Zhukov's capture brought the battle to defend Moscow to its end.
By March 22, organized resistance in Moscow had basically ceased, leaving only sporadic armed forces still unwilling to lay down their weapons.
But this is no longer relevant to the overall situation.
The Battle of Moscow is over, and so is the war in Russia. A large number of senior Soviet military officers were killed and captured, and a large number of senior officials of the Soviet Russian government were killed and captured.
The entire Bolshevik regime was completely destroyed. This once prosperous regime will only live in people's memory in the future.
．
What can you complain about? When you win, you can take whatever regime you want, because that is your right, but once you fail, you will soon be forgotten by most people.
Now, only the last person is left:
Joseph.
Vissarionovich.
Dzhugashvili! Not many people know this name, but his other name is famous:
Stalin!
As for the origin of the name, it was in 1912 that Stalin, who came to St. Petersburg, founded "Pravda" under the instructions of Lenin. In March 1913, he published the article "Marxism and the National Question" and used it for the first time.
He took the pen name "Stalin", which means "Man of Steel". From then on, everyone gradually became familiar with the name Stalin, so that his real name was Joseph.
Vissarionovich.
Dzhugashvili is almost forgotten.
The squadron, which controlled most of Moscow, arrested a large number of Soviet officials when they stormed into the Kremlin, but found no trace of Stalin.
He ran away.
Or to be more precise, he left the Kremlin, but not yet Moscow.
On March 23, Chinese soldiers entered the center of Moscow, Russia, one of the symbols of Russia, the palace of the tsar, the oldest building complex in Moscow, which became the Soviet Union’s party and government after the October Revolution.
The Kremlin, where the government is located.
The Chinese took control of this massive building.
Subsequently, the Chinese issued a wanted order, which included Stalin, Shaposhnikov, and Yenov. Regarding Stalin’s crimes, in addition to the well-known crimes such as massacre, it also included robbery, drunkenness, and kidnapping.
crime, blackmail.
This is not because the Chinese are talking nonsense and making up charges randomly, but Stalin was indeed personally involved in these things.
In August 1898, Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. In 1899, because he was unable to pay the sudden increase in tuition fees, he had to give up the final exam and was expelled from the school. He then worked at the Meteorological Observatory in Tbilisi.
At the same time, he actively participated in revolutionary activities. In 1902, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split and he chose to join Vladimir.
On the side of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. Soon Stalin became the main revolutionary activist in the Caucasus. He organized strikes, distributed leaflets, raised funds for Bolshevik activities, robbed banks, kidnapped, and extorted.
In the summer of 1906, Stalin and Catherine.
Soon after Svanidze got married, she gave birth to his first son, Yakov.
Dzhugashvili. On June 26, 1907, Stalin and his men ambushed the convoy of the Imperial Bank in the square in Tbilisi.
During the shootout, a homemade bomb exploded and killed 40 people, while Stalin and his men escaped with 250,000 rubles.
These are all things Stalin himself did, and he should bear full responsibility for these things.
At the same time, among the documents seized from the Kremlin that the Russians did not have time to destroy, the Chinese also discovered a large amount of incriminating evidence of the Soviet Russian government's purges and massacres from 1936 to 1938.
These incriminating evidences were disclosed promptly.//
Many Russians have long known that senior generals in the army were purged, but it is a secret to the Russians that many of Lenin's close comrades were bloody suppressed during his lifetime!
For example, when Bukharin, whom Lenin trusted, was put on trial, there was also a very senior Bolshevik party member, Nikolai.
Nikolayovich.
Kristinsky.
In the most difficult years of the early Soviet regime, as Secretary of the Central Committee, he helped Lenin resolve many major national affairs. When Lenin was still alive, Krestinsky served as People's Commissar for Finance. But abroad, he first served as a rather powerful person.
Talented diplomats are famous.
He served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union and lived in Germany for ten years. Later, he returned to China to serve as Deputy People's Commissar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became Maxim.
Litvinov's assistant.
Although Krestinsky was praised by the Bolsheviks as "the most outstanding, strongest and time-tested revolutionary of the older generation", in terms of temperament, he is still a typical, kind-hearted intellectual. He holds an important national position, but
He has not become a conceited bureaucrat. He treats his subordinates, even the most ordinary staff, with sincerity, frankness and kindness, as if they are also important officials in the Kremlin. He likes humble and honest people best and does not tolerate duplicity.
People and seekers of fame and fortune. Therefore, he had no good impression of the cruel and conspiratorial Stalin. Once, he said to several good friends: "I hate that ugly guy and his yellow eyes."
.”
Of course, this happened at a time when saying such things would not lead to death.
In 1936, Stalin decided to "settle the accounts" with Lenin's comrades, and Krestinsky naturally became one of the victims. In fact, Krestinsky had known Stalin as early as 25 years ago, and they
He also worked underground in Petersburg, but this history did not save him from being poisoned. On the contrary, it accelerated his death.
Everyone knows one thing: Stalin is most intolerant of those who know a lot about his history. These people will relate his criminal acts in recent years and accordingly point out in his resume those things that probably would not have attracted people's attention in the past.
Special attention should be paid to the doubtful points.
The clutches of the infamous first and second Moscow trials spared Krestinsky, and he was safe for the time being. However, those who were shot were almost all his close friends, which could not help but make him suspect that he was
What is his future? His only secret hope is that, as the Deputy People's Commissar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has established personal relations with many famous leaders from various European countries, and for these leaders, even Stalin has to be in awe. Obviously, he is counting on Stalin.
This will give up the idea of "purging" him, and at the same time hope that this bloody wave of suppression will subside faster.
However, on March 27, 1937, all his hopes were shattered. On this day, he was removed from the post of Deputy People's Commissar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and transferred to the Deputy People's Commissar of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. What does this demotion mean? No one knows
Not hard to guess.
Most of the people who were suppressed by Stalin were thrown into the Ministry of Internal Affairs Prison without changing their posts. But sometimes in order not to make a person's arrest too noticeable, Stalin would temporarily change the person to a lower one.
The position is the so-called "transition". For example, Yagoda, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was first transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and then was pushed to the dock of the third Moscow trial. Another example is the most famous example of the October Revolution.
The hero Antonov.
Ovshenko was recalled from Spain by Stalin in 1937. He was first transferred to a casual post, People's Commissar of Justice of the Russian Federation, and then disappeared. Now, another person who will be executed, Krestinsky, has become
Deputy People's Commissar of Justice of the Russian Federation.
After Krestinsky took up his new position, he was not arrested immediately. Stalin deliberately kept him in this "dead or alive state" for more than two months. Obviously Stalin's idea was to let Krestinsky
Key waited day by day and hour by hour in extreme panic, leading to a mental breakdown and losing his ability to resist torture and confession. Indeed, Christins, who was imprisoned in the "mousetrap" by Stalin,
Ji, I have tasted the endless struggle before death.
Besides, Krestinsky had to worry about the fate of his wife and only daughter. His daughter's name was Natasha and she was already fifteen years old. Therefore, Stalin's decree on juvenile offenders promulgated on April 7, 1935
The law punishable by death is valid against her.
I have known this girl since she was only five years old, so everyone knows how much her parents dote on her. Natasha resembles her father in many ways, not only inheriting his father's appearance and high degree of myopia, but also inheriting his father's temperament.
Active thoughts and amazing memories.
Since so many senior party cadres were competing to discredit him in the farce of the first two trials, he did not need to worry that his false confession would damage the prestige of the Bolshevik Party.
Everything he cherished so much in the past had been thrown into the filthy water by Stalin and his accomplices, trampled wantonly, and soaked with the blood of his close comrades. Krestinsky did not dare to hope to save his wife's life, but he
He knew that if he agreed to pay the price demanded by Stalin, he would still be sure to save his daughter.
Krestinsky had served as a judicial cadre, so he knew better than anyone what Stalin's torture and trials meant. Even before he was arrested, he warned himself: Resistance is useless since he fell into internal affairs.
As for the subordinates, they should immediately compromise with the leaders there. Indeed, before June had passed, he had already signed the first "acknowledgment".
However, when he arrived in court, he did something that surprised the whole world. Of course, for the director of this trial farce, this incident was not a surprise.
On the first day of the trial, when the presiding judge asked Krestinsky whether he had pleaded guilty, the latter flatly denied it:
"I do not admit guilt. I am not a Trotskyist. I have never been a member of the Right-Trotsky League, and I do not even know that this organization exists. The charges against me are imposed.
I have not committed any crimes. I especially do not admit that I have committed the crime of colluding with enemy intelligence agencies."
During the three Moscow trials, the defendant dared to declare his innocence in court and wanted to overturn all the charges against him. This was the first time, and of course, the last time.
Krestinsky's declaration of innocence aroused a lot of discussion. Those who have been paying attention to the trial are waiting with great interest to see whether Krestinsky can stand up to his duel with the court.
Stay the course and appear victorious in the end.
The next day, March 3, 1938, Krestinsky was escorted into the trial hall together with other defendants. During the morning trial, he did not say a word, and the prosecutor did not mention it to him.
Any questions. When the court was in session in the evening, he stood up and said this to the court:
"Yesterday, as I was being put in the dock and hearing the indictment read out, my heart was very heavy. In addition, I was seriously ill. I was suddenly dominated by a strong feeling of hypocritical shame. I was unable to tell the truth and did not dare to admit my guilt.
So, I should have said: 'Yes, I am guilty,' but I mechanically blurted out: 'No, I am not guilty.'"
Those abroad who followed the trial closely, after reading the newspaper reports, would naturally have a question: Why did Krestinsky behave so differently during the night from March 2 to March 3?
Two people?
Any impartial person can't help but think of the horrific torture methods.
However, in fact, Krestinsky's sudden change of position was not due to the torture methods used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs on him. They did not need to do so.
To be honest, Krestinsky's behavior of first retracting his confession and then pleading guilty was a fake show in the trial farce concocted by Stalin. In the first two Moscow trials, all the defendants admitted their guilt with one voice.
Not only did they not find mitigating circumstances for themselves, but they rushed to bear the main charges. This abnormal phenomenon naturally aroused suspicion in the West, and Stalin was also aware of this.
Stalin knew in his heart that foreign critics had seized on the weak link in his elaborate trial farce. It was no wonder that the defendants tried too hard to perform their prescribed roles and overacted. Now Stalin was determined to show the world
, not every defendant is a puppet in court. He chose Krestinsky as this "brainful" defendant because the latter was most willing to cooperate with the interrogator during the trial of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Personnel cooperation. Besides, Krestinsky has been a judicial officer in the past and is best at understanding and implementing the encouraging hints issued by the prosecutor general, and entering the role at the most appropriate moment.
As we all know, the third trial was the same as the previous two. The primary defendant was Trotsky, even though he was in a foreign country thousands of kilometers away from the trial hall. It was for Trotsky that Stalin once again launched a powerful rumor-mongering machine. In
During the trial, each of the defendants clearly felt Stalin's deep hatred for Trotsky who was far away and his strong desire to exact revenge. Stalin's hatred for Trotsky was only greater than his hatred for the latter over the years.
That amazing talent can be compared with the jealousy of revolutionary achievements.
Stalin knew that rumors and slander were a powerful poison and the amount of their use must be strictly and conscientiously controlled. At first, he only accused Trotsky of "underestimating the peasants" and "not believing in the power of the working class."
!
Then, Trotsky was accused of planning terrorist activities. In the second Moscow trial, Trotsky's charge was raised to acting as an enemy spy. Now, the third batch of Lenin's last comrades will be sent to the guillotine.
The trial is about to begin again, and the latest instructions must be issued quickly to put another "hat" on Trotsky.
It is true that it is not easy to find a more terrifying "hat" than "spy and spy", but as the saying goes, if you want to add a crime, there is no excuse! Sure enough, Stalin found a new crime and wanted to pass it.
Krestinsky’s mouth ps was released to the world. RxLinrxsrs sold himself to fascist Germany in 1935. Now, Krestinsky was ordered to declare in court that he himself was with Trotsky.
The time when he became a spy of the German High Command was 1921!
Stalin only wanted to extend Trotsky's "service years" as a foreign spy, but he did not expect that in doing so he would destroy the basis for the existence of the entire myth that he had carefully crafted, that "Trotsky served the Germans."
Premise. This premise is the affirmation he put forward to deal with foreign public opinion:
The main reason why Trotsky and other opposition leaders engaged in such despicable crimes was to regain the power they had lost.
However, in 1921, there was no possibility that Trotsky would fight to regain power, because no one tried to take away his power at that time. Trotsky at that period was in the midst of
The pinnacle of honor and power. He is recognized as the legendary hero of the October Revolution and the commander-in-chief of the Red Army. Why did Trotsky want to act as a German spy at that time?
Is it to spy on the intelligence in his hands? Or, is it to dismantle the Red Army he founded with his own hands?
Krestinsky told everything Stalin wanted to say to the letter, but Stalin continued as usual and did not fulfill his promise. Krestinsky was shot anyway, and his wife, a children's hospital
The president and doctor was also arrested¨
This is the "Krestinsky case."
When this case was disclosed by the Chinese, the whole of Moscow and even the whole of Russia was shocked!
Everyone thought before that Krestinsky deserved his crime and was unforgivable, but now it seems completely different.
Then, there is no doubt what kind of person the former "great commander" Stalin was!