Shape up or ship out?

Zinoviev was stunned, what is this statement? Are you supporting? Still not supported?

The flexibility of self-help interpretation is too great, especially for a leader with the identity of a mentor, and the meaning of a good self-help sentence can be very profound.

According to the understanding of the current situation, the tutor may not support it, so he said that he did it himself, which is a warning; Of course, it may also be inconvenient to clarify their attitudes, and many times, the big leaders are not suitable for expressing their attitudes too bluntly, but when they are asked again, they can only play Tai Chi and say some vague words full of political wisdom.

For example, it can also be understood that Lenin is inconvenient to say bluntly, that he neither supports nor opposes, and lets you do it.

However, the meaning of the words of the Mentor will need to test the political wisdom of Krestinsky and Zinoviev. Whether or not we can correctly comprehend the spirit of the superior leaders is a great science.

"I think Comrade Lenin is a warning." Zinoviev thought for a long time before giving such an answer.

"For what?" Krestinsky asked quietly.

The big cake sighed and said worriedly: "I have worked with Comrade Lenin for so many years, and I can still hear some of his subtle tones...... He seemed to be holding back his anger just now, and I think we should stop first......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Krestinsky, "How can you stop, how can you give up when you are about to enter the moment of the last harvest?" Giving up now isn't a wasted effort before that! ”

In fact, the big pie face is reluctant to give up, for more than a year. All he thinks about every day is how to make a comeback. I finally got a chance. If it succeeds, the next members of the Central Committee will definitely be guaranteed, and maybe they will be able to sneak into the Politburo!

The reason why he wants to emphasize first that Lenin's words are wrong is not only because Lenin's words are indeed wrong, but also because he is very worried. More importantly, he felt that Trotsky could not afford to leave things out of the way, and that it was time for Trotsky to express his support.

Otherwise. If he and Krestinsky capsized, they would be the only ones who would be drowned, and they might even have to remove the word "we", but Krestinsky was the object of Trotsky's training, and Lao Tstinsky would not give up on him easily. Therefore, the most back black pot will definitely only be him Zinoviev alone, in the words of the official, who bears the main leadership responsibility.

Zinoviev was not stupid, and he didn't want to be blamed, and he couldn't withstand a second heavy blow. One more blow of this magnitude would be more than just marginalization. Instead, it has completely faded out of the political arena!

Therefore, the big pie face must make the situation more serious. It is necessary to force out Trotsky, who is hiding behind the scenes. If Trotsky had refused to come out, he would not have continued to work stupidly with Krestinsky, but would have decisively drawn a line with this guy - you can play by yourself!

Naturally, Zinoviev was completely indifferent to Krestinsky's morale-boosting words, and instead suggested: "Send a telegram to Comrade Trotsky, reflect to him Comrade Lenin's attitude, and let him have an idea!" ”

Krestinsky did not want to trouble Trotsky at all, and he was bent on doing a great job, and all he was thinking about at this time was how to prove his ability, relying on the authority of Lao To, to get things done, which did not show his ability. If he could do things cleanly and beautifully alone, Trotsky would not be the only one who would look up to him, and the Central Committee would have been shocked!

"There's no need for that!" Krestinsky replied forcefully, "Comrade Trotsky must be consulted on everything, so what do we need to do?" Besides, Comrade Trotsky's work is quite heavy, so don't harass him about this little thing! ”

Zinoviev scolded secretly in his heart, what is it to ask Trotsky, Lao Tzu is not his subordinate, and this is not a matter of asking for instructions, but it must come when he should show his attitude, if he does not come forward again, Lao Tzu will not play with you!

"The stakes are high! It is better to inform Trotsky as soon as possible and let him make a decision as soon as possible! Zinoviev was resolutely refusing to budge.

Krestinsky glanced at him, and said in his heart, he was very impatient, thinking that a certain immortal was not right at all, the big pie face of this mother-in-law and mother did not look like a man, and he shrank his eggs after being frightened by Lenin for two sentences, and he really didn't plant!

However, Krestinsky also had nothing to do with Zinoviev, if the pie face shrank, he was a newly appointed party secretary, and he had no one and no prestige, and it was too difficult to do this. For today's plan, the only way to stabilize the face of the pie is to stabilize it first.

Krestinsky smiled and said, "Okay! I will report the situation to Comrade Trotsky...... In fact, you are just too careful, Trotsky has long said that you will have to do more to support our actions......"

Zinoviev smiled "embarrassedly" and said: "Aren't I afraid of making mistakes!" That's right, to be cautious. ”

Looking at the obscene appearance of the pie's face, Krestinsky was even more disdainful in his heart, and vowed never to work with this seedless guy again.

Zinoviev was gone, but he did not know what to say, and Krestinsky, who had promised well, did not send a telegram to Trotsky for instructions. How else can politicians be a bit smart? Krestinsky played a trick and prepared to make a fait accompli in order to show off his abilities.

Therefore, Trotsky, who was far away in Nizhny Novgorod, did not know that things had changed in Petrograd and he devoted himself to military affairs, cheering on the officers and men of the Red Army day and night. If he knew that Klestinsky played the first cut and then the prelude, he would definitely beat that fool to death, Nima, to despise Lenin's warning, are you going to die?

However, in Lenin's view, Krestinsky was not dying, but a defiant challenge to his authority. He had already warned twice in a row, each one more harsh than the other, and the two hundred and five should be reined in from the precipice. But you, Krestinsky, are simply five hundred. Bent. What do you mean?

Just after the Mentor had considered whether or not to be the most suspicious, he warned Krestinsky again. When he was given the last chance, someone who was dead did it first.

Although Krestinsky temporarily fooled Zinoviev away, he also knew that the face of the pie was not so easy to deceive, and he might have the patience to wait for a day or two, but after a long time, the goods would 100% shrink. So Krestinsky chose to do it in advance, creating a fait accompli first.

January 15, 1919, at the instigation of Krestinsky. The Estonian Bolsheviks announced an armed uprising! The news immediately made headlines in Estonian newspapers, and soon in German newspapers, and soon throughout Europe. All of a sudden, all eyes of Europe were focused on tiny Estonia!

At noon on the same day, the German ambassador to Russia angrily sent a note to the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, expressing strong dissatisfaction and protest and demanding that the Russian government immediately give an explanation on the matter!

When Lenin received the news, he did not expect the eruption of the volcano, and said to the worried Sverdlov: "Forward the protest of the German ambassador to Comrade Trotsky and Comrade Krestinsky." ”

With that, Lenin bowed his head again, as if he did not care at all about the protest of the German ambassador. I don't want to worry about it at all.

Sverdlov was a little dumbfounded and asked: "Comrade Lenin. The situation seems to be grim......"

Lenin raised his head again, glanced at Xiao Si, and said categorically: "Do as I say, whoever pokes the basket, who wipes the buttocks!" ”

From this sentence, we can see how angry Lenin is, since some people think they are very good and think they are very capable, then he wants to see how good someone can be, you can go awesome, Lao Tzu doesn't care!

It should be said that Lenin was not such a willful person, and as the supreme leader of a country, the most taboo thing is to be willful. And this time, he just acted rashly, which shows how angry he was at that time!

Krestinsky received the telegram forwarded, and he didn't take it very seriously, and the German protests let them protest, anyway, they are all mouth cannons, what is there to fear!

However, Krestinsky soon realized that he was quite wrong, and on the night of the uprising of the Estonian Bolsheviks, more than a dozen columns full of German soldiers came from the direction of Latvia, and before the Bolsheviks could approach Tallinn, the fierce German devils knocked them to the ground with bayonets and cannons.

The ridiculous uprising lasted less than 36 hours before it was completely extinguished. The Bolsheviks in Estonia were either killed or imprisoned, and only a few three-legged cats hastily fled to Russian territory.

What was even more terrible than the failure of the uprising was that after quelling the "rebellion", the German soldiers did not stop, but drove to the border line in full gear, and they also carried out a large-scale exercise, and it seemed that they could miss the fire at any time.

At this time, Krestinsky could not sit still, and in a panic he began to give orders to the Baltic Fleet and the Red Seventh Army to prepare them for battle. Of course, he did not intend to fight, and he still remembered what Trotsky had said earlier: "The Red Seventh Army is very unreliable, and its combat effectiveness is very problematic!" ”

To deal with the wolf-like Germans with the Red Seventh Army, which had very questionable combat effectiveness, was simply an egg hitting a stone. Therefore, while instructing the Red Seventh Army to prepare for battle, he hurriedly sent a distress telegram to the Central Committee.

"Only then did you know that Lu Dao asked for help?" Lenin snorted and threw away the telegram and said coldly: "It's too late! ”

Sverdlov thought for a moment and said, "But if Petrograd really misses......

Lenin said: "Andrei is staring over there, nothing big can happen!" But this Krestinsky, hum! Eyes are high and low! ”

"And how do you answer him?" Xiao Si asked again.

"No reply required!" Lenin snorted again, "They provoked the matter, and they didn't listen to the warnings, and if something happened and there was no way to solve it, and now they still want to pretend to be deaf and dumb and stupid?" No way! We don't wipe this ass! ”

Lenin didn't wipe his buttocks, then it was Trotsky who could only wipe his buttocks, in fact, Trotsky basically didn't want to wipe his buttocks, but he was so angry that Krestinsky sent a long telegram to scold Krestinsky to the blood.

After receiving Trotsky's telegram, Krestinsky realized the extent of the problem. In a cold sweat, he hurriedly wrote a very sincere apology telegram and sent it to Trotsky. Meaning: "Boss." I know I'm wrong, but my original intention is still good, you have to pull me! ”

To pull or not to pull Trotsky? Of course, Krestinsky is the person he likes to be optimistic about, and he is ready to train into a right-hand hand like Sverdlov! How can you give up so easily. But how to pull also requires skill.

The stupidest way is to deadlift, in that case, not only will you have to carry the black pot, but you will also have to be criticized. If you don't get Klestinsky into the Politburo, you have to mess with it. So Trotsky chose another way to relieve Krestinsky.

"The nature of this thing is too bad, and the impact is too bad, but bad things can be turned into good things!" In his telegram, Trotsky reminded, "In the big picture, Comrade Lenin had no intention of provoking the Germans, so in any case he would have managed to end it." There are two things you have to do now, the first one is to calm down, don't be in a hurry, be sure to be calm! The second thing. It is to clear the blame and put the fault on Zinoviev. After all, the uprising in Estonia was instructed by the Comintern! ”

Krestinsky's eyes lit up, and Lao Tuo was not right when he said that Comrade Lenin would never have watched the situation deteriorate, and he would never have watched the Germans do bad things. As long as he can calm down, when the time comes, he will have to do it without making a move! As for shirking responsibility, it's simple, isn't it just to deduct the basin on the head of the pie face? It's so easy!

After receiving the telegram, Krestinsky suddenly convened an enlarged meeting of the party committee, and as soon as the meeting began, he violently grabbed the face of the pie and violently criticized: "Some of our comrades are so bold that they go behind the party and the Central Committee to make nonsense, and they are self-righteous and act on their own on the Estonian question, causing quite bad consequences!" So that Petrograd, which has just restored peace, will face another catastrophe! My attitude is firm, whoever breaks into the goods will be responsible! ”

At that time, Zinoviev was so angry, not to mention the seven-trick smoke, but also the five-trick smoke, and the two of them quarreled at the enlarged meeting of the party committee at that time, and the scene was quite lively. Anyway, a certain immortal, as a member of the Petrograd Oblast Party Committee, saw a joke very much.

It is indeed a joke, Krestinsky's methods are too clumsy, and too impatient, you must know that a few days ago, he and Zinoviev attended the symposium on the Estonian question hand in hand, looking like-minded and dead. Now I am afraid that the party committee and the Soviets of the Petrograd region all know that the two like-minded people are fake, and that it is true that they are in harmony with each other.

Li Xiaofeng, who had already received instructions from Sverdlov, said nothing at the meeting, and watched the excitement wholeheartedly. This time we must teach Krestinsky a lesson! Don't get involved, let them go! The bigger the trouble, the worse the death! ”

Krestinsky not only criticized Zinoviev in the party committee, but even openly bombarded the pie face in the newspapers, anyway, according to him, the pie face was the culprit, and he should have been hanged on the Hermitage Square, and he should have stepped on 10,000 feet after being knocked down. As for the Bolshevik uprising in Estonia, which was of great significance, it turned into a rash in his mouth again, a bitter lesson, and a negative example.

Anyway, he started all the firepower to spray Zinoviev, and that momentum, tsk, was even more ferocious than dealing with counter-revolutionaries!

Zinoviev was angry, he was a dumb man who couldn't say what he was suffering from, it was Krestinsky who provoked him to make trouble on the Estonian issue, it was Krestinsky who didn't listen to the warnings and made things out of control, and it was Krestinsky who beat him up the most.

"You sluts!"

According to the secretary of the big pie face, Zinoviev was so angry that he constantly greeted the female relatives of Trotsky and the Krestinsky family. Of course, more often than not, he was lying on the couch depressed, looking like the end of the world was coming.

Why is Zinoviev so worried? Can't he be like Krestinsky to absolve himself of responsibility? The answer, of course, was no, because it was the Comintern, not the Petrograd Party Committee, that instigated the Bolshevik uprising in Estonia. The uprising was launched by the Estonian Party organizations under the direct leadership of the Comintern, that is, the responsibility for the defeat lay mainly with the Comintern, and had nothing to do with the Petrograd Oblast Party Committee.

This is the death hole of Zinoviev's old life, he can't push the responsibility for failure if he wants to, but if he doesn't shirk the responsibility, the initiator over there has already fired on him, and the meaning is very clear, that is, to plant the pot on his head.

Anyway, Zinoviev can't think of any way to save himself, and it's not impossible to put the blame on the people below, but how much responsibility can those little shoulders below bear? His main leadership responsibility is that he can't run away, so what's the point of doing this?

Don't shirk the responsibility, one person resists all, hehe, Zinoviev is not so great, he thought about it all night, he was really desperate, he could only feel Moscow in a hurry and broke into Lenin's office. He's still smart, and the only person who can pull him in the hands of Zhilu Dao now is the mentor.

"Comrade Lenin, I confess to you that the mistake has come!" Flatbread said with a sad face.

Lenin, however, was not at all surprised by the arrival of the pie face, and even felt that it had arrived a little later than he had expected.

At that time, the Mentor quietly asked, "Oh? What mistakes are you prepared to admit? (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to Terde, Prenyakov and Comrade Juventus!