The 12th Party Congress, 1923
In March 1923, our dearest Lenin suffered his third major stroke: it was clear that we would soon need a new leader. There were four potential replacements:
People didn't really pay attention to me at first, but I quickly imposed myself by uniting with Zinoviev and Kamenev against Trotsky, and using my powers as secretary to dispose of other alternative leaders and people who disliked me by messing around with their paperwork and sending them to remote places.
In the Party Congresses we would discuss the future of the Soviet Union and the spread communism throughout the rest of the world; we dissagreed on many points (see Socialism Policy). The 12th Party Congress is important because it is from that congress onwards that I started to become more and more popular.
- that arrogant, pompous Trotsky, who was Lenin's right-hand man and helped organise the Revolution
- Zinoviev, another close colleague of Lenin
- Kamenev, who used to be the president of the Central Executive Committee
- and Me, the General Secretary of the Party Central Committee
People didn't really pay attention to me at first, but I quickly imposed myself by uniting with Zinoviev and Kamenev against Trotsky, and using my powers as secretary to dispose of other alternative leaders and people who disliked me by messing around with their paperwork and sending them to remote places.
In the Party Congresses we would discuss the future of the Soviet Union and the spread communism throughout the rest of the world; we dissagreed on many points (see Socialism Policy). The 12th Party Congress is important because it is from that congress onwards that I started to become more and more popular.