Beiyang 1917

"Grigory Yevseyevich, the Soviets don't want traitors, the Soviet Red Army and the Red Navy don't need traitors. Comrade Ulyanov has expounded on this issue many times. People have already explained it, you and Gamiyev both agreed with it back then, why did you go back from your original position today?”

It was Sverdlov who spoke, the People's Commissar of the Central People's Committee of the Soviet Union and the Vice Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Military Council obviously had a trace of anger and confusion in his voice, and the words he said were clearly haunting Ulyanov And the question in the mind of the leftist central committee member.

"Yakov Mikhainovich, regarding the traitors, my position has always been consistent with Comrade Ulyanov, and I believe that the vast majority of members of the Central Committee are also consistent with Comrade Ulyanov The Soviets, the Soviet Red Army, and the Red Navy did not accept traitors in the past, nor do they accept them now, nor will they accept them in the future!"

Zinoviev said unhurriedly, while lighting the cigarette in his hand, he took a deep puff.

Trotsky and Kamenev obviously heard some clues from Zinoviev's words. They looked at each other at the same time, nodded slightly, and waited for Zinoviev to continue to explain.

"Grigory Yevseyevich, please express your point of view in precise language. Your inconsistency and inconsistency made people confused. You will never show mercy to Soviet traitors and their families. You Do you agree or oppose such a policy?"

Bukharin was obviously blindfolded by his previous impassionedness. He didn't hear something strange from Zinoviev's words for a while, but he just pressed forward step by step and questioned him with staring eyes.

"Bukharin, please calm down, Comrade Zinoviev, please don't hide your secrets, and don't check what time it is, please put your reasons on the table and explain clearly to everyone , I hope this matter is the last time we discuss it in the central yang committee, once it is settled, we will stop being foolish and go along with the wind!"

Ulyanov was very clear about the temperament and character of Bukharin and Zinoviev. Zinoviev bickered, but he was far from an opponent, so he had no intention of letting Bukharin continue to be played around by Zinoviev like a clown.

At this time, Trotsky was also unambiguous. He could not watch Zinoviev fight alone, so he nodded and continued, "I agree with Vladimir Ilyich. This matter should be settled properly." Go to the table and talk about it, explain the truth thoroughly, I believe everyone's eyes are sharp, Grigory Yevseyevich, don't worry, drink your saliva and speak slowly!"

Speaking of Trotsky got up and poured Zinoviev a glass of water, Kamenev also continued, "Obviously the Ufa coalition forces will not play their cards according to common sense. We must be cautious about the issue of prisoners of war. One who does not Coincidentally, not to mention that the Red Army in the prisoner-of-war camp on the right bank of the Volga was forced to go to the White Army, even the current troops on the left bank may waver and rebel!"

"Scaremongering!" Ulyanov glanced at Kamenev dissatisfied, but he didn't bother with him. Since the October Revolution, his former close aides sang together with Zinoviev in the central committee, as if He became a representative of the right wing in the center of the Bolshevik Party, and most of the time he supported Trotsky, who stood on the center-right position, and sang against himself.

"This is not alarmist talk. Comrades Kamenev and Comrade Zinoviev's opinions deserve our attention. Now, let Zinoviev explain his reasons to everyone. It's getting late! A bunch of people Nothing has been settled yet! Let’s go one by one, hurry up, let’s talk about the prisoners of war first, I don’t think the coalition’s warning is a joke, let’s not fall into the other party’s trap easily!”

There was also a trace of firmness in Trotsky's tone, and he looked at Zinoviev and Kamenev with affirmation and encouragement. Obviously, on this night, some things and some words must be made clear to the Bolsheviks. With the responsible attitude of the party and the Soviet, personal advancement and retreat are already secondary issues.

"The thing is actually very simple. Some of our comrades made it complicated. We were caught and locked up by the enemy, whether it was in a prison, a prisoner-of-war camp, or in a place of exile. It cannot be called the Soviet Union and the Soviet Red Army. Traitors, in this world from ancient times to the present, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of the country's system or doctrine, as long as there is war, there will be prisoners, and prisoners must not be equated with traitors and renegades!"

Zinoviev thought slowly but expressed his point of view in a calm tone: as long as there is war, there are prisoners of war, and prisoners of war are not equal to traitors and traitors!

The meeting room of the Kremlin was so quiet that a needle could be heard falling on the carpet. Everyone was chewing on Zinoviev's point of view. As long as there is war, there will be prisoners of war. Prisoners of war Not equal to apostates and traitors.

"Prisoners of war are of course traitors and traitors. If you don't lay down your arms and surrender to the enemy, how can you become a prisoner of war? The Soviet Red Army only has living soldiers and dead martyrs. Laying down your arms means betrayal, traitors and traitors. They should be declared traitors to the Soviet, and should be purged and eliminated with blood and fire!"

Bukharin waved his hands and jumped out to yell again, and felt that Zinoviev was completely changing the concept and playing word games. Shouting slogans has always been Bukharin's strong point, and at this moment, it is obvious that this guy who has always been leftist It is even more natural to become the vanguard at the forefront of Ulyanov, Sverdlov and Dzerzhinsky!

"Nikolai Ivanovich, if I remember correctly, in 1909, you were elected as a member of the Moscow Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Is there such a thing?" Zinoviev asked unexpectedly.

"That's right, yes, that's the first time I've been a member of the Moscow Committee. What's the matter? Does it have anything to do with the issue we're discussing now? Grigory Yevseevich!

I know that you were elected as a member of the central yang at the Fifth Congress of the Bolshevik Party in 1907. Your qualifications are much older than mine, and your status at that time was much higher than mine!

But so what!Truth is truth, does this have anything to do with what we are discussing now? "Bukharin didn't know why Zinoviev suddenly mentioned his glorious past, and he was a little puzzled.

Ulyanov and Sverdlov thumped in their hearts, and obviously touched Zinoviev's train of thought, while Trotsky and Kamenev exchanged a knowing smile. Erzhinsky stood upright in silence with the still expression on his face, and everyone's attention was focused on Zinoviev and Bukharin.

"You're thinking too far, Nikolai Ivanovitch. What I want to say is that in May of the year you were elected to the Moscow Committee, something happened to you. Do you remember?" Zinoviev asked with a smile after taking a puff of his cigarette.

"What? May? Please don't play charades with me, Grigory Yevseevich, you are talking about my arrest on May 5, 1909? This is almost all known by the Central Yang Committee. At that time, I During the meeting of the Moscow Municipal Committee, he was arrested by the tsar’s military police and later released on bail, so what happened? Does this have anything to do with the issue we are arguing about now?”

Bukharin took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the sweat from his brow. He vaguely understood what Zinoviev was planning to do, but he was still arguing without admitting defeat.

"Of course it has something to do with it. Nikolai Ivanovich, the Tsar and the Tsarist Russian government were our enemies at the time, and you, as a member of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, are one of the senior leaders of the party in Moscow. The Tsarist police arrested you Why didn't you fight back when we were fighting? Why didn't you fight to the death for our cause? You just obediently put up your hands and got caught?"

Zinoviev's words were like a heavy hammer, hitting the hearts of Bukharin and other central committee members present. Smart people don't talk too much, they understand the meaning when they hear it, Sverdlo The husband is the one with the most flushed face. Although this guy is only 33 years old, he has become famous at a young age and is in the long-term underground struggle with the Tsarist government.

During the long-term underground struggle, Yakov Mikhainovich Sverdlov was arrested fourteen times and spent 12 years in prison and exile.

Most of the zhong yang committee members present were arrested, imprisoned and exiled by the tsarist government during the underground struggle in the early days of the revolution. Experience is almost the honor and pride of the central committee members of the Soviet Russian Central Committee, which is as dazzling as the military medals carried on their shoulders.

But today, under such circumstances, Zinoviev, the de facto rhetorician, pointed out that although he was only talking about Bukharin’s first arrest, he slapped all the extreme leftists on the issue of prisoners of war. The faces of the central committee members who did it, Ulyanov's face was also pale and white after hearing the words, and everyone was a little bit embarrassed for a while.