Struggle in Soviet Russia

Comrade Stalin's work and rest habits are very bad. He likes to stay up all night, and he likes to drink and smoke when he stays up late. This is very harmful to his health. To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that there were a large number of the best experts and doctors in the league, he would do his best for him. He takes care of his body as much as possible. His physique is definitely not as healthy as he is now. Of course, as far as Victor knows, Comrade Stalin's current physique is not very healthy. He has a lot of basic diseases and old age diseases. .

However, on the issue of personal living habits, it is not that the experts around Comrade Stalin have not reminded him, it is just that it is difficult for him to make changes. Moreover, Comrade Stalin's character determines that he cannot easily accept other people's proposals. , until there is no major problem with his body, it is impossible for anyone to persuade him to play a big role.

Comrade Stalin didn't sleep all night last night, and Victor also didn't sleep all night. He participated in the whole meeting of the secretaries of the Central Secretariat in the first half of the night. Of course, at the secretarial work meeting, he was only qualified to attend the meeting, that is to say, He can only listen to him, but cannot give his own opinions, and such a qualification is also a dream for the vast majority of the cadres of the alliance, not to mention anything else, at least when he was listening to this meeting, he was able to understand Comrade Stalin. From the true views of certain cadres, we can also most directly understand what kind of people Comrade Stalin liked and admired.

At the secretaries' meeting last night, several secretaries of the secretariat, including Comrade Stalin, mainly discussed the issue of party committee cadres in the four republics of Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Georgia. They also discussed Moscow and Stalin. The cadre and personnel issues in the two states of Goler.

During the relevant discussions, Comrade Stalin clearly expressed his attitude that he had a lot of dissatisfaction with these republics and states over the past year or so. For example, he believed that Comrade Khrushchev did not perform well on the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, lacked a positive and enterprising spirit and attitude, always complained and complained, and always only considered the small problems of Ukraine itself, but ignored it. To the overall situation of the whole alliance; he believes that there is an irredeemable inertia in the party organization of Kazakhstan, as well as Comrade Gennady Andreevich Polkov, the first secretary, who is Even Abidi Samet Kabahopayev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Kazakhstan, has lost the aggressive attitude that a Bolshevik Party member should have, and left all work and difficulties to Moscow; he believes that the Georgian nation The issue of racism is getting worse, and in Tbilisi, there seems to be a hidden conspiracy against the party that is actively plotting to cut Tbilisi from Moscow.

On the Ukrainian issue, obviously there is no need to explain too much. No matter what the objective reasons are, at least one thing is real and visible, that is, after a year of recovery, Ukraine's post-war reconstruction has failed. Achieving the expected goals, especially in the field of agricultural production, last year's autumn harvest, the entire Ukrainian republics handed over to Moscow less than a quarter of the pre-war level. Since the beginning of spring, according to the forecast of Ukraine's winter wheat planting, this year's summer harvest, Ukraine's grain purchase task is still difficult to complete, and these will pose a major threat to the Union's food security. Therefore, Comrade Stalin's dissatisfaction with Khrushchev is natural.

As for the problem of Kazakhstan, in the final analysis, it is also a food problem.

The land in Kazakhstan is barren, of course, not only in Kazakhstan, but also in several countries in Central Asia. Their own food production cannot feed the existing people. Therefore, they need food subsidies from Moscow every year. Otherwise, over there Someone will starve to death.

Before this, when the new five-year plan was introduced, Comrade Stalin once put forward a proposal to implement large-scale land reclamation in Central Asia, and strive to use the time of a five-year plan to achieve food self-sufficiency in Central Asia. Thereby reducing the overall burden on the alliance. However, this proposal has been questioned by the leaders of the Central Asian republics, including Polkov and Kaba Hopayev, who believe that due to the influence of Kazakhstan's climate and geographical conditions, they only rely on the republics themselves. Cultivated land, if you want to feed the people in its territory, is simply unrealistic.

In addition, Kaba Hopayev also complained about the ethnic relocation policy implemented by Moscow, arguing that the coalition moved a large number of ethnic minorities in the western region to Kazakhstan, which not only made the ethnic issues in Kazakhstan increasingly complex and acute, but also It increases the food supply problem that is already very difficult in the local area. According to Kaba Hopayev, in the past few years, the Union has relocated hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities to Kazakhstan, but the food subsidies for them have never increased. This is a very heavy burden for Kazakhstan. burden.

The questions raised by Polkov and Kaba Hopayev are very realistic, and they cannot be wrong. There is no problem, and it can not be wrong, and the leaders of the Central Asian republics, including Polkov and Kaba Hopayev, are conflicted on the issue of expanding food production, but they are single-mindedly seeking from the alliance. From this perspective, they are indeed lack of enterprising spirit.

Of course, Victor was the first secretary of the Karelia-Finnish republic. Although the time was very short, he could be considered to have experience in local work. He knew very well that the work of the republic was not so easy to do. To implement the policy from Moscow, it often takes a lot of energy, and it may involve the interests of many parties, which is very complicated.

Take Karelia as an example. If Victor wanted to carry out active land reclamation work in Karelia, the first problem he needed to face was resistance from all over Karelia.

Where does this resistance come from?

Very simply, since the establishment of the alliance, the food problem in Karelia has been subsidized by the alliance. This has become a practice in the past few years, and the local people in Karelia have also formed a habit. , they can buy the food they need in the state-run food supply store at an equal price, without having to think about food production.

Now, the alliance wants to promote the land reclamation movement in Karelia, so with the increase of farmland, will there still be food subsidies that Karelia can get? If not, will local food prices skyrocket in the event of a natural disaster? Will there be a famine? Will anyone starve to death? To put it bluntly, once the land reclamation movement is promoted, the local food supply pattern in Karelia will change. Change means uncertainty. In this world, no one who lives in a stable environment will like it. deterministic factors.

The most important thing is that there is a big problem with the current ethnic policy of the Union. In each of the republics, there is a policy of ethnic self-determination and ethnic autonomy. Just like the Karelia region, the main ethnic group there is the Finns, and they do not. It will be considered for the Russians, or the Ukrainians and Belarusians. Since they can get enough cheap food from the Ukrainians and Belarusians, why do they need to cultivate it themselves? As for whether the enjoyment of food subsidies will burden those foreigners, and what does it have to do with them Finns?

Such local interests and national sentiments will inevitably force the leaders of local governments to a certain extent, so that when they consider problems, they will start more from their own locality, rather than from the overall situation of the alliance.

Where is the alliance's crisis? There is no doubt that hidden here, the conflict between local interests and global interests, and the increasingly strong national sentiment brewing under the seemingly calm waters, for a confederate country, these two major problems are the disintegration of the country. the most direct factor.

From Victor's point of view, he can naturally feel the existence of this crisis, but he is also very clear that the reason why he can feel this crisis is not because of his political sense of smell, but because he has the memory of his previous life. , is a rebirth. He deduced these two dangerous factors based on the fate of the final disintegration of the alliance in the previous life, and the decision-makers of the alliance like Comrade Stalin and the others do not have such advantages as him, so naturally he cannot feel this. crisis. Not only that, if he talks about these two issues at this time, it may be regarded as alarmist.

Therefore, on these two issues, Victor can only remain silent, and he needs to wait for the best time to solve these two problems.

As for the issue of the "anti-Party clique in Tbilisi", there is no need to discuss this in detail. The strong smell of gunpowder was emitted when Comrade Stalin shot Comrade Beria. The deputy secretary can understand the deep meaning of it. Considering that Comrade Beria is not the deputy secretary of the Central Secretariat, and he did not appear in Comrade Stalin's office last night, Comrade Stalin is actually reminding the Lord to focus on national security. Comrade Kuznetsov, who was working, told him that he had been in this position for half a year, and the rectification of the NKVD should also begin.

Moreover, Comrade Stalin also gave Comrade Kuznetsov an idea. If it is difficult to directly attack the NKVD, he can also choose to find a breakthrough from Georgia. All in all, his deputy secretary must have some action. .