British Civil Servant

Vol 2 Chapter 702: Stalin died

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If the steel leader who has led the Soviet Union for 30 years, let it go.

Whose future of the Soviet Union will lie in, almost everyone thinks that person should be themselves.

But almost everyone thought of another person present, Beria, who looked polite with glasses.

This Minister of Internal Affairs, who has been in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for fourteen years, is undoubtedly the most threatening person among all the people present. Everyone understands how terrifying Beria's gentle appearance is.

Not to mention, the current commander of the Moscow Military District, General Pavel Artemyevich Artemyev.

It was Beria who took it by himself. Admiral Artemyev graduated from the Border Guard School, a school established by Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Cheka, to train commanders of the Internal Guards.

After the White Army of the Civil War, Admiral Artemyev took up political work in the interior and border guards. Then he successively served as the head of the border area guard, the head of the internal security force, and the principal of the army school of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.

During the Second World War, he served as the head of the Combat Forces Command of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. In the same year he was appointed commander of the Moscow Military District, where he remains today.

But who is the boss of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? Of course, the only marshal of the Soviet Union who came from a security cadre, Beria.

The commander of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the commander of the Moscow Military District, is still a commander from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This kind of threat has to make everyone feel apprehensive.

The rescue in the villa is still going on, no one knows what the final result will be, but everyone knows. If this kind father of all ethnic groups suddenly leaves, a battle will begin soon.

For a whole day, no news came. For the people here, everyone already has a basic judgment in their hearts, and some preparations should also start. The struggle for power after Stalin's death begins now.

Everyone's heart was anxious. When the medical team doctors examined Stalin's body, they found that his condition was quite bad. The most anxious are Stalin's colleagues, they just want to know whether Stalin can recover, because no one dares to act rashly when Stalin may suddenly wake up.

Even Beria, who is in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and is assisted by the commander of the Moscow Military District, has no idea of ​​​​taking power. Stalin led the Soviet Union for 30 years. Except for some political opponents in the early years, he was like a ballast during the long period of time. The big people present had already bowed to this authority.

On March 3, the team of doctors told these leaders that it was unlikely that Stalin would wake up. After this conclusion was reached, the people who had endured for two days finally seemed to have lifted their shackles and were gearing up.

Beria also started his own actions. Beria directly found Malenkov and expressed his willingness to support Malenkov. Malenkov was of course very happy. Everyone knew that Beria's real power was amazing.

The exchange of views was that Beria supported Malenkov as chairman of the Council of Ministers and Beria as vice-chairman and Minister of the Interior, which meant that Malenkov got the government department and Beria got the Ministry of the Interior.

At the same time, Malenkov wanted to recognize that Beria re-merged the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which had been split, and restored it to a comprehensive department during the war. After deliberation, the two had reached a consensus.

In the Kremlin, there are now at least four dissidents coveting leadership: Beria himself, Malenkov, Molotov and Khrushchev. After Beria and Malenkov communicated, they would have an overwhelming advantage over the other two.

The threat here mainly comes from Beria, not Malenkov. So far, the overall situation has been decided.

An emergency meeting was then held in the Kremlin, chaired by Malenkov, who told everyone that Stalin was critically ill. At the meeting, Beria supported Malenkov, Beria proposed that Malenkov should succeed Stalin, and that the future Soviet Union would be led collectively.

Beria's proposal was accepted by everyone, and a day later news came from the Kontzevo Villa that Stalin had died. After discussion, everyone decided to announce the news to the outside world the next day.

On March 6, the news that shook the world was known to the world through Pravda's report.

Pravda's report was very brief, "Stalin, the leader of the international communist movement and the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at the age of seventy-four in his villa in Kuntsevo, on the outskirts of Moscow."

The news was announced by the Soviet radio station and the main newspaper Pravda. After that, the Soviet Union announced an eight-day silence across the country, stopped work, and scheduled the burial of Stalin on March 9. Stalin's body was first placed in the Kremlin, and then stopped in the Column Hall of the Union Building to receive people's homage. The Central Committee of the CPSU also decided to bury Stalin's body next to Lenin's tomb on Red Square after the visit. Soviet leaders formed a funeral committee to commemorate and bury Stalin.

This news, at this time, almost had the effect of a Tsar nuclear bomb explosion. It has spread all over London, Paris and Washington, and the assessment of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, who will be the future leader of the Soviet Union, has become the most concerned issue at present.

Alan Wilson arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building with a heavy heart. Logically speaking, he should not be shocked by the death of any historical figure, but after the news came, he was still dumbfounded.

Arriving at the Foreign Office, Sir Ismay first explained that the Labour cabinet was discussing whether to send a delegation to Stalin's funeral. As for Whitehall's current responsibility, it is to make a professional assessment of the post-Stalin Soviet Union.

"Is the government going to visit the Soviet Union at this time?" Alan Wilson should not have been surprised, but he was still surprised. It shouldn't be surprising because Stalin was supposed to have that kind of influence.

The surprising thing is that the British Empire is still a world empire anyway. Even if the Labour Party is indeed not as hostile to the Soviet Union as the Conservative Party, can they go directly to the Soviet Union to attend Stalin's funeral?

This is still debatable, but it's a government business, and Alan Wilson can only give advice.

"We can only advise on the government's actions, and ultimately it depends on the Prime Minister's decision. Now we are discussing the post-Stalin Soviet Union, and we have to give the cabinet an explanation." Sir Ismay quickly issued the required documents and opened the door. This time the meeting.

Alan Wilson is not targeting anyone at this point, just find himself. His suggestion is unreliable, and it is more reliable than the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here. His opinion was that the new Soviet leadership, whoever it was, would adopt a strategy of de-escalation in the short term.

The fundamental reason is that, based on the analysis of the existing information, Stalin did not arrange the successor. At present, there are still many candidates for the top management of the Soviet Union. Because of the large number of candidates, the new leader must not have the authority of Stalin.

When the new leader has no authority, it can be judged that everything needs to be discussed, and his external performance is definitely not as tough as Stalin's.

"Beria, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union and Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers, was a secret agent. If he came to lead the Soviet Union, would it be more difficult to deal with than it was during Stalin's time." Sir Ismay asked rhetorically.

"It's hard for me to imagine that a person can be more difficult to deal with than Stalin!" Alan Wilson opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. "If a leader like Stalin came out so easily? Now it should be the Soviet Union that leads the world!"

After saying this, there was dissent in the conference room, and even Sir Ismay frowned slightly, "Alan, are you overestimating Stalin?"

"Now it is the country of the Slavs, from the beginning of Kievan Rus to the present, when it has the highest position in the world, there is no one. Peter the Great did not do it, Catherine the Great did not do it. Stalin did it. Alan Wilson shrugged and said, "My evaluation is completely in accordance with my heart, without a trace of personal bias. But fortunately, we are now discussing what happened after his death."

After I made a clear statement and a clear conscience, the assessment meeting on how the new Soviet leader would handle international relations continued. Alan Wilson still insists that the Soviet Union will ease in the short term, and maybe the Berlin crisis that has been going on will end there.

In fact, there is no need. West Berlin is now like an empty city. It is no longer a window for the two major camps to show their superiority, but has simply become a military stronghold of the British, American and French armies.

Even Eisenhower, who said before the election that he would give the Soviet Union a tough stance, did not mention it after he really came to power.

At present, the first thing for several major figures in the Soviet Union after taking office is to stabilize their positions~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is foreseeable that they will take a period of time to establish their authority.

As for Beria, who has doubts from colleagues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alan Wilson said that he will not escape this law.

In fact, Alan Wilson knew in his heart that he had compromised too much with the free world, and it was Beria's charge of being purged. Regarding the issue of Germany, one thing about Beria, the four countries of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union withdrew from Germany, so that Germany was unified into a neutral country.

Not to mention that other high-level Soviet leaders did not agree with this proposal. The Soviets agreed, and neither did Britain, France, and the United States.

After two hours of discussion, Alan Wilson insisted that the Soviet Union needed time to stabilize the political environment and would not take a tough stance on the free world.

The cabinet at this time, the prime minister and ministers were indeed talking about whether to take this opportunity to visit Moscow. At the same time, it is also to test the attitude of the new leadership of the Soviet Union.

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