Chapter 148: Russia in Confusion
Paris, France, now people can already hear the sound of guns on the front line, yes, the Germans have already hit the outskirts, and there are only a dozen kilometers left from the nearest place, but these last ten kilometers seem to have become eternal!
No matter how hard the Germans tried, the defenders never retreated, and even if they could wipe out a division in one morning, there was still no fear on either side.
After running out of one division's troops, send another division, anyway, everyone is a big business, let's slowly consume it here!
Of course, this was only the idea of the Entente, they were waiting for the result of the Southern Front or the Eastern Front, whether it was Bulgaria into South Germany or the Russians into East Prussia, they could win this war.
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On June 24, 1917, Moscow, the second largest city in the Russian Empire and another stronghold of the Russian bourgeoisie, was now holding a secret meeting here.
If you take a closer look, you will find that the characters are very familiar, nearly one-third of them are political prisoners wanted by the tsarist government, and most of the rest are also well-known Russian bigwigs.
There can only be one thing that can bring such big people together, and that is - revolution!
If the bourgeoisie does not fight back, the tsarist government will take their lives!
If we do not take action while the eyes of the tsarist government are still on the world war, once the war is over, the tsarist government that has won the war will inevitably turn its attention back to the country, and then the good days of the bourgeoisie will be over.
Looking at the black history, few of them are clean, and the tsarist government can use the means of law to carry out a major purge on them.
When the time comes, it will be too late to fight back, after all, many of the things they have done cannot see the light, and everyone used to tacitly dump the blame on the tsarist government.
Even now the working class in Russia thinks that the tsarist government is forcing them to work overtime without pay, that the tsarist government is depressing their wages, and that it is the tsarist government that is causing prices to rise.
It's such a ridiculous deception, and no one has yet exposed it, this is the current situation in Russia!
The stupid tsarist government did not even know how to guide public opinion, and let the capitalists grope the government, no wonder the tsarist government collapsed in history.
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This conference also marked the temporary union of the revolutionary forces in Russia, after which they acted in unison.
Someone was responsible for arming, someone was responsible for propaganda activities, someone was responsible for raising food, and someone was responsible for creating problems for the tsarist government and diverting its attention!
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The forces of the coalition were enormous, and on July 1, 1917, the largest strike in Russia's history, was attended by more than 11 million people throughout the country.
The consequences of this general strike are very serious:
As a result of the bus drivers' strike, the buses were suspended, and the traffic inside the city was paralyzed;
As a result of the strikes of water and electricity workers, many cities are again returning to the last century;
Overseas trade came to a standstill due to the strikes of the dock workers;
As a result of the strike of railway workers, 90 percent of the railways in Russia were paralyzed;
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The strike was just the beginning, and on the way to the march, the revolutionaries hiding in the crowd drew their guns and fired directly at the military and police who were blocking them, and the crowd was inciting the crowd to storm the government buildings.
The relationship between the tsarist government and the people has reached the worst point in history, and the corrupt bureaucrats of the tsarist government are incapable of dealing with the problem in a timely manner, and instead of catching the real culprit behind the scenes, they blindly take measures to suppress the ordinary people who participate in the demonstrations, and the consequences will naturally be disastrous!
Creating chaos was only the first step, and then Russian banks were constantly attacked, and bad bank robberies broke out in many places.
Of course, how can bankers not be at odds with their own interests?
The bank was robbed, of course, they designed it themselves, and the purpose was, of course, profit!
On July 20, 1917, Dawson Bank of Russia declared bankruptcy on the grounds that the deterioration of law and order in Russia had caused the bank to be robbed of billions of rubles!
Immediately afterwards, Russia's major banks declared bankruptcy one after another, and the Russian financial crisis broke out!
In the end, even foreign banks began to declare bankruptcy, such as Ferdinand Royal Bank of Bulgaria and Union Bank, which also declared the bankruptcy of their branches in Russia!
It is obvious that everyone is taking advantage of the fire to rob, embezzling depositors' deposits in the name of bankruptcy, and can also dump the pot on the tsarist government, which is caused by the government's inaction!
Of course, Ferdinand was still very modest, saying that although the branch of the Royal Bank of Bulgaria in the Russian Empire was bankrupt, the depositors' deposits were still valid, but for the time being, they could only go to Bulgaria to deal with it, or when the situation in Russia stabilized, the head office would also consider restarting the exchange business in Russia!
I have to say, this blow is hard enough! The bourgeoisie disrupted the state order, and the bankers came out to rob and directly annex the deposits of the Russian people.
The means are inferior, outrageous! But now everyone knows that the Russian Empire is about to be in chaos, so why not take advantage of the chaos now?
Now that banks have gone bankrupt on a large scale, is the stock market still doing well? Naturally, it is also a thousand miles, countless enterprises have been forced to delist, at this time the lack of cash is undoubtedly fatal, and you can't find a bank if you want to borrow money!
Bankruptcy, bankruptcy, or bankruptcy, entrepreneurs have no third way to choose except bankruptcy.
Countless capitalists also reacted, and they hurled insults, and everyone said that they would take a joint action to protest to the government, and now you will not even let go of your own people!
The workers who participated in the protest were also dumbfounded, didn't they say that as long as everyone took to the streets to demonstrate, they could reduce their working hours and increase their wages?
Why is there no factory now? That boss, don't be busy jumping off the building, our salary hasn't been settled yet!
In the end, of course, the pot of the tsarist government, this is all a conspiracy of the tsarist government to plunder wealth, otherwise who has the ability to rob the banks of the whole country in such a short time?
Let's rise up and make a revolution, the tsarist government has robbed us of everything, and if we don't resist, there will be no chance!
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Anyway, the end result is that the big capitalists and big bankers have made a windfall, and the others are naturally Filipino dishes!
Along with the rapid expansion of the power of the revolutionary party, the Bolshevik party has been particularly rapid in its expansion, from an unknown small party to one of the most powerful in the revolutionary group!
I have to say that the bourgeoisie is short-sighted, completely ignoring the consequences for its own interests, and directly turning countless petty bourgeoisie and middle class into proletariat!
When the tsarist government reacted later, it was too late, except for St. Petersburg, the entire Russian Empire was paralyzed, and the tsarist government lost control of many cities!
Just when Nicholas II was trying to find a way to deal with internal contradictions, bad news from the front also came.
There was no way, due to the emergence of the general strike, the transportation of the Russian Empire was paralyzed, and the supplies of the front-line combat troops were naturally not available.
Anyway, now that the army on the front line is already next to its allies, it can be solved by finding a way to let Bulgaria transport a batch of supplies for emergencies first.
It's a pity that the enemy didn't leave them a chance, and I don't know why the Russian army's material warehouses on the front line were all bombed by the Luftwaffe and ended up with heavy losses!
What's even more strange is that the German bombers all swaggered over, and the Russian air defense weapons were actually damaged on a large scale at the same time, and even the Russian airfield was damaged before the German bombing, and the air force could not be dispatched in time to intercept the enemy!
With such a flurry of bad news, Nicholas II would be a fool if he didn't know what was happening!
If the intelligence services of the Germans are really so awesome, do they have to wait until now? It is estimated that back in 1915, the Germans were parading in St. Petersburg!
But just because the Germans don't have this ability doesn't mean that other forces don't either!
The strongest fortresses are conquered from within, and there is nothing wrong with this statement, the secrecy of the Russian army is only for the enemy, but it is not so strict for its own defense.
More than half a year has passed since the outbreak of the Great Purge in St. Petersburg, and the Russian bourgeoisie, which has suffered losses, is naturally not a fool, and they have already learned the importance of the barrel of a gun.
It is inevitable to infiltrate the army, plus they are inextricably linked with the army, and they can't control the army on the front line, but it's really not difficult to get some intelligence from it!
Is it difficult to unite the tsarist government with the enemy? At least the fact that so many political prisoners repatriated by the Germans were not a bridge of friendship between the two sides?
In any case, with the moral discipline of the bourgeoisie that it could smuggle goods to the Germans in times of war, it is natural that now it does not care about betraying the interests of the country again!
Then the worst situation appeared, the lesson of the defeat in the battle on the Eastern Front last year has already made Nicholas II understand that the Russian army is also people, and they will also surrender to the enemy if they run out of ammunition and food!
Nicholas II's sanity was already burned with rage, and he roared angrily: "The supplies of the front-line army are only enough to support less than a week, when will we be able to restore transportation?" ”
The Minister of Communications replied tremblingly: "Your Majesty, the domestic chaos is sabotaging the railways everywhere, and if you want to resume normal transportation, you must wait for the domestic situation to stabilize!" ”
Nicholas II's face turned from red to blue, and he roared: "Rubbish! I don't care what you do, just give me rail transport right away! Suppress all the chaotic parties in the country for me, understand? ”
The Chief of the General Staff, Galicinov, stubbornly proposed: "Your Majesty, now that the troops on the front line are short of supplies, should we let them move to the Czech region and join the Bulgarian army over there?" ”
Obviously, he thinks that domestic transportation can be restored in a short time, and he is clear about the black hand that caused this chaos in the country. With the strength of the Russian capitalists, it is not so easy to suppress them in a short time!
In order not to starve the troops on the front line, it is better to converge with the allies as quickly as possible, although it may lose a little face, and by the way, pull the hind legs of the allies, but in the face of the life and death of millions of troops, these are not worth mentioning!
Although Nicholas II was already full of anger, he still retained some reason and knew the seriousness of the matter.
"Then don't hurry up and give orders, how did you, the chief of the General Staff, be! And send someone over to catch me out of the army's big rats, understand? Idiot! ”
"Yes!" Galysinov replied bitterly
He really wanted to stop the order of the Tsar's face, such a big thing happened, the army at the front had already begun to check itself, and there was no need to make a big move.
The most important thing is that the inside of the Russian army is not so clean, and there are a lot of messy and bad things.
Don't think that let them send people, send them over are all people from the General Staff, if something so big happens, the tsar will definitely send people they can trust.
Once the tsar's intelligence organization penetrated deep into the army, the consequences were undoubtedly serious!
However, Galicinov is also a smart man, and he knows that this is not a good time to persuade, and if he speaks, it may be more counterproductive.
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