Chapter 10 Crisis in the System
Tukhachevsky's apartment chose to be in a pavilion leading to the Kremlin. In his residence, there was a window open to the north, from which you can just look at the Red Square. It is said that when Comrade Lenin was alive, he liked to take a break here after work. When Chu Sinan appeared in the apartment, Tukhachevsky was standing quietly in front of the window, not knowing how to look at something outside the window.
"Chu, come here." Tukhachevsky said directly without even turning his head when he heard the sound of the door behind him.
Chu Sinan was nervous. He quickly walked to the window and stopped half a step behind Tukhachevsky. In his opinion, he could not escape the scolding today.
"Remember you once said that before the war broke out, you were a hunter. Have you ever thought that one day you would become a soldier?" Tukhachevsky still didn't look back. He looked out the window and asked absent-mindedly.
"I have thought about it, I have always hoped that I could become a real soldier." Chu Sinan was confused, not knowing why he asked about this at this time.
"Ha, then you are different from me," Tukhachevsky laughed, and then said, "My ambition since childhood is not to be a soldier. I remember that my biggest expectation when I was a child was to become a professional violinist one day. Hehe, unfortunately, no matter how I begged my father, he refused to buy one for me, so this expectation eventually became a bubble."
"Oh, that's a pity." Chu Sinan said unconsciously. In his opinion, it would be a pity if Tukhachevsky became a professional violinist.
"There is nothing to be a pity," Tukhachevsky waved his hand and said, "In fact, I think that the path of joining the army can truly belong to me. Except for the days before 17 years, I have never regretted the path I chose, especially in the years I followed Comrade Lenin. Oh, that was a time that I could never forget in my life. You will never be able to understand Comrade Lenin's unparalleled personal charm, his wisdom, tolerance, and selflessness, which can make every talented person fully utilize his expertise, and can make every person with selfish thoughts feel extremely ashamed and guilty."
Tukhachevsky said this and turned around suddenly, his eyes flashing with a look of extreme excitement.
"Do you know, I still miss that wonderful time until now. In the core of Comrade Lenin's leadership, differences and disputes have never stopped. Different opinions, different views, even different ways of thinking can gain a space for survival and development. There is no doubt that Trotsky had serious differences with Comrade Lenin on several issues in the field of thought; Zinoviev and Kamenev had endless disputes with Comrade Lenin long before the great October Revolution; Bukharin, he even advocated the implementation of "military remonstrance" against Comrade Lenin in order to oppose the signing of the Brest Peace Treaty. But Comrade Lenin was still consistently tolerant and trusted, and even before his death, he proposed that one of them take over his position."
"It is hard for anyone to reach Comrade Lenin's great demeanor." Chu Sinan said, "What he advocated was a pure Soviet democratic way of governing. In his opinion, excessive concentration of power was like a powder keg hidden under the base of the Soviet regime, and there was a possibility of explosion at any time."
Tukhachevsky's face flashed with praise, but then he was replaced by a hint of anger. He said in a deep voice: "It's a pity that Comrade Lenin has made democracy too wide, and he even solved the job of choosing his successor in the form of democracy. He may never have imagined that in just a few years after his death, the comrades he had liked were all given inexplicable charges and were eventually shot. Everything he disliked at the beginning, such as concentration of power, personality cult, persecution within the party, and even Russian national chauvinism, was promoted without any effort by the successor who was not favored by him. Look, what is our current party, country and the Communist International? Look? The organization is bloated, poorly operated, and inefficient; the power is too concentrated, and the supervision and supervision system has become a good-looking but useless decoration; the party and government are not distinguished, and the responsibilities are unclear, and the party organs actually take charge of all the work within the government; bureaucracy spreads and is unscrupulous; the Communist International has become a drill field for chauvinism in a great power, and the style of the parents is fully reflected. What's more, even our Alliance of Soviet Socialist Republics has changed its flavor, and our Central Political Bureau meeting completely replaced the power of the Supreme Soviet Presidium and the Alliance House. The former proletarian brothers and the current franchise republic have become second-class citizenship. What is this? What does this mean? Is this the so-called prosperity?!"
Tukhachevsky walked back and forth in front of the window for two steps, then shouted: "No, this is not prosperity. I have seen signs of decline from this and the crisis of the division and disintegration of the Soviet regime! This situation must be reversed, and it must be a complete reversal!"
Tukhachevsky's words made Chu Sinan unable to resist the spiritual town. There is no doubt that as a new leader, Tukhachevsky had already realized the potential huge ideological problems of the Soviet regime system and the upper-level decision-makers of the Soviet Union, to be precise, a potential huge crisis. In history, during the period of Horuschev's rule, due to the extreme economic and military prosperity, this crisis was temporarily covered up. However, the crisis could only break out except for the removal, and compulsory cover could not solve the problem. When Borezhnev stepped down and later on, his peace was Dropov, Chernenko, and then to the end of Gorbachev, this huge contradiction buried under the Soviet regime finally broke out unstoppable. The direct inducement of the collapse of the Soviet Union was the "new thinking" reform implemented by Gorbachev. The fundamental reason for the reform was the increasingly sharp domestic contradictions caused by corruption, the increasingly lack of democratic life of political parties, the increasingly centrifugal tendency of various franchised republics, etc. These contradictions did not appear after Gorbachev came to power. They have been around for a long time, and the roots can be found in the Stalin period.
Chu Sinan felt that since Tukhachevsky, who is now a firm follower of Leninism, realized these dangers, what would he do? Should he follow the trend and continue the centralized form and parental style of the Stalin period, or should he turn the tide and break the current unbearable situation in one fell swoop?
Chapter completed!