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Li Mei: "Then organize transatlantic bombing exercises and drills of dropping nuclear bombs. As long as the mushroom cloud rises, all doubts about the bombers will disappear."
Chapter 4, Comrade Beria, you are under arrest
"Stop, comrades, listen to me, stop!"
1953 6 Month 26 Day.
Kremlin.Joint meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the CPSU and the Presidium of the Central Committee.
The chairman of the Council of Ministers Malenkov suddenly realized that the topic being discussed had nothing to do with the theme of the meeting.
"Who still remembers our topic today?" Malenkov asked after everyone quieted down.
"Isn't our topic today discussing the Vietnamese hat?"
"The hat is what was being discussed just now, and it was transferred from the Vietnam People's Army's attack on Haiphong Port."
"The attack on Haiphong Harbor is not today's topic. We were talking about the conflict between Britain and France before."
"The topic of conflict between Britain and France is because we discuss British foreign policy."
"British foreign policy is definitely not the topic today, we started off by talking about the London Stock Exchange."
"Then I remembered that our real topic today is the issuance of 150 billion rubles of [-] state bonds. This is the first item on the agenda of the General Assembly."
"That's right, the issuance of national bonds." Malenkov also remembered, and frantically put away his Vietnamese hat made of letterhead paper in front of him.
Mikoyan: "The purpose of issuing 150 billion public bonds is to absorb residents' funds and help implement the measures of the Fifth Five-Year Plan. The total amount is not high, 1952% lower than in 50.00. There are 30.00% of five-year bonds Interest bonuses can be won, and the winning ones will be calculated according to the ratio of the average annual interest rate of 20% within 20 years, and the rest of the bonds will be returned to the principal after [-] years."
Bulganin: "Bonds are mainly used to expand production, residential construction, and the development of education and public health, which can receive more budgetary allocations."
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The first item on the agenda was not too controversial. After each stated their opinions, the Presidium of the Council of Ministers and the Presidium of the Central Committee voted and passed it.
Malenkov: "The second item on the meeting's agenda is the counter-revolutionary riots in East Germany."
Beria: "There is nothing to say about this matter. The fascist gangsters from West Berlin incited people to attack grain warehouses, workers' dormitories, clubs, shops, and kill government officials. The decisive dispatch of the Red Army avoided the large-scale bloodshed planned by the West."
Malenkov: "Comrade Beria, this conclusion is too hasty and optimistic. The East German incident has had a lot of negative effects on our Socialist Bloc. Perhaps we should discuss it and learn a lesson at today's meeting."
Beria was taken aback.
After Stalin's death, the top troika of the Soviet Union seemed to be Malenkov and Khrushchev "dual speakers", and Beria himself ranked third.
In fact, even the West knows that he is a very powerful spy chief.
Beria was the First Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and Minister of the Interior, which was formed by the merger of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs and the USSR Ministry of State Security.
In the past three months, Beria proposed to do something at the meeting, and both Malenkov and Khrushchev had to agree.As for criticizing him, that has never happened before.
In this way, Beria placed many of his old subordinates in key positions in the Ministry of the Interior through voting at the meeting, completely controlling the Ministry of the Interior.Then, Beria also began to install cronies in the Soviet Council of Ministers.
Not only was it the placement of people, but Beria also proposed a lot of policies, which were basically passed. Even some policy changes in the Soviet Union during this period were called "Beria reforms" rather than "Malinkov reforms."
Beria also seized the time to turn the high-pressure policy of Stalin's period 180 degrees, so that he could disassociate himself (in the past, Stalin's high-pressure policy was mostly implemented by Beria, and he did not want to take the blame).What are the "Draft Resolution of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU Concerning Amnesty", the "Order Concerning the Prohibition of Any Coercive and Corporal Punishment Measures against Arrested Persons", the "Order Concerning the Retrial of Citizens' Forced Eviction from Georgia" and so on.
Now the branches and personnel of the Ministry of the Interior are widely distributed in all organizations and departments throughout the country, and the guards that protect the Kremlin and all members of the Soviet government and the Presidium of the CPSU are also under the command of Beria.The Ministry of the Interior is also responsible for frontier security, with no less than 10 divisions directly under it.
So Beria is a little dazed now.Malenkov, what are you doing?
After Malenkov finished speaking, Foreign Minister Molotov was the first to take over: "At the beginning of June, when there were signs of a strike in the GDR, we did not guide and stop it in time, and even our intelligence agencies had learned about the strikes inside the GDR. Contradictions are building up without doing anything or warning that things have come to this point. So, I think some of us here have a tendency to 'de-Bolshevis' foreign policy, to undermine existing foreign policy. It can even be said that these people advocate surrendering to the United States and handing over East Germany in exchange for ending the Cold War.”
Beria: "I don't understand who you are referring to. Comrade Foreign Minister, I would like to ask, who are you going to shift the responsibility to?"
Molotov grinned at Beria.
Khrushchev: "Under the premise of having accurate information, the Ministry of the Interior still did not intervene by force in the early days of the civil strife in the Democratic Germany, so that things had catastrophic consequences. This is unforgivable."
Beria turned to look at Khrushchev: "So, what is your conclusion?"
Gritting his teeth and making up his mind, Khrushchev slapped the table: "Beria, I think you are an ambitious careerist who sneaked into the party."
Beria said with a surprised expression: "What's the matter, Nikita Sergeyevich? Why did you pick up the lice in my trousers?"
As soon as Khrushchev and Malenkov turned their guns, the atmosphere at the venue changed completely, and Bulganin also spoke to criticize Beria.
Mikoyan and Xini: "I think Comrade Beria is not irreparable as long as he accepts criticism and resolutely corrects it."
Bulganin: "I don't think it is suitable for Beria to continue to serve as the first vice chairman and minister of the interior."
Beria: "You are violating organizational principles! I was appointed by the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, so I can only be removed from office by holding a plenary meeting!"
boom!The main door of the meeting room was knocked open.
Marshal Zhukov rushed in with 5 major generals and 4 colonels.
Zhukov made great achievements in World War II. After the war, he transported more than a dozen wagons of loot from Germany and took them for himself. He was not guaranteed at the end of the day, and was promoted by Stalin to become the commander of the Odessa Military District (this is only a major general). After Stalin's death in March 1953, he came out of the mountain and served as Deputy Minister of Defense.
Since the Ministry of the Interior controlled the security work of the Kremlin, Zhukov brought nine senior military officers into the Kremlin in a limousine in the name of a meeting.These major generals and colonels were personally selected by Zhukov. They were all under 9 years old and in good physical condition.Zhukov gave an order, and they drew pistols and submachine guns from their armpits, rushed into the venue and controlled the situation.
Malenkov said mildly to Zhukov: "I suggest that you arrest Beria on behalf of the Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers."
Zhukov: "Comrade Beria, in the name of the Soviet people, you are under arrest."
Beria jumped up from his seat and rushed to his briefcase on the windowsill.A major general grabbed Beria's arm tightly, but Beria failed.The search found that there was no gun in the briefcase, but there was a note on Beria's body, which said "Alert! Alert! Alert!" It seems that he did not take the bag, but wanted to throw the note through the window.
Malenkov took out a note from his pocket: "Beria cleverly used his position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs ... in order to place the Ministry of Internal Affairs above the party and the government ... in an attempt to place the Party Center and the government in the internal affairs Under the surveillance of the Ministry, it is simply intolerable..."
Then Malenkov couldn't read any more.
Khrushchev grabbed the note and continued to read: "Beria, you betrayed the motherland, worked hard for foreign capitalists, gathered traitors and conspiracy gangs who are hostile to the Soviet state, and attempted to seize state power, overthrow the Soviet system of workers and peasants, restore capitalism and rebuild capitalists. You have also committed 347 cases of rape, and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet has decided to arrest you."
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Beijing Railway Station.
The train for Zhou Xuan, Tang Hancheng, and Nanny will leave soon, going to the Northeast studio. "Women's Representative" is about things in the rural areas of Northeast China, so of course we had to go to Northeast China for filming.
Tang Hua's train will leave in about an hour and a half, heading for Shanghai.Since the time interval is so close, we all take our luggage and go to the station together.
Zhou Xuan felt that Tang Hua was a little strange: "Hey, you have had more than one silly laugh while waiting for the train for half an hour. What is so funny?"
"Because a big event is happening in the Soviet Union....Well, it's not funny, but the details are quite interesting." Tang Hua said, "I will tell you this story slowly, just remember that today is very important That's it."
"When I came to Beijing in 1950, when you picked me up at the train station..."
"On June 50, 6, I said something similar that day, right?"