The Third Reich in Desperation

To say that the German head of state is also capable of flattering.He suggested the initial names of the three battleships in the Soviet-German cooperative construction project directly for the Soviet Navy.The two ships with smaller tonnages are respectively named after the great men on the Soviet side, "Peter the Great" and "Mentor Lelin".The largest ship was suggested as the "Leader of Stalin" as a matter of course.

Fortunately, the German head of state named Reinhardt did something for Stalin that he wanted to do but was embarrassed to do.So Stalin, who was not very powerful at the time, took this opportunity to accept the suggestion of Germany and adopted this naming.

Then, in the process of Stalin's centralization of power.Reinhardt kept asking German representatives to congratulate him.Every year when Stalin passed away, the German representative would send a lot of congratulatory gifts, including "a bilingual golden staff engraved with the long live of Stalin leader", "99 bilingual congratulatory letters congratulating General Secretary Stalin of the Soviet Union on his eternal life", "a Hundreds of exquisite pipes carved by famous German masters." …

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Huarevsky could hardly believe that there are such senior figures in Germany who know how to give gifts and are good at matching what they like.If the generals of the Soviet Union could learn the [-]% flattery of the German head of state, they wouldn't be so disgusted by the general secretary......

Body 1 Chapter Thirty Who dares not applaud?

On August 1937, 8, after Stalin executed Zinoviev and Kamenev and other high-ranking political officials through the "Moscow Trial", the remaining veterans of the Soviet Union were only a group of military leaders who could shake Stalin Possibility of status.

On August 8, Stalin, who was eager to further consolidate his power and position, called all the generals above the rank of major general in the Soviet Union and held a vigorous oath of allegiance meeting.

Among the candidates for this meeting, the most famous one was the Red Army Marshal who blamed Stalin's fault on the Warsaw defeat—the 44-year-old Tukhachevsky.

All the generals and marshals present at the meeting, as expected, swore allegiance to Stalin.At the end of the meeting, all unanimously approved the letter of allegiance to Stalin, and needless to say, all rose to applause, which turned from thunderous applause to prolonged cheers.

In this way, for 3 minutes, 4 minutes, and 5 minutes, the applause was still thunderous, and it was still endless.

After a while, the palms of the generals were tired and numb, and the elderly marshals were even a little out of breath. Even those officers who really admired Stalin felt that this situation could not continue up.

However, no one dared to be the first to stop.Not to mention the generals who had a mediocre relationship with Stalin on weekdays, even the few young generals who were Stalin's confidantes who had just been personally promoted by Stalin did not dare to stop.

The reason for this is that everyone knew that there was a People's Commissar of the Ministry of Internal Affairs standing in a corner of the venue, applauding and monitoring who was the first to stop.

So 6 minutes, 7 minutes, 8 minutes... The applause couldn't stop.Until No. 11 minutes, Tukhachevsky, who still maintained a certain military character, really didn't want to continue filming, and finally stopped applauding, and sat down in his seat while stopping applauding.

Then a miracle happened, and the applause of the audience stopped abruptly.

Obviously, how much everyone in the audience hoped that someone would be the first to stop clapping.And Tukhachevsky, who has extremely high qualifications and prestige, did what everyone wanted to do but did not dare to do, and did this early job.

As a result, in the middle of the night that day, a generation of Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky, known as the Red Napoleon, was arrested.He was arrested for many crimes, but none of them said he "failed to applaud".

When Tukhachevsky was convicted, dozens of his charges were "confirmed" overnight: "Crime of Endangering State Stability", "Treason", "Organizing Anti-Soviet Military Forces" Central Crime", "Crime of Espionage", "Crime of Engaging in Military Construction Sabotage"......

With so many charges, Tukhachevsky was judged as an out-and-out conspirator and traitor.

In order to "guarantee" the authenticity of these charges, the secret police belonging to Stalin worked hard.In the end, by "coincidental coincidence", they got a piece of Japanese internal intelligence in the hands of the Germans, which proved that Tukhachevsky had actually betrayed the national interests of the Soviet Union with the Japanese government.

Even if this information is full of holes and loopholes in the eyes of a professional person (after all, this is all information made by Reinhardt).However, Stalin, as the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, adhered to the principle that he would rather kill one thousand by mistake than one by mistake, and signed his name on Tukhachevsky's execution letter.

It was not until 100 years later that people had a deeper understanding of Stalin's psychology at that time in a record of conversations between leaders of the Soviet Union declassified from the German National Archives.

Huarevsky, who was Stalin's confidant, asked: "General Secretary, the information obtained by the Germans seems to be a bit wrong."

"What's wrong there?" Stalin asked rhetorically, although he had already centralized power at that time, but his official position was only as the general secretary of the Soviet Union.

"There are too many people suspected of treason on the list, and all of them are senior generals in our military." Huarevsky, who was clearly aware of it, said respectfully: "Will there be any Germans who deliberately added it? name?"

"Yes, of course there will be." After hearing Huarevsky's doubts, Stalin laughed happily and said, "I can tell you with certainty that almost all the people on these lists were added on purpose. .”

Since Huarevsky is one of Stalin's most trusted confidantes, Stalin did not hide it, but said in a showy tone: "Before this list was handed over to the intelligence department, Mr. Asked for a list of disobedient people in the Soviet Union...."

Speaking of this, Huarevsky didn't ask any more questions, and the entire conversation record ends here.However, it is actually very clear who made this list.

The role of the Germans is only to boost, and what really works is the general secretary of the Soviet Union who was voluntarily deceived and even took the initiative to plan this slander list.

It's ridiculous that when the list was sent back to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, the ruthless man in the Soviet Union was not yet eager to act.What really made him determined to do it was Tukhachevsky's first small move to stop the applause.

"Never be the first to stop applauding!" has since become a classic aphorism within the Soviet Union.

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Germany, Berlin Fuhrer's Residence

"......According to the list we provided, the Soviet government has now suppressed more than 3.5 officers through special procedures, including 80% of senior officers and 3/5 of marshals, involving all Soviet The commander of the military region and most of the army commanders. Among the first 5 people in the entire Soviet Union who were awarded the rank of marshal, 3 were executed; 15 of the 13 army commanders were also killed; 85 people; 57 division commanders in the entire Soviet Union, 159 were executed; in addition, more than 110 senior and middle-level officers above the battalion level were persecuted." Regarding the great purges carried out within the Soviet Union, Ross, who was responsible for the German intelligence agency, said Reported to Reinhard more clearly than Stalin himself.

Marshal Tukhachevsky, General Yakir, Commander of the Kiev Military District, General Bolevich, Commander of the Belarusian Military District, Edman, President and Political Commissar of the Frunze Military Academy... These Soviet military leaders The elites were shamelessly accused of treason for Stalin's personal ambitions, and shot one by one.

In addition to the military, the cleansing in the political circle is even more thorough.There were 15 people in the first People's Committee established by Lenin, 8 of whom were executed or died in prison, 1 was assassinated abroad, 4 died of illness before the start of the mass suppression of counter-revolutionaries, 1 was missing, and the only living Now there is only Stalin left.

When Reinhard heard this result, the first thing he thought of was not to be happy, but to mourn for these victims.How cruel was Stalin, a man with mixed reviews in history, to commit such a utterly selfish act!

For rights?Isn't his entitlement enough? !How old does this official have to be to be considered big? !

In this way, Stalin was not satisfied, and was still improving his dictatorship by cleaning up the unstable factors in the army.

In fact, if Stalin hadn't killed his commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy, Reinhard's shameless battleship arrears had long been brought up.As a result, after a round of "cleansing" in the navy, Stalin chose a cruiser captain named Niki Kuznetsov as the new commander-in-chief of the navy.As a result, the new commander, who had no experience and mediocre abilities, was unable to raise the doubts about the arrears of the German battleships to Stalin.

If there is anything special about the new Soviet naval commander, it is that he is the last one to stop every time he applauds Stalin.

Chapter 131 of the main text shouted Stalin’s name to die (130 can be read as a new chapter)

In the dark cell, the 44-year-old Tukhachevsky was roughly pulled in by two young guards.

"Guards! Do you know what you are doing? I am the marshal of the Soviet Union, you can't arrest me without trial!" Tukhachevsky, who still didn't know his guilt, roared angrily: " What is the reason why you dare to arrest a marshal who is full of glory like this?"

"Reason?" A guard driving Tukhachevsky said disdainfully: "You, a lackey of the Germans, still have the face to ask why. Your treasonous deeds have long been published in newspapers. The evidence is solid, how dare you?" …”

"Shut up! Todd Stey." The captain of the guard at the head yelled loudly. He didn't want his subordinates to enter the cell the next day because of talking too much.In order to prevent intelligence leaks, the Security Bureau specifically emphasized that communication between guards and spies is not allowed.

"Treason? A running dog..." He repeatedly chewed on a few words that the guards were about to say at the moment.Tukhachevsky suddenly realized that he might have entered a dead end.Anyone who has anything to do with treason is a capital offense in the Soviet Union.On this point, never an exception!

Instead of yelling at the guards about his grievances, Tukhachevsky chose to remain silent.He knew that even if he persuaded these guards, there would be no turning point.People who can really decide their own life and death can't hear their own words at all.

Until the guards left, Tukhachevsky hadn't figured out what his crime was.But what is certain is that most of his charges are classified as espionage and other major crimes.

Espionage?ridiculous!He is for this country.How many rebellions have been quelled, how many foreign enemies have been defeated, and how many new regulations and new teaching norms have been formulated for the army.Just when he thought that he was about to lead the country's new army and show off his talents, he was thrown into prison and sentenced to death for no reason.

There was no trial, no distinction, a marshal with great military exploits was arrested overnight by Chuman, and disappeared from the world!

Only two days later, the impatient court convicted Tukhachevsky of "endangering national stability", "treason", "organizing an anti-Soviet military center", "espionage", "engaging "Crime of Destroying Military Construction"...... Dozens of other crimes were declared, and he was convicted immediately, and executed by shooting the next day.

Throughout the sentencing process, Tukhachevsky stood quietly on the dock waiting for the result without saying a word.

It wasn't until the judge finished his verdict that the distinguished old marshal finally spoke slowly:

"The price I pay for the mistakes I have made in my life, for my belief in and faithful service to the Soviet regime and the Party, is my head. I will not ask for forgiveness, because this court can only accept third-rate No sane person would respect such a court as evidence based on false documents fabricated by detectives.

You think you are judges, but I want to tell you that you are the one who committed the crime, not me!

Sooner or later, you will be punished by fate for your despicable actions.Someday, when you sit in this defendant's seat, or when you stand by the wall where I will stand tomorrow, you people will think of me..."

"Take him away, take him away quickly!" the judge shouted hoarsely.

In an atmosphere of extreme embarrassment, Tukhachevsky was escorted off the court by two guards.Even though everyone, including the judge, felt guilty about the trial, none of them made any discordant voices.

The reason is simple, no one, including the judge, has the right to decide the conclusion of this trial.Everything is preordained.Everyone here today is just a humble executor, a pawn.