One day in Belgrade, 1944, an old man in his sixties knocked on the door of the Ministry of the Interior, which was stationed there, and said to the young officer on duty: I am Shulkin Vasily Vitalievich, and you will arrest me. The young officer flipped through the roster and said with a confused face: I'm sorry I don't know, you go." The visitor was disappointed: Little comrade, what is the matter with you? I am an enemy of the Soviets! The boy flipped through the roster again, and after confirming that the name "Shulkin" was not among them, he became impatient.
The next day, the old man, Shulkin, visited the Ministry of Internal Affairs again, this time replaced by a well-informed Soviet colonel. The Colonel thought the name was familiar, thought about it a little, and suddenly realized that the matter was not trivial: Lying X? Are you the Shulkin of the "gangster"? Subsequently, the Ministry of internal affairs arrested Shulkin and organized a special task force to send him to Moscow overnight. Seeing that such a battle was big enough, the old man finally smiled with relief.
The "gangsters" just mentioned, the conservative right-wing organization "Black Hundred" at the end of Tsarist Russia, as a tool for the maintenance of the Tsarist regime, the members of the Hundred advocated despotism and centralization, and had a deep love for powerful imperial power and empire. Shargin was one of the founders of the organization, and his pursuit of the above was so pathological that when Shulkin discovered that Nicholas II was not a monarch who met his ideals, he actually forced Nicholas II to abdicate.
From the collapse of the Tsarist Empire to the establishment of the Soviet regime, Shulkin was at the forefront of this short but chaotic history of countless figures or organizations hostile to the new regime. In the process, he personally killed a large number of proletarian revolutionaries, and by the standards of the Soviet movement of the 1930s, Shulkin's "shooting-resurrection-shooting" was not repeated 100 times. So after the outbreak of the "October Revolution", he immediately managed to escape from Russia, and it was not until 1925 that he sneaked back with a false identity.
It is often said that "the country is broken in the mountains and rivers", Tsarist Russia is gone, and we do not know whether Shulkin has ever regretted his excesses. Nicholas II was not a brilliant monarch, but he was also a tsar. Shulkin also knew in his heart that with the defeat of Denikin and Kolchak, the Tsarist Empire was at the end of its history. The better the Soviet Union is now, the less comfortable Shulkin feels. However, life is not only the present and the distant, but also the distant, and when he wants to confirm how bad his situation is, he unexpectedly finds that the situation does not seem to be as bad as he thought.
After a long period of rebellion, Shulkin suddenly discovered that Stalin's eyebrows were clear and clear, and he should be a good comrade.
For many, many years, he had regretted that Russia had never been able to afford such a brilliant and powerful emperor as Peter the Great and Empress Catherine; and now, was what Stalin was doing in line with all his expectations? The Red Leader judged the situation, was able to clearly judge the situation, and solved all the threats and difficulties that hindered him with a quick knife. It took Stalin only two 5-year plans to transform Russia, which had been tormented by corruption and exploitation for centuries, into a vibrant industrial power. The more Shulgin looked at Stalin, the more pleasing he became, so much so that in his handwriting he said, "He [Stalin] has made our country a world empire again, and this is the goal of Russia for generations... The people need such a strong father to lead. ”
At this time, Shulkin was still sparing his life, and although he loved Stalin deeply, he did not dare to jump out and make trouble. After the outbreak of World War II, the Nazis wanted to prop up Shulkin and use his name to cultivate power and intensify the internal contradictions of the Soviet Union. But Shulkin knew in his heart that although he did not agree with the Soviet Union, she was her own motherland; no matter how much rhetoric the Germans talked, they were also enemies of Russia, coveting Russian land. At the same time, as the tide of the war was reversed, the Soviet army began to launch the "Ten Stalin Assaults" from the beginning of 1944, which made Shulkin tearful with excitement. Historically, Russia was belligerent but not belligerent, and there were not many such mercury-pouring blows against the enemy. Stalin's Soviet Union, he argued, had brought the momentum of "Greater Russia" to the extreme, and the former was definitely a remarkable "monarch."
Thus, Shulkin began to develop a somewhat morbid sense of identification with the Soviet Union, and there was a scene at the beginning of the article. However, it is worth mentioning that historians are still divided on this point, and it is reported that Shulkin was arrested on January 2, 1945, ordered by the Third Ukrainian Front, and after his arrest, he was sent to Hungary before being transferred to Moscow. On January 31, 1945, Moscow formally filed a lawsuit against this former sworn enemy.
What is interesting is the process of "interrogating" Shulkin. The Ministry of the Interior was afraid that there were many interrogation methods prepared in advance, but Shulkin sat down in a chair and said directly to the Officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: "Don't waste time, prepare me a single cell, and I will write down all my crimes." Suddenly, even the "well-informed" interrogators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were blindsided. As a result, Shulkin confessed hundreds of pages of "crimes" that read better than a novel. That's not all, whenever Shulkin was interrogated, officials of the Ministry of the Interior, large and small, would carry small benches in advance and wait to hear the story, and as a result, the interrogation scene was made like the story meeting.
Shulkin's interrogation lasted two years, and it was not until 1947 that he was sentenced to 25 years of labor reform for "engaging in anti-Soviet activities." Less than half of the reforms were made, and in 1956 he received amnesty from soviet top brass and ended his imprisonment prematurely. It is worth mentioning that in 1953, when he heard of the death of Comrade Stalin, Shulkin was depressed and grew old much more overnight.
Shulkin's later years can be described as "sunset red", and the comfort is enviable. In the eyes of writers and artists, such a "living fossil" that has witnessed the change of history has extremely precious value. Under the surveillance of the authorities, Shulkin was allowed to do some literary work, and he became a Celebrity in the Soviet Union, and it is said that even the famous Solzhenitsyn often traveled to Shulkin's home to "learn from the scriptures". In 1961, Khrushchev also invited him to attend the 22nd Congress, when the country's former enemy and fallen prisoner turned into the master of the country. It wasn't until February 15, 1976, that Shulkin died at the age of 98 — a departure from the heyday of the Soviet Union.
In his later years, he was asked: Why did you overthrow Nicholas II when you followed the monarchy and centralization so much?
"Because he did a terrible job!" He replied.
Until his death, Shulkin did not acquire Soviet citizenship, supposedly because he recognized only his own Russian citizens. Perhaps "Bystander Qing", who wrote in his book in the 1960s, concluded: "Sooner or later a storm of nationalism will sweep through the Soviet Union... We will lose 14 republics and eventually leave only Russia. ”