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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 481: Empathy

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    July 14, 1918 19:45 Tsaritsyn Soviet Southern Front Headquarters

    "Moscow was frightened by the victory of the Ufa Allied Forces on the right bank of the Volga River. It clamored all day long to defend Moscow and defend the Soviets. Is it possible that Moscow would be finished if it did not protect the Soviets? When Napoleon came with more than 700,000 soldiers, Kutuzov  The Qing Dynasty abandoned Moscow, but Russia was still Russia. Where is Napoleon now? "

    Joseph could not bear to see Bubnov¡¯s tone as a member of the Central Committee and the Imperial Envoy. After the quarrel, he couldn¡¯t help but slap the table and shout!

    Under normal circumstances, in fact, Joseph is still a boss who cannot be angry and assertive. Compared with Bubnov, who is harsh on the inside and strong on the outside, but weak in action, Comrade Joseph has the confidence to challenge anyone in the three-thirds of land of Tsaritsyn and the Southern Front.  .

    Furthermore, although Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was small in stature, he had an iron will. He was exiled by the Russian government many times, and he escaped from prison almost every time.  , and unlike other intellectuals such as Bukharin, who were members of the Central Committee, Joseph had an absurdly high theoretical level and talked about one doctrine after another.

    Comrade Joseph is a man of action, or can be said to be a military activist. This guy is like Shen Zui, the general affairs section chief of the military commander in Wang Geng¡¯s previous life. Shen Zui was a worker in the action team back then, selling martial arts and courage, fighting with bare hands or  The work of fighting with daggers and guns.

    During the Tsarist era, the revolutionary Comrade Joseph was also leading a military action group. He used guns and knives to block roads and rob people who had no capital to buy and sell. They engaged in robbing the rich and giving to the poor. Of course, the euphemistic name was to raise money for the Bolsheviks.  Activity expenses, etc.

    But at the moment, Bubnov, who was competing with Joseph by arms as a member of the Central Committee, was actually a party worker who was born into a family of textile owners. Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov was born in 1883.  In Ivanovo-Voznesensk, on the upper reaches of the Volga River, he hung out at the Moscow Agricultural College for a while, but was later expelled for engaging in underground activities.

    Bubnov's early qualifications in the Bolshevik Party were no worse than Joseph's. He was a delegate to the fourth and fifth congresses of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, and an all-Russian delegate to the sixth Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Prague).  At the conference (1912), he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.

    He was also a representative of the 7th (April) Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks). He was elected as a Central Committee member of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) at the 6th Congress of the Party.  He was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee at the 13th and 11th and 12th Congresses, and was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the 13th to 17th Congresses.

    He also served as a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. In Wang Geng's previous life, Bubnov later became the leader of the party's propaganda, agitation and education work, and wrote more than 200 books. Of course, the ending was also  Like most others, he became one of the last to be executed in the aftermath of the Great Purge in 1940.

    Of course, this is this place. In 1918, when the whole of Russia was suffering, Bubnov was still a 35-year-old strong member of the Central Committee. He was quite capable and ambitious, but his opportunities were not good. Trotsky had placed him there.  Sand came from Tsaritsyn and the Southern Front.

    The two Central Committee members from Moscow refused to give in and slapped the table. The army commanders or political commissars like Voroshilov and Chernavin below could not get in the conversation. In the end, it was the commander of the Southern Front Sergin.  Come out to be the peacemaker and reconcile.

    Sergin was not even an alternate member of the Soviet Central Committee at this time, but as a military expert from the Tsarist Russian army whom Trotsky trusted, he and Bubnov had some affinity with Trotsky.

    At the same time, after Trotsky returned to Moscow, Joseph extended an olive branch to the commander of the Southern Front. Sergin's status in the Southern Front was somewhat aloof from the power struggle.  mean.

    "Comrade Joseph, Comrade Bubnov, both of you are members of the Central Committee. We must pay attention to the influence. Everything is still negotiable. Just banging the table will certainly not solve the problem, right? Moscow is not really willing to give up Saratov.  In the south and Tsaritsyn, the coalition forces are pressing harder and harder, and I guess Moscow has no choice but to make this move!"

    Although the commander of the Front Army Sergin had no status within the party or the Central Committee, since Moscow and Trotsky elected him as the commander of the Southern Front Army, Joseph and Bubnov had no choice but to accept his offer to be a peacemaker.

    Joseph took a few puffs of cigarette, knocked the ash in the pipe into the ashtray, put another pipe of cigarette in it, struck a match and lit it, frowning and not chewing.

    Although Bubnov also had a fight with Joseph, he lacked the confidence and felt guilty. After all, the North Caucasus, Tsaritsyn, and the entire SouthThe army, now all captured by Joseph, really offended the uncrowned king of the lower Volga River. Bubnov still had to worry about whether he could continue to be the chairman of the Soviet in Tsaritsyn, so  Following Sejin's mediation, this guy also sat down and grabbed a water glass from the table, drinking the water without gnawing his breath.

    "But how to reply to Moscow? They said they gave us a one-hour deadline and asked us to reply before 8 o'clock. There are only fifteen minutes left!" Giddis, the chief of staff of the front army, licked his lips inappropriately but helplessly.  reminded.

    It would have been better if Gidis didn't say it. But if he said it, it would mean Moscow was issuing an ultimatum to Tsaritsyn and the Southern Front. Now not only Joseph was unhappy, but also Voroshilov and Cherna below.  Wen, the two group army commanders, also frowned and felt unhappy!

    Chernavin, the commander of the Eighth Army, couldn't help but glared and said, "Speaking of Chief of Staff, why are Moscow's telegrams so golden? If it is really so effective, which central official ordered the disbandment of the armies of the Southern Cluster to disperse and break out?  If we can win the battle and solve the problem by sending a telegram, what do we need from our army group and the soldier commanders below?¡±

    Kreev, the political commissar of the Tenth Group Army, pushed his military cap on his forehead and said through gritted teeth, "How long has it been? We are still doing this bureaucracy. The commanders and soldiers at all levels have not yet understood the ideas.  The commanders of the group army and the front army are not unanimous in their opinions. How to reply? "

    "Moscow knows how to command blindly. If a telegraph can solve the problem, just ask them to send a telegram directly to the Ufa Allied Forces. Anyway, Moscow is the central government and the leader. They have decided for themselves. There is no need to ask for our opinions. We are just  Will Moscow accept it without agreeing to give up Saratov and Tsaritsyn?¡±

    Voroshilov's words got to the essence of the problem. In fact, whether it was Joseph or the senior generals of the Southern Front present here, even Bubnov, everyone knew very well that the attitude of Moscow's telegram was to launch an attack on the enemy.  , why did the Yegorov Army Group collapse when they said it would collapse?

    The second step is to suppress Tsaritsyn and the Southern Front and give up the decision to stick to the Volga River and defend the Saratov-Tsaritsyn line, so that Moscow can logically agree to the unreasonable demands of the Ufa coalition and cede the territory south of Saratov and Tsaritsyn.  Rizin, please the coalition forces or satisfy the coalition forces' demands in exchange for a peace and truce with the other side, protect the left bank of the Volga River north of Saratov, and protect Moscow from the huge threat of the enemy's advance from the east!

    "If Moscow does not have the confidence to negotiate with the other party, I suggest that in the name of the Revolutionary Military Committee of the North Caucasus Military District and the Southern Front, a report be sent to the Central Committee of the Soviet Union in Moscow, requesting that matters of negotiation with the Ufa coalition be delegated to the North Caucasus Military District and the Southern Front  , it is up to us to negotiate with the Ufa coalition, isn't it just to stop the war and buy time? Everyone can change the trick, I don't believe it. Do we have to cede the south of Saratov and Tsaritsyn to stop the war and negotiate peace? "

    Joseph said this shockingly, making everyone in the room dumbfounded.

    After a while, Voroshilov slapped his thigh and said, "That's right! Why can't we cede the upper reaches of the Volga River and the north bank to the Ufa coalition, and we must cede the lower reaches of the Volga River?"

    The chorus of military commissar Joseph and his general Voroshilov immediately made the development and evolution of the situation slide towards the unknown future. The so-called words awakened the dreamer, not to mention that Comrade Joseph, who was a member of the Central Committee, did this  Is his statement arrogant and self-centered?

    At least in this July 1918, which was quite miserable for the Soviet regime and the Soviet Red Army, Comrade Joseph's heroic spirit was still quite able to boost morale. Before Voroshilov could finish his words, Klyuyev, political commissar of the Tenth Army,  , the commander of the Eighth Army, Chernawin, and the political commissar Lyubimov spoke one after another. Although they were not as straightforward as Voroshilov said, it was obvious that everyone's thinking was opened:

    The topic focused on the seriousness of the current situation. It is not impossible to compromise and exchange for a temporary armistice and peace through peace talks, but why must Tsaritsin make a sacrifice?  Isn't it okay to use other less important places as bargaining chips for the truce?

    "Comrade Joseph, in my opinion, we can suggest to Moscow that it cede the Alash Republic on the Kazakh grassland to the Ufa coalition, divert the other side's attention, and let them struggle with the Kazakhs. Anyway, we are trying to buy time.  The aircraft, artillery, machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery from Germany are in place. After our Soviet Red Army grows, they will not be able to come over, and we will still have to fight back to regain the lost ground!¡±

    Voroshilov waved his fist fiercely and said.
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