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Stalin School of Falsification - Chapter 13 few hours after the first, is "bolstered" up with the words, "By the instruction of the Bureau of the C.C." That is how matters really stood with the "Tsaritsinites" and "Tsaritsinism," with Stalin and Vorosbilov! PERM First of all, we shall demonstrate Voroshilov's manner of quoting documents (unfortunately we have not at our dis posal all the documents and therefore we are unable to expose textually all the "refreshing"). Here is what Voroshilov writes: "Lenin telegraphed to the then Chairman of the Military Council: Received a number of party reports from Perm concerning the catastrophic condition of the army, and of drunkenness. I thought to send Stalin -- I fear Smilga will be soft with . . . who according to rumors drinks himself and is not in a position to restore order." We shall now quote from the actual text of the telegram, which reveals what Voroshilov did to Lenin's text: "To Kozlov. Forward to the Chairman of the Military Council, Trotsky. Moscow, December 31, 1918. No.6684. "Received a number of party reports from beneath Perm concerning the catastrophic condition of the army, and of drunkenness. Sesidi~g them to you. They reqaest that you go there. I thought to send Stalin, I fear Smilga will be soft with . . . who, according to rumors, drinks himself and is not in a position to restore order. Wire your opi~ioa. Lenin." The italicized words were swallowed by Voroshilov who did this without choking, without so much as placing the all saving dots. The psychology and the reasons behind that are clear. Trotsky replied to Vladimir Ilyich from Voronezh on Jan uary 1,1919: "From the reports of the operations of the Third Army I concluded that complete confusion existed among the tops there, and proposed a change of command. The decision was delayed. Consider now that change unpostponable. Com pletely share your fears about the extreme softness of the comrade assigned there. Agree to Stalin's going with plenipotentiary powers from the party and the Military Council. "Chairman of the Military Council, Trotsky." Voroshilov of course does not mention this at all for these two telegrams as well as any scores of others reveal only too vividly the nature of the collaboration between Lenin and Trotsky. Now as to the trip itself. The assignment of Stalin and Dzerzhinsky to Vyatka was purely for the purpose of inspec tion. This is quite evidenl from the decision of the C.C. itself ("To appoint a party investigating committee com posed of the following members of the C.C.: Stalin and Dzerzhinsky, in order to make a detailed investigation into the reasons for the surrender of Perm, and the latest defeats on the Ural front; and also to elucidate all the circum stances surrounding the above facts, etc."). In the telegrams of Dzerzhinsky and Stalin from Vyatka, quoted by Voroshi lov, they constantly demand ree~nforcements, failing which, in their opinion, "Vyatka is doomed." Voroshilov then proceeds to do some "refreshing" on his own account, and does it in a deliberately equivocal manner so as to create the impression that he is only re-stating official documents. It appears that one of the reasons for the surrender of Perm was "the criminal methods of managing the Front by the Military Council of the Republic." Let us for a moment http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937-st2/sf13.htm (6 of 14) [06/06/2002 15:07:18]
Stalin School of Falsification - Chapter 13 allow that Voroshilov is right. The question arises: Why did the party tolerate Trotsky and the entire Military Council of that time? Why was not Trotsky removed during the years of the civil war? Furthermore: Why were victories gained on all fronts under the leadership of the "then" Military Coun cil? After all, Military Councils are intended for war and not peace! Why were neither Stalin nor Voroshiloy called upon to lead the army, but, on the contrary, removed time and again from difficult sectors? By their declarations the Stalinists compromise only the party, the Central Commit tee and Lenin. If the myths the Stalinists record were true, it would mean that the C.C. was gnilty of the gravest crimes towards the revolution. For it must be borne in mind that all these things took place in the period of cruel civil war and not in peace-time when all the Voroshilovs are freely able to "refresh." But that is not all. Summarizing the "historic" trip of Stalin to Vyatka, Voroshilov writes: "In consequence of all these [?] measures [of Stalin-Dzerzhinsky] not only was the further offensive of the enemy halted, but in January ..... . Uralsk was captured." Here is a zeal truly exces sive! "In consequence" of Stalin's having safely visited Vyatka in January 1919, a thou8and kilonirters away-one thousand !-from Vyatka, Uralsk was captured. . . . In the month of January, i.e., at the very moment when Stalin Dzerzhinsky arrived in Vyatka there could not have been any results even in Vyatka itself. ("Results"-that is easier written than done.) Or is it perhaps precisely for that reason that Voroshilov had to go to Uralsk to excavate them? We shall not dwell in detail on Voroshilov's next chapter entitled "Petrograd," we confine ourselves merely to three points. 1. We shall not undertake to judge the extent to which Stalin was instrumental in recapturing Krasnaya Gorka (it had been evacuated without any cause, and was "retaken" four days later without any difficulty). Voroshilov confines himself to vagne generalities. But this particular episode is entirely insignificant. 2. The Krasnaya Gorka episode pertains to June 1919. At that time, Stalin, according to his apologist, "liquidated a most dangerous situation beneath Petrograd." Yet the advance of Yudenich and the collapse of the Seventh Army (in which Stalin functioned) began precisely after the above mention~d "liquidation," attaining its most critical stage in October 1919. From June to October the situation of the Red Army beneath Petrograd became worse and worse. Under these circumstances, to say that Stalin had "liquidated" the danger is, to put it mildly . . . risky. Stalin did very little beneath Petrograd, and indeed there was probably not much that he could have done: this front was at that time tem porarily neglected. But in that case why is Stalin depicted with the halo of a "savior"? 3 . The point, however, is that Voroshilov is here resorting to juggling with words. The entire and most transparent trick lies in the use of the word "Petrograd." In the history of the civil war there is only one decisive "liquidation of the most dangerous situation beneath Red Petrograd"~and that is the victory over Yudenich in October 1919, which took place four months after Stalin's excursion to Petrograd. This is not a matter of common knowledge, but, on the other hand, every body is acquainted with the fact that Yudenich was liquidated. That is precisely the foundation upon which Voroshilov's trick is built: "To assign" to Stalin the actual liquidation of the danger, i.e., that danger with which Stalin had absolutely no connection. Incidentally, Stalin himself in his own time appraised his journeys with much less assuranca -- and that is hardly to be wondered at, since it was ten years ago! Here, for example, is what he wired in reply to a proposal of the C.C. that he go to the Southwestern Front: "February 4th, 1919. To the C.C. of the Party. http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937-st2/sf13.htm (7 of 14) [06/06/2002 15:07:18]
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