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Hearing that his master was about to submit his resignation, Vasetis hurriedly shook his big bald head and smiled coldly: "Now it is Comrade Stalin who is in charge of the war on the Eastern Front, and it is Stalin who is about to lose the battle!" So it's not you who will resign, it's Stalin! ”

In fact, there have always been gangs in the high-level of the GCD in Soviet Russia. Under Lenin, the Trotskyites were certainly the greatest! Moreover, the relationship between Trotsky and Lenin was a bit like the relationship between Chang Ruiqing and Sun Yat-sen, in that they were actually partners rather than "monarchs". Like Chang Ruiqing, Trotsky also held military power! The current Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of Soviet Russia was built by him, and although Lenin's skill in engaging in power struggle is unparalleled in the world, he has no ability to engage in military struggle at all. And he had a visceral hatred for the old officers left over from the tsarist era, and he was bent on driving them all out of the Red Army!

Trotsky, on the other hand, did not study military affairs, but he knew very well that such a thing as war required "specialists". There is no way to command a million-strong Red Army with a group of workers-revolutionaries with little formal military education! Therefore, after he took charge of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, he tried his best to recruit tens of thousands of officers in the tsarist army to serve the revolutionary army, and at the same time created the system of political committees, so that the Bolshevik revolutionaries served as political committees, controlled the personnel power of the army, monitored military experts, and at the same time took on the task of making the final decision. The military experts who held military posts were turned into de facto staff officers who helped political commissars at all levels command the army.

So Vatsettis, who was nominally commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the republic, was in fact Trotsky's "chief of the general staff," and Trotsky commanded the Red Army according to his ideas. I heard my own "Chief of the General Staff" say that the Eastern Front was going to lose the battle. Trotsky jerked to his feet, grabbed Vatzedis by the arm, and dragged him to the front of the map.

"Judging from the map, the shape of the eastern front is okay. The main force of the Japanese army was trapped in Manchuria, and the squadron was blocked in Harigan Tusumu. The Eastern Army marched eastward along the Trans-Siberian Railway, winning successive battles, and it seemed that it would soon be able to reach the Amur River. At that time, they might be able to cross the river into Manchuria and mobilize the working masses there to rise up against revisionism. In addition, the situation in Mongolia was also okay, although the 1st Cavalry Army had withdrawn. However, the newly entered 1st Cavalry Division in Mongolia is enough to maintain the situation in northern Mongolia, and it should still be in my favor, and at worst, it will be an undefeated situation, so it will not fail, right? ”

Trotsky said this, but his expression was full of the deepest apprehension.

Vasetis sighed softly: "If you can maintain an undefeated streak." Ubolevich will not overstep the ladder and propose to us to withdraw from Chinese Manchuria! In this war, we made the mistake of underestimating the enemy's advance, and regarded the unexpected victory in the Battle of Chita as the inevitable result of the balance of forces between us and the enemy. In fact, the victory in the Battle of Chita was due to the contradictions within the enemy, which gave us an opportunity to take advantage of, and there were contradictions between Chang Ruiqing, the controller of the central government of China, and Jiang Jshi, the ruler of Northeast China, and between China and Japan.

However, after the Battle of Chita, Chiang's Shijun army in Manchuria was annexed by Chang Ruiqing's Central Army. Japan was again forced to return the Kwantung Prefecture and the South Manchurian Railway, and the contradictions between the enemies were temporarily eliminated. Moreover, the defeat in the Battle of Chita also made the two countries see the danger of defeat, so our enemies united and gave full play to their greatest combat effectiveness, and the current Battle of Manchuria-Middle Road is the result of the unity of China and Japan, and we cannot win. ”

Trotsky still shook his head slowly: "No, China and Japan will not really unite, otherwise the battle of Manchuria-Middle East would have ended in our defeat." Although the Chinese offensive in Harigan Tusumu was fierce, they did not really fight hard. We still have a chance, as long as we can beat the Japanese in Manchuria. Maybe they'll be willing to sit down at the negotiating table. And once Japan withdraws. China can't afford to sustain itself so that we can win the war on the Eastern Front."

"If you want to negotiate peace with Japan, you have to admit that they own the Far Eastern State, do you really want to do this?"

Trotsky looked at Vatsetis fixedly and said with a wry smile: "Comrade Vatsetsis, do you think we still have a chance to recover the Far East? Even if we annihilate all the main forces of the Japanese army in Manchuria, it does not mean that we will be able to open the road to the Far Eastern State, unless we can easily defeat the main force of the squadron that is assembling in Manchuria to the north, which now seems unrealistic. Then we would have to wait for the railway line from Chita to Birobidzhan to be completely repaired, and then force our way across the Amur River to the south. Do you think this is feasible? ”

Vatsettis shook his head: "This requires the gathering of a large army north of the Amur River. And it is only possible to attack in winter, otherwise the Amur and the Japanese river flotilla will let us suffer the fate of defeat. And we also have to control the Mongols. At least in the north of Mongolia, otherwise our logistics line is always under the threat of China. But will China abandon Mongolia? ”

Trotsky sneered: "So we can only negotiate peace with Japan first." Temporarily abandon the Far Eastern states! And then transfer forces to the Far Eastern Republic and Mongolia, and we will defeat the Chinese there! Then force them to abandon Mongolia. He glanced at Vatsettis again: "Comrade Vatsettis, let's go to Lenin together and persuade him to agree to give up the Far Eastern states and negotiate peace with Japan." ”

As he spoke, he raised his leg and was about to go out of the door, but Vatsettis grabbed Trotsky. Trotsky looked back at the other party, and directly Vasetis's face had sunk: "Lev. Comrade Davidovich, you should now propose to negotiate peace with China, and then go all out to deal with Japan's proposal! ”

Trotsky was stunned and shook his head: "Lenin would not have agreed, his hatred of revisionism far exceeded his hatred of Japanese imperialism. ”

But Vatsettis said coldly: "But most of the commanders and commissars of the Red Army do not think so, Japan is an enemy who occupies the sacred territory of Russia, and the Chinese GCD is just trying to follow their own path!" How can we give up the opportunity to regain lost ground and invade China just because the Chinese GCD has proposed a doctrine different from Lenin's? ”

Trotsky was stunned and asked: "Do you want me to oppose Lenin's ideas in order to appeal to the ideas of the majority of the Red Army commanders and commissars?" ”

Vasetis nodded and lowered his voice: "Chang Ruiqing is not a follower of Lenin, and neither are you!" All the Trotskyites were not devotion to Lenin. If we do not allow Chang Ruiqing to have a disagreement with Lenin now, then the disagreement between our Trotskyites and Lenin will sooner or later become a sin! ”

Trotsky was silent for a moment, and then whispered: "But Lenin will not agree to a rapprochement with Chang Ruiqing, at least not for now, unless"

"Unless the situation on the Eastern Front is bad?" Vatsetis asked rhetorically with a sneer.

Trotsky gritted his teeth and nodded: "I am the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, and I can't let the situation get so bad, so"

Vatsetis snorted coldly: "So you go and bear the consequences for Lenin's wrong decision? This will greatly damage your prestige in the Red Army, and Lenin will not be grateful to you for this, he will only take the opportunity to weaken your influence in the Red Army! He accentuated his tone: "What about you, the great teacher, the great leader, the great standard-bearer, now the great teacher?" What are you? Lev. Davyrevich, don't forget Jì Karl. Kautsky's prophecy! ”

"You!" Trotsky glared at Vatsettis. Vasetis, on the other hand, blushed and said eloquently: "Karl. Kautsky said that our dictatorship of the proletariat will eventually evolve into the government of the party and the proletariat, the party Central Committee and the party leaders. Ignoring the wishes of the whole Party and the whole army, Comrade Lenin is now monopolizing the politics of the whole Party and the whole country by treating China, which has a different point of view from him, as the main enemy, and Japan, which occupies Russian territory, as the secondary enemy? ”

Trotsky shook his head slightly: "Joakim. Joakimović, you don't understand the danger of left-populism! ”

Vasetis sneered: "Of course I understand, isn't it that they Chinese GCD do not want to obey Lenin's command?" Lenin could not tolerate even foreign parties for dissenting opinions, and in the future he could tolerate the Trotskyites in the party who disagreed with him? ”

Trotsky was silent, and Vasetis continued: "We should adhere to the correct point of view, and our differences with the Chinese GCD should not be resolved with guns, still less at the cost of betraying national interests to fight dissidents in foreign parties for Lenin." If Lenin insisted on doing this, then let him propose it himself, and bear the consequences himself, we cannot be blacked by this cauldron! Comrade Trotsky, this is a question of the line! ”

Route issues are never a small problem within GCD! Even if Lenin had made a mistake in line, it would have been difficult for him to retain his current authority. And if Trotsky had adhered to the correct line, he would have at least won the position of equal to Lenin. The Russian GCD will also change from the dictatorship of Lenin to the dictatorship of the group leadership, and even to the dictatorship of Trotsky!

Trotsky's expression became as solemn as Vatsettis's. He was now the de facto number two in the Russian GCD, and was supported by most of the Red Army commanders and commissars. If Lenin had caused heavy losses to the Red Army because of the wrong line, he would have been the number two man, and he would have gone further! ……)

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