Stalin. Part 12: We and They
Having designated the goal of building socialism in one country, Stalin opposed all the others to this one country. I must say that Russia's opposition to the world was not something fundamentally new. They always wanted and tried to take us. And each time Providence was pleased that this did not happen, the olfactory measure in time turned the nose towards the greatest threat.
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Having designated the goal of building socialism in one country, Stalin opposed all the others to this one country. I must say that Russia's opposition to the world was not something fundamentally new. They always wanted and tried to take us. The policy of "small and humane" European powers for centuries was expressed in the desire to weaken Russia by any means in order to use it for their own purposes. And each time Providence was pleased that this did not happen, the olfactory measure in time turned the nose towards the greatest threat.
It did not work to destroy Russia in the first imperialist massacre. Lenin, brilliantly outplaying his "allies" in the West, drove in a German armored car into the future of the new Land of Soviets, which only he could understand, threatening the European establishment with the cudgel of the world revolution.
It is systematically clear: the socialist revolution in Europe was an absolute utopia. The victory of the ideas of Marx - Lenin in one separately taken Russia, in addition to the necessary political and economic prerequisites, was ensured at the deep level of the mental unconscious, which is no less, if not more, important than the rotten Russian throne and the impoverishment of the people that went beyond all limits. The communist ideas of the revolution exactly fell into the matrix of the urethral-muscular mentality of Russia, they were consonant with the traditional muscular communality of Russians and gave content to the eternal sound, inherently God-fighting, search that finds only temporary satisfaction in religious dogmas.
The skin mentality of Western Europe had none of this. That is why the stubborn attempts of the Comintern to export the Russian revolution were reacted only with brief outbursts of local uprisings. The urethral-sound ideas of the revolution were terribly far from the mentality of the European people. The olfactory politicians of the West understood this and were not very afraid of the mythical world revolution (it was enough to ban the Communist Party in Germany to solve the revolutionary problem!)
1. Ripening of a new war
Much worse for the West was the rapidly gaining strength of the USSR. The world olfactory "finintern [1]" would use it with equal pleasure both as firewood for the fire of the world revolution and in the furnace of a new world war. Refusing to export the revolution and ruthlessly crushing the inner-party opposition of the "Judas Trotsky" and the "schismatic Krupskaya", to which, it would seem, no one outside the country cared, Stalin, paradoxically, put up unexpected and serious resistance to the "world behind the scenes" … Europe has grouped together to retaliate. An increased supply of Germany began according to the Dawes Plan.
An international one-time loan of 800 million marks allowed the Weimar Republic to stabilize the economy, pay reparations and enter the "Golden Twenties". In total, from 1924 to 1929. Germany received loans for 21 billion marks. The Locarno Treaties, signed in London in 1925, fixed the borders of European countries, dividing them into two types: western immutable and eastern (for Germany) "open", for which no guarantees were given. It seemed that the long-awaited stabilization had come in Europe, at least the German Foreign Minister Stresemann received the Nobel Peace Prize for Locarno.
Stalin, unlike the complacent German politicians, did not flatter Locarno and did not believe that an economically growing Germany would accept the position prescribed to her. Locarno for Germany is the same Versailles, the correlation of forces enshrined in the Locarno agreements is fraught with a new war, Stalin believes. His opinion was also shared by the commander-in-chief of the Reichswehr von Seeckt, with whose support an agreement of friendship was concluded between the USSR and Germany, and in fact, on joint programs in the field of weapons. In an environment where both Europe and the United States were helping the economic growth and rearmament of Germany, for the internationally isolated USSR, this treaty was the only chance not only to keep abreast of the matter, but also to learn industrial construction from the best - the Germans.
2. Politics and finance
The complicated and contradictory relations of the USSR in the east with China - Chiang Kai-shek, the only counterweight to the hostile Japan, gave Stalin serious cause for concern. Lacking sufficient military power, he played a political game, clashing the interests of the countries of the region and receiving his political dividends. Stalin successfully fused a phonic communist ideology with an olfactory financial sense into a single geopolitical doctrine.
The idea to sell the Sino-Eastern Railway to the Japanese came to him back in 1925. The ministers did not support him, having their own opinion. Nevertheless, in 1934 the CER was nevertheless sold, as suggested by Stalin, who foresaw that we would not be able to keep the road in our hands. It's good that we made it. A similar situation with monetary compensation will arise in 1939. Contrary to Molotov, Stalin will agree to Hitler's conditions - compensation in gold for the equipment that was not supplied under the cooperation agreement. This gold was very useful to us later during the war.
The infallibility of the sense of smell is also expressed in the attitude to money as a tool for fulfilling the olfactory species role - ranking the flock. Outside of mystical and other imaginary layers, money ceases to be a fetish and begins to work as a ranking tool, that is, as it should. In full measure, this attitude towards money is characteristic only of olfactory people. That is why they run finances.
3. The expulsion of Trotsky and the attempted resignation
The main direction of Stalin's political forces remained the internal affairs of the USSR entrusted to him. In 1926, the country entered a period of "direct industrialization", the main task of which was to establish its own production of tools and means of production. There was no finance for this, the Union had no opportunity to plunder the colonies and receive war contributions from outside, like the capitalist countries. All that remained was to seek internal reserves. The only such reserve was marketable grain produced by kulak farms that received economic aid from the state.
Due to this reserve, factories were built, the construction of the Volkhovskaya hydroelectric power station was completed, the construction of the Nizhnesvirskaya and Dneprovskaya hydroelectric power stations began, railways were laid in Turkestan and the Volga-Don canal. All this required funds, which were obtained precisely at the expense of the "price scissors", from the peasantry, which was forced not only to pay direct and indirect taxes at the expense of the state, but also to overpay for industrial goods. This situation aroused an understandable sense of injustice among the left opposition, which did not agree with Stalin's line on the gradual unification of farms and their industrialization. Hot opposition heads were in a desperate hurry, ready to sacrifice both themselves and the country.
The left opposition demanded an immediate change of course, support for the poor, and a resumption of the world revolution. The ideas of the left were dangerous not so much in themselves (there were rational seeds in their view), but because they brought confusion and discord into the party, concentrated dissatisfaction with the foreign peaceful policy of the USSR, which was still completely unprepared for a war with a hostile capitalist encirclement.
In the conditions of the unrelenting threat of war from outside and the extremely unstable situation inside the country, ripening with peasant riots, a situation has arisen that is incompatible with the concept of survival. Trotsky, who refused to work in the regions (Siberia and Central Asia), was exiled to Alma-Ata under the article of the Criminal Code on counter-revolutionary activities. Kamenev and Zinoviev went to Kaluga. These were over. When Stalin's recent supporters, Bukharin, Rykov, Tomsky, also spoke out against Stalin's line of collectivization, Stalin resigned. The olfactory psychic signals unequivocally: to work in this position is extremely dangerous for survival, therefore, it is impossible.
JV Stalin's resignation was not accepted. For reasons that can hardly be explained from the standpoint of the rational: people who violently oppose the will of the secretary general were in no hurry to take his place. Or they couldn't. They did not meet the mental requirements of the time. Providence, responsible for the life of the community of people on a sixth of the land, unmistakably confirmed its choice of the olfactory Stalin. Only he could guarantee survival. Price? It has never been much talked about on the urethral, Eurasian, almost limitless landscape.
4. Power monopoly
In 1928, despite a bountiful harvest, the state received less than 130 million poods of grain against last year. The peasants openly ignored the authorities' orders on grain-growing at fixed prices, reduced crops, and a wave of speculation arose. Stalin went to Siberia, to the "taiga republics" that never knew serfdom and during the Civil War did not submit to either the Reds or the Whites. His calls to cover the shortage of bread, threats to punish speculators and to confiscate bread by force were met with outright ridicule. Returning, Stalin mobilizes 30,000 workers to the "grain procurement front". The breakthrough has been eliminated, the bread shortage has been covered.
In 1928, Stalin approached his Rubicon. In the absence of another flock, he was to die here, along with those who did not know what they were doing, underanged misunderstandings, thinking only of personal ambitions and their stomach. Or to survive, even if for the sake of this it is necessary to turn the millennial peasant foundation of the country and deprive the majority of the population of personal freedom in the name of the integrity and independence of the state.
Smell always chooses life. Therefore, the peasantry was levied an additional tax "in the interests of industry serving the entire country, including the peasantry." Stalin is sure that for the sake of the integrity of the state, individual farmers can suffer. A confident course has been taken towards collectivization and industrialization of large farms. Later, in a conversation with Churchill, Stalin described this period as the most difficult. The British Prime Minister will point out that the impossible has been done in such a short time.
Tight deadlines … Due to his mental make-up, Stalin, like no one from his entourage, felt how tight they were. The country did not have time for gradual peaceful development even during the period of the Stolypin reforms, therefore, these reforms mostly remained on paper, and the Russian Empire sank into oblivion. There was no time now. With only one difference. At the helm was a politician, whose specific role - to survive at all costs - left no choice either to him or to his flock. The transition from "liberalism" towards the left and right deviators to open war with them was a necessary condition for survival. In January 1929, the "left" Trotsky was expelled from the USSR, the "right" Bukharin repent of his mistakes. The deviators finally "fall out of the revolution cart", Stalin becomes a monopoly of power, the sole ruler of the party and state. Since the beginning of the 1930s, his position as "general secretary" has not been designated; in a new civil war with the peasantry, Stalin entered a new position, now he is a "leader".
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Other parts:
Stalin. Part 1: Olfactory Providence over Holy Russia
Stalin. Part 2: Furious Koba
Stalin. Part 3: Unity of opposites
Stalin. Part 4: From Permafrost to April Theses
Stalin. Part 5: How Koba became Stalin
Stalin. Part 6: Deputy. on emergency matters
Stalin. Part 7: Ranking or the Best Disaster Cure
Stalin. Part 8: Time to Collect Stones
Stalin. Part 9: USSR and Lenin's testament
Stalin. Part 10: Die for the Future or Live Now
Stalin. Part 11: Leaderless
Stalin. Part 13: From plow and torch to tractors and collective farms
Stalin. Part 14: Soviet Elite Mass Culture
Stalin. Part 15: The last decade before the war. Death of Hope
Stalin. Part 16: The last decade before the war. Underground temple
Stalin. Part 17: Beloved Leader of the Soviet People
Stalin. Part 18: On the eve of the invasion
Stalin. Part 19: War
Stalin. Part 20: By Martial Law
Stalin. Part 21: Stalingrad. Kill the German!
Stalin. Part 22: Political Race. Tehran-Yalta
Stalin. Part 23: Berlin is taken. What's next?
Stalin. Part 24: Under the Seal of Silence
Stalin. Part 25: After the War
Stalin. Part 26: The Last Five Year Plan
Stalin. Part 27: Be part of the whole
[1] A. Fursov
