If he were given a different battlefield, with the strength of the two sides being roughly equal, perhaps the commander-in-chief of the defense of Moscow would be able to show his higher talents, but now the reality no longer allows it.

On March 12, part of the team had already broken through into Moscow, and the fighting began to turn into brutal street fighting.

Compared to other battles, street fighting is undoubtedly more frightening. Here, you'll be starved of aircraft artillery support, and God knows where those cold guns will come from.

As the team entered the city, Zhukov knew that the final moment had come

"Comrades, show your spirit and fight the invaders to the end!" In his own command, Zhukov gave such an order: "Defend Moscow, defend the Soviets, defend Great Russia!" ”

Under Zhukov's orders, all the Red officers and soldiers, as well as the civilians of Moscow, threw themselves into the defense of the city.

Their performance was heroic and commendable, as is the case in any country. When the most immediate threat to one's capital is met, the fiercest battle to defend it is inevitable.

Chinese tanks also entered Moscow with the infantry, and they ran over Moscow land as if no one was around, and then fired shells at any target they could see!

A tank had just destroyed a house, and soon the commander saw two Russian children at most twelve or thirteen years old.

The machine gunner was about to shoot. The commander hurriedly stopped him: "It's just two children"

Before the words were finished, the two Molotov cocktails had already been thrown towards the tank, but fortunately they did not hit the tank, and the commander was startled, and then he saw the two Russian children rushing towards the tank with ** bags in their hands.

Machine guns on tanks rang out. With two "boom-boom-" sounds, the two Russian children were blown to the ground

The Heavy gasped and stopped. Then he asked the captain who popped out of his head suspiciously: "Just two children?" ”

"It's just two children" The frightened commander has not reacted until now: "I will shoot the same when I meet children in the future"

This is Moscow at war, where there are no more civilians, and everyone here has become soldiers

One bad news after another reached Zhukov's ears, but the commander-in-chief of Moscow behaved very calmly. Even though he knew that there was no room for salvation in the war. But he still decided to do his duty.

Until the last moment, he will never give up easily

The only thing he doesn't understand is, why did Russia become the way it is? What exactly is wrong with "great" Russia?

Behind him was Comrade Stalin, the Politburo of the Central Committee, the entire Soviet. If you have to sacrifice, then let yourself be the first to sacrifice

The only thing to be thankful for is that since entering the city, the pace of the Chinese has slowed down. They met the strongest resistance from Moscow.

But Zhukov saw very clearly that this was only temporary. A city that lacks the necessary foreign aid will fall only a matter of time.

And Stalin was also very clear about this.

The reason why he stubbornly wants to stay in this city that will soon be completely destroyed by the war, in addition to the fact that he has no place to go in Russia, a more important reason is that he is unwilling to give up the rights that he has worked so hard to obtain. Never!

He was almost defeated by Lenin and his political enemies, but with his own maneuvering, he finally managed to get himself to the throne he is today.

What could be more important than rights? Without!

He still remembers himself and Trotsky, the second man after Lenin, and the bloody struggle for power between himself and him! …,

No one was optimistic that Stalin would be able to defeat Trotsky, the number two man in the party!

However, Stalin eventually brought down Trotsky.

January 1929. Stalin sentenced the fate of the former leader and exiled Trotsky outside Russia. Zinoviev said it brilliantly: there is no way to file a lawsuit.

Stalin retained a sense of humor when expelling Trotsky, and used the liner "Ilyich" to expel Trotsky, who claimed to be a loyal Leninist, from Russia. Why didn't he kill him? At that time he needed Trotsky alive, for the next move. Trotsky would become the centre of the counter-revolution, and he could accuse his enemies of having links with it. This is the bait he uses to catch future victims. Everything was calculated, and several moves were calculated in advance. Now he needed to deal with another enemy, Bukharin, and began to act, passing Trotsky.

On the eve of his execution, Bukharin wrote to Stalin: "When I was with you in 1928, you said to me: 'Do you know why I am nice to you?' You're not going to conspire. I said, 'Yes.' Actually, I went to Kamenev at the time. ”

"Little Bukhar" is not sensible at all. The transcript of his meeting with Kamenev was immediately available to Stalin and through several channels. In order to mock the unfortunate intellectual, he deliberately asked: "You don't engage in a conspiracy, do you?" "He's playing Othello. In this way, the other party lied against his will, and he gained the right to hate the liar and the traitor.

His GPU arranged for the minutes of Bukharin's conversation with Kamenev to fall into Trotsky's hands. As always, everything was calculated: Trotsky, who hated Bukharin, would not have pity on him, and immediately published the minutes of his conversation. Sure enough, as soon as the "lion" left the country, the content of this conversation was announced. Stalin was given a bomb - with a reason to accuse the right of collusion with the former opposition.

At this time, Stalin had new supporters. Rajek and the other Trotskyites were given the opportunity to surrender, and since Stalin had "turned to the right and opened fire, he should be supported." They should stand on the left side of the party, while others have not yet taken sides," they wrote to each other in their penal colonies.

To turn back. Trotsky had to be sacrificed, he was the vanished leader anyway.

Rajak quickly wrote to the Trotskyists in exile: "We are in exile and in prison. It's self-inflicted. I have broken with Trotsky, and I am now a political enemy with him. ”

For the sake of the party can and should

Why do they change their views so easily and betray each other?

Piatakov, one of the leading Trotskyist generals and later a loyal Stalinist, said to the stunned Valentinov: "For the party." You can and should change all your beliefs within 24 hours. Force yourself to turn black and white upside down. ”

Their party, like the church, is always pure, even if the clergy make mistakes. Because the Party is the same as the Church and has one foundation, which is the sacred precept of Marxism, the Party will not make mistakes on the whole, and the guilt of Party members will not change the sacred nature of the Party.

This gave rise to the principle: "All for the party", which allowed for mutual betrayal. to make them loyal to him, the leader of the Holy Party.

At this time, the letters of repentance came like a tidal wave.

He called the repentant "leftists" back from the penal colony.

So he seized the highest power in the party by all means, and even put himself above Lenin, as if Lenin had done nothing as great as he did.

But now everything has changed.

Not only could his orders not be transmitted out of Moscow, but they were no longer available in many parts of the city. This could not but be said to be a great sorrow for Stalin. …,

Stalin was not reconciled, he was really unwilling to lose the huge power in his hands like this

Yenov walked in, quietly, not even willing to make a sound. When he came in, he saw the leader pondering. So he stood aside and didn't dare say a word.

Stalin raised his head and glanced at his own intelligence chief, at least, his intelligence agency was still trustworthy!

The People's Commissariat of State Security, the predecessor of the "Cheka", is undoubtedly the most trustworthy and reliable weapon from Lenin to Stalin!

The founder of the Cheka was Lenin, but the actual operator was Yagoda.

After the October Revolution, Yagoda entered the Cheka Agency. Back in the 20s, he took the lead of the powerful GPU. It was he who, in the early years of Soviet power, established a network of intelligence officers throughout the country. Under Yagoda, Lenin's formula "every party member should be a Cheka functionary" became a common phenomenon. Now, every citizen should become a Cheka worker. Letting you be an intelligence agent is the party's trust in you, and it is something to be proud of.

In the Cheka year, dozens of engineers were arrested in the Donbass coal mines, and they were accused of sabotage for two years, from 927 to 1928, all engaged in reconnaissance work, to be precise, rehearsing an unprecedented farce. Yagoda's scouts were extremely upfront about the stunned engineers. They were stunned because, of course, at first they tried to defend themselves, but they were told that no one believed that they were guilty, and that there was no need to confess, but to cooperate. They explain to these wretched creatures that their false accusations have a noble political purpose: that they are engaged in an unprecedented construction of socialism, and that if they admit to sabotage, it will stir up the people's righteous indignation against capitalism, raise their vigilance against the real enemy, and at the same time increase the productivity of labour.

For this, it is guaranteed that they will not be sentenced to death.

On May 20, Moscow held its premiere: a public trial of the saboteurs of the Donbass coal mines.

Fifty-three engineers were taken to court. The boxes of the diplomatic missions were packed, and reporters from all the newspapers of the world came. The play was a success: all the indicted people denounced themselves so vigorously that they even asked for the removal of their defenders because they had defended them too much. It was as if they were competing with the prosecutor general Krylenko to see who would be charged with the heavier crimes

The Prosecutor General called for the death penalty of 22 people. However, in order to thank them for their good attitude, they ordered that only five people be executed. Just five unjust souls, in a great global mission. What is that!

At the plenum of the Central Committee, he could make the necessary conclusion: "Needless to say, the class struggle is clearly intensifying, and such cases will continue to happen" This was a cry of call, and all enterprises began to dig up saboteurs.

All thanks to the Cheka!

"How's it going out there?" Stalin finally asked.

"The enemy has entered the city, Georgi. Konstantinovich. Commander-in-Chief Zhukov is putting up an effort to resist. Yenov replied in a low voice.

"Georgi. Konstantinovich. There is still no doubt about Comrade Zhukov's loyalty. Until now, Stalin has been entangled in the word "loyalty". In his view, the lethality caused by an unfaithful person is often the most terrifying: "What about you? How's the preparation going? ”

"It's all ready." Yenov used a very soft voice, as if he were afraid to disturb Stalin: "Once Moscow can not continue to hold out." Then our lurkers will lurk and give the Chinese any possible destruction"

Stalin listened carefully to the reports of his subordinates, and then interjected: "We must resolutely purge those who surrendered after the fall of Moscow!" There can be no mercy for these people. It is necessary to give a resolute eradication! Just like when we eradicated the kulaks! ”

"Yes. I understand. Despite his reply, Yenov couldn't help but shudder. …,

The campaign to eradicate the kulaks made a deep impression on all Russians.

At the end of 1929, shortly before Stalin's birthday, he published an article entitled "The Year of the Great Turning Point", in which he set the task of "destroying the kulak class."

"In the 20th century, our country was ready to systematically annihilate our compatriots who worked on the farmland. The task that will be accomplished together with the extermination of the kulaks is: the destruction of the old Russian countryside. The revolution gave the land to the peasants. Now the peasants are asked to return the land and livestock for collective use. It is necessary to abandon the concept of "my" that the peasants feel familiar with, and learn to speak "our". The kulaks, of course, did not want to. will obstruct. 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 commission in order to solve the problem once and for all. Molotov worked hard and caused a lot of bloodshed.

The committee drew up a plan for the general elimination of the kulaks in the shortest possible time. The kulaks were driven to the northern regions - the Urals, Kazakhstan and Siberia!

The well-known economists of the time, Kondratiev, Yurovsky, and Chayanov, suggested using the kulaks, the most capable and labor-loving peasants, to reclaim the land and lease the wasteland abandoned by the Kazakh nomads to them for a long time. But these economists do not understand that Stalin is now not engaged in economics, but in the fulfillment of a political task: the complete elimination of a class. The revolutionary Tkachev's formula "what should be considered is how many people should be left" prevailed.

In February, Molotov and his committee divided the kulaks into three categories. The first group consisted of counter-revolutionary kulak elements, sent to labor camps or executed, and their families moved to the most distant areas. The second group was the rest of the richest kulaks. Sent to a distant barren land. The third group consisted of the dilapidated kulaks, who had moved outside the collective farms.

No one can say who should be put in which category.

How to determine who the kulak was? How to separate the middle peasants from the kulaks? The fate of the unfortunate rich peasants was entirely in the hands of the GPU, party cadres and poor peasants. The well-to-do peasants voluntarily donated their wealth to the collective farms, begging them not to be classified as kulaks.

"The expropriation of the kulaks was carried out with the active participation of the poor peasants, who went in droves with the committees to confiscate livestock and property. At night, they took the initiative to stand guard on the side of the road at the entrance of the village and detain the fleeing kulaks," Valekis, a member of the Central Committee and a member of the Molotov Committee, noted with satisfaction in Pravda.

All over the country, amid the wails and tears of women, these unfortunate people were loaded into carts and escorted away from their homes by GPU. They looked back at the now empty house where their families had lived for generations, and left a life they could never see again.

Dogs bark in an empty yard.

The secret file holds countless of his cruel telegrams. The Molotov Council moved 50,000 kulak families to Northern Krai. According to the party committee of the border region, only 20,000 households have been prepared to receive them, and the rest have not even been built without stoves and oil lamps. Stalin replied: "This argument is an attempt to overthrow the party's already approved migration program, to which the Central Committee cannot agree." Stalin. ”

"Novosibirsk, Secretary of the Siberian Territory Committee Iha: Take all necessary preparatory measures in order to receive at least 1,500 kulak households by mid-April. Stalin. ”

Telegraphs were sent to all the regional and regional committees of Siberia. His plan is being executed. The train drove to the steppe and simply drove the people to the hungry wilderness surrounded by barbed wire.

The Kremlin nouveau riche who was not installed by Stalin, the head of the regional party - the secretary of the regional party - and, of course, the representative of the GPU, Yagoda - all took part in the committee. Molotov, the chairman of the committee at that time, said proudly: "We did a good job of collectivization, and I personally demarcated the areas for the expulsion of kulaks. A total of 400,000 households were evicted. ”

Cosiol, a member of the committee and a member of the new Politburo, wrote: "A devastating blow was indeed inflicted on the kulaks. ”

The head of Leningrad, Kirov, wrote figuratively: "Tractors lined up and dug graves for the kulaks. ”

Where will Kirov know, and for whom the grave was dug

Kirov, Kosiol, and Valekis were later killed. Nineteen of the 21 members of the committee will soon lie in unmarked graves and be killed in Stalin's purges. At this moment, though, they are working intensely to eliminate others.

Trains are constantly transporting, caravans loaded with livestock are transporting farmers, and in the passenger cars loaded with searchlights, guards with police dogs are seated.

The poor peasants and the surviving middle peasants formed collective farms. The cattle that had been fattened and strong by the kulaks, the sturdy houses built by the kulaks, the wealth accumulated by the peasants for generations, and the money they had saved, were all handed over to the collective farms. The collective farms were born out of the bloody embezzlement of other people's wealth.

Now, it's time for the Holocaust again! (To be continued)