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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 237 Ulyanov comes back to power

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    The spring of 1918 was a nightmare for the vast majority of Russian people. At least everyone could still eat under the Tsar and the Provisional Government, but now there is no extra food anywhere, and they have been dismissed and demobilized from the front by the Soldiers' Committee.  Millions of people in the old Tsarist Russian army became refugees returning home.

    Social security inevitably deteriorated. These soldiers who survived after fighting for the motherland for three and a half years suddenly woke up overnight and found that they had become homeless demobilized soldiers.  From now on, you have to take care of your own food. The few rubles everyone gets in their hands are not enough to buy bread at this moment when food prices are soaring.

    Of course, the Bolsheviks are recruiting and forming the Red Army, but if you want to join, you first have to ask which side do you support?  Socialist Revolutionaries?  Mensheviks?  Or the Bolsheviks?

    For most of the officers and soldiers at the bottom of Tsarist Russia, many of them have been illiterate all their lives, and they are even less clear about what is doctrine, what is exploitation, and what is revolution. The cadres responsible for recruiting new soldiers in the Red Army are faced with a swarm of demobilized people asking to join the army.  For soldiers, the final screening method is to ask him if he has land at home?

    "Sir, my family is a poor farmer. We farm several acres of land, but the grain we can harvest is not enough to pay taxes. I think I meet the requirements to join the Red Army!" A demobilized Cossack soldier from the Don River held his horse.  , rub shoulders with the Red Army recruiters responsible for recruiting.

    "Aha? There is a poor farmer holding a horse? Don't fool me, let me ask you, this horse must be worth a lot of money, right? How many acres of land can it be exchanged for in your hometown?"

    The person in charge of the recruitment point at this railway station was a temporary leader with a working class background. He didn¡¯t know much about the Ukrainian Cossack tradition of raising horses and bringing their own weapons to the battlefield.

    "My family is really a poor peasant, comrade, please do me a favor and take me in. Look, this is the Silver Star Medal I won in my original army. I was a great scout cavalry, but the entire division was disbanded by the Soldiers' Committee.  The few rubles paid for travel are not enough for three days of food. Comrade, please accept me. My horse is so hungry that it can hardly walk!" The demobilized Cossack barely looked like a worker.  The cadres knelt down!

    "Then let me ask you, do you support the "Land Decree"? Every soldier who wants to join the Red Army must express his position. Comrade Ulyanov said that people cannot choose their origin, but they can choose their path, and so does Comrade Budyonny  He was born a Cossack, but he chose the path of revolution and completely broke with the old class! "

    Although this little leader may have some working class superiority in front of the peasants and Cossacks, he is pretty good at combining theory with practice and applying what he has learned. Knowing what Ulyanov said in his speech, he also knows  Budyonny, a Red Army cavalry general who was born as a Cossack!

    "I support it, of course I support it! I firmly support and support the government's laws. Isn't it just that when I return to my hometown in the future, I will seize the land from the landlords and rich peasants and give it to us poor peasants? This is a great thing, how can I not  Support!" The Cossack, who was starving as both man and horse, hurriedly stated his position resolutely!

    "So, it's almost the same. But remember what you said today. Can you be a strong Bolshevik? But it depends on your performance in the future! Come here to register your name, and then take this to the door next to the station.  Report to the barracks, but you have to move quickly, or there won¡¯t be much left for lunch!¡± The worker leader finally nodded.

    The overjoyed Cossack hurriedly stepped forward to tell the registration clerk his name, age and place of origin, then took a numbered bamboo stick and ran excitedly to the station barracks.

    The crowd waiting to recruit soldiers swarmed behind and surrounded the recruitment point. They kept shouting that there is me and I will join. Our family is all poor peasants. Hurry up, comrade, and add my name.  .  .

    The little leader of the workers here waved his hands and just shouted, "Queue up, come one by one!"  No grabbing!  There will be bread!  Everything will be there!  As long as you join the Red Army!

    Most of the demobilized soldiers dispersed back to their hometowns, and a small number of strong poor peasants and laborers joined the Red Army. However, in 1918, when even Comrade Ulyanov¡¯s guard captain fainted from hunger, food and famine  Become a lingering nightmare for the Russian people!

    "Comrade Ulyanov! The food problem is really serious. Compared with food, the military operations of the Chinese and Japanese in Siberia are nothing to mention. I heard that the Chinese participating troops were operating along the railway lines and areas they occupied.  Ration distribution points and medical and health clinics have been set up at the stations. In this case, it is better to ask the Chinese to transport food trains directly to Moscow! "

    The speaker was Bukharin, editor-in-chief of Pravda and People¡¯s Commissar of Propaganda. In early March, at Trotsky¡¯s suggestion, the Central Committee invited back Comrade Ulyanov, who had resigned and resigned, and re-elected the little man as the new leader.  Central CommitteeChairman, and Bukharin, the party's theoretician and propagandist, served as the newly created People's Commissar of Propaganda.

    "Comrade Bukharin! The propaganda and public opinion fronts must be strengthened. Pravda must expose that food shortages and food shortages are not caused by the decline in agricultural production caused by everyone taking to the streets to demonstrate. Food shortages and famines are caused by all anti-Bolshevik forces at home and abroad.  The entanglement was caused by the rebellion of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks, especially by the rich peasants and landowners who owned a lot of food! "

    Ulyanov¡¯s forehead was shining, he habitually put his hands behind his waist and shouted to Bukharin in front of him.

    "But food cannot be collected anywhere. Most of Western Ukraine has fallen into the hands of the German puppet Polish Autonomous Government, while a bourgeois Provisional Autonomous Government has been established in Eastern Ukraine. Now the Soviet Central Committee cannot get even a single grain from Ukraine.  Grain!" Kamenev said with a frown.

    "How is the situation in the Caucasus and the Urals? Can food be obtained there? Vasily's brother wrote from his hometown, saying that they have divided the land of the landlords, their houses have been burned, and the landlords have been suppressed.  If Soviets everywhere can act like Vasily¡¯s hometown and defeat all opposition, I believe the food problem can be solved!¡±

    Ulyanov waved his hand and said, looking still in high spirits, as if any problem in front of him did not become a real problem.

    "Which Vasily? Oh, by the way, it's the guard captain assigned to you by the Central Committee. Didn't he just come back from escorting grain from the south yesterday? He was still hungry and fainted on the way. What a good comrade! But our actions in the countryside are still  Not decisive enough. Landlords and rich peasants are the two types of people who own and hoard the most grain in Russia. I think the local Soviets will send more work teams to the countryside to mobilize poor peasants and laborers and resolutely fight against landlords and rich peasants to control the grain.  Take it from them!"

    Bukharin spat and waved his hands and shouted. This guy was one of the loudest voices in the entire Central Committee, and his thoughts jumped very quickly.

    "The situation in the Caucasus is not optimistic either. Rebellions are happening one after another in the Volga Valley. Landowners and rich peasants are more enthusiastic about following the autonomous government of the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks than we imagined. Comrade Joseph also organized the establishment of the Red Army in Tsaritsyn  At the defense line, the local food is far from enough, and Krasnov¡¯s Cossack White Guards are already ready to move. Defending Tsaritsyn is the top priority over there!¡±

    Trotsky, Chairman of the Soviet Revolutionary Military Commission, frowned and walked to the large map hanging on the wall. While pointing at the map, he explained the situation on the front line to Ulyanov and other committee members.

    "Be calm and believe that Comrade Joseph can complete the tasks assigned by the party and the Central Committee. It is not far from his hometown. Joseph is a proven veteran. Kamenev, you two were once defeated by the Tsar.  How many times have you been exiled to Siberia?" Ulyanov turned to Kamenev.

    "Joseph was arrested 8 times for participating in revolutionary activities, exiled to Siberia 7 times, and escaped from the penal colony 5 times. Of course, I have fewer times than him, but I have been exiled longer than him!" Gamini  The husband mentioned the glorious history of his best friend eloquently, and at the same time couldn't help but reveal a rare smile.

    "Kamenev! Isn't it because you have been exiled for a long time because you stayed in the place of exile and did not escape? You, a comrade, are good at everything, but you have to learn to be stronger at critical moments. Warmth and weakness will ruin your life.  Our cause!¡±

    Ulyanov did not forget to encourage and beat his most loyal followers and companions in the past. Ever since Kamenev made the mistake of leaking the secrets of the uprising because of the October Revolution last year, the relationship between the two seemed to have changed.  Can't return to the past.

    Of course, Kamenev's righteousness and intellectual perseverance still impressed Ulyanov. This time Ulyanov was invited back by the central government to take charge of the work. Kamenev and Zinoviev  Support for Trotsky's proposals played a key role.
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