At a time when the undercurrents of the Kingdom of Hungary were surging and ready to jump ship, the Russians were also gathering strength and ready to jump out and grab the spoils of war at any time.

Ever since Nicholas II completed the purge of St. Petersburg, the entire Russian Empire has become a source of controversy.

Nicholas II told the world with practical actions: a tsar is a tsar, and he is still so decisive when dealing with "rebellion"!

More than 40,000 capitalists, officials and their families were arrested, and Nicholas II organized a collective trial, and then more than 10,000 people were sent to the gallows amid the cheers of the people, and the rest were all exiled to Siberia!

After taking out these moths, the mobilization efficiency of the tsarist government immediately increased by 50 percent without the restraint of interest groups, and by February the tsarist government had again mobilized 600,000 young men and women to take up arms and join the great and sacred family of the army.

There is no doubt that this mobilization was naturally the selfless dedication of these capitalists, the weapons and equipment were taken out of their warehouses, and the military expenses were also copied from their family property!

Nicholas II made a lot of money this time, and the confiscated goods and cash amounted to more than 1 billion rubles, as well as hundreds of tons of gold, as well as foreign exchange worth tens of millions of pounds and a large number of antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

There are even more real estate, with thousands of factories, a large number of shops and residences, as well as large mines and farms scattered throughout the country......

It took more than two months for the treasury of the tsarist government to make a preliminary estimate of the total value of the assets confiscated, and it has to be said that the family background of the woolly bear is thick, and according to the most conservative estimates, Nicholas II's harvest this time also exceeded 1.3 billion pounds.

This huge sum of money greatly alleviated the financial crisis of the tsarist government, but of course it was only for a short time, not to mention that the real estate in it could not be realized in the short term, even if it was all cash, it was not worth mentioning in the face of the huge war costs.

If you look at the financial expenditures of the major belligerent countries, you will know the horror of this war.

Expenditures of various countries in 1913:

the British Empire £197 million;

French Republic £201 million;

the German Empire £220 million;

the Russian Empire £189 million;

Austro-Hungarian £118 million;

Kingdom of Bulgaria £121 million;

Kingdom of Italy £95.68 million;

Expenditures of various countries in 1916:

the British Empire £2.568 billion;

French Republic £2.675 billion;

the German Empire 3.262 billion pounds;

the Russian Empire 2.746 billion pounds;

Austro-Hungarian £1.578 billion;

Kingdom of Bulgaria £1,136 million;

Kingdom of Italy £186,500;

More than 90 percent of this expenditure is spent on military spending, and it is not surprising that in the face of such huge military spending, governments want to end the war as soon as possible.

As soon as the cannon goes off, ten thousand taels of gold! In order to raise funds, governments have racked their brains, such as raising taxes on the people, borrowing from consortia, printing money, and so on.

Now that Nicholas II has money in his hands, it is natural to make big moves, such as: speeding up mobilization, purchasing weapons and equipment, strategic materials, and so on.

Judging by the current pace of mobilization of the Russians, there will be 3 million Russian troops on the Eastern Front by April, and this number will exceed 4 million by the end of the year.

If the Allies could not make a breakthrough on the Western Front in the short term, then the outcome of this war was already doomed. In the second half of the year, they will face a six-layer woolly bear on the Eastern Front, and if there are no millions of German troops, they can't defend it!

In desperation, the Hindenburg government decided to send the revolutionaries back to Russia to cause chaos for Nicholas II.

Moreover, the current Tsarist Russia really had a revolutionary foundation, and Nicholas II and the capitalists had broken up, and the two sides could be described as deep as the sea, which created favorable conditions for the revolution.

In the eyes of the Germans, Russia now only needs a spark, an explosion will occur immediately, and even for the sake of self-preservation, the capitalists will have to go down the road of rebellion against the tsarist government!

Of course, even if Nicholas II does not make a move, in order to grab greater benefits, the capitalists will still do it, but the timing is uncertain.

And Nicholas II's purge of St. Petersburg was just an inducement for them to launch.

After all, profit is always the best catalyst, and the rule of the tsarist government can no longer satisfy the growing appetite of the capitalists, who seek to establish a government that fully represents the interests of the capitalists.

It has to be said that the Great Purge of St. Petersburg launched by Nicholas II this time did a good job, directly inflicting a heavy blow on the bourgeoisie and changing the balance of forces between the enemy and us.

But Russia is too big, and the capitalists are smart people, and when their counterparts in St. Petersburg are wiped out, they are ready one by one, and they can't do it all.

Prepare to run away, prepare to rebel against rebellion. Of course, whether they choose to resist or run away, the capitalists themselves will not charge into battle.

Most typically, after the purge in St. Petersburg, the number of capitalists who went to Bulgaria to invest and inspect skyrocketed, and in just one month, including their families, it increased by more than 8,000 people.

Obviously, none of these people are good material for doing great things, and it is undoubtedly a fantasy to overthrow the rule of the tsarist government by telegraph remote command.

Therefore, Hindenburg decided to send the revolutionaries represented by Lenin back to China, and also financed their armament and activities, with the simple aim of converging the Russian revolutionaries and the capitalists.

Revolutionaries have the experience of rebellion, and although they are all failures, they are also experience, aren't they? And the capitalists have the strength and are scattered in the major cities of Russia, and once they are mobilized at the same time, there will always be a few successful cases.

Then the civil war in Russia should have broken out, and the pressure on the eastern front of the Germans would naturally be gone. As for whether these people can overthrow the rule of the tsarist government, this is none of their business, anyway, as long as they disturb Russia, their goal will be achieved.

In May 1887, when Lenin entered the Faculty of Law at Kazan University, he was expelled from the university for participating in the student movement and exiled to residential surveillance in a remote village of Kazan.

In 1900 he was allowed to return to St. Petersburg, but he went to Western Europe to continue his revolutionary career and wrote a large number of revolutionary treatises. After that, he became one of the de facto leaders of the Russian Revolution.

When the Great Revolution broke out in Russia in 1905, Lenin naturally joined in it, until 1907, after the defeat of the Russian revolutionary movement, he was forced into exile.

This revolution undoubtedly angered the tsarist government, and as one of the leaders of the revolution, Lenin naturally also went on the blacklist of the tsarist government.

He lived in Geneva, Paris and Bern, and in 1916 Lenin moved from Bern to Zurich, where he and his wife Krupskaya lived with the cobbler Camerel.

At that time, Switzerland was a place full of spies, and Lenin, in order to escape the hunt, lived a very low-key life, hiding in the library every day to read books, and no longer went out to do things.

Sometimes, he would spend his evenings in a small café frequented by proletarians to hold meetings and exchange ideas with them, and his life was very fulfilling.

Unlike history, the Germans came to the door before the Russian revolution broke out.

Proceeding from the actual situation at that time, Russia did have the basis for the outbreak of revolution. In order to complete the revolution and overthrow the rule of the tsarist government as soon as possible, he naturally did not mind cooperating with the capitalists once.

After all, the influence of the Bolshevik Party in Russia was so low that after Nicholas II launched the Purge of St. Petersburg, one of their most important fundamentals was gone!

The harsh reality was already in front of the revolutionaries, and this time the tsar and the capitalists were vying for power, and the tsar, who had the support of the military, had gained the upper hand.

If the tsar had won this struggle, the ruling foundations of the tsarist dictatorship would have become much stronger, and the revolution would have become far away!

Against this backdrop, for the first time, the major anti-government forces in Russia converged, and although they could not trust each other because of their different political philosophies, they still came together in order to overthrow the rule of the tsarist government.

And the Great Purge of St. Petersburg launched by Nicholas II this time was not without hidden dangers, such as his neglect of "legitimacy"!

The most typical thing is that more than 100 members of the National Assembly were also executed, and they were sent to the gallows before they were deprived of their status, which became the best excuse for the anti-government forces to attack Nicholas II for the impure purpose of the purge in St. Petersburg!

Outside St. Petersburg, the capitalists still have a lot of say. Therefore, in many places where the capitalists were powerful, Nicholas II's actions were characterized as the White Terror Reign adopted by the Tsar in order to exclude dissidents!

This hurt Nicholas II very much, and even with the support of the army, he still could not control all the Russian cities.

The central factor was that the Russian bureaucracy had been corrupted by the capitalists, and Nicholas II simply could not find so many qualified officials to replace them in the short term.

This in turn created favorable conditions for the revolutionaries, and Lenin did not go to St. Petersburg after his return, knowing that there was no basis for the revolution there.

Instead, he came to Moscow, the largest city in Russia after St. Petersburg, with hundreds of thousands of workers and a mass base for the activities of the Bolshevik Party.

A very funny scene appeared, on the one hand, he had to cooperate with the capitalists, and on the other hand, he had to oppose the capitalists. Of course, this scene also happened in the history of the February Revolution in Russia!

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