The compensation matter is quite cumbersome, and even the above are not cumbersome. At least both Zhang San, Li Si and Wang Wu were confirmed to have died at the hands of the Japanese. In other words, there is no controversy. The real trouble is the nameless souls who are difficult to prove to have died at the hands of the Japanese.

In Nanjing, there are so many such examples in North China. The entire village, even the entire town, and even one-something inhabited by the residents in a city. Thanks to the lack of help from the government at that time, it is difficult to prove that they died at the hands of the Japanese. It is difficult to say how many of these "they" are. This is the most tragic thing.

According to the Americans' intentional urination of bad urination, there is no clear evidence that compensation cannot be discussed. In other words, some of the wronged souls will die in vain. How many such wronged souls are there? Not to mention too much, there are millions.

This is a very sad fact, and there seems to be no way to solve this problem unless it is the United States relaxing standards, but is it possible that the United States relaxing standards?

Li Xiaofeng thought it was entirely possible, so Sverdlov thought he was completely crazy: "Is the American attitude not obvious? They just want to help Japan lose these blood debts. Any idea of ​​hope for them is extremely stupid and childish."

Sverdlov rarely has the chance to curse a certain immortal in a direct way. Generally speaking, he is more likely to be scolded, and at least this will happen in the next two years.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng thought it was still the case now. He explained with a smile: "No one has a lucky mentality towards the United States. It is impossible for ordinary means to force the United States to make concessions. But we do not only have ordinary means!"

Sverdlov didn't believe that someone had any better solutions, and he sarcastically said, "Are you going to be whimsical?"

Li Xiaofeng ignored Xiao Si's provocation and continued to explain calmly: "First of all, we must be clear that the US government and the American people are completely different. This government is cunning and evil, but the American people are sympathetic and a little naive."

This is really not Li Xiaofeng's nonsense. Americans do have a "naive" side, and they are sympathetic to those facts that can be proven. Li Xiaofeng just wants to make good use of this.

“We should strengthen our work in the field of publicity,”

Speaking of this, Li Xiaofeng inadvertently glanced at Susnov. As the propaganda minister of the Party Central Committee, Susnov was really doing a dull job in this field. He is too much like Derrynsky, too orthodox and ignorant of adaptability. What the propaganda needs is a person who can adhere to principles but master flexibility at the same time.

Susnov was too serious and lacked flexibility. Under his leadership, the propaganda spokes were like a piece of ice, without any scruples. All propaganda strategies and propaganda methods were mechanized models. Except for the rigid posters, slogans were slogans. No one felt that it had a slight human touch, just so coldly that it was thrown in front of you, no matter whether you like it or not.

Such publicity work is more like going through the motions, and everything will be fine after completing the task. As for the final effect of publicity, I don’t care or have no interest.

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng doesn't like this way of working. If Derrensky had not recommended it before and believed that the propaganda must have a comrade who fully adhered to principles and was unwavering in presidency, he would never agree to Susnov to take over the Central Propaganda Department. Judging from the actual situation in the past two years, Susnov really did not do well, without highlights or errors, and was as bland as boiled water.

Anyway, the next Li Xiaofeng said that he would take a place for this guy no matter what. He is more suitable to work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Supervision or the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and to engage in propaganda outlets, especially in charge of ideology. He is really like a robot.

In Li Xiaofeng's view, the propaganda portal can do a lot of work in this regard, such as finding Westerners who have experienced the Nanjing Massacre, especially staff members of the embassy or consulate in Nanjing at that time. Many of them recorded the most brutal and ugliest side of the Japanese army.

In the West, perhaps what a Chinese person said may not be so credible, but pure white people say the same, so many people believe it. As long as this momentum can be hyped up and the ugliest side of the Japanese army is completely exposed, the Japanese will soon become rats crossing the street.

What's more, there is now the cooperation of the British, so there is no need to worry about the Americans cutting off relevant channels. As long as the West understands the atrocities of the Japanese, and then speculates on the related issues of indemnity and the attitude of the current US government to sit in a crooked manner. In addition, the election is about to be prepared, and presidential candidates who are eager to win votes have to choose political correctness.

To put it bluntly, this is to force the US government with public opinion. If Truman wants to continue to be the US president, he will not be able to withstand any mistakes on this issue of big troubles, so he can only choose to surrender.

When Li Xiaofeng said the overall plan, the members of the Political Bureau nodded one after another, especially Susnov, who had done a very average publicity work before, took out his notebook to make detailed records. Yes, Susnov also knew that his work in the past two years was really sensible, but this did not mean that he wanted to do this. To be honest, he wanted to do a better job in the publicity office than anyone else, so that he could be worthy of Derrensky's trust and promotion. In fact, Susnov also worked very hard, almost urging department personnel to hold meetings and brief meetings to summarize their experiences. Anyway, the Propaganda Department was as nervous and busy as the clockwork every day, and no one dared not to work hard.

But what made Susnov very depressed was that his department was busy and his comrades were very energetic and worked overtime every day, but the publicity work did not improve at all. Even according to the reactions of KGB and the People's Committee of the Internal Affairs, the grassroots level was not satisfied with the work of the Central Propaganda Department.

Susnov was puzzled. He and his subordinates had already taken Derrensky's work style to do related work, and everyone was so busy that they had to run all the way. Logically speaking, the work had already achieved great results. But why do they look like they were dead with twice the effort?

Susnov was very confused and had no idea what the problem was. In fact, the reason was very simple. Being busy and being busy are different. Some people are really busy with their careers and work and are selfless, but some people are just busy or pretending to be busy. Most of the staff of the Central Propaganda Department are the latter.

It seems that they are really busy, and they all work hard, as if they are full of energy. But in fact, their work efficiency is very low. They are not really busy with work, but pretend to show Susnov so that the leader who is difficult to serve will not fire them. In other words, this group of people are busy at home, which looks pleasing to the eye and is actually not very good.

Susnov only learned a little bit of superficial learning from Derrensky. He only saw the people below busy, and he was very satisfied. He thought that all this was good and normal. But in fact, it was not normal at all. The busyness of the Central Propaganda Department was just a formality.

Susnov is not just this problem. It is not fatal to just do formal busy work. To be honest, not most people in the government are bureaucratic and are very good at this kind of fake busy work. There are even many departments who do not even do superficial work and are serious. What is really fatal is that Susnov lacks flexibility. The instructions he issued must be implemented rigidly and concisely, which is equivalent to putting a pair of shackles on the people doing publicity and planning work. All rules and regulations are dead and cannot be surpassed. In this way, what else can the staff below talk about creativity?

Moreover, Susnov also has the worst problem. He always feels that he is self-disciplined and dedicated, so his ideas and opinions should be correct. Anyone who raises different opinions has problems. Moreover, because of his old-fashioned and rigidity, those comrades with creative thinking have no room to play. He even thinks that some useful creations and adaptations are beaten to death, and even puts a hat on others.

As you can imagine, in the long run, the Propaganda Department will naturally be a stagnant pool. Anyway, everyone can only do things like a robot, doing things well and doing things badly, and even actively creating will cause trouble. So who can really put your heart into it?

Let me put it this way, it seems that the Propaganda Department is active in the past two years and cannot see any bureaucracy. But in fact, Susnov himself is the biggest bureaucrat, but he himself has no sense of it.

Although he is recording Li Xiaofeng's speech now, he thinks these methods are good. But Li Xiaofeng is so magical? He is better than everyone in the Central Propaganda Department? No, in fact, many people have mentioned these ideas to Susnov in the past two years, but they were ruthlessly rejected by him, because these methods are too out of the rules and too inconsistent with the rules, and there is a possibility of problems.

But now the Political Bureau Standing Committee also thinks these methods are good, and Susnov subconsciously believes that since the top leadership thinks these methods are good, these methods must be fine. To put it bluntly, he is a superior. The opinions of the superiors are correct, and the people below are certain that they are not sure of the superiors, so they must be actively guarded to avoid making mistakes.

In a sense, Susnov is actually a tragedy. The reason why he became like this has a lot to do with Derzhinsky. He fanatically admired Derzhinsky and believed that Derzhinsky was a perfect person. Susnov also wanted to take Derzhinsky as an example and be a perfect person.

In Susnov's eyes, the perfect person is that he cannot make mistakes. The only way for a person to do not want to make mistakes is to lock himself up with various rules and regulations, and every word and action must follow rules and regulations. If the rules and regulations tell Susnov to step on his left leg first when going out, he will definitely not step on his right leg. These rules and regulations lock him tightly. Although it does avoid violating these rules and regulations, he is like the person in Chekov's novels.

This will not make mistakes, but will it be beneficial to the entire society?

A person who will not make mistakes will never be creative, nor will he know the importance of change. He is always unchanged, traveling along a fixed route at a fixed frequency until his eternal demise.

Li Xiaofeng doesn't like such people. The rules are to be discussed, but what's the use of turning into thorough dogmatism? Li Xiaofeng prefers those who deal with problems based on reality. Even if such people are not educated and qualified enough, they will use them well. On the contrary, those guys who have high education and old qualifications can only talk about them in a general way, they are too lazy to take a look at them.

But what is more interesting is that Sverdlov likes to use this kind of "high-quality" talents. Of course, this is not an expert like Xiao Si's superstitiousness, but a similar person to the ancients. He only needs this group of academics to help shake flags and cheer and promote their reputation, and does not need them to truly combine theory with practice to do things. To put it bluntly, Xiao Si also thinks that this group of people is useless except for their mouths. Speaking of which, this is also helpless. Who made a certain immortal put Sverdlov too much pressure? If Xiao Si didn't have that much pressure, he probably had the same attitude as Li Xiaofeng. Xiao Si, who is better at doing practical things, doesn't like the mouth-breaking clan.

Speaking of the top-level old revolutionaries of the October Revolution, they actually prefer people who do practical things. The reason is very simple. Who made the Bolsheviks a typical counterattack? Compared to purely theoretical things, the Bolsheviks dare to say that they surpass the Mensheviks? It is impossible. The reason why the Bolsheviks succeeded was nothing more than that they were better at doing things, and if they wanted to be good at doing things, they had to use people who were good at doing things. There were many illiterate people in the Bolshevik revolution back then, but as long as they could do things successfully, Lenin and others would use them as long as they could do things successfully.

Could it be that the more you go backwards, the more you become more and more incompetent people who can only talk and make fun of it? The little innocent map head is a typical example. I have to say that Brezhnev has made a bad head. He likes to flatter himself, so he naturally has to use those guys who are good at bragging and playing games. How can such people not have problems?

Of course, this is a long way to go. Go back to the topic and continue to talk about the issue of compensation. Strengthening the public opinion offensive is indeed effective. Under the strong public opinion, American politicians can't stand it. In order to please voters in exchange for future meal tickets, no matter whether they are true or false, they have to give an explanation on the issue of compensation, at least they have to condemn Japan.

Especially the opposition Republicans are unwilling to miss this opportunity and try their best to give Democrats a penny. By the way, the Republicans have been so miserable in the past decade, and they are completely less glorious than the glory that would have forced the Democrats into a corner. Roosevelt even dominated the Republicans for four consecutive terms and conditions, and almost lost face. If he could not even defeat Roosevelt's substitute Truman, he would be extremely embarrassed (he has never done it in history. Truman was successfully re-elected until Senhower turned around).

Now, after finally waiting for Truman to make mistakes on political correctness, the Republican Party naturally jumped up and down to attack Truman, calling him a devil who sympathized with the Japanese dogs, and forgot about Pearl Harbor. Anyway, the Republican Party was very good at labeling and making up stories in the past ten years, and he used to make fun of Roosevelt's wife.

Truman naturally felt the pressure. What made him angry was that he knew very well why the Republicans attacked him, just for the election. It is a fool to not mess with others or step on others at this time. It is conceivable that if a Republican president comes to power, he will immediately forget all this, and Japan's compensation issue will still be a dime. Anyway, not keeping his word is a must-have for the US president. If all the promises during the campaign are fulfilled, then he will be kicked off the stage immediately.

But even though he knew that the Republican Party was lying, Truman had no way to fight back. Now he was in the audience and naturally said whatever he wanted. It was okay to lose everything. Anyway, he didn't have to cash out immediately. At worst, he would just lie and shirke the blame after he came to power!

But Truman couldn't shirk his responsibilities. Who made him on the stage? If he insisted on the established policy, he would definitely disappoint a group of innocent voters and would not get a vote. But if he agreed to this request in order to please the voters, he would greatly hurt national interests. With Japan's current virtue, he would definitely have no money to pay, and he would have to use it in the future. He couldn't force this scabby dog ​​to death? In the end, I'm afraid the United States would pay for the pit, and as mentioned earlier, this was too disgusting.

And once he decides to help Japan fill the pit, it will not end. First of all, the men in Congress will be very unhappy. They represent the interests of the big bourgeoisie and are definitely unwilling to take out their backstage bosses, and they will definitely oppose it firmly. This money may be transferred to ordinary people again, which means tax increases, and ordinary people hate tax increases. Tax increases means vote loss. Well, in the end, this is shooting itself in the foot.

What makes Truman most disgusted is that the current Congress is the Republican world, with the Republicans occupying the majority and any proposal that hinders the interests of the Republicans will be rejected (in fact, since Roosevelt's third term, the Republicans have occupied the majority, and the new policies to save the world that Roosevelt had previously been denied were basically renegotiated and all of them were killed), which made him have no room to display his skills. Anyway, after all this, Truman felt a little unreachable.

Anyway, Truman was so angry that he was so angry that he was willing to peel off Attlee's skin. If this bastard didn't get into a tangle with the Soviet Union, would he be so passive?

Attlee was in a good mood at this time. Although Truman was in a passive state, he felt that Americans had fewer choices, either giving compensation or giving up the harsh conditions for financial aid. In short, in Attlee's eyes, he would soon have money, and with money, he could get rid of the current passive state.

So, is the situation really so ideal? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!