A few hours later, while the exhausted Bokor was sleeping in his office at the State Political Security Directorate, Stalin’s personal secretary called and woke him up from bed, saying that the “master” wanted to see him immediately. At the same Time, the secretary mysteriously warned him that his master was in a bad mood.
It turned out that one of the leaders of the Comintern (Piatnitsky, if I am not mistaken) had called Stalin’s secretariat and asked him if he knew that on that night he had arrested all the Chinese working in the Comintern and all the Chinese students studying at the Communist University of Eastern Workers.
“That is, you arrested all the Chinese?” Stalin asked as soon as Pauker walked into his office.
Stunned, and suspecting that something unpleasant had happened, but unable to guess, Paukel replied that he had done his best and had not spared a single Chinese.
“You are convinced of this?” Stalin pursued fiercely.
Paul Kerr replied in the affirmative: Yes, convinced.
“And what about those Chinese students in the Comintern …… and the Chinese students? Did you arrest them too?”
“Yes, of course, Josef Vissarionovich!” Paul Kerr said in a raised voice, “I took them straight out of bed ……”
Before Paukel could finish his sentence, he felt a heavy blow to his face.
“Stupid!” Stalin shouted, “Release them immediately!”
Bokor jumped out of the room like he had been scalded by boiling water.
After this incident, Stalin was very worried about how to continue to use Paulkor. Generally speaking, Stalin was polite and measured in his treatment of his personal guards. He knew that a guard who could get close to a VIP like him was likely to be desperate if he was aggrieved. And since Bokor was the chief head of the guard, his danger would have to be doubly increased. After all this, can he still be trusted as in the past? As a rule, Bokor should have been replaced. But Stalin was accustomed to his service, with him too deep, too fond of him, has been difficult to break up with him. Of course, the first thing that had to be done to keep Paokel in his former position was to alleviate the aggravation caused by the unexpected slap in the face.
After releasing all the Chinese communists, Bokor returned to his office at the State Political Security Directorate, where he sat until late at night. He did not know whether he should go to the Kremlin to escort Stalin back to his suburban dacha or continue to sit and wait for Stalin to summon him personally. He was caught in a dilemma.
Around one o’clock at midnight, the telephone on the table beside Bokor, which went straight to the Kremlin, rang. Stalin’s very kind and gentle whisper came over the receiver, and the “master” was surprised that Pauker had not come to him. The lucky Bokor immediately flew into the Kremlin.
Stalin’s secretaries greeted him with playful smiles and shouted congratulations to him. “What’s going on?” “You will know when you see your master.”
Stalin gave Bokor a small box with a red flag medal inside. He shook Paulkor’s hand and handed him a copy of the order of commendation from the center, stating that Paulkor had received the award “for the successful completion of an important task”. The staff of the General Directorate of State Political Security laughed at this, saying that Paulkor should not wear the medal on his chest, but on his cheek after suffering.
Paulkor was a man of very exposed feelings, and it was difficult for him to keep the events of his “master’s” Life to himself and not to his friends. As far as I can see, it probably didn’t occur to Paokel that what he told would discredit his patron. He was so blinded by his admiration for Stalin, so sure of his unlimited power, that he did not even realize whether Stalin’s actions were in accordance with the minimum standards of human morality.
The stories of Stalin told by Bokel can be divided into three categories. The first is the story of his great cruelty, which usually begins with the words “Oh, when he was furious ……”. The second is about his political maneuvering – “Look, how he led them by the nose ……” and the third category is about how Stalin valued him, Paul – “Excellent work, Paul Kerr ……”
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