Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Working Class Rests
The port of Kiel on November 3 and Hamburg on November 5 show that the flames of revolution are spreading in Germany!
Hearing the report of the second lieutenant Rosenberg, the faces of the few people who were eating, except for Hirschman, changed dramatically. Hersmann had long known that the November Revolution that began in the port of Kiel would destroy the Second German Reich...... At the same time, it was the origin of the Third Reich - this is not casual nonsense, but the conclusion drawn by Hirschmann's careful observation of German society during the First World War over the past year or so, coupled with his knowledge of later history.
From the port of Kiel to Hamburg to Berlin, the Second Reich collapsed in a matter of days, Wilhelm II went into exile in the Netherlands, and the invincible German army fell apart. This shows that the Junker military aristocracy, led by the Hohenzollerns, no longer has enough strength to suppress the opposition within Germany. Moreover, Juncker's power will be further weakened by the defeat of the war and the limitations of the Treaty of Versailles. Corresponding to this was the rise of the German people's power.
It was the anger of the people that destroyed the Second Empire, causing it to collapse militarily while it was still viable. But when the German people thought that the Entente had fulfilled its promise to give peace to the German people in accordance with the Fourteen Terms of Peace. The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles dealt another blow to the German people.
The German people were deceived, and the pain of peace given by the Entente far outweighed resistance to the end!
Then, even greater, even more devastating anger was ignited in the hearts of tens of millions of Germans. This anger became the strength of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany and the Bolshevik Party of Germany.
What the Entente did at that time was to continue to limit and weaken the Junckers, and not to prop up the peace-loving Social Democratic Party, but to leave the Germans to face a choice between the Bolshevik Party and the Nazis...... And then let the rising Germany beat it violently - whether the Nazis or the Bolshevik Party ruled Germany, it would be a disaster for the Entente!
"I want to ...... The Russian catastrophe won't happen in Germany, will it? Archduchess Olga broke the dead silence in the dining room.
"It's up to the Entente." Hersman shrugged, "Now Hungary is about to become the world of the Bolsheviks...... Although the Hungarian Bolshevik Party has not yet been officially formed! If they also had to treat Germany the same way they did Hungary, then the German Bolsheviks would also be in power! ”
"God, what can I do?" The Grand Duchess glanced at her beer-bellied admiral.
"We must act now!" Yudenich shouted, "I must immediately return to the United Duchy of Baltic and gather our warriors there!" ”
He wants to rally White Russia in Estonia! After the August Revolution of 1917, a number of White Russians fled from the Bolshevik-controlled areas to the United Principalities of Finland, Poland, Lithuania and the Baltics. A considerable number of them were unwilling to live in exile abroad for the rest of their lives, and Yudenich was their leader.
The Grand Duchess looked at Hersman again, asking for his opinion. She is not yet the true king of the Balts, the Germans have an army of more than 100,000 people there, and a very mysterious Stasi institution - as the monarch of the Polo, the Grand Duchess does not even know who the leader of the Stasi organization is? I don't know how many people are in this organization, and what are they doing?
But the Grand Duchess felt that she was not far from the day when she would truly take power.
"Your Majesty!" Because the Grand Duchess was already the king of a country, Hersman addressed her as "Your Majesty". "If we gather the White Guards in Estonia, then the non-aggression pact that has just been signed is a piece of waste paper."
"Isn't it waste paper now?" The Grand Duchess's voice was a little unhappy - the imminent revolution in Germany meant that the United Duchy of the Baltic would be freed from German control, and she would be a monarch in power. Then, her voice softened again: "Colonel, I am the second heir to the Russian throne, and my younger brother Alexei suffers from severe hemophilia and is not suitable for the throne. ”
This woman is actually dreaming of being an empress!
"Colonel, if you help me achieve my ideals." The Archduchess looked at Hersman with tender eyes, "You are my best friend, and you will ...... You can become the prince of the empire! ”
Become a prince of the Russian Empire? What a big pie! It's a pity that Germany is coming to an end, and Britain, France and the United States will not come up with blood to support the Tsar.
"Thank you for your trust, my majesty." Hersman was dismissive of the Grand Duke's proposal, but he still coped with it respectfully. "And when are we leaving for Polo?"
"The admiral will go first and organize the royalists." The Grand Duchess wrinkled her eyebrows and said, "I'm still going to stay...... Meet Germany's future leaders! Colonel, I guess they can't be Bolsheviks, right? ”
It is clear that Nicholas II and his daughter also had their own little calculations, and it was easier to get in touch with the West by staying in Berlin than in the United Duchy of the Baltics. Now that Germany is about to come to an end, the only one who is likely to support the Tsar's restoration is the West.
"No, it won't." "So far, it seems. ”
"Colonel," said the Grand Duchess, with a sweet smile, "can you accompany me to meet the future German leader?" ”
Hersman was stunned, and he hadn't figured out how to answer. The Grand Duchess said in a pleading tone: "You are my military adjutant and my most trusted officer of the Polo...... I hope that you will take on more important positions in the future Baltic and Russian Empires. ”
"Okay, I'll try to arrange it." Hersman said and glanced at Chloe again, and then said, "But Your Majesty, you can't stay in the Glinico Palace, and you won't be able to run away if something happens!" ”
"So where am I going?"
"In Berlin, Chloe and I are at home. Let Chloe accompany you and leave Berlin as soon as the wind blows. ”
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
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Hersmann took the Grand Duchess back to her own home in Berlin, and sailed the ship with complete care. But his arrangement really saved Olga. Nikolaevna lives!
Because his good friend Comrade Lenin sent internationalist fighters had arrived in Berlin. On the same night that Hersmann, Chloe, Rosenberg and others accompanied the Grand Duchess into the city of Berlin. Internationalist fighters Berzin and Yulovsky were attending a meeting in a large hotel on Kurdhorn Street, not far from Hersman's home.
It was a meeting that made them a little discouraged - it was an important meeting of the German Independent Social Democratic Party, and the meeting was about an armed uprising in Berlin! This proposal was made by the Spartacist wing of the Independent Social Democratic Party, which later became the German Bolshevik Party. But now, the power of the Spartacists is too small, and they can only rely on the independent Social Democratic Party, which has a more **** position than the German Social Democratic Party.
But the Independent Social Democrats are still Social Democrats after all!
"Comrade Ha'az! We should immediately hold a general strike, and then turn to an armed uprising! Liebknecht spoke out at the meeting.
"Immediately? It's the evening of November 5th, tomorrow is the 6th, and the 7th and 8th are paydays, so it's not appropriate to act. "A Jew in his fifties, the chairman of the Independent Social Democratic Party with a Marxist beard. Ha'az shook his head repeatedly.
"Then launch a strike on the 9th and an armed uprising on the 10th!" Liebknecht walked back and forth in the room, looking very anxious. Now is the pinch! The Spartacists already knew that the Tsar and the Kaiser, the two most reactionary men on the European continent, had joined forces, and that if the Entente spared Germany under the mediation of the Tsar, not only would the proletarian revolution in Germany come to naught, but even the Russian Revolution might fail with the joint intervention of Britain, France and Germany!
"9th, 10th...... It was Saturday and Sunday! "Hu Guo. Ha'az spread his hands and said in embarrassment, "The working class wants to rest, are we going to use the uprising to deprive them of their right to rest?" ”
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