Chapter 67: The Red Iron Fist
When walking out of the Moscow Rizhsky train station, Hersman and Kuhn. Bella has become a good friend who talks about everything. They chatted all the way on the train, and even Chloe and Natalie, the two beautiful women, were left out in the cold.
Although one was a national commune, the other was a Bolshevik. But Hersmann found that the two sides still had a lot in common. In order to succeed, the Hungarian Bolsheviks, represented by BΓ©la, had to be combined with Greater Hungarian nationalism and partly become a nationalist party.
Because Kuhn. Bella could not allow the Entente led by Britain and the United States to cut Hungary...... If the Hungarian Bolshevik Party had ceded more than 70 percent of the country after taking power, they would have lost the support of the people. And the Entente would not have supported the Hungarian Bolsheviks, who were not in a bitter war. By the time the Entente put pressure on the Hungarian Bolsheviks, the Entente would have won the war. After the Hungarian Bolshevik Party retreated, the Entente would only intensify its attack.
The Hungarian Bolshevik Party, which had lost the support of Hungarian nationalism, had no choice but to die. Lenin saw this very clearly in Hersmann's little known history, so he resolutely opposed Kuhn. Bella compromised with the Entente, but was intimidated by the Allied force, and did not know how to fight Kuhn. BΓ©la did not heed Lenin's advice, which also showed the considerable autonomy of the Hungarian Bolsheviks at that time, and as a result, the Soviet state was destroyed.
After repeatedly exchanging views with Hersmann, and even doing a few simple mapping assignments with a map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kuhn. Bella also has some confidence in her heart. At least know how to drag the war into a protracted one, it's entirely possible!
First of all, the Hungarians were willing to fight to defend their country, as evidenced by the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the previous Hungarian struggle against Ottoman rule.
Secondly, this time there will be no powerful Russian-Austrian forces to suppress the Hungarian revolution. In 1848, the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire joined forces to dominate the world almost as a force that the Hungarian revolutionaries could not oppose.
But today, Soviet Russia is supporting the Hungarians, and Austria will not support it, but will never fight the Hungarians. In the beginning, the only people who would have been sent to attack Hungary were Czechs, Romanians, and Serbs. Is it difficult to fight the Russians and Germans, but is it not sure to fight Romania, the Czechs and Serbia?
As for the British, French, and American intervention armies, it is impossible to arrive so quickly. Because the Hungarian hinterland is far from the coastline, if the Hungarians can destroy the railway between Transylvania and Banat, they can walk on two feet...... The armies and heavy weapons of the Entente really don't know when they will be able to enter the Hungarian plain!
Thirdly, if the Germans had been able to store large quantities of weapons and ammunition in warehouses in Budapest before the defeat - depending on the outcome of the meeting between Hersmann and Lenin - the Hungarians would have been able to quickly raise a large army after the victory of the revolution, which would have ensured that the Hungarians would have been able to resist for a long time.
And once the Entente was caught up in a protracted war and a people's war in Hungary, then anti-war sentiment in Britain, France and the United States was likely to intensify! In particular, the people of Britain and France have been suffering from five years of war, and it is easy to imagine what emotions they will have if they are faced with the endless Hungarian intervention war......
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"Down with all reactionary forces!"
"Down with the reactionary traitorous regime!"
"Destroy all counter-revolutionary terrorists!"
"Resolutely implement the red KB!"
"Long live the red KB!"
Hersman met the demonstrators on the streets of Moscow, red flags flying, slogans shook the sky! There is a lot of the flavor of the excitement of the revolutionary movies of later generations. The procession blocked the road, and Hersmann wanted to see Lenin as soon as possible - this was the attitude expected of a sick visitor. So it was proposed to get out of the car and walk to the Kremlin.
Hersmann, Chloe, Kuhn. Bella and Natalie. Lesinskaya walked through the alley of the four, and soon came to the very end of the procession. Hersman found several trucks that were about to fall apart, packed with people tied up by the Five Flowers and the Cheka warriors who were guarding them.
"Who are these people who have been arrested?" Hersman paused, knowingly asking.
"It's a counter-revolutionary!" Natalie. Lesinskaya said in a tone full of hatred, "It was they who fired the bullets of sin at Lenin!" β
This Polish chick was, and Hersman thought to himself: there are dozens of people there! If each of them had fired a few shots at the guru, the guru would have become a sieve.
"Are they landlords and capitalists?" Hersman then asked.
"Mostly not," Natalie said. Lesinskaya replied, "The vast majority of the landlord-capitalists in Moscow and Petrograd are honest. It is mainly the remnants of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks who are still making trouble, and these people are the worst, and the murderers of Comrade Lenin are their people. β
Now the landlords and capitalists in the Soviet-controlled areas have either given their lives, have fled or are trying to flee to foreign countries, or are resigned to their fate. It was the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks who were still making a fuss...... In other words, the Bolsheviks considered them to be the main threat - this should be correct, since the landlords (or kulaks) and capitalists were engaged in production and management, while the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks were engaged in politics.
"Will it catch a lot of people?" Chloe interjected.
Natalie. Lesinskaya did not answer, but looked at Kuhn. Beira. Obviously, this issue needs to be kept secret, and she has no right to divulge it to class enemies in foreign countries.
"Yes!" Kuhn. In a cold tone, Bella said, "The Cheka will carry out large-scale arrests in Moscow and Petrograd, and this time at least 20,000 people will be captured." β
"They...... Will all be shot? Hersman asked.
"Shoot partly," Kuhn. Bella said in an icy tone, "The rest will be hostages." β
"Hostages?" Once again, Hersman asked knowingly - he certainly knew that the Bolsheviks were taking hostages in many places to ensure that the local population did not rebel against his rule and obeyed orders.
"It's a necessary means!" Kuhn. "If there is another White Terror, shoot some of them!" He shrugged, unconcerned. Revolutions always kill people, don't they? β
Kuhn at this time. Little did Bella, of course, that he himself would later become one of those people who "always had to die"! He was arrested in the Great Purge and executed on November 30, 1939......
"Yes, revolutions always have to kill people, either the enemy or ours!" Natalie. Lesinskaya was on the side.
Hersman stared at the beautiful woman and suddenly smiled and asked, "Natalie, have you ever participated in the district faction?" β
"Ah, yes." Natalie didn't understand why Hersman was asking this, but nodded anyway.
"Or the Poles?"
"Yes, I'm Polish!"
"Oh." Hersman smiled and nodded. The Zonists are the faction of Trotsky, and can also be seen as the origin of the Trotskyists. And the Poles ...... It was the target of the later purge that was the focus of the attack!
What a beautiful beauty, almost as beautiful as Chloe. Hersman said in his heart, I don't know when I will be shot?
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