333 The bloody battle ended
The fight started before the battle was fought, and it was not a good phenomenon no matter how you look at it. When the news reached Moscow, Lenin, who had just moved the capital to Moscow, met with Stalin in his Kremlin office, who seemed to be ready to blow the wind in the ears of his mentor.
"Comrade Lenin, Comrade Kuusinin sent a telegram yesterday and poured out bitter water, and he has quite a lot of opinions about Comrade Andrei, do we need to send someone to mediate?"
Although Stalin had tried to describe the events in a neutral tone, the meaning of his words was as clear as ever, that is, to smash a certain immortal.
Lenin naturally understood what he meant, and saw that the master raised his head and looked at the steel, and asked meaningfully: "Mediate what?" ”
Stalin immediately did not know how to speak, and the words of the tutor seemed to be an inquiry, but in fact they were the final word. "What to mediate" means that there is nothing to mediate, and the need for mediation is tantamount to denying Kuusinin's grievances.
Although Stalin had expected this result before he came, he could not help but be disappointed when he heard Lenin's conclusions with his own ears. The guy gritted his teeth in his heart and said, "But Comrade Kusinen's opinion is very big!" ”
Lenin lowered his head again and threw out a sentence that made Stalin vomit blood: "The Central Committee has a greater opinion of him!" ”
The central government was indeed angry with Kuusinen, and under the leadership of this idiot, the good situation in Finland was destroyed overnight. Now this product still has the face to beat a rake, and the face to shirk responsibility, Nima, you are looking for a pump, right?
If it weren't for the fact that the current situation does not allow it. Lenin really wanted to make a revolution in the Finnish Social Democratic Party. Replace Kuusinin with a person with brains. This thing is like a mess of mud!
Unfortunately, the situation really does not allow it, and if Kuusinen is replaced at this time, it is likely that the Finnish Social Democratic Party will collapse internally, and this rotten corpse can only be left to eat.
Stalin, however, did not give up, and added: "But we must take care of a little of the feelings of the Finnish comrades!" Comrade Andrei made that kind of speech in public, which is very detrimental to unity! ”
Lenin was finally a little annoyed, yes. Before, he explained that a certain immortal needs to learn to be patient and not to provoke Kuxinin. However, the Master never thinks that patience is to let the other person take what he wants, let alone unconditional concession without principle.
He already knew everything that had happened before, and even he was very annoyed by Kuusinen's death. You kid wants to get rid of political responsibilities and clean up a piece of shit, yes, it's normal, everyone is mixed in politics. Who wouldn't look away from Dafa?
The problem is that when you divert your attention, you can emphasize the contradiction between us and the enemy. What does it mean to create contradictions among the people, and what do you want to do?
Lenin could clearly smell the conspiracy in it, and Kuusinen was probably a drunkard who aimed the finger at the Red Eagles, and Lenin could not accept such unprincipled behavior.
He raised his head again, glanced at Stalin again, and said very indifferently: "Comrade Andrei's speech and speech were agreed to by me. ”
Stalin was dumbfounded, he did not expect that after fighting for a long time, he would finally get such a result. He knew that he could no longer make small reports, because Lenin's attitude was very clear, that is, to support Li Xiaofeng. Continuing this topic is likely to anger the Mentor, well, hurry up and change the subject, or talk about the victory in the lower reaches of the Don.
"I know what to do." Stalin answered the sentence without pain, and then it was time to inquire about the unprecedented victory of the Southwestern Front and preach a great revolutionary formation.
But who would have thought that Stalin wanted to change the topic, but Lenin was not happy, he put down the pen and said in a slightly stern tone: "You don't need to meddle in this matter!" You are the People's Commissar for Ethnic Affairs, and you are in charge of ethnic affairs within Russia...... As for the question of Finland, it is an international affair, and it is handled by the Comintern. In the future, if Comrade Kusinin has any opinions or suggestions, let him report them directly to the Comintern! ”
Stalin's face was very ugly, and the tutor clearly did not let him meddle in the affairs of Finland, so he almost said: "Don't meddle in your affairs!" ”
This is like a bolt from the blue for him who wants to show his strength, and international affairs are under the control of the Comintern. Such a big bargain is taken advantage of by Zinoviev, a birdman, what is the reason!
Historically, the Comintern was founded in March 1919, but on this time and space, the Comintern was born ahead of schedule, and on May 1, 1918, with the playing of the Internationale, the organization that would have a great influence on the socialist movement throughout the world for the next twenty years, and which had made many erroneous conclusions, was founded.
Russia, which was the first to complete the proletarian revolution, naturally had an extraordinary voice in the Comintern, and the vast majority of the seats on the Executive Committee were the old Russian revolution, and Zinoviev, a decrepit who almost stormed the streets, was elected chairman of the first Central Executive Committee.
Stalin wants to say that he is not envious is false, although the title of chairman of the Comintern is very empty, but the face is really big, no matter how you say that he is also the boss and general boss of the communist parties all over the world, it is very beautiful!
Especially when I think about what Zinoviev did before the October Revolution, I feel that this bastard has gone out of shit luck, and I don't know what the mentor thinks, and it is disgusting to let this person be the chairman of the Comintern and the chairman of the Petrograd Region Soviet.
Why did Lenin do this? Is it his old man who forgave Zinoviev for his betrayal and is ready to be magnanimous? Definitely not, look at the political testament written by his old man when he hung up in history, saying good things for Trotsky, who had fought all his life, but resolutely not forgiving Kamenev and Zinoviev, repeatedly reminding the whole party: "Kamenev and Zinoviev's appearance in the October Revolution is not accidental!" ”
It can be seen that the master of the mentor hated these two goods to the core, and he did not forget to continue to whip them before he died, and you can tell me how he can forgive Zinoviev now.
The reason why the Mentor reactivated Zinoviev. The reasons are simple and complex. The root cause was with the outbreak of civil war. The Bolsheviks had to be united, and they had to put an end to the previous situation of infighting.
With a certain change, at least the verbal transformation of Zinoviev is the horse bone bought by the mentor's daughter, which is a political signal released by him. He wanted to say to the old revolutionaries who were or are still in the opposition: "As long as you change your attitude and abandon your previous attacks on the line of armed struggle or the Brest Pact, you will be able to return to the Central Committee and you will be able to resume your work." See, the pie face is your best example! ”
In order to heal the rift within the party. The mentor really took great pains to suppress his dislike for Zinoviev and reappointed the goods against his will.
Of course, re-activation, but how to use it and where to use it, Lenin was also very particular. Substantive positions, whether they are in charge of the government or in charge of military power, such a position is not given casually by his old man. Even if it is given. I'm afraid this product won't be able to do well. The Mentor is well aware that such a mouth cannon as Zinoviev. I can only go to work in a department like the Comintern, so let the mouthpieces talk nonsense to their heart's content!
As for the chairman of the Petrograd Oblast Soviet, Lenin did not want to give it at first, but Trotsky helped to persuade him, "Anyway, the capital will be moved soon, and the significance of Petrograd as a revolutionary center will be greatly reduced, and without the nod of the secretary of the state party committee, the chairman of the Soviets will be like that." Give that guy, do your best to let the party complete the reconciliation, and then deal with the white bandit army wholeheartedly! ”
Did Stalin know the inside story? It should be said that he knows, but he is just unhappy, but there is no way to be unhappy, who let this be a joint decision between the Mentor and Trotsky! The two gods have made a move, who can stop it?
After talking about the explanation of Kuusinin, Lenin turned the topic to the battle in the lower reaches of the Don River, with Kamensk and Shakht being recaptured one after another, the remaining White Army rushed towards the direction of the Don River, and their only way of life was to flee in the direction of Tsaritsyn and Volgodonsk when the main force of the Red Twelfth Army had not arrived and could not completely block the Don River.
"In the previous battles, my heroic Southwestern Front continued to fight, successively defeated the Krasnov bandits and the Czech bandits, and accumulated more than 70,000 annihilations and prisoners, and only a few of the remaining Czech bandits fled to the east of Schacht, believing that the Red Twelfth Army could wipe them out on the west bank of the Don River!"
Stalin's remarks were resounding, and the actual situation was similar to what he described, the Czech army was indeed crushed, and only Titerikhs with a small number of descendants broke out of the encirclement and rushed in the direction of the Don River.
When arriving on the banks of the Don River, Titeririchs tragically discovered that his army lacked boats to cross the river, and as early as a few days ago, Eberhardt had seized most of the ships along the Don River in advance, and the remaining small canoes were simply impossible to transport more than 30,000 horses of Titeririchs across the river.
The situation was quite treacherous for the Czechs, who had fled to the banks of the Don with great difficulty, with a large force of Red Army pursuers behind them, a rushing river in front, and the Red Twelfth Army on the other side of the river, which was also coming day and night, and it could almost be said that they were dead.
"As dawn approached on 17 May, we could only look helplessly at the turbulent Don River, and almost every company and battalion was enveloped in a feeling of anguish and panic," recalls Geranaek, a Czech legionnaire. The higher authorities ordered us to dig trenches and build bunkers to prepare for battle, but in fact, on the way to escape, we had already discarded all the heavy weapons that could be discarded, and many of us were even empty-handed, so did we want to fight the Red Army's artillery and machine guns with our fists? ”
"We are generally bleak about our future fate, but there is also one or two good news from the division headquarters, it is said that we have been contacted by the Kornilov Volunteer Army, which is operating near Tsaritsyn, and that they have taken control of some of the ships and are approaching us...... It must be said that this news rekindled our fighting spirit, and with this breath we repelled the vanguard of the Red Army. All the people around me, including myself, were expecting a successful retreat and wanted to get out of this hellish place as soon as possible......"
"The cost of waiting was dearly, and the losses of people were mounting, especially near the ferry crossings where the evacuation was planned. There is also a large concentration of non-combatants and the wounded. One by one, Russian shells fell in the crowd. Almost every inch of the land was stained red with blood! After the night of the 18th fell, everyone waited for the long-awaited order to cross the river. But the ship sent by Denikin arrived late, reportedly harassed by Red torpedo boats, who asked us to postpone our retreat for another four hours! This means that those of us in charge of the palace will continue to withstand the onslaught of the opponent for four hours when there is a huge shortage of weapons and ammunition, and the defense line has no concealment. To be honest, I can't even imagine it......"
"When it was dawn, there was still no sign of Denikin's ships, and we only waited for a large force of the main forces of the Red Army. The real battle begins! I don't know what happened to the other sections, but our regiment suffered heavy losses and almost blocked the Red Army's offensive with flesh and blood...... The regiment commander praised us and said that we fought well, not because of how strong our combat effectiveness was, but because of the idea of putting ourselves to death and resurrecting us, so that we did not have to be as timid as before, even if we had a pitiful amount of ammunition, we did not hesitate, even our lives! ”
"The sun was about to set again, and after a round of heavy artillery preparations, the Reds again tried to force themselves on the bank of the river, apparently they were aware of our retreat. But we withstood it. Even I was incredible, and I didn't know where this fighting power came from. Perhaps simply because it was our turn to cross the river - having survived another round of attacks by the Red Army, our regiment left its position at 10 o'clock in the evening and rushed to the crossing. It was a terrifying march, full of abandoned vehicles and dead comrades, moaning horses lying on the side of the road, tents burning with blazing fires, and arrived! It's here! The river beach is right in front of you! ”
"I have long heard the comrades-in-arms in front of me start to cheer, looking at the sparkling Don River in the moonlight, we shed tears of excitement, I can't help but imagine how happy it will be to escape from this hell soon!"
But this happiness came and went quickly. Two hours passed in silence, nothing happened, and the expected ferry did not even appear in a shadow. You know, you can transport a lot of soldiers in these two hours! ”
"I later learned that the ship sent by Denikin got lost, and two hours were wasted by that damn drunk. On the shore, standing with me at the last moment were a group of remnants from the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Division, including their last officer, Captain. Anxiety and panic are written on each of our faces. After waiting for a long time, good fortune finally came, and through the misty morning fog, we could vaguely see a torpedo boat approaching us. ”
Captain Pollack commanded the whole process of embarkation, but just a moment before he got aboard, he suddenly realized that the last of the blocking detachments he had sent out had not yet returned, and it was evident that the poor fellows had lost their way in the morning mist. I vividly remember the last words he said to us: 'We have suffered great defeats, but I have never given up on one of my soldiers, not before, and still will not!' ’”
Captain Pollack turned and disappeared into the white...... After waiting for a while, the captain of the torpedo boat apparently lost his patience and, having given the order, rushed to the opposite shore. Soon after, the sound of gunfire could be faintly heard on the shore, and we had the last time we saw Captain Pollack, who was on one leg and shooting with a pistol until he was hit in the forehead by a bullet and fell on his back...... Strangely, what haunts me at this moment is not the eventful years of the previous battle, but the tears in the eyes of the soldiers of the 2nd Division and 3rd Regiment on the boat, who know in their hearts that I am afraid that I will never see Captain Pollack and many familiar faces again......"
Not all of them were as lucky as Gelanec and were able to escape at the last minute, such as Second Lieutenant Clausen, who, as an officer, also had something to say: "...... We were so tired that we fled for nearly two hundred kilometers without a moment of rest, and we had to fight non-stop, which was beyond the limits of our physical strength...... I lay down with the boys, and there were a few scattered people nearby, who had apparently been waiting on the river beach for a long time. The flaming boat in the middle of the river told us unmistakably that there was one less boat that could take us across the river...... But what about crossing the river? I do not believe that the Red Army did not have a blocking force on the other side of the river, and it did not continue to flee or die! ”
“…… It seems that no ship has come back to save us, and maybe they have forgotten about us a long time ago. The Don River was as calm as ever, and as far as the eye could see, there was not a single shadow of a boat, and someone had already jumped into the icy water, trying to swim to the opposite bank. However, most of them only swim to the point where they sink from exhaustion......"
"When the sun rose on May 19, the roar of horses' hooves on the ground signaled the beginning of a new offensive by the Red Army, and I couldn't help laughing at myself: 'At last we can be free!' The wounded wailed, the desperate soldiers lost their minds and ran wildly, more stupidly ran into the muzzles of the Russians, and a fairly sober major shouted at the top of his voice: 'There will be no more ships, we have been abandoned and betrayed!' There's no hope left, there's no point in continuing to fight, so you guys can escape for your lives.......'"
"With the 'encouragement' of the Major, we flew the white flag quickly, and when the Russians took us to the prisoner of war camp with bayonets, I took one last look across the Don River, and I knew that my fighting career in Russia was over......" (To be continued......
PS: Bow and thank Juventus and Comrade Potato for the second kill!