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With Trotsky's final word, Debinko's fate was almost decided. If nothing else, this second commodity will soon be escorted to the execution ground, and a peanut will become his last supper.
However, there are many people who try to make a final effort to save this second goods, the first one is Stalin, as mentioned earlier, if Dembinko is shot, then Voroshilov will definitely have no good fruit to eat. Stalin had to make a final effort, both for himself and for himself, and Mikoyan, the dog-headed military advisor next to him, also believed that things were not irreparable.
"There is still hope for Debinko," Mikoyan said calmly, "There are still two major variables, and if they are used well, there may not be no possibility of resurrection!" β
Stalin asked: "What are the two major variables?" β
"First, it's Colontai. This woman is rushing back, and it is difficult to say what will happen when she returns to Petrograd. Don't underestimate the influence of this woman! β
Stalin asked again: "What about the second?" β
Mikoyan smiled and said, "Second, it's the influence of Debinko himself!" β
Stalin was a little puzzled by this, what influence can a half-dead fool in a prison have, who in the mixed political arena doesn't know that with red top white, when Derbinko was bullish in the past, it was naturally a sedan chair that everyone carried, but now this thing has disgusted the mentor, it is not a tree falling and scattering!
In any case, Stalin did not think that any fool in the party would risk offending both the Mentor and Trotsky to intercede for this second thing. Even if there is Koluntai's face, it won't work!
Mikoyan smiled and said: "You are right, those white-eyed wolves in the party will naturally not go to save Debinko." At this time, it is too late to clear up the relationship. Who will save him! β
Stalin wondered: "Then you ......"
Mikoyan explained: "Debinko's influence is not within the party. To tell the truth, what influence could he have on the old revolution as a sailor who couldn't read a single big word? Dembinko's is not in the party at all, but in the Baltic Fleet! β
Stalin took two puffs of his cigarette and, after putting down his pipe, asked: "You mean the sailors?" β
Mikoyan smiled and nodded.
Indeed, Debinko had quite high prestige among the sailors of the Baltic Fleet, before the October Revolution. He was elected Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Naval Council of the Baltic Fleet. As long as he raised his arms, the sailors of the Baltic Fleet responded in droves.
Because of this, after the establishment of the People's Commissariat of the People's Commissar, this goods became the People's Commissar of the Navy. And in this paragraph, the reason why he complains constantly and has a lot of grievances is mainly because of the support of the sailors! He's a bit of a meritorious master!
Of course, this resentment also represents the real mentality of some of the sailors of the Baltic Fleet, who are reluctant to go to the distant Don and Volga valleys, preferring to stay in the safety of Kronstadt. It is even justified that we are sailors and should stay on board. Instead of running thousands of kilometers away to fight on land!
The entire Baltic Fleet was filled with an indescribable sense of pride. The sailors, believing themselves to be the key to the victory of the October Revolution, should be treated differently from the rest of the fleet, from the ordinary Red Army. It is their mission to stay in Kronstadt to defend the capital, and as for the Central Rada and the White Army of Ukraine, let the other little revolutionaries clean it up!
Under the influence of this impetuous mentality, the sailors of the Baltic Fleet were tired and preferred to talk about their previous achievements rather than make persistent efforts and new achievements. And for these "uncles", Lenin and his bosses are actually very troublesome.
Scold them and kick them in the ass! These people have indeed made great contributions to the revolution, cleaning up their meaning of crossing the river and demolishing bridges, and beating monks after reciting scriptures. But regardless of them, it seems that it is not a way to let them lie on the credit books of the past and wait for death. The shape of the revolution is very nervous! Only by completely destroying the White Army can the Soviet power be consolidated, and naturally you have to exert as much strength as you want, and naturally you can't raise a group of uncles who just eat and don't work!
And this time, the contradiction erupted with Derbinko's sudden escape, and what this cargo did was tantamount to removing the last layer of painting skin and making the contradiction public.
"It's easy to keep Debinko, you have to make a big deal with the sailors. As long as the sailors are mobilized and asked to put pressure on the center, in its current form, the center should choose to compromise! β
This is Mikoyan's final analysis, and I have to say that this guy is really insidious. But there is also a risk in doing so, and if the Mentor and Trotsky know who is behind the scenes, then this guy will not be able to avoid being reckoned with!
Therefore, Stalin was a little apprehensive and a little hesitant. In this regard, Mikoyan smiled and asked: "Who asked you to personally come forward to agitate?" β
Stalin was stunned: "Then who will go?" β
Mikoyan smiled and said, "Isn't there a woman who is even more anxious than you right now and is busy trying to save her husband!" β
Suddenly, Stalin's eyes lit up, and he knew what to do.
Korentai hurried back to Petrograd, and as soon as she set foot on the soil of her homeland, she received the bad news that the Supreme Revolutionary Military Tribunal had sentenced Debinko to death!
When he heard the news, Colontai almost fainted. Although she is an old revolutionary and has experienced a lot of ups and downs, she really hasn't suffered this time. She still has a deep relationship with Decbinko, otherwise she would not have faced the ridicule of her party comrades this year, resolutely said goodbye to the title of feminist pioneer, and insisted on marrying Decbinko, who was 17 years younger than her.
In fact, since last month, when the central government suddenly appointed her as ambassador to Sweden and suddenly asked Dembinko to lead sailors to the front, she felt uneasy and always felt that something was about to happen. Who would have thought that it would be fulfilled so quickly!
Be sure to rescue Debinko! Certain!
Korentai secretly made up her mind, but she didn't go directly to the mentor to intercede at first, and since February, she has been quite stiff with the mentor because of the Brest contract. This time Derbinko suddenly had an accident, and she suspected that it was the revenge of the mentor, who wanted to give her disobedient woman a little color.
Colontai felt that it was useless to ask for a mentor. She was a dignified woman. I will never let my mentor see a joke. Let him be sarcastic and mocking!
Colontai felt that he still had an old relationship, and with his old friendship, people would sell her a face, and it should not be too difficult to rescue Debinko.
I have to say that this poor woman has been relatively naΓ―ve from beginning to end, she is more like an idealist, a second force who lives in her own imagination. She had never done things only with her sensibility, April 1917. On the basis of sensibility, she supported Lenin, and in February 1918 she was again vehemently opposed to Lenin on the basis of sensibility. Not long ago, still based on sensuality, she resolutely married Derbinko, who was probably just playing with feelings and using her influence to rise to power.
I have to say that Colontai's life is a farce, she is always crazy to do something out of place. And such a person will not have friends in politics!
Whether it is a politician or a politician, it is realistic. No one would want to work with a teammate like Colontai who could cause trouble at any time, like a boiler without a safety valve. There has never been any magnanimity in politics, only you live and die. In this sinister environment. No one will help her!
Colontai ran for a day, and what he received was the cold reception of his old friend. Or simply closed doors. Of course, this is not entirely related to red and white, and there are also a considerable number of people who are not used to Debinko's brain-dead actions, and everyone will think: Is it worth saving such a brain-dead?
But Colontai didn't think so, she was a bit of a bull, stubbornly believing that the old friends did not give face, more because of the pressure exerted by Lenin, which made her hate Lenin even more.
With a sense of resentment, she was ready to rush to Moscow and go to the Kremlin to find Lenin to make it clear that even if she couldn't rescue Derbinko, she would scold Lenin to her heart's content!
But before she boarded the train to Moscow, she met an unexpected person - Matvey. Skobelev.
Who is this Skobelev? Some comrades may have the impression that this duke was once a pupil and disciple of Trotsky, a hardcore Menshevik. In 1917, after the crisis of confidence in the first Provisional Government, the first coalition government was formed, and this government was among them!
At that time, Matvey. Skobelev took the post of Minister of Labor. Historically, after Trotsky's return to Russia, he was warmly welcomed by this believer and student. At one point, both families lived together.
But Trotsky's thinking at that time was closer to Lenin's, and very different from that of the Mensheviks. So in the end, the intimacy between the two families collapsed because of the huge political disagreement. Trotsky moved out of the Skobelev mansion with his wife and children (the family was well-born and quite wealthy).
After that, as the Social Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks went all the way down, and Skobelev got worse and worse, the minister soon became inadequate. Especially after the October Revolution was fired, the position of this commodity became quite embarrassing.
However, this man was also a great god, and seeing the fall of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks, he did not go to Ufa and Samara with the other Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, let alone think of rebelling against the White Army.
This man chose to stay in Petrograd and changed from a hardcore rightist to a radical leftist. Began to sing in public chorus of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, lashing out at former friends and comrades-in-arms. This act of repentance allowed him to rejuvenate his second spring.
Many years later, when his former mentor Trotsky was exiled for fighting Stalin, this man relied on his ability to hold stinky feet, and he once became very popular, I have to say, this is really a great irony!
But this is all for later, and now, this man is not particularly well mixed up, and is trying to get close to the Bolsheviks in every possible way. Trotsky would certainly not have gone there, he was not particularly optimistic about his former teacher, and as for Lenin, his mentor did not look down on him as a person. After thinking about it, he hit the idea to Sverdlov and Stalin.
Xiao Si did not appreciate him, he was lukewarm to him, and on Stalin's side, the threshold was much lower. After a few contacts, the two sides hooked up. And this time, it was Stalin who gave him a test, which was equivalent to submitting a petition of surrender.
For this task, Skobelev did not find it too difficult. When he was still following Trotsky, when Kollontai was a Menshevik. He had dealt with this lewd woman. Deeply understand that Colontai is a fool when he should be smart. Clever stupid woman when it's time to be confused. It's so easy to fool her!
After pretending to be an accident and bumping into Korentai, he asked enthusiastically: "Comrade Korentai, I have also heard about Comrade Debinko...... I must say that this punishment is too harsh, and a small mistake is infinitely magnified, which is simply a deliberate rectification! β
This was undoubtedly said to Koluntai's heart, and she thought so too, and immediately sighed: "It's not! Comrade Lenin went too far! This is simply political persecution! β
Skobelev continued to ask enthusiastically: "And what are you going to do?" Just watching Comrade Debinko die? β
Colontai suddenly raised his voice. "Of course not, I'm going to find Comrade Lenin!" Be sure to make it clear! I will not give up until I achieve my goal! β
Saying that, the angry woman was about to rush to the train station, and it seemed that she didn't want to delay for a moment. But Skobelev stopped her and whispered: "Comrade Korentai, forgive me for talking too much. I don't think it makes much sense to go to Comrade Lenin on this matter! β
"Why?" Colontai asked.
"It's easy! How much time will it take you to get there? It is a time of war, the train has not been on time, and if you go to Moscow this time, it will take three to five days to arrive, to say the least, and Comrade Debinko will be shot the day after tomorrow. When you get to Moscow, you find Comrade Lenin by the way. It's too late! β
Colonte's heart thumped, but it wasn't too late. So, isn't there only a dead end for Debinko? Thinking of this, her tears began to fall.
Korentai cried, but Skobelev almost didn't make a sound. Mikoyan had specifically explained to him that this woman was still very difficult to deal with when she was sober, and if she wanted to play with her, the first thing was to make her lose her mind.
Of course, there are two ways to make Korentai lose his mind, the first is to use the so-called love to fool her into a daze, like Debinko, and then you can do whatever you want. However, Skobelev has no advantage in this regard, his little white face is not the type that Kolentai likes, and Kolentai in the year of the tiger and wolf prefers rude and rough sailors to well-mannered intellectuals.
So, Mikoyan's idea for Skobelev was to use Debinko to disturb her heart, to make her unable to think rationally, and to make her more chaotic and hysterical, the better!
I have to say that Mikoyan's judgment was very accurate, and Colontai, who was in a panic, had an empty mind, and his IQ was more than five percent off in an instant. The little sanity that remained was also annihilated by hysterical manic feelings, and she could only be led away by the nose by Skobelev.
"I don't think it's useful for you to go to Moscow now!" Skobelev swore that "you should go to Kronstadt, go to the sailors' council there, and with the prestige of Comrade Debinko, the comrades who sympathize with him will definitely stand up and speak out generously!" β
Stunned, Korentai was immediately moved, and after saying goodbye to Skobelev, she immediately rushed to Kronstadt, found several of Debinko's old subordinates, and after adding fuel to her own unreliable analysis, the sailors fryed!
"What, Kronstadt's sailors surrounded the Petrograd detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"
Lenin, who learned of this, was first bewildered, then surprisingly angry, and roared: "What the hell is the Baltic Fleet doing!" First Debinko took the lead in escaping, and now they are surrounding the detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are they preparing to shell the Smolny Palace next! β
Sverdlov did not speak, he had expected this before, and he did not approve of dealing with Dembinko harshly, and now, the worst happened.
Lenin sat and thought for a long time, and then suddenly asked: "Who is inciting the sailors to make trouble?" Is it Debinko? β
Sverdlov replied: "It's about the same, Comrade Kollontai." β
"Tsk!" Lenin was so annoyed by the name that he almost slapped the table and scolded. However, he was still a little self-contained, so he held back this evil breath and did not make a sound.
Seeing this, Stalin took the opportunity to quickly interject: "I think the top priority now is to calm down the incident, if you provoke the sailors, the consequences will be unimaginable!" β
Lenin glared at the object angrily and asked: "You mean to release Dembinko?" β
Stalin hurriedly nodded again and again: "I think this is the only way for the time being, first stabilize this head and then talk about ......"
Before he could finish speaking, he was blocked back by Lenin: "Nonsense! Do you know what kind of head the release Debinko will make? Every commander learns from him, and if he is the slightest bit unsatisfactory, he picks on him, and encourages the soldiers to confront the central authorities, and if this goes on like this, what kind of results will be, don't you understand? β
Sverdlov immediately chimed in: "I think Comrade Lenin's fears are quite right, and we must not encourage this unhealthy trend!" β
Stalin became more and more disdainful of Xiao Si, he felt that Xiao Si was just a follower of the mentor, obviously you also had the intention of interceding for Dembinko before, but the two sentences were frightened by the tutor and changed his original intention. Is this called persistence? Phew!
However, Sverdlov did insist, and the reason why he interceded for Dembinko was to take the overall situation into account, but his opposition to Debinko's release was also for the sake of the overall situation. Because his handling opinion was: "Dembinko is at fault, and he must be punished, preferably severely!" But shooting, this is too much, it is easy to intensify the contradictions, but it is not beautiful. (To be continued......)
PS: Bow and thank the sweet potatoes in the melon field, Youshan V, the glory of Sukhoi, Juventus, and the five comrades who hold the broken son!