Stalin was highly admired by the Soviet people during his lifetime, but shortly after his death, Khrushchev, as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, gave a four-hour speech to openly criticize Stalin!
The report took the Soviet people by surprise, and Khrushchev openly criticized Stalin, denying all his previous credits and asserting that "if Stalin had died ten years earlier, the Soviet economy would have been better." ”
Is this really the case?
In the 1930s, this was a turning point in the Soviet Union, Stalin led the Soviet people forward, and in the short term, the Soviet Economy developed rapidly, which laid the groundwork for its becoming a superpower after World War II.
Until then, the development of the Soviet Union had been in a tepid state, and there was still a huge gap between it and the developed countries in the West, and Stalin was also aware of this, and felt anxious about it, and began to pay close attention to domestic affairs.
After the outbreak of World War II, a fierce struggle between the Soviet Union and Germany began, and the Soviet Union was fully capable of navigating the scene.
During World War II, although the Soviet Union suffered heavy losses, it defeated Germany as an aggressor country.
After the end of World War II, under stalin's leadership, the domestic economy recovered rapidly, and its military strength increased greatly, and its international status was also rising. After more than a decade of development, the Soviet Union gradually shook the status of the United States and became one of the most feared and powerful opponents of the United States.
In 1953, Stalin died, which became the saddest day for the entire Soviet people. Years later, the balance of Stalin's legacy came to light, and the entire Soviet people fell into contemplation.
Khrushchev, in particular, who had the loudest voice, felt only his cheeks burning fiercely at the moment he saw the balance.
Khrushchev denied Stalin, and his legacy was exposed
On September 3, 1953, Khrushchev was elected First Secretary of the Communist Committee of the Soviet Union, and for the next three short years he insisted on doing almost one thing: to remove all of Stalin's cronies, including Stalin's relatives, friends, and staunch supporters.
In order to arouse suspicion from the outside world, this process lasted a long time, nearly three years. It was not until 1956 that Khrushchev began his next steps.
In February of the same year, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union held its Twentieth Congress.
During this period, Khrushchev gave a four-hour lecture, all of which can be summarized in two points: first, Stalin was incompetent in governing the country; second, without Stalin, the development of the Soviet Union would have been better.
These absurd statements are very different from what everyone thinks of the Soviet people, and many people do not believe them at all. In the next step, however, Khrushchev used various means to incite high-ranking personnel within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to join the ranks of the critics of Stalin.
In 1961, Khrushchev acted recklessly, and in defiance of the opposition of the Soviet people, he openly issued an order that surprised both home and abroad: the cremation of Stalin's body.
Stalin's body was buried in Lenin's Mausoleum, and after Khrushchev's order, the body was exhumed and cremated, and then Khrushchev had his ashes randomly buried in a corner of the Kremlin.
After these things were done, Khrushchev was obviously not satisfied, and he even spread false statements to the outside world without any evidence: Stalin left tens of millions of legacies to future generations when he died.
As soon as these words came out, it caused a sensation among the Soviet people, and public opinion reached its peak, and the crowd demanded that Khrushchev produce evidence and that the matter be thoroughly investigated.
Khrushchev had a hard time riding a tiger, and he had to start an investigation with a hard scalp, but the results were unexpected.
Stalin's legacy contained only four things: pipes, tobacco, personal clothes and a bank card.
Pipes are ordinary and not valuable. The amount of these tobaccos is also very small, and according to the amount of normal people use a day, it can basically only last for about a week. These personal clothing are also ordinary clothing, including coats and hats.
Everyone's eyes are on the last bank card, how much money is there? After a thorough investigation by the full-time personnel of the Soviet Union, it was announced to the outside world that there were only 900 rubles in the bank card, and everyone was in an uproar, and Khrushchev's lies were self-defeating.
900 rubles is equivalent to more than 80 yuan.
These simple and inexpensive things are Stalin's legacy, and everyone recognizes Khrushchev's true face. All his life he contributed to the Communist Party of the Soviet people, Stalin never slackened off, always scrupulously performed his duties, strictly disciplined himself, and was extremely diligent and frugal in his life.
Even so, after his death, at the instigation of Khrushchev, the Soviet people began to doubt the leader, and after all that had happened, they fell into guilt and self-blame.
The friendship between Stalin and Lenin
Stalin's childhood was spent in misery and was painfully sensible.
In 1878, on a bitterly cold winter, Stalin was born in a small Georgian town, his family was very ordinary, and the money earned by his parents' labor was only enough for the family to survive.
His mother was a virtuous woman who, in addition to working part-time to support the family, would take care of her husband and children, and even though the family was poor, Stalin received a good education.
It was such an ordinary family that a disaster suddenly struck. Stalin's father was very skilled in shoe repair and was very well known in the town, and the villagers praised his father's shoe repair skills.
The father, however, had a fatal flaw: an alcoholic. He was drunk all day, and he lost all his money. During a drunken encounter, he clashed with someone else and was hit by a hooligan and died.
For Stalin, this was the most tragic memory of his childhood. He knew that his mother was not easy, so he redoubled his efforts in his studies, was extremely diligent and frugal in life, did not add any trouble to his mother, and even won the school scholarship with excellent results many times to subsidize the family.
In 1898, Stalin joined the Russian Social-Democratic Communist Party and began his revolutionary career. For the next 20 years or so, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky and others persevered on this road without hesitation.
In 1917, Stalin and others changed their attitude towards Russia, which led to the outbreak of the February Revolution in Russia.
In the same year, Lenin had been working as an editor in Pravda, where Stalin and many other central figures of the future of the Soviet Union gathered and began to reflect on the romanov regime's governance.
They saw the misery of the people at the bottom of Russia, and this was the Romanov dynasty they had previously supported. Stalin and others were musing that they wanted to create a happy land for the toiling masses and lift them out of poverty.
Based on this idea, coupled with the careful planning of the people, the February Revolution broke out, the Provisional Government was overthrown, and at the same time, Lenin and others were wanted by Russia, and Stalin considered the overall situation and tried everything possible to send Lenin to Finland in order to avoid pursuit and keep him safe.
The Soviet Union was established, Lenin died, and Stalin took sole power
Subsequently, Stalin set off a wave of revolution in the country, and the workers launched an uprising under his leadership, and the Romanov dynasty was temporarily overwhelmed. Even its capital erupted in a massive uprising, and the Romanov dynasty faced a huge crisis.
Seeing that the situation was irreversible, the Romanov dynasty planned to break the net, and prepared to mobilize all the armed forces to suppress it, trying to make a final revolt. However, the course of events surprised their leaders, and a large number of Russian soldiers dropped their weapons and chose to side with Stalin.
At this point, the Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia for 304 years, collapsed, and the democratic revolution in Russia was victorious.
But there were still remnants of forces within Russia, called the "Provisional Government", and Lenin, Stalin and others were dominated by the Soviet government of the workers' and soldiers' representatives. The Russian people at that time saw no hope at all, and in front of them were many different parties, and there were contradictions and conflicts with each other, and for a moment a huge dark cloud hung over the Russian sky.
Lenin wanted to be the one who broke the bad weather, and he knew what the Russian people wanted in their hearts, that is, milk and bread, to live happily ever after. How does this work? Give them the land and give them the opportunity to rely on themselves.
On November 6, 1917, Lenin, Stalin and others led 20,000 troops to attack the Provisional Government, an already precarious government collapsed in the face of the conviction of a powerful communist revolution, the "October Revolution" was victorious, and all power in Russia was no longer shared among many parties, but fell on the shoulders of the Soviet government.
The people knew that the country had changed, that the government had changed, and when Lenin promulgated the land law and they had acquired their own land, they rejoiced and felt that it would be a good government that was incomparably strong and people-centered.
Although the overall situation in Russia has largely stabilized, there is still an increasingly prominent problem that plagues Stalin, that is, the White Bandit Army. These men were adept at playing roundabout tactics and trying to challenge the soviet government's bottom line and endurance, and in order to combat them, Stalin took pains to expand the Confederacy at all costs until the number of Allied countries reached 15.
Stalin used his charisma and Russia's greater power to make the 15 Allied powers recognize Russia as the leader of the Allied powers, a seemingly unimportant decision that led to the emergence of another superpower on the planet, the Soviet Union.
In 1924, the world's first dictatorship of the proletariat was established, the Soviet Union. Stalin took over the reins of the Soviet Union from Lenin, because on January 21 of the same year, Lenin had died.
The rise of the superpower
Stalin was confronted with a backward superpower, and he needed to solve all kinds of problems, especially backward agriculture and industry, and in 1924 the Soviet Union did not consider developing the military at all, because the most basic food and clothing of the people were problems.
Yet in just a few short decades, Stalin created miracles, and so did the Soviet people.
Since Stalin came to power, he began to focus on agriculture and industry, experienced four years of development, and by 1928, the Soviet Union had come out of the shadow of the First World War and achieved great success.
Beginning in 1928, Stalin introduced three consecutive "Five-Year Plans", which redefined the future development plan of the Soviet Union, this time not only to continue to develop agriculture and industry, but also to focus on the development of military industry.
In 1940, a set of weapons production data surprised the international community, the Soviet Union's annual weapons production was comparable to Germany's, and even once crushed the United States' weapons production.
After the outbreak of World War II, Germany hastily attacked the Soviet Union, the entire Soviet Union was defenseless, there was no chance to counterattack, so on the battlefield, the Soviet troops have been losing battles, have been constantly retreating, the German army has become more and more courageous, until 1941 has attacked the Soviet Union's Red Square.
Undaunted, Stalin made an important speech in Red Square, constantly inspiring the dejected soldiers, but miracles happened again.
The Soviet army was like a divine help, will be the German army in Red Square retreat, and then continue to counterattack, in the face of strong firepower, the German army gradually retreated, in only three years, Germany was beaten to lose armor and fled to the Soviet border, which once again confirmed the strength of the Soviet military capabilities.
After the end of World War II, the international background changed, and the Soviet Union became a superpower on a par with the United States, and the two sides fought openly and secretly, and have been competing.
Soon after, atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs appeared in the Soviet Union, which made their international influence even greater. After Stalin's death, why was Khrushchev so resistant to him? In fact, there are other things hidden behind this.
Stalin was a powerful leader in the Soviet Union, but after his death, he was frustrated and buried in the corner, and why did he not come to oppose Khrushchev's actions?
The thing behind Stalin
Also, Stalin's wife and eldest son did not have a good ending, they could not withstand the huge mental pressure and chose to end their lives, what is the reason for this? In fact, the main reason is Stalin.
Among the achievements of the Soviet Union, stalin's contribution was undoubtedly the most prominent, and in this respect he was a well-deserved hero, but in the various policies formulated, Stalin appeared to be somewhat brutal and suspicious.
In the famous Battle of Kiev, according to the situation at that time, Stalin could have made the army choose to retreat and use roundabout tactics to contain the enemy, but in order to be able to quickly win the battle, he ordered a strong attack at all costs, which meant that there would be more casualties.
What is the end result of this battle? The number of casualties was as high as 190,000, and the number of captured soldiers was as high as 700,000.
Why, in World War II, the Soviet army was able to defeat the German army? For the Soviet soldiers had only one choice: they could only move forward, not backwards.
Stalin formulated a policy at that time: anyone who escaped from the battlefield would be sentenced to death and his family, and the soldiers captured on the battlefield would also be convicted.
Under such circumstances, do the soldiers dare to retreat? If you think about it, how can there be no captured soldiers in the war, so many people are very dissatisfied with this, but they can only swallow their anger.
The suffering of the Soviet people was even greater between 1937 and 1938, a year in which Stalin's suspicions led to the imprisonment of 300,000 people, the shooting of 680,000 people, and the implication of 5 million innocent people.
At the time of Stalin's vigorous development of industry, the people were also miserable, their crops were almost grainless, and they were struggling on the brink of starvation.
So, after Stalin's death, Khrushchev's speech seemed to evoke the inner thoughts of the masses, and therefore there were many supporters. But when the Soviet people saw Stalin's simple relics, they fell into contemplation and suddenly realized that the leader was so poor.
epilogue
Perhaps in the general environment, this kind of behavior is a last resort? What is not a difficulty before Stalin? Before he came to power, the sky of the Soviet Union was dark, and after he came to power, the international prestige of the Soviet Union began to gradually rise, at least, he let the whole world know about the Soviet Union as a superpower.
Stalin made a significant contribution to the development of the Soviet Union, and this is not a question. During this period, the Soviet people may have complained and wondered, but when the bank card balance of only 800 rubles was made public, the psychological defense line of the Soviet people was broken, and a question began to come to mind: Was Stalin's life better in difficult times?
This is an obvious problem, although he does not have to worry about three meals a day, but how can the problem that plagues him be simple? Sometimes, mental pain is not necessarily lower than physical pain.
Finally, the book concludes with a quote from Churchill:
Stalin took over a Soviet Union with a wooden plow, leaving behind a Red Empire with atomic bombs.