Chapter five hundred and eighty third dissidents must be excluded
Chapter 583: Dissidents must be eliminated!!
Under the leadership of President Wang Hengyue, China is moving towards a path of sound development. However, the internal turmoil in Soviet Russia is also intensifying!
Lenin has been deposed, but his prestige still exists. In order to completely eliminate his dissidents and gain supreme power, Stalin can't wait to start taking action.
Some of your enemies must be ruthlessly eradicated. Whoever opposes you is your enemy. This is Stalin's only philosophy of life!
The first target was Sergey Mironovich Kirov, a member of the North Caucasus Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party and an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.
Although Stalin regarded himself as the leader of the working class, he never went to any factory during working hours because he was afraid of direct contact with workers.
But Kirov's character is completely different from Stalin's. He can even be said to firmly stand on the workers' side!
Kirov began to clash with other Politburo members.
Kirov's outspokenness is well known. He repeatedly criticized his former patron Ordzhonikidze at Politburo meetings, saying that he issued some inconsistent instructions regarding the industrial construction of the Petrograd region. Politics
Mikoyan, an alternate member of the bureau, was also repeatedly criticized by Kirov for disrupting Petrograd's food supply.
He clashed with Mikoyan many times. In one of them, Kirov used part of the food in the storage warehouse in the Petrograd Military District without Stalin's permission. The second member of the Military Committee, Stalin's loyal follower, Voroshi
Love was very dissatisfied with Kirov's actions and believed that he had exceeded his authority and interfered in the affairs of the army.
Kirov explained at the Politburo meeting that he had reached this point because the food reserves for the ration workers had been completely used up. Furthermore, he was borrowing food from the military district and would return it as soon as he received new supplies.
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However, Voroshilov knew that Stalin was backing him. He was not satisfied with this explanation. He even attacked aggressively: "Kirov moved the food from the army warehouse to the counter of the factory in order to 'make money among the workers.
Get a cheap reputation'."
Kirov was so angry that he replied in his characteristic fiery tone: "If the Politburo wants workers to provide products, it must first fill their bellies!" Then he shouted sternly: "Every farmer knows that.
, If you don’t give the horse grass, it won’t be able to run!”
At this time, Mikoyan retorted, saying that according to the information he had, the supplies received by Petrograd workers exceeded the domestic average level. Kirov did not deny this.
But he cited the growing figures of Petrograd's industrial products, and then pointed out that it was more than enough to exchange these achievements for a little supplementary food for the workers.
"But why should workers in Petrograd have better food than workers in other regions?" Stalin interrupted at this time.
Kirov couldn't hold himself back for a moment and shouted again: "I think the rationing system should have been abolished long ago and our workers should be allowed to eat decently!"
Kirov's fiery temper was seen as disloyal to Stalin. Since Stalin took over power, an unwritten rule has been formed: no member of the Politburo may raise any issue without Stalin's permission.
Come out and discuss.
As a result, Kirov became the target of public criticism in the Politburo. Some minor disputes were artificially exaggerated, as if he had committed some heinous crime.
People's Commissar of Heavy Industry Ordzhonikidze, an influential member of the Politburo, summoned the Chairman of the Petrograd Executive Committee and several industrial leaders to a meeting. These people took various reports and budgets with them and set off immediately.
They waited in the reception room of the People's Commissar of Heavy Industry for two whole days. Ordzhonikidze never found time to receive them, and the meeting was postponed again and again. On the third day, the Chairman of the Petrograd Executive Committee communicated with Kirov.
I called him and reported to him the situation here.
Kirov's decision was very decisive: "If Ordzhonikidze doesn't receive you today, then you will take the train home!"
The Chairman of the Petrograd Executive Committee did so.
Ordzhonikidze reported the matter at the following Politburo meeting!
Kirov's decision was considered to be "inciting the cadres in Petrograd to develop guerrilla habits and disobey the Central Committee." Kirov tried his best to explain the matter, but to no avail. Unable to bear it, he announced: "I
This will continue to be the case in the future. When I work in Petrograd, I need my people by my side. There is no need for them to sit on the bench in the reception room in Ordzhonikidze!"
Gradually, the relationship between Kirov and the Politburo became extremely tense.
He began to try not to run to Moscow. What annoyed the Politburo members and Stalin the most was Kirov's growing popularity among the people.
None of these Politburo members, including Stalin, were talented orators.
Their public speeches were always dull and boring. Kirov, on the other hand, was famous for his brilliant speeches and how to get close to the crowd.
He is the only member of the Politburo who dares to go to the factory to speak to the workers. He was once a worker, so he is very good at listening to the workers' voices and always trying to find ways to help them. Many senior party and industrial front officials working in other cities
Cadres all want to be transferred to work in Petrograd because they heard that Kirov encourages his subordinates to propose initiatives, engage in innovation, and is willing to promote those who are willing and good at work. His prestige in Petrograd is unshakable
. In the eyes of the leaders of Petrograd's factories and enterprises, the people's commissars of all Moscow ministries combined are not worth one Kirov.
Kirov's great popularity became even more widely known after the Party Congress. This congress was held in mid-1920. Before the congress, all procedures were predetermined, even the applause given by the delegates to welcome the leaders.
No exception. When each Politburo member takes the podium, the applause time is set to two minutes, and the applause to welcome Stalin should last ten minutes.
However, when Kirov appeared in the presidium of the conference, the audience suddenly burst into applause like a storm. The enthusiasm of the Petrograd delegation to welcome him moved the entire venue. The applause that Kirov won lasted longer than any other.
Politburo members could not even dream of it. Some people outside the meeting said that the honor Kirov received was originally reserved for Stalin alone.
Kirov was so unruly that he angered Stalin. He decided to transfer Kirov out of Petrograd. The transfer order informed Kirov that an important leadership position was waiting for him in the Central Organization Department in Moscow.
Take office.
But Kirov was in no hurry to go to Moscow. He delayed for several days on the pretext of finishing a series of important matters he had started in Petrograd.
Not only that, but his attendance at Politburo meetings has become less and less. This seems to be close to provocation.
Of course, every time Kirov went to Moscow, Stalin could find an excuse to keep him and prevent him from returning to Petrograd. But doing so would inevitably cause a public quarrel, and after the quarrel, Kirov would be placed in the Central Committee
It will be even more difficult if you are in any position.
Moreover, it may not be that easy to forcibly retain Kirov against his will. Can't he be arrested? No. When Lenin was still alive, Stalin could not take similar actions against a Politburo member at will.
Expelling a Politburo member must go through a series of complex procedures. To achieve this goal, Kirov's crimes must be listed at the beginning, describing him as an anti-Lenin heretic, or accusing him of violating the party's general line, thus
Launch a campaign of criticism against him throughout the party.
But under the circumstances at the time, this approach was not advisable for Stalin.
In the face of the Chinese attack, Stalin must find ways to stabilize the party. He published many articles and oral statements, saying that there are no enemies in the party and that the party has been very consolidated and has become "unprecedented unity and unity."
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Once an anti-Kirov movement is launched, it will inevitably lead to rumors that the party has fallen into divisions again and that the Politburo has different opinions. Moreover, Stalin knew that foreign countries would once again doubt the stability of his successor system.
.Exactly what Stalin did not want to hear anyway.
So he came to the conclusion that there was probably only one way to solve this thorny problem: get rid of Kirov and shift the blame for the assassination to the original opposition leader.
In this way, he could kill two birds with one stone. While getting rid of Kirov, he would also get rid of some of Lenin's close comrades.
Those people, no matter how much Stalin slandered them, still remained in the hearts of ordinary party members as symbols of the Bolshevik Party. Stalin was convinced that if he could prove it, it was Ji who shed the blood of Kirov, the "loyal son of the party" and member of the Politburo.
Noviev, Kamenev and other opposition leaders, then he has the right to demand: blood for blood!
The only state agency that could help Stalin prepare for this murder was the Petrograd branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was responsible for Kirov's security.
However, the director of the bureau, Filit Medviki, had a close friendship with Kirov, so Medviki had to be removed and another "more reliable person" sent to receive him.
Stalin happened to have such a person. His name was Yevdokimov, and he was a veteran "institutional" staff member. For many years, Stalin had kept him with him, not only as his personal bodyguard, but also as his personal bodyguard.
He regarded him as a friend and drinking companion.
The rewards Yevdokimov received from Stalin far exceeded those of any other staff member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
This man had an eccentric nature and was out of tune with his colleagues. His face was as dull as a stone. He was a criminal in the past and was released from prison after the revolution, and later joined the Bolsheviks.
He personally directed several major sieges to suppress rebels who opposed the Soviet Union.
So the glorious task assigned by the party fell on him!