Stalin, inspired by the example of a “Night of the Long Knives” in Germany, took it as a signal to start a purge in his army, too, because the Gestapo provided him with shocking evidence of a conspiracy and an impending coup. The story was like this.
Nikolai Skoblin, a former Tsarist army general and now an émigré living in Paris, was a double agent. He made his living by revealing to Stalin’s NKVD the plans of the Russian resistance group in Paris and selling to the Nazi SD the information he received from the Kremlin and from Soviet spies who liaised with him. One day Skoblin learned from officers of the Russian White Army that Soviet Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky was plotting against Stalin, with whom he had an unhappy relationship. Skoblin knew that Tukhachevsky, as an opponent of the Third Reich, was inconvenient for both regimes. The general decided to cash in on this news and sell it to both the Reds and the Nazis.
Some military men, including those in Germany, once considered Tukhachevsky a talented strategist. Let the experts keep their opinion, but as a man, Tukhachevsky was a rat. He had no sense of duty, patriotism, love for the Motherland, or officer’s honor. Born in Smolensk to a family of Polish Jews, Tukhachevsky was a cosmopolitan. During World War I, he was taken into German captivity. The Germans allowed captured Russian officers to walk around the city and flirt with local ladies in restaurants. Beforehand, they took the officers’ word that they would not escape. When some prisoners were walking in the city, others remained as hostages.
Tukhachevsky, having given the Germans his word as an officer, escaped. He took a train to Petrograd, to Trotsky. The Germans shot the Russian officer hostages, but Tukhachevsky did not care. He betrayed the honor of an officer as easily as he betrayed the oath he had taken to the Tsar and the Fatherland. Under Trotsky, he served the revolution and was sent with punitive detachments to crush the Kronstadt mutiny. He filled the Baltic ice with the blood of sailors who, while drunk, made a revolution for the Russian workers and peasants. And who, when they sobered up, realized that they had made the revolution for the Jews.
Tukhachevsky then shot thousands of rebellious Russian peasants in the provinces of Pskov and Tambov. In 1920 he was sent to take over Poland, where he shot Poles, his countrymen. Here he put Trotsky’s invention into practice – he set up barrier troops to ‘encourage’ the Red Army men to attack from behind with “friendly” machine-gun fire.
Defeated, he abandoned the army and fled, blaming everyone but himself. Stalin also took part in the Polish campaign, and Tukhachevsky blamed him too, taunting the ‘Georgian Napoleon’. Stalin remembered that.
In March 1919, the First Congress of the Comintern (the Marxist rabble from all over Europe who had gathered in Moscow after unsuccessful attempts to overthrow power in Germany and Austria-Hungary) drew up a program to prepare for world revolution and a new war in Europe. The response to the subversive actions of the Comintern was the birth of Fascism in Italy and the emergence of Nazism in Germany. When Hitler heard of Lenin’s death in 1924, he hoped that Bolshevism would die. But Trotskyism had already taken root in the Soviet Union and Hitler realized that it was far from over. In his program outlined in “Mein Kampf”, he declared a deadly war on Marxism and Bolshevism. In 1936, many European countries signed the Anti-Comintern Pact to unite against the impending invasion of the zombie hordes from the East.
The Soviet people are still puzzled as to what motivated the friendship of the two dictatorial regimes. Their decorated historians have for decades studiously glossed over the subject in their pompous books. The basis of the alliance between the two dictators was their mutual hatred of the Comintern. Hitler saw it as the main enemy of Europe. Stalin, for his part, knew that the Comintern was a Trotskyist viper that would bite him sooner or later. On this basis, an agreement was reached between the socialist friends in which Stalin also secretly endorsed the Anti-Comintern Pact. In addition, Hitler’s National Socialism and Stalin’s Military Socialism had similar ideologies, so they decided on a temporary alliance, conspiring in secret from the world. Not trusting each other in anything!
Heydrich, head of the Reich’s secret services, called a meeting after receiving the news from Skoblin. SS chief Himmler and Gestapo chief Muller were present. Knowing Stalin’s morbid suspicion, it was decided to use the situation to weaken the Red Army by turning the Kremlin satrap against his military leaders. Hitler ordered the collection of evidence that the suspicious Stalin would believe. The Gestapo and SD were busy producing all sorts of forged documents, and Müller was instructed to supply them with the necessary materials for this project.
MUELLER’S OVERTURE.
After the war, the former Gestapo chief, who was hiding in Switzerland, in the course of recruitment conversations with the CIA resident said the following on the substance of the matter: “Knowing Stalin well, I realized that giving him a few hints about the plans of Tukhachevsky and his group would not be enough. I decided to compile a thick dossier full of reliable, real documents. I supplemented this dossier with intelligence and information from our military and diplomatic services, interrogation reports of Stalinist spies and Communists we had unmasked, added newspaper clippings, original letters from correspondence with the Soviets, and other such documents. My idea was that all this evidence, adding to the main theme of the plot, would not only confirm the existence of a conspiracy against Stalin but would also destroy his confidence in the entire military command of the Red Army…”.
Gathering a weighty kompromat, Müller worked with it artistically, making notes on a separate sheet for experts in forgery. After Heydrich’s inspection and his satisfactory assessment, the material was sent to Hitler for his consideration. The Führer was delighted with the work, especially since the dossier contained many original documents with signatures of Stalin’s military and diplomats.
The question was how to get this package to its destination so that comrade Joseph would believe the information. When Muller presented his plan to the High Command, he was given the green light. The Gestapo chief’s idea was that the intrigued Stalin himself would ask for the papers.
First, the Kremlin had to be informed that the Reich’s secret services had evidence of a plot against Stalin. To this end, a man was sent to Paris to meet the double agent Skoblin. In the course of the conversation, the man mentioned the existence of dirt but added to the general’s interest that the document was classified as top secret and that he knew no more than what he knew. The rumor quickly reached the walls of the Kremlin.
In the next move, Mueller used a pawn, a secret Gestapo agent who had been infiltrated into the anti-Hitler community of Germans living in Czechoslovakia. A Communist who had fled Germany, this informer enjoyed the absolute trust of his comrades. He was instructed by the Gestapo to tell his friends a little more about the existence of the kompromat. He did so by pointing out that he had learned the news from an old friend who was now working as a clerk at Gestapo headquarters in Berlin.
Moscow’s ears were everywhere in Prague. Lucky is the fisherman who has patience. Muller had an enviable patience. Less than a month passed before the big fish took the bait.
In the Gestapo headquarters on Prince Albrecht Street, there was a special archive to which only those with the highest level of secrecy had access. Our aforementioned clerk worked in the correspondence department, tapping away at a typewriter. He had been a Socialist before 1933 and was now under secret surveillance.
One day the observer saw the clerk chatting with a Polish Communist in a pub. Muller was not surprised when, shortly after the meeting, the clerk expressed a wish to work in the archives. He was given permission and “helped” to find information of interest to the Kremlin.
However, the archives were always busy during the day, so the scribe had no opportunity to copy documents. He asked to work the night shift, explaining that he was attending lectures at a university during the day. Needless to say, his request was granted. There were two of them on the night shift, and the Gestapo instructed the second employee to tell the clerk a touching story about a love affair and a desire to disappear a couple of times a week for a secret nocturnal rendezvous with his beloved. Naturally, our clerk was sympathetic and promised his partner that he would cover for his absence.
While his partner was away, the clerk photographed documents, and the Gestapo visited his apartment the next night to monitor the progress of the photocopying. After finishing his work, the clerk met the Pole again and demanded a fee of 200,000 Reichsmarks. Mueller’s secret agent sat at a nearby table, watching and listening through the earpiece of a recording device. At the next meeting, the clerk received the briefcase containing the banknotes and handed the microfilms to the Pole.
In a dark alley, the clerk was attacked by “bandits” and the briefcase was taken from him. Needless to say, the victim did not complain to the police. He was soon promoted and transferred to an institution where he could not harm.
And Stalin, having obtained all the documents he needed, gave instructions to his butchers. His list included about 90% of all Soviet marshals and generals, 50% of corps commanders, and almost 50% of division commanders.
On 3 March 1937, Stalin reported to the Central Committee on the danger threatening the Soviet Republic, the conspiracy, and the traitors to Lenin’s cause.
On 14 May, Marshal Tukhachevsky and seven other senior officers were arrested, accused of conspiracy, and thrown into the cellars of the NKVD. During round-the-clock sleepless interrogations and torture with beatings, knocked-out and sawed-off teeth, broken bones, and severed limbs, all those tortured wanted one thing: liberation by death.
Tukhachevsky signed his confession, barely holding the quill with his broken fingers. These eight were shot by Blokhin, the Lubyanka’s chief executioner. When the meat grinder began, the sadist Yezhov, nicknamed “the dwarf”, was eliminated, and replaced by Beria, and Caucasian fantasies were added to the torture of the unfortunates. Marshal Vasily Blucher, who had defended the country against the Japanese, was arrested as a Japanese spy. Before he was killed, his eye was gouged out, his lungs beaten out and his abdominal organs turned to mush.
DRUMS AND TRUMPETS.
On 11 November 1938, a secret agreement on cooperation, mutual assistance, and joint activities between the secret services of the USSR and Germany was signed in Moscow. The document was signed on behalf of the Gestapo by Heinrich Müller and on behalf of the NKVD by Lavrenty Beria.
Paragraph 1 explained the purpose of the agreement: to establish close cooperation between the special services of the USSR and Germany “in the name of the security and prosperity of both countries, the strengthening of good-neighborly relations and friendship between the Russian and German peoples, and joint activities aimed at the relentless struggle against common enemies, the pursuit of a systematic policy of fomenting wars, international conflicts and the enslavement of mankind”.
Paragraph 2 stated that the NKVD and the Gestapo would conduct a joint struggle against two common enemies:
International Jewry, its international financial system, Judaism, and the Jewish worldview;
The degeneration of humanity – in the name of curing the white race and creating eugenic mechanisms of racial hygiene.
Stalin approved 9 paragraphs of this five-page document with his signature and made notes on four of them. And he appended his summary note to the document:
-To approve the treaty of cooperation signed between the NKVD of the USSR and the German state security services.
-As a token of the sincerity of relations, the former Austrian and German citizens now in the Soviet Union should be handed over to the German authorities who had caused considerable damage by their actions during their work in the Comintern.
-The NKVD of the USSR is instructed to arrest the necessary citizens and to arrange their transportation by the special unit for transfer to the German authorities.
-To request the German authorities to extradite former Soviet citizens who have emigrated from the USSR and who, for one reason or another, are presently on the territory of the countries belonging to Germany and who, by their actions, have caused considerable damage to the Soviet authorities.
-To consider the advisability of handing over to the German authorities the members of the families of those persons to be deported by our side.
-The NKVD of the USSR will draw up lists of citizens that the German side will request. The lists will be coordinated with the Central Committee.
Secretary of the Central Committee Stalin (signature). **
Two months after signing the agreement, on 14 January 1939, Heydrich sent Beria the first list of 43 people to be handed over to the German authorities. From that moment on, the simultaneous extermination of Comintern activists in Germany and the USSR began. These were mainly people of Jewish nationality. In the USSR, according to the NKVD on 20 December 1940, 180,300 members of the Comintern had been sentenced, of whom 95, 854 had been shot.
(Note: The Comintern, this international goblin created to carry out world revolution, did not consist of a few dozen Kremlin conspirators. It grew rapidly, had many hundreds of thousands of members in Europe, North, South, and Central America and the Middle East, and posed a real threat to humanity. Its roots were not destroyed at Nuremberg and it is still buried in Red Square).
Nor was the international financial system mentioned in the treaty forgotten. Whereas before Soviet oil had been sold cheaply to private, mainly Jewish, companies and used on the world market mainly to put pressure on one oil company or another, from February 1939 the Soviet government stopped selling oil to private companies and began selling it only to Germany and its friendly states. Historians generally consider the period of Stalin’s purges to be from 1936 to 1938. But this is an incorrect count. Stalin’s purges of the army, navy, and society in general ran from 1934 to 1953, with a slower pace of repression during the war. Between 1937 and 1941, 43,000 officers were subjected to these purges. Between May and September 1937 alone, 36,700 army officers and more than 3,000 naval officers were removed from their posts and disappeared from society. In addition, tens or hundreds of thousands of cominternists, old Bolshevik-Leninists, many of them latent Trotskyists, were destroyed or exiled to Siberia.
But the people did not care. People called Stalin the father of the nation, branded traitors at party meetings, sang patriotic hymns, and joined DOSAAF clubs, ready to throw their hats over any enemy who dared attack their Soviet homeland.
Conspiracies were, are, and will be in Russia. Stalin got rid of Lenin, who shot the Russian intelligentsia, blew up churches, and exiled priests to Siberia. But he did this only to become a dictator himself. He drove Trotsky out of the country and then sent an assassin to kill him. Stalin himself was helped to death by Khrushchev’s Trotskyites.
Then Brezhnev and his team brought down Khrushchev. Under Brezhnev, the rebellious miners of Donbas were also shot. After Brezhnev, Andropov, the top KGB chief, was shot by the wife of Interior Minister Shchelokov.
Then there was the conspiracy against Gorbachev and the military putsch. And the USSR collapsed. In that paralysis of power came the tenacious and independent Yeltsin, who managed to eliminate the putsch. But it was short-lived, and the oprichnina was quickly oriented. Yeltsin overboard and the Gebeshniks entered the Kremlin. This guy is a reader of history, which is why he kills off the competitors on the far approaches, not allowing the opposition to mature. That’s what keeps it going.
But the Russian people don’t care about that. They call the new dictator the father of the nation, stigmatize the West and the traitors, sing patriotic hymns, and threaten to throw their caps at any enemy who dares to attack their Soviet motherland.
And in the autumn of 1938, at the bloody height of Stalin’s purges, there was a concert at a private villa in Berlin. Among the dignitaries invited to the dinner party was the German chancellor, Adolf Hitler. The musicians played rare nocturnes by Mozart and Chopin. Müller looked splendid in his dinner smocking. He played the part on the piano. Heydrich and the wife of Admiral Canaris surprised the guests by playing the viola. Applause, champagne, and the Iron Cross with swords – an award from the hands of the Führer. An unforgettable evening for Müller!
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