On this day, the sky was not blue at all, the sun was not red at all, and there were no magpies crying in the branches. On the contrary, on this day, the sky was cloudy, and the darkness was so heavy that people's hearts were blocked. It's as if a storm is coming.

Zhou Gong sat on the Volga car specially allocated to him by the Comintern, looked at the buildings on both sides of the streets of Leningrad, and sighed in his heart. Although this was his first time in Leningrad, in his dreams he always dreamed of everything about the city. In the hearts of quite a few **** party members, Leningrad is a sacred place, the Jerusalem in the minds of communists.

Although the Duke of Zhou did not enter the city with a pilgrimage mentality, it is impossible to say that he did not admire the revolution of decades ago at all. The October Revolution created not just a Soviet Union, but a faith.

No one had ever really won a proletarian revolution before, and the October Revolution had done just that. The victory of the Soviet Revolution made Zhou Gong see a possibility, that is, to let the poor and weak China embark on the broad road of prosperity, strength and civilization, and truly realize the dream of rising for China in his youth.

Zhou Gongxin walked out of the car, straightened his clothes seriously, and smoothed out the last wrinkle on the shirt before walking into the villa with the escort. Lenin was the only one who could make Zhou Gong take it so seriously. As a spiritual belief in the ideals of communism, Lenin was so unique to every Communist Party member. The same is true for Zhou Gong, who is sincerely excited to meet with this mentor.

Lenin's villa was very ordinary. But it gives a different kind of calm. Zhou Gong liked this feeling very much. Even hope that he will have such a peaceful life when he retires many years later.

Walk through the villa. In the pavilion of the small garden at the back, Zhou Gong met the legendary Lenin, but to his surprise, in addition to Lenin, he also met another unexpected person - Andrei. Petrovich.

Zhou Gong was surprised and delighted that the latter could appear on this occasion, and the reason was very simple, the Soviet government always emphasized that this was an informal meeting. And the bigwigs of the ********** will not appear. And now that a certain immortal is sitting here, has the situation changed?

Zhou Gong hoped that the situation had changed in a favorable way. In that case, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China would have been smoother. But he can't be sure that someone's sudden appearance is really advantageous, who can guarantee it?

Zhou Gong walked up with some apprehension and greeted Lenin. The mentor looked quite weak, and even gave people the feeling of being weak. However, under this weak appearance, Zhou Gong could sense Lenin's strength. The tone of his voice, as well as the way he laughs, bear this out.

In addition to looking at Lenin, Zhou Gong also deliberately paid attention to someone's attitude, but someone behaved calmly and couldn't see the slightest clue.

The guests of honor were seated separately, Lenin spoke first, and the tutor spoke very clearly and logically. It can be seen that his old man is not confused at all. However, to Zhou Gong's surprise, it turned out to be someone as the translator.

"Comrade Lenin asked me to convey it to you. Dear Comrade Zhou, he welcomes you to his visit. And I hope to play a role in the war of resistance and revolution in China. He was willing to solve practical difficulties for Comrade Huaxia. ”

Zhou Gong once said that a certain immortal spoke Chinese very smoothly and was an out-and-out China expert, but he had never dealt directly with someone, so he thought that someone's Chinese level was like that. But after contacting it today, I realized that the language ability of a certain immortal is indeed not covered.

"As for me," Li Xiaofeng explained with a smile, "Comrade Lenin believes that a truly professional interpreter is needed to facilitate communication between you, and I am today's interpreter." ”

Zhou Gong sighed in his heart, but he was not really stupid enough to think that a certain immortal was really here to be a translator, it was obvious that this was a measure taken by the Soviet Union to circumvent some obstacles.

Is this really the case? It should be said that it is not complete, and it is indeed a cheap measure for ****** to let a certain immortal act as a translator. But it was Lenin's insistence that the mentor had suggested that someone join the informal meeting as an interpreter.

So why did Lenin do this? In Lenin's view, the world revolution had just begun, and the victory of the USSR was the beginning, an example, but the victory of the USSR alone was not enough. Even in the twenties he rejected Trotsky on the question of whether a country could build socialism, but that was more for political reasons. At that sensitive moment, you can't tell the Soviet people that the future is precarious, right? At that time, the most important thing was to establish the belief that you would win.

In Lenin's own view, the victory of the revolution in one country is far from enough, and only when more and more people of the country become masters of their own country can the hope of the victory of the revolution be greater. After his research in recent years, he believes that the significance of the Chinese Revolution is not trivial.

A country as resource-rich and populous as the Soviet Union embarked on the path of socialism, and the ripple effects of this were no less than those of the October Revolution. The Soviet Union needed such a promising partner to create the future together.

In particular, when the mentor heard that the Chinese Communists who had gone through the Long March had not only not been defeated and wiped out, but had grown up vigorously in the arduous War of Resistance, he was very happy and further believed that the Chinese revolution was very promising.

"I am amazed that the comrades of Huaxia have achieved amazing results in an extremely difficult environment. I seem to see the prospect of the victory of the proletarian revolution in China, and I believe that this day will come soon! ”

Lenin's remarks were absolutely not false politeness, he was telling the truth, and even admonished Li Xiaofeng on the side: "The difficulties of the Chinese revolution far exceeded our October Revolution, and the revolutionary career of more than 20 years has tempered the Chinese comrades and tempered a group of good comrades who are politically qualified, have firm ideals, and have a simple work style. However, our revolution came a little too easily, and we failed to train our ranks well, so after the victory of the revolution, we had to make up for the lessons and train the comrades again. I believe that our comrades should learn from their comrades in China. Solve the stubborn problems of bureaucracy as soon as possible! ”

These words made Li Xiaofeng a little embarrassed. Because it is clear that Zhou Gong does not seem to need a translator and understands Lenin's meaning. As a Chinese. He was happy for his homeland, but at the same time it was clear that it was Lenin's beating on him.

Not only Zhou Gong was strange, but in fact Li Xiaofeng himself was also very strange, why Lenin suddenly asked him to act as an interpreter. It is not that the Soviet Union does not have a real Huaxia expert, and there are many old Maozi who are as good as him in Chinese. There are so many similar talents on the side of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, why do you just call him a bureau to do small jobs?

At first, Li Xiaofeng had similar thoughts to Zhou Gong, thinking that this was the help of the mentor to bypass all kinds of restrictions. But when he arrived at the Mentor, he found that it was not the case. The mentor didn't mean to match, but really used him as a translator, but Li Xiaofeng knew that the mentor would never be so simple, what did he mean?

For a while, Li Xiaofeng really couldn't guess, so he could only continue to observe patiently, because the communication between the tutor and Zhou Gong quickly got rid of politeness and got to the point.

"The position of the Soviet government was consistent, defeating the Japanese fascists and giving the Chinese people a peaceful life to live and work in peace and contentment. This is the number one. Beyond that. It was also the established policy of the Soviet Government to promote the development of the Chinese revolution by various means...... The only way for the Chinese people to shake off the shackles of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society is to carry out a proletarian revolution. Destroy the old order and establish a new order by revolutionary means! ”

Lenin did not beat around the bush and made his attitude clear from the outset, which is unusual and not easy. According to the normal rules of diplomacy, everything is an exchange of interests, and Lenin, as the representative of the interests of the Soviet Union, should not show his cards so quickly, which is extremely disadvantageous in negotiations.

Why is this so? The reason is that Lenin did not regard the exchange with Zhou Gong as a formal negotiation in the first place. In Lenin's view, he was there to carry out exchanges with the Chinese comrades and to help the Chinese comrades solve their problems. The old revolutionaries of his generation all had a very simple consciousness - the proletariat of the whole world is one family, so what is the difference so clear? Isn't the communist revolution the liberation of the proletarians of the world and the creation of a cosmopolitan society? At this time, the comrades in China need help, and the Soviet Union can provide this kind of help, so why are they so small-bellied?

Undoubtedly, Zhou Gong was very moved by Lenin's statement, and in his opinion, old revolutionaries like Lenin were the purest revolutionaries, and their every move was to focus on the world and not just themselves.

"Thank you to Comrade Lenin and the comrades of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for your help in solving our big problems. We will make persistent efforts and strive to win the victory of the revolution as soon as possible! ”

After a pause, Zhou Gong continued: "However, I did not come to the Soviet Union this time to ask for help, and the most important thing for the Chinese people at the moment is not the class revolution, but the independence and survival of the nation...... At this time, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was approaching the stage of strategic counteroffensive. Before and after entering this stage, there are many problems waiting to be solved. ”

"Tell me more about it." Lenin listened very carefully, and the next thing was for Zhou Gong to introduce his purpose in detail.

Let's put it this way, Zhou Gong's intentions are as follows. The first is the issue of the aforementioned Scraping the People's Party. How to make the Kuomintang continue to resist Japan is a top priority. Even **** has to admit that without the scraping army to contain part of the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield, the guerrilla warfare in North and East China will be even more difficult. Even with the support of the Soviet Union, the operation of scraping the army was still quite significant.

Zhou Gong hoped that the Soviet government could exert more pressure on the Scrape Army, not to mention how actively the Scraping Army would be to fight the Japanese invaders, at least not to turn its guns on the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.

"I also know something about this," Lenin nodded, "and we don't believe in Chiang's temperament. This man is still a warlord after all, and he is not enough to shoulder big things. The Soviet Government has decided to participate in the Cairo Conference, at which Comrade Trotsky will devote himself to this issue. The Soviet government will certainly exert pressure on the Kuomintang as much as possible to make fewer petty moves. ”

This reply relieved Zhou Gong, who was most worried about this problem, once the Soviet government only cared about its own interests on this issue and chose to make a deal with Chiang, it would be difficult to deal with the earthwork.

"Thank you, Comrade Lenin, thank you Soviet comrades for your support. So that we can rest assured! Zhou Gong replied happily. Then he moved on to the second question: "I heard that the Central Executive Committee of the Comintern is going to be reformed?" ”

Lenin smiled. Pointing at Li Xiaofeng, he said: "I understand that comrades are concerned about this issue. The Comintern has played a certain role in the past twenty years or so, but there are also certain problems, and in order to better promote the cause of the emancipation of the proletariat throughout the world, the Comintern has reached the point where it needs to be reformed. Andre. Petrovich strongly insisted that the Comintern must be reformed, and he will introduce the relevant issues to you! ”

Lenin's words relieved Zhou Gong, because he had heard the news that the Comintern was preparing to dissolve, and Lenin was now talking about reform. Dissolution and reform have completely different meanings.

However, there was no problem with Zhou Gong's channels of information, and at first there were opinions within ****** that the existence of the Comintern was completely worthless. And with the creation of an anti-fascist united front. The primary task of the Communist Parties of the world is not to wage a revolutionary struggle, but to fight fascism. In this situation, Sverdlov believed that in order to reconcile the interests of the allies and to better carry out the anti-fascist war, the class revolution should be downplayed and the first solution to fascism should be the primary problem. Therefore, in this situation, the dissolution of the Comintern and the good of the allies who were suspicious of the Soviet Union was a good way to increase unity.

Xiao Si's opinion was really a bit marketable at first, and even Trotsky was a little moved at one time. But from the beginning, Li Xiaofeng was firmly opposed. He thinks that Xiao Si's opinion is to see the small profit and forget the righteousness, and he is picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelons.

"The dissolution of the Comintern would send a very bad signal to the proletarian parties of the whole world. That is, the Soviet Union betrayed the interests of the proletariat of the whole world for its own national interests, and it was the proletarian party of the Soviet Union that betrayed the whole world in order to curry favor with the imperialist bloc headed by Britain and the United States. This would greatly damage the image of the Soviet Union in the eyes of the proletarians of the world. If the Comintern is dissolved just to curry favor with Britain and the United States, will we still want to mobilize the proletarians of the whole world in the future, or will we carry out a world revolution? ”

After a pause, Li Xiaofeng said again: "And there is another problem with this approach, it is we who advocate the establishment of the Communist International, and it is we who dissolve it when we say that it will be dissolved." Isn't this a bit too overbearing, the Comintern was not run by the Soviet Union, this institution belongs to the proletarians of the whole world! ”

After Li Xiaofeng's speech was known to Lenin, the tutor said to Krupskaya in a meaningful voice: "It is undeniable that there are many faults with this little fellow, but there is one thing that no one can pick out, and that is his principle. At critical moments, on key issues, he is always the most reliable one! ”

It can be seen that Lenin was also very dissatisfied with Xiao Si's proposal, and in the eyes of his mentor, Xiao Si had lost his principle and began to kneel and lick the Western imperialist robbers.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng's opposition to the dissolution of the Comintern does not mean that he thinks that the Comintern has no problems. On the contrary, he believed that the existing Comintern was not sufficient to lead the revolutionary struggle of the future. He believed that the Comintern needed to be reformed. The key direction of reform was to change the situation of the Soviet Union in the past, so that more countries could play an active role in the Comintern.

"Increase the practical role of the comrades of all countries in the Comintern and deal with the problems of all countries in a practical way!"

According to Li Xiaofeng's idea, the first thing that needed to be reformed was the Central Executive Committee of the Comintern, which had great power and could determine the leaders and lines of the revolutions in various countries. But the members of the executive committee of this committee were not necessarily competent, and a considerable number of them were Soviet echo worms. Although this has strengthened the control of the Soviet Union, in the long run, it has stifled the ability of the communist parties of all countries to actually deal with the problem, and in the long run, the communist parties of all countries will be played to death!

Therefore, Li Xiaofeng believes that the first item of the reform of the Comintern is to decentralize power, so that the communist parties of various countries can have more autonomy, and not to always be pointed at by the big brother of the Soviet Union, which has no other benefit than annoying people.

Of course, decentralization does not mean that the Soviet Union will pick and choose nothing and ignore everything, but that they will work together. As the old saying goes, wouldn't it be better for the three stinkers to play a better role if the communist parties of all countries can actively participate in the "game"?

However, there is also a problem with collective wisdom, why does the EU in later generations always fail to form a joint force? The reason is that all countries have different opinions, and they are mixed into a pot of porridge for their own interests. This fully shows that it is not a good thing to have too many opinions, and there must be a body that can unify opinions and implement them, otherwise, it will still be useless.

Li Xiaofeng's idea was to split the original executive committee of the Comintern into various regions, and the countries in the region would form a regional executive committee that would decide on the future of the region.

For example, Asia is divided into East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia and Central Asia. Refine the region, so that representatives of unrelated other countries can also come in and participate. For example, in the past, when East Asian issues were dealt with, other unrelated executive committee members were able to make things complicated. In the future, only the executive committees of each regional bureau will be able to decide on the affairs of the region and reduce disputes...... (To be continued.) )

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