If he were given another battlefield, and the strength of both sides was roughly equal, perhaps the commander-in-chief of the Moscow Defense War could still display higher talents, but the current reality no longer allows it.
On March 12, some troops broke into Moscow, and the fighting began to turn into brutal street fighting.
Compared to other battles, street fighting is undoubtedly more frightening. Here, you will lack the support of aircraft and artillery, and God knows where those cold shots will come from.
As the team entered the city, Zhukov knew that the final moment had arrived
"Comrades, use your spirit and fight the invaders to the end!" In his headquarters, Zhukov issued this order: "Defend Moscow, defend the Soviets, and defend great Russia!"
Under Zhukov's order, all Red Army officers and soldiers, as well as Moscow civilians, devoted themselves to the defense of the city.
Their performance was heroic and commendable, and this is true for any country. When one's capital is under the most direct threat, then the fiercest defense battle will inevitably be inevitable.
Chinese tanks also entered Moscow along with the infantry. They rolled over the Moscow land like no one was watching, and then fired artillery shells at any visible target!
A tank had just destroyed a house, and soon two Russian children, at most twelve or three years old, appeared in the tank commander's sight.
The machine gunner was about to shoot. The commander hurriedly stopped him: "It's just two kids."
Before he finished speaking, two Molotov cocktails were thrown towards the tank, but fortunately they did not hit the tank. The commander was startled, and then he saw the two Russian children holding their bags high in their hands.
Rushed towards the tank.
The machine gun on the tank rang. With two "boom-boom-" sounds, the two Russian children were blown to pieces.
The machine gunner panted and stopped. Then he asked the commander who had his head popped up and asked doubtfully: "Just two children?"
"It's just two children." The shocked driver still hasn't reacted: "I'll shoot the same way when I encounter children in the future."
This is Moscow at war. There are no more civilians here. Everyone here has become a soldier.
Bad news reached Zhukov's ears one after another, but the commander-in-chief in Moscow acted very calmly. Even though he knew that there was no room for salvation in the war, he still decided to fulfill all his responsibilities.
He will never give up until the last moment
The only thing he doesn't understand is why Russia has become what it is now? What happened to "great" Russia?
Behind him is Comrade Stalin, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and the entire Soviet Union. If sacrifice must be made, then let yourself be the first to sacrifice.
The only thing worth celebrating is that since entering the city, the pace of the Chinese has slowed down. They have encountered the strongest resistance from Moscow.
But Zhukov saw very clearly that this was only temporary. A city that lacked necessary foreign aid would fall sooner or later.
Stalin was also very clear about this.
The reason why he stubbornly stayed in this city that would soon be completely destroyed by the war was that besides the fact that he had no place to go in Russia, an even more important reason was that he was unwilling to give up all the hard work.
I just got the right. Never!
He was almost defeated by Lenin and his political opponents, but with his own maneuvering, he finally succeeded in getting himself on the throne today.
What is more important than rights? Nothing!
He still remembers the bloody power struggle between himself and Trotsky, the former second-in-command after Lenin!
No one was optimistic that Stalin could defeat Trotsky, the second most powerful figure in the party!
However, Stalin finally defeated Trotsky.
In January 1929, Stalin pronounced the fate of the former leader and exiled Trotsky outside Russia. Zinoviev put it very succinctly: There was no way to appeal.
When Stalin expelled Trotsky, he retained his sense of humor and used the "Ilyich" passenger ship to expel Trotsky, who claimed to be a loyal Leninist, from Russia. Why didn't he kill him? At that time, he needed
Trotsky is alive for the next step in the chess game. Trotsky will become the counter-revolutionary center. He can accuse his enemies of having connections with this counter-revolutionary center. This is the bait he uses to catch future victims. Everything is calculated.
Okay, he had calculated several moves in advance. Now, he needed to deal with another enemy Bukharin, so he started to take action through Trotsky.
On the eve of his execution, Bukharin wrote in a desperate letter to Stalin: "In 1928, when I was at your place, you said to me: 'Do you know why I am friendly with you? You will not engage in conspiracy.
’ I said: ‘Yes.’ In fact, I approached Kamenev at that time.”
"Little Buhar" was not sensible at all. The transcript of his meeting with Kamenev was immediately obtained by Stalin through several channels. In order to mock the unfortunate intellectual, he deliberately asked: "Are you
Can you engage in conspiracy?" He was playing Othello. In this way, when the other party lied against his will, he gained the right to hate liars and traitors with all his heart.
His GPU arranged for the minutes of Bukharin's conversation with Kamenev to fall into the hands of Trotsky. As before, everything was planned: Trotsky hated Bukharin, right?
Those who would take pity on him would publish the minutes of the conversation immediately. Sure enough, the "Lion" published the contents of the conversation as soon as he left the country. It gave Stalin a bomb - a reason to accuse the right wing of colluding with the former opposition.
At this time, Stalin had new supporters. Rajek and other Trotskyists were given the opportunity to surrender. Since Stalin had "turned to the right and fired, they should support him. They should stand on the left front of the party and take advantage of others."
It’s not time to stand over yet,” they wrote to each other in the exile.
If we want to turn back, we have to sacrifice Trotsky, who is the leader who has disappeared anyway.
Rajek immediately wrote to the Trotskyists in exile: "Our exile and imprisonment are our own fault. I have broken with Trotsky, and he and I are now political enemies."
For the sake of the party, we can and should
Why do they change their views and betray each other so easily?
Piatakov, one of the Trotskyist generals who later became a loyal Stalinist, said to the stunned Valentinov: "For the sake of the party, you can and should change all your beliefs within 24 hours and force yourself to confuse right and wrong.
."
Their party, like the church, is always pure, even if the priests make mistakes. Because the party is the same as the church, it has a foundation, which is the holy teachings of Marxism. In this way, the party as a whole will not make mistakes.
Even if a party member is guilty, it cannot change the sacred nature of the party.
From this arose a principle: "Everything is for the party", which allowed betrayal to each other and made them loyal to him, the leader of the holy party.
At this time, letters of repentance came in like a huge tide.
He called repentant "left-leaning elements" back from exile.
So he used various means to seize the highest power in the party. He even placed himself above Lenin, as if everything Lenin did was not as great an achievement as his.
But now everything has changed.
Not only could his orders not be transmitted out of Moscow, but his orders could no longer be obtained in many places within Moscow. This was a great sorrow for Stalin.
Stalin was unwilling, really unwilling to lose the huge power in his hands.
Yenov walked in quietly, unwilling to make even a sound. When he came in, he saw the leader deep in thought. So he stood aside and did not dare to say a word.
Stalin raised his head and glanced at his intelligence chief. At least, his intelligence agency was trustworthy!
The People's Commissariat of State Security, the predecessor of "Cheka", is undoubtedly the most trustworthy and reliable weapon from Lenin to Stalin!
The founder of the Cheka was Lenin, but its actual operator was Yagoda.
After the October Revolution, Yagoda entered the Cheka agency. As early as the 1920s, he served as the leader of the powerful GPU. It was he who established a network of intelligence agents across the country in the early years of the Soviet regime.
Under Yagoda's leadership, Lenin's formula "Every party member should become a Cheka worker" became a common phenomenon. Now, every citizen should become a Cheka worker. Letting you be an intelligence agent is the party's right to you
Trust is something to be proud of.
In the anniversary year of the Cheka, dozens of engineers were arrested in the Donbas coal mine. They were accused of sabotage. They were engaged in investigation work for the two years from 927 to 1928. To be more precise, they were rehearsing an unprecedented farce. Asia
The investigators of Gorda were extremely candid with these stunned engineers. The reason why they were stunned was that of course they tried their best to defend themselves at first, but they were told that no one believed they were guilty and there was no need to defend themselves but to cooperate.
This group of poor people explained that the false accusations against them had a noble political purpose: they are currently engaged in unprecedented socialist construction, and if they admit to sabotage, it will arouse the people's indignation against capitalism and heighten their vigilance against the real enemy.
, while improving labor productivity.
For this reason, it is guaranteed that they will not be sentenced to death.
On May 20, Moscow held its premiere: the public trial of the saboteurs of the Donbas coal mines.
Fifty-three engineers were brought to court. The diplomatic box was packed and reporters from newspapers from all over the world came. The drama was a success: the accused all denounced themselves vigorously and even asked to have their defenders dismissed because the latter
It's too much to defend them. It seems they are competing with Prosecutor General Krylenko to see who can bring more serious charges.
The prosecutor general requested that 22 people be sentenced to death. However, in order to thank them for their good attitude, he ordered the execution of only 5 people. Just five innocent souls. In the great global mission, this is nothing!
He could make the necessary summary at the Central Committee Plenary Session: "It goes without saying that class struggle is intensifying, and such cases will still happen." This was an order, and all enterprises began to dig out saboteurs.
All this is thanks to "Cheka"!
"How is the situation outside?" Stalin finally asked.
"The enemy has entered the city, and Commander-in-Chief Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov is making efforts to resist." Yenov replied in a low voice.
"There is no doubt about the loyalty of Comrade Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov." Until now, Stalin is still obsessed with the word "loyalty". In his opinion, a disloyal person caused
The lethality is often the most terrifying: "What about you? How prepared are you?"
"Everything is ready." Yenov said in a very soft voice, as if he was afraid of disturbing Stalin: "Once Moscow can no longer hold on, then our lurkers will lurk and cause any possible damage to the Chinese."
Stalin listened carefully to the report of his subordinates, and then interjected: "We must resolutely eliminate those who surrendered after the fall of Moscow! There must be no mercy on these people. They must be resolutely eradicated! Just like we eradicated those kulaks back then!"
"
"Yes. I understand." Even though Yenov replied, he couldn't help but shiver.
The campaign to eradicate the kulaks made a profound impression on all Russians.
At the end of 1929, shortly before Stalin's birthday, he published an article "The Year of the Great Turning Point" and set the task of "eliminating the kulak class."
"In the 20th century, our country is preparing to systematically annihilate our compatriots who work on the farmland. The task that will be accomplished together with the annihilation of the kulaks is: the annihilation of the old Russian countryside. The revolution distributed the land to the peasants. Now the peasants are required to return the land and livestock, and the collective
To use it, we have to give up the concept of 'my' that is familiar to the peasants and learn to speak of 'ours'. Of course the rich peasants are unwilling and will obstruct it. In order to save time, I decided to act in a revolutionary way: simply eliminate them."
He appointed the loyal Molotov as the chairman of a special committee to solve the problem completely. Molotov worked hard and caused a lot of bloodshed.
The committee drew up a plan within the shortest possible time for the general annihilation of the kulaks. The kulaks were driven to the northern regions - the Urals, Kazakhstan and Siberia!
The well-known economists at the time, Kondratiev, Yurovsky, and Chayanov, suggested using the rich peasants, the most capable and labor-loving farmers, to reclaim wasteland and lease the wasteland left behind by the Kazakh nomads for a long time.
They use it. But these economists do not understand that what Stalin wants to do now is not economic, but to complete a political task: to completely eliminate a class. The formula of the revolutionary Tkachev "What should be considered is how many people should be left behind" accounts for
Got the upper hand.
In February, Molotov and his committee divided the kulak into three categories. The first category was the counter-revolutionary kulak elements, who were sent to labor camps or shot, and their families moved to the most distant areas. The second category was the remaining richest kulak.
To distant barren lands. The third category is the run-down rich peasants who moved outside the collective farms.
No one can tell who should be classified into which category.
How to determine who is a rich peasant? How to separate middle peasants from rich peasants? The fate of the unfortunate wealthy peasants is entirely in the hands of the GPU, party members and cadres and poor peasants. Well-off peasants voluntarily donated their wealth to collective farms, begging them not to be classified as
rich peasant.
"The expropriation of the kulaks was carried out with the active participation of the poor peasants. The poor peasants went in groups with the committee to confiscate livestock and property. At night, they took the initiative to guard the roadside at the entrance of the village and detain the fleeing kulaks." Member of the Central Committee, Molotov Committee
Member Valekis pointed out with satisfaction in Pravda.
Across the country, amid the wails and tears of women, these unfortunate people were loaded into carts and escorted away by the GPU. They looked back at the now empty houses where their families had lived for generations.
Leaving behind a life that I will never see again in this life.
Dogs bark in the empty yard.
Numerous of his cruel telegrams are preserved in secret files. The Molotov Committee moved 50,000 kulak households to the northern border region. The party committee of the border region said that only 20,000 households were prepared, and the rest did not even have stoves or stoves.
The oil lamp sheds have not yet been built. Stalin replied: "This statement is an attempt to overturn the immigration plan that has been passed by the party, and the central government cannot agree. Stalin."
"The city of Novosibirsk, the hungry wilderness of Siberian Territory Commissariat of Nine Astronomers."
The results of the committee were not good. The Kremlin upstarts installed by Stalin, the powerful leader of the local party - the secretary of the regional party committee, and of course Yagoda, who represented the GPU, all participated in this committee. The chairman of the committee at the time, Molotov, was very proud.
Said: "We did a good job in collectivization. I personally designated the areas to expel rich peasants. A total of 400,000 households were expelled."
A member of the committee, the new Politburo member Kosior, wrote: "A devastating blow was indeed carried out against the kulaks."
Kirov, the leader of Leningrad, vividly wrote: "The tractors lined up in rows and dug graves for the rich peasants."
How could Kirov know and for whom he dug a grave?
Kirov, Kosior and Valekis were all later killed. Nineteen of the twenty-one members of the committee would soon lie in unmarked graves, killed in Stalin's purges. However, at this moment, they were
Working nervously to destroy others.
Trains were moving non-stop, caravans loaded with livestock were used to transport farmers, and coaches equipped with searchlights were occupied by guards with police dogs.
The poor peasants and the surviving middle peasants formed the collective farm. The livestock fed by the rich peasants were fat and strong, the solid houses built by the rich peasants, the wealth and money accumulated by the peasants for generations were all given to the collective farm. The collective farm was
He started out by embezzling other people's wealth in a bloody way.
Now, it’s time for the massacre again! (To be continued)