Chapter 176: He Left Us a Mighty Republic
(3rd Update)
Today, the Great Hall of the Kremlin welcomed a large number of party and government delegates from all over the Soviet Union, including Soviet secretaries from all the member states, a total of 1,549 people, who braved the sudden pouring rain of summer to attend the unusual XXIX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was supposed to be held in 1993, was urgently convened at the wrong time, just as it was predicted at the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union a year earlier.
Each delegate looked at the same gloomy crowd around them with gloomy faces, they silently put away their umbrellas, and they came from the pouring rain curtain into the brightly lit Great Hall with a heavy body of moisture, but their mood seemed to be still stuck in this rainstorm.
The last CPSU congress revolved around whether Gorbachev would continue to hold the post of general secretary of the CPSU, as he had another title, President of the Soviet Union. At the plenary session held in early February, the program of the 28th Party Congress submitted by the Central Committee of the CPSU "Towards Humane Democratic Socialism" was adopted, and the CPSU opened Pandora's box until its dissolution.
At that time, the 28th National Congress of the Communist Party of China had become a stage for fierce struggle between various political forces, and the struggle had reached a white-hot level; To a certain extent, General Secretary Gorbachev has become the target of public criticism, and it seems that this has become a fashion to criticize and accuse him of all kinds of serious, exaggerated, and ulterior motives. Yanayev was the only one who watched the antics of the pro-democracy clowns as thousands of Yeltsin's supporters rallied in the rain outside the venue to cheer on the pro-democracy platform. During the group discussion, the arguments were extremely intense. Some delegates proposed that communism be an illusory goal and suggested that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union should be renamed the Democratic Socialist Party. There were also delegates who advocated the depoliticization of the army, the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Of course, it was Yanaev's turn to preside over the CPSU Congress today. The deputies who advocated democratization and liberalization in the XXVIII were either sent to a political prison in Kazan or Volkuta, or shot on the execution ground outside Moscow. Yanayev warned these political clowns who were trying to subvert the dominance of the CPSU with iron and blood, that my patience was very limited, and that I should not easily provoke the Soviet Bear.
After this move, no one shouted long live freedom with a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance that was not afraid of death like before. There had been those who had tried to advocate freedom but turned around vigorously and almost flatteringly praised the CPSU, and this part of the wall-riding faction was also included in Yanayev's list, telling the KGB comrades to be vigilant against this gang of corrupt elements.
The new Young Zhuang faction has still been cultivated, and the outdated old guys can only bounce around in these last years, and when the political faction that has accepted Yanayev's new theory is cultivated, the unfashionable democratic members will be kicked away like bedbugs by Yanayev without mercy.
The theory put forward by Yanayev is based on a sound and perfect mechanism of supervision by legal institutions and is a socialist democratic politics with Soviet characteristics. The judiciary and the executive supervise and balance each other. A conspiracy to stop the termite-like bureaucracy of the USSR from further devouring the political structure.
At the very beginning of the meeting, Yanayev made a startling decision, the CPSU decided to re-evaluate Stalin's historical position, in order to correct the unreasonable and biased evaluations that had been made at the conference, and to correctly comment on Stalin's merits and demerits in the history of the USSR, as well as his political position.
Everyone knew that in Khrushchev's secret report to the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Stalin was dismissed as a mad butcher and executioner. It was also from that moment that the evaluation of the leaders of the CPSU became confused. The absence of a uniform standard can lead to confusion of thought.
There is an even more important hint that Yanayev raised this topic at this time, that is, the CPSU will not continue to go further and further down the wrong path of Gorbachev's so-called democratic and open political reforms, and they will establish the sole legal status of the CPSU in the Soviet rule, telling the democratic factions that are trying to fish in troubled waters, no matter how powerful you are, can you make trouble with the steel tracks of tanks?
"There is no doubt about it. Gorbachev's assessment of Stalin at the 20th Congress of the CPSU was one-sided, and he used slander to deny Stalin's correct position in history, in fact, he condemned Stalin's erroneous tactics used in World War II by torture to force innocent people to confess and execute them en masse; In 1948, Stalin's responsibility for the destruction of relations between the USSR and Yugoslavia and the question of his cult of personality. These are all exaggerated mistakes. ”
"It is true that great leaders have made some mistakes in history for personal reasons, but this does not mean that Stalin's merits can be completely denied. If according to Khrushchev, then he is like the black and white tombstone carved by Neizvis, and the merits are not clear. But Stalin must not dismiss him as a tyrannical leader because of some historical mistakes! ”
Yanayev's speech completely subverted the unequivocal statements of the previous three leaders, and it is true that the long-standing smear of Stalin led to his image as a leader without the slightest merit in the civil center.
"May I ask what Khrushchev inherited from a superpower with economic and military strength enough to shock Europe, and such a country is ruined in the hands of two fools, Brezhnev and Gorbachev! They keep saying that Stalin was the sinner of the USSR, but what did they leave for the USSR? Another mess! A mess that needs the people of the whole country to pay for what they do! ”
Yanayev's speech with great momentum shocked all the delegates present, and his gaze swept over everyone in the meeting, and a powerful majesty pressed on their heads, and they were breathless. None of them dared to raise their heads and look at him, as if it was not Yanayev standing in front of them, but Stalin, the iron leader who had regained Soviet power. Yanayev exhaled slowly,
"Don't forget, when Stalin took over, the Soviet Union was a shattered, blockaded country, and when he left, he left us with an impressively powerful republic!" (To be continued.) )