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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 218 Alexei Brusilov

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    Chairman of the Soviet Central Committee Bukharin pointed the finger at the newly appointed People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Chicherin, who served as Trotsky's deputy in the peace negotiations between Soviet Russia and Germany and was still in the process of the second negotiation.  Trotsky resigned after a falling out with Comrade Ulyanov, and Chicherin took over as head of the negotiating delegation and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.

    Later, the negotiations broke down. This guy was still in charge of external affairs in front of the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. At this moment, Bukharin yelled at the top of his voice. His face turned red and he stood up and explained in a mumbling voice.

    "Comrade Bukharin, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that the arrangements for the Czech Army by Britain and France were good. They were allowed to transport them eastward along the Trans-Siberian Railway, evacuate to Vladivostok, then board ships and take the Pacific Ocean.  and the Panama Canal, and finally back home via the Atlantic Ocean!¡±

    "That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm asking is, why didn't you find out in advance that the Czech Legion was rebelling? Why now, even China and Japan have sent troops into Russian territory, but you and your people didn't know anything about it?!  Are you all working for nothing?! Why? You must give me a convincing reason, otherwise I think it is the negligence of you and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that has caused us to be in such a passive situation!"

    Bukharin had a long face, tapping the map spread out on the table with the pencil tip in his hand, staring at Chicherin and yelling.

    "Comrade Chairman, please listen to my explanation, listen to my explanation!" Chicherin wiped the sweat from his head and secretly glanced at several other Central Committee members around him. He saw Bukharin's eyes on himself and Dzerzhin.  Sky jumped back and forth, and the guy gasped. Could it be that Bukharin planned to use the Cheka to deal with me?

    "Comrade Chairman, the rebellion of the Czech Legion can be seen as an inevitable step for the Allied Powers to intervene in the situation in Russia. Everyone knows that we began to demobilize the army on a large scale after suspending the peace talks with Germany. Countless Cossack cavalry divisions were demobilized by the division soldier committee.  And the decision to disband, under such circumstances, especially when Comrade Trotsky's Red Army was still in its early stages of formation, the interior of Russia was quite empty!" Chicherin breathed a sigh of relief as he spoke.

    ¡°Nima, when Trotsky was around, you Bukharin was like a pug, not daring to mess with him, but now you just know how to bully me!

    ¡°Let¡¯s get to the point, don¡¯t talk in circles and talk nonsense!¡± Bukharin interrupted Chicherin¡¯s explanation rudely.

    "The reason why the Czech Legion rebelled was because we asked them to lay down their arms before they could pass through Siberia. This gave them an excuse, and the decision to ask them to lay down their arms was only made at your insistence, Comrade Chairman!" Kamenev  Interjected lukewarmly from the side.

    "What about the Chinese and Japanese? Why do the Chinese dare to send troops to Siberia and the Far East? Now even Japan seems to be attacking the Chinese. What's going on? Comrade Kamenev!"

    After all, Bukharin was the editor-in-chief of "Pravda", and his brain and ideas can change very quickly. Even if he is not messing around, he is a good orator and writer. When it comes to long-term debates in the Central Committee, there is no one who can beat him.  many!

    Hearing this, Kamenev was stifled. Why didn¡¯t the Chinese send troops to ask me? You should ask Comrade Ulyanov, but didn¡¯t he resign now? Can you rely on me to do this?  How do I know what the Chinese think?  The Chinese only have 500,000 armed men and dare to challenge Russia. We in Russia have no less than 3 million people in German prisoner-of-war camps alone!

    "Based on the signs when China took back the Middle East Road, it seems that Comrade Ulyanov's declaration issued in December last year caused the trouble!" Chicherin said from the side.

    "Hmph! What I said at the time was that I wanted to give the Chinese people benefits in exchange for their recognition, and there was no need to rush to issue a dialogue declaration on the abolition of all unequal treaties. It was a big mistake!" Bu Bu!  Harlin said angrily.

    This is indeed the truth. At that time, Ulyanov did not know what the Chinese minister named Liu was trying to fool him into, and he actually used such a move without saying a word, saying that he wanted to divide and disintegrate the Allied Powers.  The relations between various countries brought China, Russia's largest neighbor, to support the new Soviet Russian regime in exchange for the Chinese government's official recognition of the Soviet Russian government!

    The result was good, not counting the resumption of the Middle East Road. Now the Chinese are openly trying to take back all the territories ceded to Tsarist Russia since the Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia. This happened more than 230 years ago. How is this different?  ?  Could it be that someday the Chinese consider themselves the successors of the Mongols and demand to regain their lost territory according to the boundaries of the four great khanates, and Russia will be able to agree?

    The more Bukharin thought about it, the angrier he became, and the more he complained about Comrade Ulyanov, who had resigned.

    ¡°There is currently no committee member in charge of military affairs in the Central Committee. I agree with Kamenev¡¯s suggestion and send a telegram to ask forTrotsky or Joseph will come back to take charge of the overall situation!  The Eastern Front is more important than the Western Front and the Southern Front. If we lose the barrier of the Ural Mountains on the Eastern Front and the vast Siberia and the Far East, our strategy of no war and no peace will have no way out because of the loss of strategic depth!  "Zinoviev, a member of the Central Committee who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.

    Grigory Zinoviev was born in 1883. He was a theoretician and practitioner within the party. He had a very good relationship with Kamenev, but he was not as withdrawn and arrogant as Kamenev. This guy was like the others.  We all have good relations with the Central Committee members, including Bukharin, who respects Zinovievye quite a bit.

    "The situation in Petrograd is so tense now. Can Comrade Trotsky get away? Otherwise, how about transferring the former commander-in-chief of the Russian armythat Alexei Brusilov to come back and take charge of the military?"  ? At least he can be sent to the east to resist Kolchak and the Czech Army!" Bukharin was obviously not a fool, and he came up with an idea in the blink of an eye.

    Dzerzhinsky sneered inwardly after hearing this. Obviously, the new Chairman of the Central Committee values ??power very seriously. If Trotsky returns to Moscow, there is no doubt that he will become the actual controller of the Central Committee. In fact, everything will be controlled by Trotsky.  When it was transferred to a military and wartime system, the Revolutionary Military Committee chaired by Trotsky was the core and leading force of the regime!

    "Comrade Bukharin! To bring Comrade Brusilov back, Trotsky must have an order. He is the chairman of the Military Committee. Besides, if Brusilov comes back, he will be able to fight. We have to see  Is he willing to shoot at his former subordinate Admiral Kolchak? Fighting a civil war is not the same thing as fighting Germany and Austria!"

    Kamenev's tone was full of disdain, wondering how a party stick like Bukharin had climbed to the position of chairman of the Central Committee just because he could shout slogans and write demagogic but unrealistic propaganda theories.  Article?

    Several other Central Committee members also looked at each other in confusion after hearing this. It was obvious that Bukharin had a bad idea. There was the Kornilov rebellion before the October Revolution, and now Russia is full of armed rebellions and numerous autonomous provisional governments.  , since Admiral Kolchak of the former Provisional Government and Suturov of Kazan have both rebelled, then who knows whether a Tsarist Russian war god like Brusilov will refuse to suppress his former comrades-in-arms?  And defecting before the battle?

    Who dares to take such a risk?  Admiral Kolchak's appeal in the Russian army is far inferior to that of former Russian Commander-in-Chief Alexei Brusilov!

    In fact, Trotsky rushed to the Petrograd front line because he was worried that with the massive German and Austrian offensive and the large-scale disbandment and demobilization of the Tsarist Russian army, those who had already pledged allegiance to the new Soviet Russian regime would  Will the senior generals of Tsarist Russia join the camp of the Allies, the Socialist Revolutionaries, and the Mensheviks!
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