Chapter Eighty-Four: Counter-Revolutionary Hackers
The truth of history is sometimes more interesting than fiction -- Hersman is now wandering through the truth of history. He did not participate in the formulation of the Freikorps Plan, and most of them have similar plans in history.
Otherwise, how did the fruits of the victory of the vigorous November Revolution in Germany fall into the hands of the Social Democrats, the Junkers and the bourgeoisie?
Hersman has now found the answer to this question. The fruits of the victory of the German Revolution turned out to be hacked by hackers. Before the climax of the revolution, the forces opposing the revolution had prepared the Trojan virus and planted it in the ranks of the revolution. Hersman spent most of his day training more than 200 Trojan viruses called the "Soldiers' Council Chair." They will be divided into fifty-one detachments, and then together with the "work thieves" sent by Albert, they will take control of the fifty-one barracks in the city of Berlin. The officers in the barracks had been ordered to cooperate fully with these "Social Democratic" agitators.
In addition, the scheming Schleicher had a hundred and two wagons full of butter, cheese, cured pork, sausages, eggs, beer, and cigarettes...... Reasoning while eating and drinking, the effect shouldn't be bad, right?
As for how to reason and what to reason, that's Hersman's business. Although time was a little tight, it was not difficult for Hersmann, who had participated in the Russian Revolution.
Because Comrade Lenin had already told Hersman the key to propaganda, and had Hessmann practice it in the Russian Revolution, he had basically mastered the key to propaganda agitation -- first of all, he had to disguise "his own people"; secondly, we must pick up the words that the audience likes to hear; In the end, the lie repeated three times is the truth!
Hersmann divided the more than 200 people assigned to him by Schleicher into fifty-one groups, an average of four or five people per group, and then took a look at the situation. These people were all non-commissioned officers, all of them had squatted in the trenches on the front line, all of them had been wounded, and all of them had won medals -- Schleicher was indeed capable, and you can see from the people he picked that they were the most prestigious "old squad leaders" among the soldiers.
At a time when this soldier did not trust the officers very much, an "old squad leader" who had shed blood and fought the front line was definitely more effective than the workers' propagandists sent by Liebknecht.
Because they are the "own people" of the soldiers! If you deceive your own people, the effect is the best!
"Comrades!" Hersman began to speak in the tone of a Bolshevik, "You are all heroes who have smelled the smoke and poison gas at the front, taken the bullets of the Entente, and won the medal of the Fatherland!" For the soldiers of Berlin, whether they have been on the battlefield or not, there is a natural reverence for you. That's your advantage! Therefore, you must repeatedly emphasize that you have been on the battlefield, won medals, and been honorably wounded! ”
"As for what to tell the soldiers, it is very simple: first, the Social Democrats care about them, and are the only ones they can trust; Second, peace! Immediate peace; Third, to realize socialist democracy, one person for men and women over the age of 20; Fourth, demobilize and return home as soon as possible to live and work in peace and contentment.
These are the four things that you have to tell the soldiers over and over again. There is no need to talk about other nonsense. These four are said over and over again until everyone believes in them. Remember that even a lie can become the truth if it is told over and over again. How much more is the truth that you will tell your soldiers!
If you meet the Spartacists and you argue, don't go and tell them what socialism is and what capitalism is, you can't tell them. You only need to say two points: first, Soviet Russia is fighting a civil war, which began in January this year, and it looks like it will be fought for a long time; Second, the Bolsheviks dispersed by force the Constituent Assembly, elected by the Russian people, one by one vote - this was the cause of the civil war in Soviet Russia. Don't argue with them about anything else, just say these two things. No matter what your opponent says, as long as you insist on both points, you will definitely win support. ”
Soviet Russia, which fought in the 10-month war, is the best negative teaching material for the war-weary German soldiers! The Russian soldiers wanted peace but could not, and were forced to kill each other. This was by no means the ending that the German soldiers wanted! Moreover, Germany still has a tradition of democratic consultation in history, and it also pays more attention to the spirit of contract. In the eyes of a considerable number of Germans, the January upheaval was the treachery of the Russian Bolshevik Party! And the fact that the Spartacists showed a pro-Russian position everywhere and took the Russian Bolsheviks as their teacher also meant that they could not be trusted.
Therefore, as long as Hersmann's "Trojan virus" grasps this point and criticizes it to the end, they are inferior to the Bolsheviks -- no matter how bad the Social Democrats are, whether they are traitors or workers' thieves, they can always bring peace and one-person-one-vote democracy. And the Bolsheviks had neither peace nor democracy, only civil war and the Cheka. As long as everyone understands this, these "Trojan viruses" can be elected as the chairman of the soldiers' committee.
And the chairmen of these soldiers' committees, after the victory of the revolution in Berlin, were able to attend the Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies in Berlin and vote for the members of the Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars.
For example, the coexistence of the Provisional Government and the Soviets after the February Revolution in Russia without dominating each other could not have been possible after the November Revolution in Germany.
Because back in October, Liebknecht and Rosa. Before Luxemburg was released from prison, the leaders of the German Social Democratic Party, Albert and Scheidemann, and the leader of the Independent Social Democratic Party, Haaz, had already drawn up a plan to dismantle the revolution from within.
They decided that once the revolution could not be avoided, they would join in and become the leading force for it. Then, by controlling the Congress of Soviets of the Workers' and Soldiers' Soviets, both the Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars were firmly controlled, and the Spartacists were completely excluded.
At the same time, they had to join forces with the Junkers and the German bourgeoisie to reach a series of agreements to jointly stifle the revolution. It can be said that the November Revolution in Germany was already in an extremely disadvantageous state as soon as it began.
However, since both the Junkers and the bourgeoisie were involved, the revolutionary overthrow of the Hohenzollerns was the last option.
On the morning of November 9, the storm of revolution was raging in Berlin, and most of the neighborhoods had been taken over by the Spartacist strike masses and mutinous soldiers. The only territories that the German government could control were the official residence of the Royal City of Berlin, the Reichstag, the Chancellery, the Grand General Staff, and the Admiralty.
But the leadership of the Spartacists was only superficial, instigated by discontent with the imperial authorities and the enthusiastic speeches of the revolutionaries, and did not really take root at the grassroots level - because the Spartacists were a very small faction, weaker than the Bolsheviks before the February Revolution. And before the First World War, Germany had been the fastest growing economy in Europe and had good social welfare. The working people have shared in the dividends of Germany's economic growth to some extent, and there is not much dissatisfaction.
In addition, Germany was essentially a nation-state, and there were not so many "non-German" revolutionary activists who could charge the Spartacists. Therefore, it was much more difficult for the Spartacists to rapidly expand their power than for the Russian Bolsheviks.
However, on the morning of November 9, the Spartacists, who were still leading the revolution of their own small strength, looked like they were about to win.
This is because their enemies have not yet made the final choice between infiltrating the ranks of the revolution and suppressing it.
In the Reichstag, politicians from the Social Democratic Party and the Independent Socialist Party, representatives of the Entrepreneurs' Union, members of the Committee for the Promotion of Industry, and representatives of the German military were anxiously awaiting news from Spa Francorchamps, Belgium, where the Emperor had arrived and was trying to mobilize troops from the front to suppress the revolution.
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