was almost drowned in the saliva of Lenin and Trotsky.

"Whereas, Joseph. Comrade Stalin committed all the crimes, I think he should be publicly expelled from the Politburo, expelled from the Central Committee, and expelled from the party! Our party does not welcome conspirators, much less executioners! ”

Trotsky's demands were immediately met with an immediate response from Ulitsky and Dzerzhinsky, but Lenin did not speak, as did Sverdlov and Frunze. As for Ruzutak, he was a little entangled, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't make up his mind.

In the end, it was Li Xiaofeng who began: "What Stalin did is indeed a heinous crime, and it is indeed unacceptable. Even more unbearable. But we have to see after all. He had not made a certain contribution to the revolution before. Moreover, in the current period, dealing with him openly is likely to cause confusion, and I think that the issue of Stalin should be dealt with internally, and not excessively publicly. ”

"Are you trying to spare him and his henchmen?" Ulitsky asked angrily.

Li Xiaofeng replied very calmly: "I am defending the party's face, if we let the comrades at the grassroots level, and even the broad masses of ordinary people, know that there are conspirators among us communists, and there is a degenerate, corrupt, and profit-seeking group." Can they still trust our party? Doesn't that give our enemies a chance? ”

Li Xiaofeng suddenly raised his voice: "It's easy to kill Stalin and his henchmen, but this will not help solve the problem, but will easily complicate and expand the problem." Comrades, I must remind you that a world war has broken out, and sooner or later we will have to join it, and this time is not suitable for dealing with the question of Stalin at once. We have to take care of the big picture! ”

Ulitsky was silent, Trotsky was thoughtful, and Lenin, his eyebrows, which had been twisted at the beginning of the Politburo's internal meeting, seemed to stretch a little.

After a long time. It was Lenin who broke the deadlock: "Comrade Andrei, what do you think should be done with the question of Stalin?" ”

"I think these cases are kept secret for the time being. It is not open to the outside of the Central Committee, and even requires all members of the Central Committee who are involved today to maintain a high degree of secrecy. When this world war is over, Stalin and his henchmen will be tried again at the right time. ”

Ulitsky was not satisfied: "That is, now do nothing, let these conspirators and dangerous elements go free?" ”

Li Xiaofeng sighed and said: "Of course not, Stalin and his henchmen who participated in this conspiracy will be arrested and secretly detained for the time being, but they will not be announced to the public. Try to minimize the impact of the event. ”

As soon as Ulitsky was about to object, Trotsky spoke: "For the time being, I can understand this. But I have a question, how long is it kept secret? What kind of reasons will it be announced in the future? ”

Li Xiaofeng replied very sincerely: "I think the secrecy period can be tentatively set at five years, and as for how to announce it to the public, just announce that Stalin and Kalinin are seriously ill and must recuperate!" ”

Trotsky glanced at Lenin, the mentor nodded slowly, and Dzerzhinsky agreed, after some thought. Soon the fate of Stalin and Kalinin was decided, secretly escorted by the KGB to the Ural Mountains for recuperation. As for his henchmen, Yezhov was sentenced to death with a temporary reprieve, Beria continued to be interrogated in secret isolation because of a large number of problems, and as for Malenkov and Melkulov, the former was shot dead by the KGB while preparing to abscond from Germany, and the latter committed suicide by swallowing a gun in his office.

The storm came so quickly and violently that the breadth of its implications was simply appalling, and the deputy chief of the General Staff, Voroshilov, was dismissed from his post and examined in isolation, and Budyonny was removed from his post and imprisoned. Since 1939, they have disappeared from the Soviet record, and no archives or documents can tell the story of the fate of the two men, some say they died in labor camps, others say they were secretly executed, and others say they were secretly held until their deaths.

Anyway, there are a lot of theories, but there are no conclusions, and only the members of the Politburo who know their fate are limited, and these people without exception do not intend to talk about the problems of these two people.

In addition to Voroshilov and Budyonny, the next level of the Stalinist clique was Mikoyan, Zhdanov, Molotov and Shao Wumian. The four ended differently, Mikoyan spent thirty-one years in prison, celebrating Andrei in 1970. Comrade Petrovich was pardoned and released from prison on his seventieth birthday, and eight years later died in a small apartment for the elderly. It is worth sighing that no one knows when this cow man who can't get drenched in the rain died, and no one, including his children, has ever visited him, and he died so quietly, as if forgotten by the world.

Zhdanov was also implicated, and in 1944, while undergoing a labor camp in Siberia, he died of poisoning from a large amount of industrial alcohol, which is said to have been horrific. As for Molotov, the former head of the Central Committee spent the rest of his life in a small factory near Komsomolsk, where he spent the rest of his life silently after being reformed through labor, and was buried next to his wife in 1986.

Shao Wumian was not deeply involved in the assassination case. Although it has received a certain shock. But he was not swept to the end. In 1940, after the quarantine review, he resumed his work and was sent to Outer Mongolia as ambassador. Although this position is very nonsense, compared to the previous ones, his ending is much better. After retiring in 1945, Shao Wumian left Moscow and returned to his hometown in the Transcaucasia to live in seclusion, where he died peacefully more than a decade later.

And the longest living member of the Stalin clique was Kaganovich, who lived until 1991. He spent the rest of his life in a shoe factory. In 1990 he witnessed Andrea. The ninetieth birthday of Comrade Petrovich. Also that year, as one of the few witnesses of the October Revolution, Kaganovich was awarded the Order of Honor for the October Revolution, along with his dead friends.

Finally, Stalin, Comrade Iron spent his last years in the secret sanatorium of the KGB in the Ural Mountains, and on May 9, 1945, the day of the surrender of Germany, steel was poured into a full ten pounds of vodka, and his heart stopped beating in the mud.

He died in time. Because it was also on this day that the new Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Sverdlov, was at the request of the former Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Trotsky. An arrest warrant for Stalin was officially issued. The victorious Soviet Union in World War II no longer needs to hide it, and all the sins of the past will be reckoned.

When Stalin died, it came to an end, and the evils he caused could only lie in the safe of the highest level of secrecy in the KGB, and they would not see the light of day until a hundred years later.

But none of this mattered, the important thing was that Sverdlov and Trotsky won the victory, the Big Three became the Big Two, and the future of the Soviet Union depended entirely on them.

It was not an easy path, and the differences between Sverdlov and Trotsky were quite large. At this time, Trotsky was still convinced of the need for an alliance with Britain and France, and for an immediate declaration of war on the Nazis.

"The Non-Aggression Pact has been proven wrong, which indirectly proves that the World Anti-Fascist Grand Alliance has a future. Western Poland is suffering from Nazi aggression, we should be on the side of justice and should declare war on Germany immediately, like Britain and France! ”

To this, Sverdlov objected: "The Non-Aggression Pact is of course wrong, but it has already happened, and we must see that Britain and France, although they declared war on the Nazis, cowered and remained motionless on the side of France. This fully shows that they are still pursuing a policy of appeasement. Judging from the information we have, the army of Western Poland is no match for the German army after a thousand miles of collapse, and the most optimistic estimate is that Western Poland can only hold out for two months, and even according to the deductions of Comrades Tukhachevsky, Ubolevich and Triandafilov, it is a miracle that Western Poland can hold out until mid-October. ”

After a pause, Sverdlov said eloquently: "Then can we think that after the fall of Western Poland, the German army has all pressed on the Eastern Front, and the pressure is all on our side." At this time, we hurriedly declared war on Germany, and there was only one possibility, and the German army took advantage of the situation to advance eastward and directly attack us. I would like to ask Comrade Trotsky, do you think that at that time Britain and France will fulfill their obligations? ”

Trotsky did not speak, for he knew very well that once this happened, with the hooligans of Britain and France, they would definitely sit back and watch the tiger. They wished that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany would be finished together.

"So I don't think it's wise to declare war on Germany at this time." Sverdlov said confidently, "This will not do our country any good!" ”

Trotsky asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"Paralyze the Germans for the time being, set aside the Non-Aggression Pact and let it hang there. When the German front moves westward to attack France, we will take measures again! ”

To be honest, Trotsky did not like this, because it meant that his line was also finished, and he had wanted to go ahead and fight Stalin to really establish his line and really control the Soviet Union. And if Sverdlov does this, this qiē will be in vain.

However, Trotsky also knew that in the present state, Sverdlov's construction was indeed in the best interests of the Soviet Union. This makes him very entangled, on the one hand, his own political interests, and on the other hand, the interests of the country, and he can only take care of one head!

It was difficult for Trotsky to make up his mind, even if he had been persuaded by Sverdlov in his heart, but he was not willing to admit defeat, he was not reconciled!

However, Lenin made a very decisive choice: "Comrade Yakov's opinion is correct, Britain and France are not trustworthy, and we cannot risk the Soviet people." It was the right thing to do to exercise restraint and paralyze the Nazis as much as possible to bring the misfortune to the west. But at the same time, I would like to stress that we are not sitting on the sidelines and watching the fight, and that we must react immediately as soon as the Germans attack France. In addition, Comrade Trotsky, you should continue to contact and communicate with Britain and France to prevent them from playing tricks! ”

After saying this, Lenin suddenly took a deep breath: "The current situation is very bad, compared to the 1917 year, I hope that all comrades will work together as they did in 1917, and I do not want to see similar incidents again!" ”

Saying that, Lenin instructed the secretary behind him: "My role has been played, so I will not interfere in the operation of the Politburo and send me out to rest!" Comrades, please continue to discuss and study countermeasures in depth. It's your responsibility! (To be continued......)

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