Georgi. Konstantinovich. Zhukov's capture brought the Battle of Moscow to an end.

By 22 March, organized resistance in Moscow had largely ceased, and only sporadic armed forces remained unwilling to lay down their arms.

But that's no longer the big picture.

The battle for Moscow is over, and so is the war for Russia. A large number of high-ranking officers of Soviet Russia were killed and captured, and a large number of high-ranking officials of the Russian government were killed and captured.

The entire Bolshevik regime was completely destroyed. This once-thriving regime will only survive in people's memories in the future......

What can you complain about? When you win, you can take whatever regime you want, because that's your right, but when you lose, you're quickly forgotten by most people

Now, only the last person remains:

Joseph. Vissarionovic. 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 for the first time used the pseudonym "Stalin", which means "man of steel". Vissarionovic. Dzhugashvili is almost forgotten.

The Chinese army, which controlled most of Moscow, arrested a large number of Russian officials when they stormed the Kremlin, but found no trace of Stalin.

He fled.

Or more accurately, he left the Kremlin, but not yet Moscow.

On March 23, Chinese soldiers entered the Kremlin, located in the center of Moscow, Russia, one of the symbols of Russia, the palace of the Tsar, the oldest complex in Moscow, which became the seat of the Soviet Russian and later the seat of the Soviet Party and government organs after the October Revolution.

The Chinese took control of the massive building.

Subsequently, the Chinese issued a wanted warrant, which included Stalin, Shaposhnikov, Yenov .... As for Stalin's crimes, in addition to the well-known massacres and other crimes, they also include robbery, drunkenness, kidnapping, and extortion.

This is not that the Chinese are making up accusations, but that Stalin was personally involved in these things.

In August 1898, Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. In 1899, he was expelled from school because he could not pay the sudden increase in tuition fees, so he had to give up his final exams. He then worked at the Meteorological Observatory in Tbilisi and was actively involved in the Vicious Movement. In 1902, when the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split, he chose to join the Vladimir Socialist Party. Lenin headed the side of the Bolsheviks. Soon Stalin became the leading revolutionary activist in the Caucasus, organizing strikes, distributing leaflets, and collecting money for Bolshevik activities, for which he robbed banks, kidnapped, and extorted.

In the summer of 1906, Stalin and Catherine . Svanidze married, and she soon gave birth to his first son, Yakov. Dzhugashvili. On June 26, 1907, Stalin and his men ambushed an escort from the Imperial Bank in a wide field in Tbilisi.

In the shootout, homemade bombs exploded and killed 40 people, while Stalin and his men escaped with 250,000 rubles.

These are all things that Stalin himself has done, and he should always take full responsibility for them.

At the same time, among the documents seized from the Kremlin that the Russians did not have time to destroy, the Chinese also found a large amount of evidence of the Russian government's purge and massacre in 1936-1938. …,

The incriminating evidence was promptly made public.

The purge of senior generals in the army was known to many Russians, but the bloody repression of many of Lenin's close comrades-in-arms during his lifetime was a secret to the Russians

For example, when Bukharin, whom Lenin trusted, was put on trial, he was put in the dock with Bukharin and a very old member of the Bolshevik Party, Nikolai Bushvik. Nikolayevich. Krestinsky.

In the most difficult years of the early years of Soviet power, as secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he helped Lenin solve many major national problems. During Lenin's lifetime, Krestinsky served as People's Commissar of Finance, but abroad he was first and foremost known as a diplomat of considerable ability.

He lived in Germany for ten years as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union, and then returned to China as Deputy People's Commissar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Litvinov's assistant.

Although Krestinsky was praised by the Bolsheviks as "the most outstanding, strongest, and time-tested revolutionary of the older generation", he was still a typical kind-hearted intellectual in temperament. He held a key position in the state, but he did not become a conceited bureaucrat. He treats his subordinates, even the most ordinary clerks, with great sincerity, frankness, and kindness, as if the other party is also an important official in the Kremlin. He likes humble and honest people the most, and he can't tolerate people who are two-faced and those who chase fame and fortune. Therefore, he had no affection for the cruel and intriguing Stalin. Once, he said to some of his close friends, "I hate that ugly guy and his yellow eyes." ”

Of course, this happened at a time when there was no fatality in saying such things.

In 1936, Stalin decided to "settle the score" with Lenin's comrades-in-arms, and Krestinsky naturally became one of the victims. In fact, Krestinsky had known Stalin twenty-five years earlier, and they had worked underground in Petersburg together, but this history did not save him from being poisoned, but on the contrary hastened his death.

Everyone knew one thing very well, Stalin was the last to tolerate those who knew a lot about his history. These people will relate to his criminal deeds in recent years, and point out those doubts in his résumé that probably would not have attracted special attention in the past.

In the clutches of the infamous First and Second Moscow Trials, Krestinsky was spared, and he remained unharmed for the time being. However, the fact that almost all of those who were shot were his bosom friends could not help but make him guess what his future would be. His only hidden hope was that, as Deputy People's Commissar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he had established personal relations with many prominent leaders in various European countries, and even Stalin had to fear them. Obviously, he was counting on Stalin to discourage the idea of "purging" him because of this, and at the same time hoping that this bloody wave of repression would go down sooner....

However, on March 27, 1937, all these hopes were dashed. On this day, he was removed from the post of Deputy People's Commissar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and transferred to the post of Deputy People's Commissar of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. What this demotion means, no one can hardly guess.

Most of those who were repressed by Stalin were thrown into the prisons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs without changing their posts. Sometimes, however, in order not to attract too much attention to someone's arrest, Stalin would temporarily change the person to a lower one

The so-called "transitional" position. For example, Yagoda, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications before he was put in the dock for the third Moscow trial. Another example, the most famous feats of the October Revolution hit

Chan Antonov. Ovshenko, who was recalled from Spain by Stalin in 1937, was transferred to an idle post, the People's Commissar of Justice of the Russian Federation, and then disappeared. And now, another man who will be put to death, Krestine...,

Ski, in turn, became the Deputy People's Commissar of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

Krestinsky was not arrested immediately after taking up his new post. Stalin deliberately put him in this "state of immortality"

More than two months passed. Apparently, Stalin's idea was for Krestinsky to wait for his arrest day by day, hour by hour, in extreme terror, which would lead to a nervous breakdown and loss of resistance to torture. true

In fact, Krestinsky, who was imprisoned in the "mousetrap" by Stalin, tasted the taste of the endless desperate struggle before his death. One

Besides, Krestinsky had to worry about the fate of his wife and only daughter. His daughter, Natasha, was fifteen years old, so Stalin's law of 7 April 1935 on the death penalty for juvenile offenders was in force for her.

I have known this girl since she was only five years old, so everyone knows that her parents doted on her. Natasha resembles her father in many ways, inheriting not only her father's physical appearance and high myopia, but also her father's active mind and amazing memory.

Krestinsky was arrested at the end of May!

Since so many high-ranking Party cadres had vied with each other in the farce of the first two trials, he had no need to worry that his false confessions would undermine the prestige of the Bolshevik Party.

Everything he had cherished in the past had long since been thrown into the muddy water by Stalin and his accomplices, trampled on wantonly, and soaked in the blood of his close comrades. Krestinsky did not dare to hope to save his wife's life, but he knew that if he agreed to pay the price demanded by Stalin, he was sure that he would save his daughter.

Krestinsky had served as a judicial cadre, so he knew better than anyone what Stalin's torture and trial meant. Long before he was arrested, he warned himself: it was useless to resist; Since it has fallen into the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is necessary to compromise with the leaders there at once. Indeed, before June had passed, he had already signed the first "confession".

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 is not unexpected.

On the first day of the trial, when the presiding judge asked Krestinsky if he pleaded guilty, the latter flatly denied it:

"I don't admit my guilt. I am not a Trotskyite. I had never been a member of the right-Trotsky coalition, and I didn't even know it existed. The charges against me were all imposed, and I did not commit any of them. In particular, I do not admit that I have ever committed the crime of colluding with the enemy's spy agencies. ”

For the first time, and of course, for the last time, the defendant had the audacity to declare his innocence in court and to overturn all the charges against him.

Krestinsky's statement of innocence sparked a lot of discussion. Those who had been following the trial waited with great interest to see if Krestinsky would be able to hold on to his duel with the court to the end and appear victorious.

The next day, March 3, 1938, Krestinsky was escorted into the trial hall along with the other defendants. He did not say a word during the morning hearing, and the Prosecutor-General did not ask him any questions. It was only at the evening session that he stood up and said these words to the court:

"Yesterday, my heart was so heavy that I was put in the dock and heard the indictment read out, and because I was so ill that I was suddenly overwhelmed by a strong feeling of hypocritical shame, I was powerless to tell the truth and did not dare to admit my guilt. So, I should have said: Yes, I am guilty, but I mechanically rushed out: No, I am not guilty. ”…,

Those abroad who are closely following the trial, after reading the newspaper reports, naturally have a question: Why did Klestinsky sentence the two men between March 2 and March 3 night?

Anyone who is impartial can't help but think of the horrific torture to extract confessions.

However, in fact, Krestinsky's sudden change of position was not due to any torture methods used against him by the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they did not need to do so at all. Krestinsky's behavior of first retracting his confession and then admitting guilt is, to put it bluntly, a fake scene in this trial farce concocted by Stalin.

In the first two Moscow trials, all the defendants unanimously admitted their guilt, and instead of looking for mitigating circumstances for themselves, they rushed to bear the main charges against them.

Stalin knew in his heart that foreign critics had seized on the weak link in his elaborate trial farce, and it was no wonder that the defendants had worked too hard and overdone the prescribed role. Right now. Stalin was determined to show the world

At first glance, not every defendant is a puppet at the disposal of others in the courtroom. He chose Krestinsky as such a "smart" accused, since the latter, when tried in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was most willing to cooperate with the interrogators.

Moreover, Krestinsky, who had worked as a member of the judiciary in the past, was best at understanding and realizing the encouraging cues given by the Prosecutor General and entering the role at the most appropriate moment.

It is known that the third trial

As on the previous two occasions, the chief accused was Trotsky, even though he was in a foreign country thousands of kilometres away from the courtroom. It was for the sake of Trotsky that Stalin once again set in motion the powerful machine of disinformation. In the trial, each

The defendants clearly felt Stalin's bitter hatred for Trotsky and his strong desire to take revenge. Stalin's hatred of Trotsky was only the astonishing talent and revolution he had for many years

Hoon's jealousy can be compared.

Stalin was well aware that rumor-mongering was a powerful poison and that its use must be strictly and conscientiously controlled. At first, he simply accused Trotsky of "underestimating the peasantry" and "not believing much in the power of the working class"!

Trotsky was then accused of planning terrorist activities. At the Second Moscow Trial, Trotsky's charges were again escalated to being an enemy spy. Now that the third trial, which will guillotine Lenin's last comrades-in-arms, is about to begin, it is imperative to hasten the latest instructions and put another "hat" on Trotsky.

It is true that it is not so easy to find a "hat" that is more terrible than "spies and spies", but as the saying goes, if you want to add sin, there is no excuse! Sure enough, Stalin found a new charge and wanted to pass Krestins

Key's mouth was published to the world. Stalin promised Krestinsky that he would be spared death as long as he agreed to "cooperate". According to the old version, Trotsky had sold himself to fascist Germany in 1935, and now, C

Lestinsky was ordered to declare in court that he and Trotsky had become spies for the German High Command in 1921!

Stalin was only concerned with prolonging Trotsky's "service" as a foreign spy, but he did not expect that by doing so, he would destroy the basic premise on which the whole myth of "Trotsky at the service of the Germans" that he carefully chose. This premise is the affirmation he put forward in order to deal with foreign public opinion:

Trotsky and the rest of the opposition leaders wanted to regain their lost power for such a despicable crime.

In 1921, however, there was no possibility that Trotsky would have to fight to regain power, because no one was trying to take it from him. Trotsky at that time was at the height of his honor and power. He was widely regarded as the legendary hero of the October Revolution and the commander of the Red Army, so why did Trotsky act as a German spy?

Could it be that it is to spy on the information in his own hands? Or, is it to disintegrate the Red Army, which he founded with his own hands?

Krestinsky said everything Stalin had to say to the letter, but Stalin, as always, did not fulfill his promises. Krestinsky was shot anyway, and his wife, the director and doctor of a children's hospital, 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 were shocked!

Before, everyone thought that Krestinsky was deserved and unforgivable, but now it seems that it is completely different.

Then, it is doubtful what kind of person the former "great commander-in-chief" Stalin was! ）