Chapter 929 Siberia (3)

Carefully moving Comrade Stalin to the bed, leaving the doctor to look after Comrade Stalin, everyone left the bedroom.

Malenkov asked Zhukov worriedly. "Comrade Zhukov, what should we do now?"

Zhukov sighed in despair. "What else can we do? Moscow can only fight alone."

"Do we still have a chance of winning?"

Zhukov looked at him in surprise, as if wondering how he could ask such a stupid question. "Chance of winning? Unless the Virgin Mary comes to save us." After saying that, he left and returned to the front-line command post.

"..." Malenkov's face turned pale. Although he had expected it in his heart, he still felt a little desperate when he heard the Moscow Defense Commander say it himself. It seems that they are really dead this time!

The funny thing is that the second telegram they received was a warning issued by some people in Siberia at the risk of their lives, but Stalin and others regarded it as a clumsy means of these traitors to confuse the public.

However, this episode did not affect the overall situation. After all, the Siberian rebellion was a foregone conclusion. It was just that Stalin and others did not know that Beria was one of the masterminds.

That night, the Siberian high-level officials issued a radio broadcast, announcing that Siberia had separated from the Soviet Union and Stalin's rule, and the name of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was on the list of the newly formed provisional government.

Stalin, who had just recovered from his shock, suddenly spit out a mouthful of black blood after hearing the broadcast and fainted directly. This scared the doctors a lot, and they worked hard for a long time before Comrade Stalin woke up.

And the first sentence Stalin said after waking up was to arrest all of Beria's family and relatives and shoot them on the spot!

Malenkov had never done these things. After all, this kind of thing was handled by Beria before. He could only contact the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov and let him deal with this matter.

Kruglov naturally did not dare to delay, and immediately took people to Beria's residence, but found that it was already empty.

"This damn traitor!" Kruglov cursed fiercely and could only report the truth to Malenkov helplessly.

And Malenkov could only report the matter to Comrade Stalin. "Comrade Stalin, the traitor Beria obviously planned it long ago, and his family has long disappeared."

"This damn bastard, I trusted him so much!" Stalin gritted his teeth and cursed, as if Beria stood in front of him and would eat him alive without hesitation.

After the Siberian Provisional Government on the radio announced some new policies and regulations, Beria began to criticize Stalin.

He listed ten serious crimes for Stalin, the first of which was "the cruel and cruel killing of outstanding revolutionary comrades."

For example, Lev Davidovich Trotsky, who was originally the second most powerful person after Lenin. After Lenin's death, Stalin won a great victory in the fierce struggle for power. Almost all of his opponents were sentenced to death, and only Trotsky survived, but was expelled from the country. Trotsky went to Turkey, France, and Norway, but could not find a place to stay. Finally, he went to Mexico, far away from Moscow.

But even if Trotsky went into exile, Stalin could not let it go. For Stalin, Trotsky was indeed "dangerous". This extremely talented revolutionary and thinker chose to fight to the end. From the time he went into exile at the age of 50 to the time he was assassinated at the age of 61, Trotsky kept writing, commenting, publishing, and publishing. So Stalin repeatedly sent assassins until he was stabbed to death.

Sergei Mironovich Kirov, also known as Kostrikov, was a national leader who was highly respected. At the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, among the 1,225 delegates who participated in the election of the leading body, only three voted against Kirov, while nearly 300 voted against Stalin. This is very telling. According to Aimikoyan's later recollection, after someone played a political trick, the number of votes against Stalin became the same as Kirov's, that is, three votes were "retained" and the rest were destroyed. It can be seen that Kirov was almost the "successor" of the Soviet Union.

On the evening of December 1, 1934, Kirov came to the Smolny Palace. What is puzzling is that as a quasi-successor, Kirov was originally accompanied by 23 guards, but in the end only Kirov went to the office alone, and even his personal guard Borisov did not follow him closely. When Kirov walked to the door of the office, the murderer hiding in the corner suddenly rushed out and shot Kirov, killing him on the spot. When the director of the Leningrad local bureau heard the news and rushed over, he was blocked outside the door by a strange guard and was not allowed to enter until the doctor confirmed Kirov's death.

The murderer Nikolayev was arrested on the spot. He was arrested for attempting to assassinate Kirov, but was released without Kirov's knowledge. How did the murderer get into the heavily guarded Smolny Palace, and how did he determine Kirov's office? All of this has become an unsolved mystery. (After Khrushchev came to power, he restarted the investigation into the Kirov case, but the final result was still confusing. Although Khrushchev vaguely mentioned in his secret report that the Kirov case might be related to Stalin, without evidence, everything is empty talk.)

Kirov's death provided an excuse for Stalin to carry out the "Great Purge" campaign. With the help of Yezhov, an accomplice in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and others, a carefully put together list of "suspects" was released, and a large number of senior Soviet cadres were arrested. Subsequently, the "Trotsky-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary group" also appeared in major newspapers and periodicals. Its purpose is self-evident. The blame must be placed on Stalin's opponents, even if there is no evidence.

Among them, Grigory Zinoviev was a well-known early activist and leader of the Russian workers' movement and Bushilvik, and the first chairman of the Executive Committee of a certain international industry. In July 1926, he was accused of forming an "anti-D alliance" with Trotsky and was expelled from the Politburo and the Communist International. In October of the following year, he was expelled from the Communist Party of China. In December 1934, he was arrested on suspicion of "participating in the assassination of D leader Kirov" and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In August 1936, the court heard the case again, and as a result, he was shot together with Kamenev on charges of "selling himself to the Communist spy agency" and "establishing a terrorist organization to assassinate Kirov and other Soviet leaders."

Because so many comrades were murdered by Stalin, it took Beria three hours to read out the list of "victims" (which also detailed the circumstances of their murders), and these were all prominent figures.