Chapter XIX Kremlin Conference
November 7 is a very important festival for the Soviet Union. On this day in 1917, the Soviet Revolution led by Lenin, the great revolutionary mentor, overthrew the rule of the Kerensky Provisional Government and established a powerful Soviet socialist regime on the land of Russia. Because according to the Julian calendar, this day happened to be October 25, so this revolution was named the "October Revolution". Since then, the newly established Soviet regime has designated this day as National Day. Every day of the year, the Soviet Union will hold a grand military parade on Red Square in Moscow, and even the tradition during wartime has never changed.
Although the Soviet Union is facing the invasion of fascist Germany this year, and the war is still very tight, and a unique power battle is being held in the Kremlin, the National Day military parade is still held as scheduled. In fact, this is the case for every country. No matter how complicated the domestic situation is, things like superficial glory must be arranged properly, which has its fixed political meaning and role. What is particularly important is that Stalin has a firm attitude towards this National Day military parade. His external statement is to use this National Day military parade to show the German fascists the strong determination to fight the invasion to the German fascists, and at the same time encourage the Soviet people to resist Germany. As for its other purpose, of course, there is also the Kremlin currently in complex form. He wants to mobilize the strongest political capital - the army, to attack his political enemies.
In Chu Sinan's memory, the 1941 Soviet National Day military parade was personally arranged by Marshal Zhukov, and the attendees were all members of the Central Political Bureau of the Soviet Union, including Stalin. Now, history has changed. Due to the insistence of Belia and others, Zhukov, as a confidant of Stalin, was excluded from the list of the parade organizers. His position as a man was handed over to Shaposhnikov and Huasilevsky. According to their meaning, Huasilevsky was excluded from the list of the parade organizers.
He was still obeyed the Ministry of National Defense, and the 56th Army, which had just been formed and was waiting to go to the front line, was under his direct control. He transferred him back to Moscow from the line of Tula, and could effectively restrain the 19th Army commanded by Konev. As for Shaposhnikov, he happened to be the chief of staff of the Western Front and was also a political commissar. With his restraint, Zhukov would find it difficult to cause any major storms. Therefore, Belia and others needed to win over this crucial figure at this time.
The Kremlin has been very full on November 7th, and the military parade is scheduled to be officially held at 11:00 a.m. Before that, at the request of Belia and his group, the enlarged Politburo meeting will be held as scheduled at 8:00. Although the original Politburo Standing Committee meeting became the current Politburo enlarged Politburo meeting, Belia and others are still very confident that they can win, because the party representatives from the military have expressed their dissatisfaction with Stalin, either openly or secretly. With them, Belia still has the advantage in the number of votes. After the Politburo meeting, Stalin will personally preside over the wedding for Chu Sinan and Gilnilova. It seems that this powerful figure is also full of confidence in his victory.
Chu Sinan was not interested in the enlarged Politburo meeting held this time, because in his opinion, the meeting was quite unnecessary. After all, it was a foregone conclusion. Although he did not go to the venue, he knew every step of the meeting process.
In the venue, Beria and his group of people would definitely start the first attack, accusing Stalin of his patriarchal style in the past work of the Party and the country, as well as his personality cult, persecuting dissidents, etc. Another charge is that he was ineffective in command of the war against the German fascist war, not examining the actual situation of the war, and replacing the actual war needs and tactical strategies with administrative orders, which caused huge losses to the Soviet Union. In view of this, he advocated the voting to cancel Stalin's first secretary and all his posts in the Supreme Command. Beria and others would never make a fuss about the issue of great purge, because in that case, even if they defeated Stalin, their prestige would be damaged.
After Belia started the attack first, Stalin would naturally stand up and refute calmly, but Chu Sinan couldn't think of how Stalin would refute the fact that his personality cult was his own. However, these things cannot be difficult for the great Comrade Stalin. Not to mention him, even any politician can completely defeat the dirty things he had done, pointing to black to white and pointing to deer to horses was originally the best play for politicians. As for the failure of the early stage of the war,
Question, Stalin would definitely make a statement about the Battle of Bryansk, which he planned by himself. This is the biggest and only victory that the Soviet army has achieved since the opening of the Soviet-German War. The facts are powerful. In the face of the Bryansk victory, who can say that Stalin is incompetent? Of course, Belia knew the key, but what could he do? Tell Chu Sinan's foundation? That obviously won't work, so he has to bear the loss of this mute.
The dispute between the two sides may be performed for a while, and then the participants will select several representatives to speak, or one side or oppose that side. This process should also be the most dramatic scene in the entire meeting.
During this process, Belia and a dozen military representatives of Vorosilov suddenly turned against each other and used sharp words to criticize the National Security Committee chaired by Belia for using various seemingly reasonable but actually absurd excuses to massacre military generals from 1936 to 1938. Although Ye Ruofu, the culprit who was actually in charge of this work, Belia and Vorosilov were obviously remnants of Ye Ruofu group and were leaked. A large part of the reason why the Soviet army lost consecutive battles at the beginning of the Soviet-German War was the lack of middle and high-level command talents. Therefore, Belia and others must be responsible for the previous war failures. At the same time, the central government should also make a clear statement for those military generals who were innocently implicated and persecuted in the Great Purge as soon as possible.
The speeches of the party representatives led by a group of senior military generals such as Vasilevsky, Konev, Shaposhnikov and other groups of senior military generals have been abusing Beria and Vorosilov, and also Stalin. They seem to have smelled a certain atmosphere of conspiracy from these remarks. This conspiracy comes from the military and is absolutely not allowed to be underestimated, but it seems a bit too late to do something at this time.
Chapter completed!