"Comrade Chairman of the Military Committee, given the current situation, I think that the entire Siberia should be temporarily abandoned. It is full of plains and swamps, and there is no danger to defend it. We should not waste all our precious troops here. The granary of Ukraine is very important to the Soviet regime.
Survival is crucial." Frunze rushed to Kazan and personally reported the situation on the front to Trotsky, who was on the Eastern Front. "Currently, the Chinese intervention forces and the Tolev gang control the entire Siberia, and the White Army
The total strength of our troops is as high as 800,000, and the number of enemies is three times ours. We can only stabilize the situation on the Eastern Front by abandoning the area east of the Ural Mountains and establishing favorable defensive positions relying on the Ural Mountains and rivers."
Trotsky looked at the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, Vacetis, as if seeking his opinion.
Since the Eastern Front involved a large number of Red Army troops, the Red Army only repelled Yudenich's attack in the north, but on the Southern Front, Denikin's power became stronger and stronger. The entire Southern Front was in danger, and the Southern Front was in danger.
Under Denikin's attack, it was forced to abandon Donbass, Don River State and nearly one-third of Ukrainian territory. As the Siberian White Army launched the Tobol Battle, the Denikin Group even captured important strategic points.
Ditsaritsyn.
In July, the Denikin Group launched a three-pronged attack on Moscow, and the Soviet Central Committee had to turn its attention to the southern front.
On July 9, the Bolshevik Central Committee sent a letter drafted by Ulyanov himself to party organizations at all levels entitled "Everyone Go Fight Denikin." The main tasks of the entire Bolsheviks proposed in the letter are:
"Repulse Denikin's attack, defeat Denikin, and at the same time enable the Red Army to continuously and victoriously attack the Urals and Siberia."
The Central Committee of the Soviet Union approved the Military Committee's plan to establish a Red Army of 3 million men, and the Red Army is accelerating its expansion.
Before heading to the Eastern Front, Ulyanov and Trotsky had a detailed discussion on the hospital bed: "We should postpone the war with Chinese imperialism and Japanese imperialism as much as possible. The real problem lies before us.
In front of us: there is no food, not enough troops, and the country's production and transportation are completely paralyzed. What can we do now to defend this exhausted and economically bankrupt regime? Sometimes we have to make huge compromises and sacrifices, just like the two of us.
It was the same as when the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed 20 years ago. Are we not announcing the abolition of this unequal treaty now? The new Soviet power needs to gain a breathing space. What is important now is to stabilize Ukraine, the Don River and the Kuban
, the grain, coal, and iron there are extremely important to the new Soviet regime, but we can only give up temporarily in Siberia, the Far East, and Central Asia, which are sparsely populated and have inconvenient transportation!"
"If we sign a peace treaty with the Chinese, we will risk losing Siberia and Central Asia forever." Trotsky said with a frown.
"No, there is no need to sign a peace treaty. Just issue a statement, in the name of the Foreign Affairs Committee, but do not sign it. Such a political statement without a signature is actually invalid, declaring the abolition of a series of unequal treaties signed with China during the Russian Empire.
" Ulyanov said.
"In that case, we may lose forever the more than three million square kilometers of territory we gained from the Chinese."
"No, no, it has nothing to do with territory. We are just abolition of the secret treaties signed by Imperial Russia and the Qing Empire, such as giving up interests in Manchuria and concessions and privileges in other parts of China, and those territorial treaties on the border between the two countries are equal to both parties.
What the Chinese think about the outcome of the negotiation is their business." Ulyanov waved his hand decisively, "Let them fight with the Japanese first!".
Trotsky went to the Eastern Front specifically to assess the balance of power on the Eastern Front.
But the actual conclusion reached was even worse than he expected.
The 500,000-strong Chinese intervention force and three divisions of the Japanese intervention force had a huge impact on the Eastern Front, and behind them there was a steady stream of Chinese regular troops who were organized and sent to Siberia and the Far East in the name of volunteers. According to Tuha
Chevsky's estimate is that to completely defeat the Chinese and Japanese in Siberia and the Far East, at least 1.5 million Red Army troops or more must be concentrated, and the entire Soviet Red Army combined cannot reach this number.
After assessing the situation on the Eastern Front, Trotsky and Vacetis jointly proposed to the Central Committee a proposal to suspend operations on the Eastern Front and withdraw troops to the Ural line.
Trotsky's move was widely criticized in the Central Committee, but Ulyanov supported his suggestion. Ulyanov killed two birds with one stone, thus placing Trotsky, the only threat to his position in the Central Committee, under
On the other hand, the status of the minority group also realized its intention to draw troops from the Eastern Front.
The sound of artillery gradually faded, and the Soviet Red Army withdrew from Siberia. During their retreat, they blew up the Siberian Railway Bridge over the Chusovaya River. From then on, Soviet Russia was isolated in Europe, and its communication with Siberia was cut off.
The Japanese extended their power to Chita. The Far Eastern Republic headed by Semyonov was established in Chita with the support of the Japanese. The Provisional People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Karakhan, issued a statement again, announcing that Soviet Russia had given up the imperial period.
All the land and privileges obtained in China through unequal treaties.
Soviet Russia's statement aroused praise in the country, and newspapers published numerous statements from various domestic forces, all of which welcomed Ulyanov's speech and demanded that the government quickly withdraw its troops from Siberia and start negotiations with Soviet Russia.
Lin Shuo was distracted by the electrification of various forces in the country. These idiots were confused by a vague political statement. No wonder they were played like monkeys time and time again by Western conspirators.
Just like in the 1950s, the shameless politicians of small countries in Southeast Asia made a fool of themselves by declaring that they did not recognize dual nationality, and seemed to be very proud of it. As a result, in the past few decades, 36 million Southeast Asian Chinese
Being treated as an abandoned citizen of the Celestial Empire and being slaughtered by others, the country is suffering. Didn't you notice that there are provisions in international law that allow sovereign countries to send armed forces to protect the lives and property of their own citizens?
At the National Defense Committee meeting, Cao Kun and Lin Jianfan also raised the issue of troop withdrawal, and Li Xiushan also proposed negotiating with Japan to recover the outer Northeastern region.
Lin Shuo finally couldn't help it anymore: "You are all the highest decision-makers of the Republic, how can you be confused by such a vague personal statement? First of all, this is a political statement with no legal effect.
Secondly, if the Russians really want to return the occupied Chinese territory, please use a formal government statement to clearly recognize the boundaries demarcated by both parties in the Treaty of Nerchinsk or the Treaty of Blensky, and then the two governments sign a formal treaty
I just ordered the withdrawal of troops from Siberia. When did the Russians talk about credibility? They just tore up the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Comrades, please use your brains more and don't let others make such a nonsense statement.
He encouraged us to fight with the Japanese, and that became a big joke!"
"Then we are taking advantage of the Japanese like this?" Lin Jianfan said.
"Of course we won't make it easier for the Japanese. We're just temporarily asking them to look after the door for us for a few days. We have a lot of places to take back, and we'll have to charge interest when the time comes. A war between China and Japan is inevitable. I've thought about it for a long time.
We went back to Taiwan. But until we build a strong navy, no one can even think about going to full-scale war with the Japanese. If someone is in a hurry, they should seize the time to open an iron factory. I fully support it. The domestic steel production has not reached 10 million.
Ton before, everyone should try their best to endure it!" Lin Shuo smiled: "However, we can use this statement to exploit the Siberian government and the several khanates supported by the British in Central Asia. Now we can have more
The only thing you can get back is a little bit. Tell Jiang Chengyue of the First Army to move all his troops into Central Asia and start staking the land now! The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will now conduct border negotiations with the Siberian government and the Kyrgyz people in Central Asia, using the Han Great Wall as the border
Line, as for where the Great Wall of Han Dynasty is? Let historians worry about it."
The Soviet regime drove the Denikin Group back to the south of the Caucasus Mountains in 1923. Later, it started a war with the Polish interventionist army in Ukraine. After defeating the Polish interventionist army, the Soviet army entered Poland. In September 1923, the Soviet Union
The Western Front launched the Battle of Warsaw in an attempt to capture this city that originally belonged to the Russian Empire.
Due to the failure of the Red Army's cooperation, the Western Front of the Red Army led by Tukhachevski was defeated in Warsaw. The Polish Provisional Government Army led by Piłsudski drove the Soviet army out of the Soviet-Polish border and took advantage of the situation to annex a small part of Ukraine and Belarus.
Territory. In the spring of 1923, the Soviet Red Army concentrated 800,000 troops to prepare for another attack on Poland.
British Foreign Secretary Curzon issued an ultimatum to the Soviet regime, warning that if the Soviet regime launched another attack, the British would join the war.
This is the famous "Curzon Note".
After nine years of war, the Russians are exhausted, domestic production is in ruins, and the people are in dire straits. Industrial production is only 5% of what it was in 1913, and agricultural production is only a quarter of what it was in 1913. Food supplies are insufficient, and the country is in the grip of famine.
During the period, strikes and peasant riots occurred one after another in the country, and the Soviet regime had to accept the mediation of the British.
In March 1924, representatives of the five countries of Britain, France, the United States, China, and Japan, as well as the Russian Soviet regime, the government of Siberia, the government of the Far Eastern Republic, the Transcaucasian Federation, the Central Asian khanates, and Kyrgyzstan signed a peace treaty in Paris. According to the Paris
Peace Treaty", Siberia, the Transcaucasian Federation, the Far Eastern Republic, the Khiva Khanate, the Bukhara Khanate and Turkestan gained independence. The Soviet power was limited to the west of the Ural Mountains and the Ural River and north of the Caucasus Mountains. Soviet Russia lost
Although they still controlled two-thirds of the territory of the Russian Empire, they still controlled Ukraine and Belarus, which are rich in natural resources. The British gained actual control over Turkmen, the Khiva Khanate, and the Bukhara Khanate. The Chinese forced their way into Central Asia.
They captured the Pamir region and the area around Lake Balkhash, extended the border from the Aral Sea to the Kazakh hills, and supported an autonomous republic dominated by the Buryat people in the area around Lake Baikal, while the Japanese controlled Chita
The outer northeastern region to the east.
The "Peace of Paris" was called a "temporary armistice agreement." No one who signed the agreement was satisfied except the British. The Russians were unwilling to lose Siberia, the Far East, and Central Asia, and the Japanese did not get Manchuria, which they wanted most.
and control of the "Middle East Railway". As for the Chinese, do you think they would be happy to let the Japanese occupy Northeastern China and Sakhalin?
Due to Ulyanov's death, the Soviet was caught in an internal power struggle and temporarily suspended large-scale military operations.
When the timeout came, the boxers who were fighting desperately on the war stage were really tired, so we all agreed to take a rest first.
Laborers from China have almost hollowed out the Ural Mountains, and the entire Ural line has become a giant continuous defense system with dense trenches.