Perhaps hearing the name Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, many people are confused and cannot immediately associate it with someone. However, if you mention another pseudonym of his, I believe everyone will immediately think of him, and that is Lenin.
As one of the world's most influential and controversial figures of the 20th century, Lenin's life is highly remarkable, and his profound impact on world history is unparalleled.
Without Lenin, there would be no USSR. He led the people to overthrow the rule of the tsar and form a superpower that could compete with the United States. Lenin was the savior of the ** populace, but not everyone supported him.
His actions violated the vested interests of the aristocrats of the tsarist period, which led them to carry out extreme assassination actions on several occasions. A bullet entered his neck and stayed near his spine.
Medical conditions at the time were limited, and the bullet could not be removed until April 24, 1922, when German doctors successfully removed it through surgery. Although the bullet was removed, Lenin's physical condition deteriorated.
Over the next year, he suffered three strokes and was confined to bed until his death. On his deathbed, Lenin realized that his time was running out and began to look for the best man, because the road to socialism still needed to be continued.
After much deliberation, Lenin made a will, which he handed to his wife, Krupskaya, and mentioned six senior Soviet leaders: Stalin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin, and Pydakov.
So what is their fate? The answer was chilling, because after Stalin came to power, all the remaining five suffered a tragic fate. Trotsky, who was in the group of five, was born into a wealthy family in Ukraine and received a good education since childhood, but unlike other rich children, his ideas were inclined to the cause of workers, and he actively advocated against the rule of the tsarists.
He was thus exiled by the Tsar to Siberia, an experience that strengthened his resolve to follow Lenin's lead. Trotsky was a comrade-in-arms with Lenin, and Lenin responded positively to Lenin's overthrow of the Tsar.
In the founding of the Soviet Union, three prominent figures played a key role: Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev. As one of the founders of the Soviet Union, Trotsky played a crucial role in the birth of the Soviet army and the Fourth International.
Zinoviev, a Ukrainian, came from a family of farmers and joined the Workers' Party in 1901. He devoted himself to the workers' movement, and then the Workers' Party, he stood firmly on Lenin's side, and from then on began a long-term cooperation with Lenin.
He was a prominent activist and leader of the early days of the workers' movement and the Bolsheviks, and the first chairman of the Executive Committee of the Third International. Although he later disagreed with Lenin on opinions, this did not affect his contribution to the Soviet cause.
Kamenev, a Muscovite, like Zinoviev, on the occasion of the **Workers' Party**, chose to side with Lenin, thus becoming one of the top leaders of the USSR.
In general, the contributions of these three figures played an important role in the creation and development of the USSR.
Bukharin: The leading thinker and economist of the Soviet Union, who made a significant contribution to the creation and construction of the Soviet Union, but after Lenin's death, he was a staunch supporter of Stalin.
Pidakov: Ukrainian, who organized the workers' movement several times, later joined the magazine The Communist in Switzerland and became a member of the Trotsky opposition.
He supported Bukharin, but was subsequently expelled by Stalin. Stalin: The man in power with an iron fist, although Lenin did not intend to make him **, but in the end he became the supreme leader of the Soviet Union.
Although Lenin did not expect much from Stalin, he succeeded in establishing a centralized rule.
In Lenin's will, he made clear his concern about whether he (Stalin) would be able to use power prudently. Regrettably, during Lenin's serious illness, Stalin began to pursue the lust for power, actively seeking support in the party and then excluding dissidents.
Before Lenin's death, contradictions and conflicts within the top of the Soviet Union were growing day by day, and the post of supreme leader fell on these people mentioned in Lenin's will. Although Lenin least wanted Stalin to come to power, at this point he was unable to change the situation, and the final outcome would depend on their own abilities.
When power becomes the source of desire, human nature is often devoured. Stalin, the man who sat on the throne of the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, changed his fate.
Under his rule, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev and others were successively driven out of the leadership circle, and Bukharin, even on the side of Stalin, was not spared.
Stalin's iron-fisted rule, which won the frenzied touting of some within the Soviet Union, made him even more inflated. Although he had kicked out all five of Lenin's benevolent brothers mentioned in his will, he remained restless and launched the Moscow Trial in order to preserve his rule.
In this trial, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin, and Pidakov were all convicted of felony crimes, and all were executed shortly after.
Although Trotsky was exiled overseas, avoiding the death penalty at this trial, this did not mean that he would have a good ending. Shortly after the trial, news came from abroad that Trotsky had been assassinated and died.
As for the mastermind behind this assassination case, everyone knows that Stalin has nothing to do with it. There are different opinions about Stalin's evaluation. Some believe that the collapse of the Soviet Union was inextricably linked to the policies pursued during the Stalin era, while others believe that Stalin led the Soviet Union to victory in World War II and made the Soviet Union a superpower to rival it after the war, with an indelible merit of virtue.
Evaluating Stalin from different angles and positions leads to different points of view. Some people think that he shaped the institutions of power, while others think that they made him. In fact, most of the members of the Soviet bureaucracy were mediocre, and Stalin was one of the most prominent of them.
His strength is that he exhibits a strong instinct for self-preservation in the ruling circles, which is also his weakness. He is short-sighted and short-sighted in history. He was a brilliant tactician, but he was slightly lacking in strategic planning.