Trotsky, the "father of the Red Army" of the Soviet Union, was famous in the Soviet Union in the twenties of the last century, and he was also famous throughout the world. If it were not for Lenin's death, Trotsky would have had his place. After Lenin's death, the Trotsky base ranked before Stalin, but he lost the power struggle against Stalin and eventually left for the Americas, where he was assassinated in Mexico in 1940.
Trotsky was a man who had his own unique views on the revolutionary situation in the Soviet Union and throughout the world. Although this person has no experience in internal struggle, he is a very straight person, who can say something and can see through some people and some things, and belongs to the kind of person who is not smooth.
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After the success of the October Revolution in Russia, the Soviet regime was established. In the soviet power structure, in addition to Lenin, it was Trotsky, and some revolutionary countries at that time admired Trotsky and wanted to see him.
China was deeply influenced by the Soviet Union at that time, and Sun Wen was also very interested in the Soviet model after receiving help from the Soviet Union, and under the guidance of Soviet advisers, he reorganized the Kuomintang and achieved some success.
In 1923, Chiang Kai-shek led a delegation called "Dr. Sun Yat-sen" to visit the Soviet Union. On November 25, on the rostrum of the meeting of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow, Chiang Kai-shek spoke passionately to the delegates about the Kuomintang's "concept of world revolution."
In this speech, Chiang said that Russia is the base of the world revolution and should help China to complete its revolutionary tasks; he believes that after the victory of Germany and the Chinese revolution, Russia, Germany and China can ally to carry out a capitalist revolution against the whole world. The old Chiang Kai-shek had such a lofty vision in his original text: "By virtue of the scientific strength of the German people, the success of the Chinese revolution, the revolutionary spirit of the Russian comrades and the Russian agricultural products, it will not be difficult for us to complete the world revolution, and we will be able to eliminate the capitalist system in the world." ”
Chiang Kai-shek finally told the delegates: "We hope that in three or five years, the first stage of the Chinese revolution, the national revolution, will be successfully completed, and soon after this goal has been achieved, we will move on to the second stage , the propaganda of communist slogans." At that time, it will be easy for Chinese people to build communism."
Chiang Kai-shek does not know whether he wrote this manuscript himself or whether someone helped to write it, he did not eliminate capitalism, but he himself became the representative of the largest landlord in China, and was called the "four major families" together with Kong, Song and Chen.
Old Chiang had no idea what communism was, but his speech was warmly cheered by the attendees. The people of that era were very passionate, and they were also confused by Lao Jiang. Stalin, including Stalin, had great hopes for Chiang Kai-shek.
Zinoviev of the Soviet Union attended the meeting as chairman of the Executive Committee, and he asked Chiang kai-shek to convey to Sun Wen the "fraternal greetings" of the Comintern.
At the meeting, when chiang shook hands with Zinoviev and greeted him, Trotsky, who was sitting next to him, did not speak, but looked at Chiang Kai-shek coldly.
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Trotsky was 44 years old at the time, rarely appeared in public, and was always sick at home. Chiang admired Trotsky, and he was received by Trotsky before he returned to China.
At that time, it was also chiang who asked to see Trotsky, and as one of the important leaders of the Soviet Union, it was also a courtesy for Trotsky to receive Chiang Kai-shek. In the face of Chiang Kai-shek, who had just shouted "world revolution" on the stage, Trotsky and chiang kai-shek, as revolutionaries, did not talk about the topic of world revolution.
Old Chiang had heard of some things about Trotsky before, but at that time there were many evaluations of Trotsky, with mixed praise and criticism, but in Chiang Kai-shek's mind Trotsky was still a "god". Old Chiang had a sense of excitement before he met Trotsky, and when he saw the celebrity in front of him, known as the "father of the Red Army", his excitement quickly showed.
Chiang Kai-shek, like a student in front of Trotsky, hoped that Trotsky would give advice, and Trotsky knew the Chinese question very well, but he pretended not to know, and he told Chiang Kai-shek that he could not give any advice to the delegation, that he did not want China to accept the socialist revolution. He has not yet thought out how to support the Chinese revolution.
The elder Chiang was also very interested, and conveyed to Trotsky Sun Wen's suggestion: raise troops from southern China and Mongolia to jointly attack the northern warlords. As for who started from Mongolia, it is obvious that it is the Soviet Union, but Mr. Zhongshan did not say it explicitly, and the old Chiang Kai-shek can only convey the original words.
Apparently, Sun Wen wanted the Red Army led by Trotsky to send troops. It is said that Trotsky also envisioned the Soviet Union sending cavalry from Afghanistan to India to launch a revolution, and it was not impossible to raise troops from the Mongols to help the Chinese revolution.
Trotsky often had such risky suggestions, but he was very sober when he heard Sun Wen's suggestions relayed by the elder Chiang. He told Chiang that it was impossible for the Soviet Union to send troops to aid Sun Yat-sen.
Trotsky had previously judged Sun Yat-sen, saying that as long as Sun Wen spent his energy on the military, he would be a warlord like Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu in the eyes of the Chinese people. If that were the case, the Chinese revolution would not succeed.
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Trotsky poured a basin of cold water on Chiang Kai-shek's heart, which was completely different from the old Chiang Kai-shek's initial expectations. In Chiang's vision, he would be able to get a promise from Trotsky and then return to China to make a deal.
Trotsky made his point very clear that without a strong revolutionary party in China, without clear political and propaganda work, no matter how much money the Soviet Union gave, no amount of military aid would be achieved.
Listening to Trotsky's words, Chiang Kai-shek was very annoyed and stimulated the old Chiang Kai-shek. He did not expect Trotsky to look down on him so much.
It is said that when Trotsky first saw old Chiang, he had a sense of distrust of old Chiang. Since then, neither the Soviet Union nor our newspapers have recorded the "meeting with Chiang Kai-shek", and there has never been any mention of this meeting. After the old Jiang returned to China to report, he would certainly not disclose it. If it was reported that Trotsky had rejected Sun Wen, old Chiang would have no prestige at all.
Trotsky was expelled within two years. In the end, Trotsky did not fight Stalin, and he was charged with "anti-Leninism", "assassin, saboteur, detective spy, murderer's gang". But evaluating a person takes decades to see the truth. It was not until 2002 that my country gave Trotsky an objective and impartial assessment. He thought that Trotsky was able to judge in time that Chiang Wang wanted to betray the revolution.
No matter how passionately Chiang spoke, he was seen through by Trotsky, and indeed he could see that Trotsky was very knowledgeable.
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