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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 509: Armistice and demarcation finally reached

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    July 14, 1918 23:35 Moscow Kremlin

    The telegram from the Ufa Allied Forces sent the Soviet Central Committee members in the Kremlin conference room into a frenzy, with optimistic and pessimistic opinions equally divided. Kamenev and Sverdlov insisted that Kolcha  The Croatian and Ufa coalition forces have broken up. This is a good opportunity for Moscow to seize the opportunity to sign an armistice agreement with the Ufa coalition forces and free up its hands to beat up Kolchak and the White Guards.

    Pessimists such as Bukharin and Zinoviev believe that the possibility of the Ufa Allied Forces and Kolchak playing a double act together to deceive Moscow cannot be ruled out. This is based on the fact that the Battle of Ufa is a great opportunity to achieve complete victory.  , no matter who is the commander of the Ufa coalition, there is no reason to risk breaking up with Kolchak and truce with Moscow alone. This is completely unscientific!

    Of course, Bukharin's statement that the Ufa Allied Forces Command did not have the authorization from the governments of the Allied Powers and had no right to decide to abandon Kolchak's regime without authorization was refuted by Zinoviev.  It seems that Wang Geng, the commander-in-chief of the Ufa-Ufa coalition, has actually become the uncrowned king of Asia after he single-handedly created the Sino-Japanese alliance.

    In the Allied Powers, except for the U.S. government and President Wilson who can exert some influence on the King of China, the British and French governments are not in the eyes of the Chinese King at all, and the Chinese and Japanese governments themselves actually have no influence on Wang Geng at all.  The checks and balances of the new warlords.

    Who dares to challenge this young man who has been rated as China¡¯s national hero by Time magazine?  Who dares?  There is even news coming back from the United States that this Chinese Wang Geng is simply the unmarried son-in-law of the Chinese Prime Minister Duan Qirui!  Before the end of the year, he might have to officially marry a girl from Duan Qirui's family and become the Duan's housekeeper.

    The final problem had to be decided by Ulyanov and Trotsky, the two big bosses of the Soviet Central Committee, both civil and military. Ulyanov couldn't help but take out his temper on Dzerzhinsky.  body,

    "Felix Edmundovich, I'm not talking about you. Cheka's intelligence work, especially its foreign intelligence work, needs to continue to be strengthened. If you can get some real information from within Kazan or Ufa right now,  When the information comes back, do we need to stay here in the middle of the night guessing riddles?"

    Dzerzhinsky had a wry smile on his face, spread his hands and muttered in a low voice, "Vladimir Ilyich, the Cheka Communist Party only has a few people. The coalition forces here in Ufa have combined the common people and the All-Russian Provisional Government of Kolchak."  The personnel were all evacuated to the east of the Ural Mountains. My people sent no less than thirty groups of people to the east of the Ural Mountains. Almost the entire army was wiped out. Who knows how the nose of the military policeman in the coalition army was so sharp? It was almost impossible to succeed.  Send the radio station there."

    "Weren't there people in Kolchak's All-Russian Provisional Government who instigated your rebellion? Why can't the news come back? The black eyes on our side have a lot to do with the Cheka's poor intelligence collection work. I and I  How many times have you said, don't be afraid of spending money? Aren't we as rich as rubles from the tsar? Just throw them out in large quantities. The bourgeoisie are all greedy for money. If you have money, why don't you worry that they won't bow down?  "

    Ulyanov's mind jumped very quickly, unaware that there was less than half an hour left before the 12 midnight stipulated in the allied telegram, but here he was holding on to Dzerzhinsky as if he was angry, as if he only wanted to  If Dzerzhinsky's intelligence collection was effective, Moscow and the Central Committee of the Soviet Union would not be in the current dilemma!

    "Vladimir Ilyich, I know this. I really can't blame Dzerzhinsky. The Tsar's ruble has long been like waste paper and no one wants it. I heard that Kolchak's All-Russian Provisional  In the government, China¡¯s popular banknotes, the Chinese Yuan, are the strongest. In addition, there are gold bonds and food stamps. Our new rubles and the Tsar¡¯s old rubles are not wanted at all on the right bank of the Volga River, even on the left bank.  We, the people, don¡¯t want it either!¡±

    The speaker was Zinoviev, a member of the Soviet Central Committee and deputy editor of Pravda. As an expert in Asian intelligence analysis, he had a good relationship with Dzerzhinsky. At this time, he stood up and said something fair.

    "Vladimir Ilyich, the Cheka was established based on your instructions. I remember that you only asked me to create an organization that can "use extraordinary means to fight against all counter-revolutionaries"

    , and later I summarized the Cheka¡¯s tasks as:

    "Eliminate and suppress counterrevolutionary and sabotage activities nationwide, hand over their activists to the courts, and also conduct preliminary investigations and preliminary trials. The main functions of the Cheka also include the arrest of domestic counterrevolutionaries, and are responsible for the management of prisons, searches,  arrest, detention¡±

    These were all agreed by you and the Central Committee at the beginning. Our intelligence work originally focused on internal reporting and reconnaissance, and was still beyond our reach for the enemy camp. Moreover, although you ordered some funds to be allocated, but at this time  forTo suppress counter-revolutionaries and establish local Cheka branches and internal security forces, seven, seven or eight were used early on.

    Kolchak doesn¡¯t recognize the ruble at all except for gold, silver and jewelry. Besides, where do you want me to get the gold bonds issued by the Chinese and their banknotes?  "Dzerzhinsky complained, spreading his hands.

    What this guy didn't actually say is that due to the expansion of counter-revolutionary suppression and the implementation of the Red Terror policy, it is extremely difficult to instigate the White Guard generals or officials in Kolchak's All-Russian Provisional Government to rebel as in the early days. The families of these people  As long as they and their relatives stayed in areas controlled by Soviet Russia and did not follow them, they were basically suppressed by the Soviets or sent to concentration camps.

    Under such circumstances, how likely is it that they would survive and follow Kolchak and the children of the White Guard, and then secretly betray their own class and defect to Soviet Russia to serve the Red regime?  Moreover, whether in Kazan or Ufa, the radio monitoring of coalition aerial reconnaissance aircraft is very intensive and efficient. The radio stations lurking on the Soviet side are basically exposed and eliminated within a few times.

    "Yakov Mikhailovich, later you can collect some gold and jewelry for Dzerzhinsky. We must install our spies at the coalition headquarters, otherwise our eyes will be darkened and we will always follow the other side's baton.  , What, forging documents is not your strong point, you can train more disciples later, the Cheka can¡¯t just be a bunch of reckless people, you have to use your brain to know? "

    Ulyanov turned to his close comrade-in-arms Sverdlov, waved his hand and gave instructions. Sverdlov nodded slightly after hearing this,

    "Okay, Comrade Chairman, I will try to find a way to get some more funds for the Cheka. There is not much gold and jewelry left by the Tsar in the Kremlin. It is a pity that the gold from the Kazan treasury fell in Gorcha.  Otherwise, the White Guards would not have been able to persist until now. However, Comrade Dzerzhinsky¡¯s Cheka should have gained a lot in the process of eliminating aristocrats, bourgeois elements, landlords and rich peasants. The issue of funding alone depends on  Not even Moscow, they have to figure it out on their own!"

    Sverdlov's father is an expert in document forgery. There are rumors that after the victory of the October Revolution, Comrade Ulyanov gave Sverdlov all the gold and jewelry seized from the Kremlin.  The husband collected and kept them for safekeeping, and prepared false passports for the main leaders of the Bolsheviks so that they could evacuate abroad and go into exile when the situation was unfavorable. Of course, by this time, the Soviet Russian regime had grown stronger, and such a pessimistic prospect was almost impossible to occur.  .

    Of course, if the Ufa Allied Forces, a brand-new but deeply troublesome enemy, had not appeared, Ulyanov and Sverdlov would have been more confident.

    "Lev Davidovich, no matter how difficult things are, what must be done? If we decide to go south, we still have to make a decision. What do you think? We can reach an agreement on armistice and demarcation with the Chinese king of the Ufa coalition.  What? The most important thing at the moment is obviously the military, and you are the chairman of the Supreme Military Council. I want to hear your true thoughts!¡±

    Chairman of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was really at a loss this time. Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to midnight, Comrade Chairman looked longingly at Tolo in front of him.  Tsky, I would like to hear his opinion.

    Trotsky had listened to everyone's debate before, and now of course he did not dare to say for sure whether the armistice agreement was a trap by the Ufa coalition. However, from a realistic point of view, he was now in a difficult position. Even if  In order to buy time, we must first cease the war with the Ufa coalition. As for the next step, we can only be more vigilant and act according to the opportunity.

    Thinking of this, the Chairman of the Supreme Military Council cleared his throat, raised his eyebrows and said,

    "Vladimir Ilyich, comrades, members of the Central Committee, I think that no matter what tricks the coalition forces are playing, or whether the Ufa coalition forces have really broken up with Kolchak, we should all act according to our own  The armistice is our best choice at the moment. At least after the armistice, we can seize the time to integrate the Soviet Red Army, establish the Volga Military District and the Front Army, and obtain weapons, ammunition, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, etc. from Germany.

    Only by armistice can we buy time. If Kolchak wants to attack, he will always be determined to attack. If the war does not cease, he will attack. Since the armistice with the Ufa coalition forces, there is still a way to weaken Kolchak and contain him.  If the Allied forces are crossing the river, we have nothing to worry about!  "

    "The big deal is, we will just tear off our faces and continue the fight. If we give up Tsaritsyn now, we can shrink the front and squeeze the two fists of the Southern Front Army and the Eastern Front Army into one. Moreover, the Saratoga depot is under the control of the coalition forces.  The land of Ersk and Tsaritsyn also cut off the Don River and the route of the White Guards in the North Caucasus to attack us!

    I believe that if Kolchak goes westward alone in the direction of Kazan, he will never be able to reach Moscow, even.  .  .  even.  .  .  After the ceasefire and demarcation of borders with the coalition forces, we?You can buy weapons, ammunition and food from the Ufa Allied Forces!  Why not?  "

    The more Trotsky said, the more confident he became. Obviously, no matter what the coalition's plan was, the Soviet Red Army and Moscow, which were riding a tiger, must strive for any opportunity to cease the war with the coalition!

    The words of the Chairman of the Supreme Military Council deeply moved all the Central Committee members present. What is the backbone? Speaking at this time, these words can boost morale and point out the interests and directions of everyone. The backbone is the same as the leader.  At this moment Trotsky played such a crucial role.

    "Lev Davidovich, what you said is very good! Very good, I believe that everyone's opinions are unified. Let's do it this way. Kamenev, it is you who will draft the reply. We accept the armistice and demarcation of the Ufa coalition."  The agreement is settled!" Ulyanov waved his hand fiercely and made the final decision!
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