Bloody Heart

Decades later, and even farther into the future, Ivan Braginsky will remember what his "old friend" said to him on that night that was half silent and half boiling.At that time, the red flag on the top of the Ke/Li/M/Lin Palace was slowly lowered, and the tricolor flag was rising. At that time, Gilbert—the person who came back to witness this scene—reflected the square in his dark red eyes. The lights on the ceiling are indifferent with a hint of pity.He said:

"Ivan, when the Berlin Wall was built, people said that the split between Ben and Axi was the greatest tragedy of Germany; and now I find that your greatest sorrow is--always denying, Deny, deny again."

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Thus ended the celebration tour in 1954.The issue of the atomic bomb, Paul only thought of Wang Yao’s whim, because all their previous negotiations did not involve this topic, it is impossible for him to agree to what Wang Yao said; and because there are more important things to deal with after returning home, He soon forgot about it.

Two years later, just after the new year, pro-Soviet Communist Party leaders and national wills came to Moscow one after another, waiting for the [-]th Congress of the Soviet Union/Communist Party.Felix, Elizabeth, Katerina and Wang Yao are all among them.

Before this meeting was held, some hesitation had already filled Ivan's heart.Because two years have passed, he feels more and more that everything is not going as he expected.Although everything has not changed much from Joseph's time until now, some small details show changes all the time: words like "great leader and mentor" are less and less used to describe Joseph. /Unconsciously, his statues and portraits were gradually removed... Although these changes were small, they were so directional that Ivan had to suspect that they would be the prelude to an even bigger change .

But what is it?He didn't have a clue in his mind either.To be on the safe side, he reminded Paul, but the latter didn't feel any obvious difference, and he probably quickly ignored his reminder.Ivan's doubts can only be kept in his stomach by himself.At this moment, standing at the entrance of the brightly lit Mo/S/CO Grand Theater, watching the delegates filing in, his doubts boiled even more violently——Where will Nikita and this meeting take them? ?

However, ten days later, the meeting ended successfully.Ivan, who thought that something would happen at the meeting, didn't see any difference except hearing some demeaning remarks about Joseph.He couldn't help thinking to himself that he was worrying too much; but soon he shook his head and denied this relieved thought. After thinking about it repeatedly, he still decided that the real highlight hadn't happened yet.Because there is more convincing evidence——after returning from the celebration, he felt that Nikita's busyness had suddenly increased, and he felt suspicious, so he launched some investigations; however, after many investigations, he still could not find Nikita What on earth is Tower up to?Nikita may have realized that he was investigating his facts, because every time he avoided it, he was very smooth and calm, as if he did not do it accidentally.This made Ivan even more suspicious.

He couldn't help thinking that when he learned of Nikita's decision to cancel Joseph's birthday celebration and only publish a message in the newspaper, he raised objections to Nikita, but Nikita arrogantly rejected him: "Of course you don't know what to do." Can't see an 'objective' reason, because when it comes to Joseph, you, like most people, have your brain replaced by the word 'subjective'."

"What do you want to express when you say such things suddenly?" Ivan was a little displeased, but not yet to the point of having a fit.

"It's nothing." An undisguised meanness flashed across Nikita's face, "You will see it soon, and you can wait for the [-]th National Congress with peace of mind."

So he didn't get the answer after all that time, but he paid more attention to the timing of the "Twenty National Congress".Looking back on Nikita's performance at that time, people have to speculate that something very bad will happen at the [-]th Congress, but there was no storm until the end of the meeting.This made him conclude that there must be performances like "Encore" after the meeting.Naturally, he didn't intend to leave the meeting now, but he wanted to see what kind of good show Nikita could put on.

The "encore" began late at night on the last day of the conference.The scale of this additional meeting is as grand as the regular meeting of the [-]th National Congress, and it seems to be part of the [-]th National Congress at all.The content of the meeting was to listen to the report of the first secretary Nikita-H/Lu/Xiao/Fu. We had not received any prior notice about this report, and naturally we knew nothing about the content.Even Ivan only found out after entering the venue that the title of this report is "About Individual/Person/Worship/Worship and Its Consequences".Hearing this topic, his thoughts flashed back to the short and unpleasant conversation between him and Nikita that cold morning.He had a vague guess about the content, and a shadow passed over his expression.

There is only Nikita on the rostrum. Nine people from the Central Committee are sitting in the middle of the first row. Paul is sitting next to the nine people in the first row. Sit with representatives of Russia/Russia.After Nikita took the stage, Ivan saw his gaze sweeping the entire venue, pausing for a while on Paul, and then looking at others soon.

He began to speak, first said a lot of things about Ilyich, went around, and finally pointed the finger at Joseph.When he made comments such as "S/Da/Lin is too rough, doesn't care enough about his comrades, willfulness and abuse of power", Ivan saw Paul gasp from a distance.In the decades under Joseph's leadership, no one dared to say that, or even think it.

Sure enough, this is what Nikita referred to in the original sentence.Ivan stared at Nikita coldly.He suppressed the resistance and worry in his heart and continued to listen.

Nikita first criticized Joseph's personal character. It can be seen that although the tone of this report is very official, it still contains a lot of Nikita's personal dissatisfaction.He said: "Stalin will use violence against those who oppose him, and because of his willfulness and arbitrariness, he will use violence even to those whom he regards as contrary to his ideas."

He also said: "S/D/Lin's increasingly extensive and increasingly determined use of punitive organs often undermines all existing moral standards and Soviet laws. The flagrant destruction of the revolutionary legal system has made many people who used to maintain People along the party line became victims."

This has already been said very strongly; however, no one felt that it was inappropriate, and on the contrary, it resonated with many people.

Ivan saw that Paul in the front row quickly looked around the turbulent meeting place, and the panic in his expression could not be well concealed.Obviously, he never expected that within the party, there were so many people who were dissatisfied with Joseph, and the degree was already so deep.This is just a congress, what about the whole party?What about the whole country?He didn't even know how deep the shadow the purge of counter-revolutionaries left on people.After Ivan discovered this, he suddenly felt that he was not worthy of sympathy, so he withdrew his gaze from Paul and looked at Nikita on the podium; but within 2 minutes, his gaze was like his own. He turned back to Pavel as if he had legs.

Of course you didn’t notice anything, Ivan thought as he looked at the black figure, because the creation and existence of national ideals don’t depend on the people, so naturally you can’t perceive what people are thinking.

——Or, in fact, disdain.

Because how could someone really not know what is going on with the elimination of counter-revolutionaries?How could anyone have not heard of the great terror brought about by the eradication of counter-revolutionaries?Even a fool, as long as he can hear and see, he can instinctively feel that it is something to avoid.Of course Ivan knew.He has woken up countless times in nightmares in the middle of the night. In the chaotic nightmares, there is always a knocking on the door, just like the secret police in mourning clothes, the handcuffs caught off guard, and the cold, silent, lonely wasteland .The will of the country will not become a victim of counter-revolutionaries. It is impossible for Ivan to have such a dream by himself. He sat in the dark panting, and the thought that came to him after that made him feel even more like falling into an ice cave—then, how many people’s nightmares? Together, can he be affected so violently?He looked out of the dark window—is this country immersed in fear every night?How many people's futures and how many families' hopes are buried in those wastelands in the dream?

He told Joseph and the Soviets to stop all this because the people were now in general panic.However, he still remembers that Paul said to him happily at that time: "Look, Lucia, how fast our economic construction has been, and how impressive our achievements have been. If there were no enemies at home, saboteurs against the cause of socialism , we will surely achieve faster and greater achievements.”

So similar nightmares still frequently appeared in Ivan's nights.

When he woke up again, his mind was blank, only the endless and terrifying wasteland, Ye/Sai/Nin's poems appeared in his mind like a ghost:

"The vast snow field, the pale moon,

Clothes cover the land,

The white birch in filial piety cried all over the woods.

Who is dead here?Could it be ourselves? "

At this moment many years later, Ivan is sitting in the brightly lit venue. The nightmare has long since let him go, but he is still holding the land of Russia tightly in the dark.That is the horrible memory of how many people's lives. It is a crime that they will turn over and accuse and will never forgive whenever they have the opportunity.Now Nikita gave them that chance.Ivan looked at Soviet who could no longer hide his surprise and panic, and recalled his happy smile that day, and couldn't help but feel a burst of sorrow.

—that's stupid irony.

The "Secret Report" continues.Nikita’s accusations against Joseph in this report are obviously written in chronological order, and on the historical timeline, the next major event after the Su/National War is the great Wei/Nation/War/War.This matter, Ivan thought, should not be criticized again?After all, no matter which country you go to in the world today, the sentence "S/Da/Lin led the Soviet/Union people to win the great/National/War/War" is indisputable, even if it is consistent and Paul Alfred, who sings a different tune, can't object.So when he heard the phrase "S/Da/Lin gathered great power in one body, which caused serious consequences in the great Wei/Nation/War/War" really exploded in his ears, he couldn't help but Believe your ears.

After Nikita impassionedly cited the defeat suffered by the Soviet army in the early days of the Great War/War/War, and incited people's sense of humiliation and anger, he did not hesitate to push all of this to Joseph.

He listed many "symptoms" of Ludwig's attack, and he was filled with righteous indignation, as if he still lamented Joseph's stupidity after many years. Believe in this information, so as not to provoke trouble..."

At the same time, he paid attention to the audience's reaction while delivering a long speech.Very well, everything was within his plan. The audience was stunned by his revelation. After a brief silence, the crowd became furious. Even he couldn't stop it, let alone he didn't want to stop it.

The more commotion in the audience, the more he had to show a calm and calm narrating posture, so he straightened his back. "In the early days of the war, the reason why the motherland was at stake was largely caused by Stalin's wrong way of leading the party and country..."

Someone from the audience echoed—"It's all because of him!"—still very close to the rostrum.Paul looked back immediately like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, but couldn't find who the man was, so he had to turn around resentfully.Nikita was a little complacent, and became more and more comfortable.

"...During the entire period of the Great /National/War/War, he never visited a section of the front, nor did he visit a liberated city..."

Of course he knew it wasn't true, but since it was necessary for a speech, it was okay to say it like this--dead people don't argue.As for the living people, the living people sitting here, they are all the objects of his influence, either to incite or to crusade.He raised his head quickly, and saw that among the people whose faces were flushed by his agitation, there was only one person whose face was as pale as sick, and the joy of victory grew uncontrollably in his heart.Only he himself understands that the target of his criticism today is definitely not Joseph, and he will not waste his energy trying to judge a dead figure who has lost his threat.

Roughly expose the scars behind the halo, until the wounds are bloody, gather more people to overturn altars, smash idols, burn eulogies, until all traces of a former god's existence are wiped out.As long as this is the case, the believers of the gods will flee in all directions, and then gather under their own command. Even the national ideal of incarnation cannot be exempted, right?

Criticism is at its peak.Even Ivan couldn't help feeling, Comrade Joseph, you really left a lot of clues.However, what he was more concerned about at this time was not Nikita, who was spouting all over the place, but the Soviet comrades sitting in the first row below the rostrum, facing Nikita.Ivan looked at him worriedly with his head lowered, completely out of touch with the excitement around him, and he clenched his hands tightly on the table, as if suppressing some impulse.He looked like he was completely defeated.

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It was midnight after the meeting ended.The 3000 people who filled the venue were all conquered by Nikita's impassioned speech.Joseph, who had been god at the previous dawn, was about to become the devil at the next dawn.

Ivan felt that this state was very dangerous.He could no longer sit still.So he stood up, facing all the representatives and Nikita who had been speaking for five hours, and issued an abrupt retort: ​​"The first secretary's speech was extremely wonderful, and his determination to eliminate individual/personal/worship/worship is also worthy of respect. However, Everyone here, don’t forget! Even pointing out a person’s mistakes doesn’t mean we can completely deny his victories and achievements during his lifetime!”

Those high-rise buildings rising rapidly, those flame-like red iron streams, those silent giant-like strong ships and sharp guns, the names of heroic cities one after another—are these things not indelible memories of a whole generation ?These great undertakings and their creators will undoubtedly be engraved in the history book of merit, and in the long thousands of years to come, whenever the history of Russia/Russia is mentioned, it must be mentioned!Are they not to be remembered, but also to be denied, because of other mistakes of the same leader? !His eyes met everyone, trying to find answers in their eyes, but no one rose to respond to him.

The only one who greeted him was Nikita's confident answer: "Mr. Russia, we can understand you. Like the vast majority of people, you have been blinded and confused by personal worship."

So this became the last nail in the coffin of this long night, and it was a full 30 years that were locked in the tomb.

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As soon as the meeting ended, Ivan didn't care about other things, and chased out in the direction of Nikita's exit.He saw Paul leaving the field amidst the crowds, and Soviet, who was always in high spirits, now lowered his head, tried his best to reduce his sense of existence, and floated out like a ghost.Ivan was [-]% sure that there was something wrong with his state, but in the end he was ruthless and didn't care about him, but went to Nikita first.Pushing the door into the backstage lounge, Nikita was, as expected, waiting for him.

"I knew you would come," Nikita sank deep into the sofa in the lounge, and his legs/legs were a little numb after standing for five hours, "Actually, I thought it would be two Personally. But, ha, your brother seems to be terrified, give him some time to calm down!" He took out a bottle of wine and a glass, poured half a glass, and raised his hand to Ivan , Leaning on the backrest.

Ivan raised his hand gracefully to hold the top half of the glass as he raised it.Nikita tried to break free, but couldn't, so he let go.Ivan put the wine aside, stood in front of Nikita, and asked coldly and condescendingly, "What are you doing?"

"I'm criticizing the phenomenon of individual/person/worship/worship, clearing up the shadow left by Sta/Da/Lin in the party/inside, so that subsequent cadres can carry out follow-up work with more confidence." Nikita said calmly, "Also, pay attention to the way you communicate with your boss, Mr. Russia/Russia."

Ivan shrugged nonchalantly. "If you weren't acting so stupid, I'd love to respect you a little more. I'm sorry to see what you've done - use Joseph's way of winning people over - compared to Joseph's dictatorship, making people in the Find a sense of belonging in you—and thus achieve your dictatorship."

Annoyed fire flashed in Nikita's eyes, and Ivan smiled hypocritically: "The 'Secret Report' is a poor bastard, and within a week, it will definitely cause chaos. But you can't see it at all. To see such a possibility—that's wickedly short-sighted."

Hearing the end, Nikita's body was already trembling slightly.He stared at Ivan in silence, the energy that was about to erupt was brewing in that silence, like a volcano rumbling before erupting.Ivan didn't intend to continue talking and detonate him, he waved his hand and turned around, opened the door and left.The last sentence left before leaving was: "I will do my best to ensure that this report does not spread outside the party, so as not to cause ideological confusion in the whole country and other countries. As for what to do in the party, I will leave it to those who left the mess. Clean it up yourself."

He heard Nikita growling inside as the door closed, but he couldn't care less.As soon as he stepped out of the lounge, the prestige and chic just now disappeared completely, and his worries resurfaced in his mind. This time, the center of his worries completely became Paul who had just left the scene like a ghost.

Such things as ideological confusion should cause no less harm to a national ideal that evolved from political ideals than a war to an ordinary national will, right?

Thinking of himself who was seriously injured after the civil war ended, Ivan's worries became more serious.He walked through the darkened theater, wrapped his coat tightly, and rushed into the still thick night.

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I'm sorry for the irregular update recently, because I'm too busy OTZ believe me, I will resume the weekly update after this busy period (because school starts...