Chapter five hundred and seventy-eight internal struggle
When the Great Battle of Kdonsnoyarsk broke out, the leader of Soviet Russia fell seriously ill.
Perhaps Lenin's condition was not that serious to begin with, but as the Chinese army won one victory after another on the battlefield, the Soviet army continued to suffer blows, which greatly affected Lenin's mood and aggravated his condition.
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He has to think about his successor.
Before the Great Battle of Kdünsnoyarsk broke out, Lenin created a new position: General Secretary of the Party. According to Lenin's proposal, Stalin assumed this position.
People originally thought that this was a technical position, but Stalin's genius made it the most influential position in the party. In fact, this was because they neither understood the situation nor Lenin's intentions.
〗Memory was one of Lenin's various measures to deal with intra-party chaos.
He knew that as the New Economic Policy developed, dissatisfaction would intensify. Of course, Trotsky, the eternal rebel, would definitely attack. Lenin, who was experienced, would not be uneasy about the veteran cadres and their open rebellion, even though factional activities had been banned.
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However, as his illness worsened, Lenin was exhausted and tired of constantly fighting against the "workers' opposition", "military opposition" and other opposition groups at party congresses. Moreover, he suffered from increasingly severe and inexplicable headaches.
This troubled him greatly. He decided to set up an organization to organize a more pragmatic and peaceful party congress, so he established a Secretariat headed by the loyal Stalin. Stalin, who had been tested for a long time, should ensure that such a party congress was held.
Party Congress, learn to control the whole party. To be more precise, it is to win over the whole party. This is the purpose of establishing new positions. Lenin deliberately defined the functions of the Secretariat very vaguely, and this is not for nothing.
The Political Bureau is used to solve the most important political issues, and the Organization Bureau is used to solve organizational problems. The original intention is that the Secretariat solves less important problems.
However, there is a dangerous explanation: any decision of the [Secretariat] Secretariat becomes a resolution of the Organization Bureau if it is not opposed by a member of the Organization Bureau; if it is not opposed by a member of the Political Bureau, it becomes a resolution of the Political Bureau.
Since its birth, the Registrar's Office has been given the power to make important decisions.
According to Stalin's proposal...his old acquaintance Molotov became the second [Secretary]. Molotov was able to sit still, and was able to continuously transfer the Secretariat and the Organization Bureau that had been controlled by Stalin 24 hours a day and night, and began to control the party
All appointments and dismissals.
Lenin also decided to implement a cleanup plan when his body could barely support it.
"We're going to clean up Russia...for a long time!"
Finally, an action was carried out that shocked the Russian intelligentsia. It was Lenin's idea.
In June 1920, a ship sailed from Russia to the port of Szczecin. The visitors were not greeted by anyone. They found several covered carriages and loaded up their luggage. These people took their wives with them.
Walking on the road behind the caravan. They are all the elites and pride of the Russian philosophical and social thought circles. They are the tone-setters of Russian social thought in the early 20th century: Lossky, Berdyaev, Frank, Kizevet,
Prince Trubetskoy, Ilyin, a total of 160 people, all famous professors, philosophers, poets and writers, all the spiritual potential of Russia was thrown out of Russia in one fell swoop.
The Russians don't welcome them...but the Chinese do.
The Chinese people warmly welcome them to China and are willing to provide them with some of the living conditions they need.
Lenin was always suffering from severe headaches and suffered from neurasthenia. Stalin suggested that Lenin go to the sunny Caucasus. However, like any dying person, Lenin became worried when he thought about the hard journey: "I'm afraid of going far away and getting into trouble."
If the disease is not cured, I will be exhausted to death, and the work will be in vain."
Lenin spent less and less time in the Kremlin, and more and more time in the Gork Villa on the outskirts of Moscow. That villa was originally the territory of Sava Morozov, who died mysteriously. He decided to seek treatment from a doctor. Lenin was not feeling well.
Believe in Bolshevik doctors - "comrade doctors". Once... he wrote to Gorky and said: "99% of comrades doctors are idiots"
In the past, in Russia, which was destroyed by them, German doctors were generally considered to be the best. So... doctors were invited from capitalist Germany to diagnose the leader's strange disease. Professor Klemperer and his colleagues did not find that he had any
What a fatal disease, just a mild neurasthenia.
They believed that the headache was caused by the bullet left in the body after the assassination!
So I took out the bullet, but once,
Lenin's right limb was not completely paralyzed and his speech function was impaired. He said to Trotsky: "Do you understand, I could neither speak nor write at that time, so I had to learn from scratch."
In this way, the tragic period of Lenin's life began. He began to fight in vain against the disease. However, for the time being, Lenin was still practicing speaking... Doctors were still racking their brains to make a precise diagnosis. Some even speculated that it was hereditary syphilis.
We went to Astrakhan, where Lenin's ancestors lived, to investigate, but there were no clear results.
At this time, Lenin slowly recovered. The doctor prohibited him from reading and receiving visitors.
The doctor asked him to rest. While Lenin was seriously ill, Stalin passed a resolution at the Central Committee Plenary Session: "The General Secretary is personally responsible for the isolation and treatment of Lenin. He should neither interact with the staff nor interact with the staff.
No correspondence should be exchanged. Meetings with Lenin are prohibited. Friends and family members are not allowed to report any political life situation to Ilyich... to avoid inciting him."
Stalin decided to remove the last stone on his way to the top of power!
The party's resolution was not reported to Lenin. He never knew that he was controlled by the enemy. What kind of leader is he now? The leader disappeared, leaving only a patient.
The [Central] Central Committee Plenary Session passed a resolution proposed by Lenin before he fell ill: the foreign trade monopoly should remain in the hands of the state. Trotsky was the main instigator of this resolution. Now he has obviously replaced Stalin's role with Lenin
Krupskaya told Lenin that his resolution had been adopted. Lenin dictated a letter to Trotsky: "It seems that the position was captured without firing a shot. I suggest that we continue the attack without stopping."
The so-called attack means attacking Stalin. Lenin was good at fighting.
The next day, Kamenev, who was frightened by Trotsky's approach to Lenin, wrote a note to Stalin, informing Stalin of the exchange between the two leaders: "Josef, Trotsky called me tonight to say that I received
A note in which the old man expressed satisfaction with the resolution passed."
Stalin quickly replied: "Comrade Kamenev, since Dr. First has absolutely prohibited it, how can the old man still send a note to Trotsky?"
His tone was different. He was no longer Joseph, but the General Secretary who would not allow anyone to violate the party's resolutions.
So Stalin called Krupskaya and yelled at her rudely.
Krupskaya impulsively told Lenin about the insult. As a result, Lenin was furious and wrote a letter of renunciation to Stalin.
However, Krupskaya gradually came to her senses, assessed the new situation, and understood that there was nothing she could do. It seems that it was at that time that she begged her secretary not to send Lenin's letter to Stalin.
She told Lenin: "I have reconciled with Stalin."
Lenin agreed. He was good at restraining his impulses. Apparently, he decided to prepare a new offensive before sending the letter.
However, Stalin seemed to have a clear understanding of everything that happened in Lenin's home.
He was determined to pretend to be "loyal" to Joseph and Stalin for the last time.
But he learned a very important lesson from this incident: Trotsky and Kamenev were deeply in conflict with each other and were very afraid of the other's rising status. Therefore, both of them would rather let him continue to be general secretary.
, even if it goes against Lenin’s will.
Lenin lived in the Kremlin, recovered from his illness, and continued to fight.
He quietly dictated the "Letter to the Congress," a document that will go down in history as "Lenin's Testament" because he made it a condition that the letter should be read out at the congress to be held after his death.
In this letter, he evaluated all his close comrades-in-arms and pointed out the very serious shortcomings of each one.
He finally mentioned Stalin. The leader linked his evaluation of Stalin to Trotsky in "The danger of a split is largely caused by the relationship between them, and this split can be avoided"
〗If the number of Central Committee members is increased by one, a split can be avoided. Comrade Stalin becomes the General Secretary and has unlimited power. I am not sure whether he can always use this power very prudently. On the other hand, the Trusteeship
Comrade Lotsky is probably the most talented person in the current Central Committee, but he is also overconfident and overly interested in the purely administrative side of things!"
In this way, he attacked two people he didn't like.
The documents were transcribed by the secretary and the originals were burned.
Several copies were sent from Krupskaya in several envelopes marked "Top Secret". She could only open them after Lenin's death.
The tireless Lenin added new content: "Stalin was too rude. This shortcoming is completely tolerable among us and in our interactions as Communists, but it becomes intolerable in the position of General Secretary."
Therefore, I suggest that comrades seriously think of a way to remove Stalin from this position and appoint another person to this position. This person has only one thing that is better than Comrade Stalin in all other aspects, and that is to be more patient and more humble.
, more polite, more caring for comrades, less willful, etc."
However, at this time, Stalin no longer had to fear Lenin, who was seriously ill and under house arrest!!.