In mid-May 1917, it seemed that the Bolsheviks were experiencing defeat! All its opponents, the Cadets, the Progressives, the Octobers, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks, formed a grand coalition government! And it was soon supported by the overwhelming majority of the Soviets in Russia, and the Russian troops at the front seemed to be on the side of the great coalition government. And, of course, the Great Powers such as Anglo-American, French, etc.

Messages of congratulations flew like snowflakes to the Palazzo Maria and Tavlida, and the newspapers were full of praises, except for the Bolshevik Pravda newspaper, which was still publishing articles in vain invecting the Provisional Government and the policy of war. However, most people have little interest in it...... Now there is a real revolutionary government in Russia! Everyone has high expectations for it.

The peasants wanted to get their land early. When workers want to increase wages and reduce work, it is better to divide the factory. Ordinary citizens want enough bread and milk, and preferably meat. And the soldiers at the front...... They have a "minister of persuasion" who can speak the most beautiful language and persuade them to go to their deaths in a so-so way!

"I can't provide a big meal, but I can ......make you die with honor," Lenin shouted in an infectious tone in a lavishly decorated living room, shouting Kerensky's slogan.

Comrade Lenin looked at the expressionless Hersman and sighed: "What a good point! I was a little touched by him...... What a brilliant agitator he is! Otto, if you were a Russian military officer, would you also be moved? ”

"Yes!" Hersmann nodded, as an officer brainwashed by German nationalism, there were no conditions for dying for the country.

"Most of the Russian ** officials will too," Lenin also nodded, picked up Chloe's coffee and took a sip, "As for the soldiers, hot-headed people also exist...... As far as I know, quite a few women in the city of St. Petersburg are now also encouraged to sign up for the women's death camp. ”

Hersman knew about these women, and they, along with the cadets of the military academy, were historically the last armed forces of the Provisional Government in Petersburg. It was these people who defended the Winter Palace on the eve of the October Revolution.

The mentor raised his head, looked at Hersman, and said word by word: "Moreover, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks were influential in the soldiers' councils at the front. Kerensky also gave persuasion speeches all over the front line in an attempt to boost morale. Maybe there's going to be a decent offensive ......"

Lenin seemed to be a little anxious, and it was the first time that Hersmann had known Lenin for more than two months, and it was the first time he had seen such emotions exude such emotions. Now the Bolsheviks had rallied all the anti-war forces, and there were not many of them enough to overthrow the "Provisional Government of the Great Black Cauldron". Unless the offensive organized by the Provisional Government becomes a complete disaster, the soldiers of the Petersburg garrison, who had supported the war, will fall to the Bolsheviks - or they will have to die on the battlefield.

With their support, the revolution will succeed!

But what if the Provisional Government wins? And not a big victory, just a small victory, and then let Kerensky use that eloquent mouth to propagandize, and the prestige of the Provisional Government will immediately rise sharply. Then Lenin and the Bolsheviks will be completely out of play!

For Lenin, the opposition to the war was certainly the only right choice, but at the same time it was a gamble - the Russian offensive failed miserably, and the Bolsheviks were "right" to take advantage of the opportunity. Otherwise, the Bolsheviks were finished.

"Otto, there won't be any problems at the front, right?" Ettel was also in the living room, sitting side by side with Hersman on a large soft sofa, and he seemed to be a little worried.

"Yes, the latest news, German and Austro-Hungarian troops are being transferred out of the Eastern Front......" Stalin also asked with concern. He came with Lenin, apparently to get to the bottom of Hersmann - since Ettel had leaked out in Switzerland, Lenin had long known that Hersmann had been sent by the German General Staff. Later, Hersman's performance as chairman of the soldiers' council of the 1st Petersburg Machine Gun Regiment also proved that he was a professional soldier with quite good qualities.

Hersman knew about the "Kerensky offensive" because it was so funny that many people knew about it in later generations. However, Hersmann only knew one general idea - Kerensky had to waste his old nose to organize an offensive of hundreds of thousands of people, and was defeated by the German-Austrian forces in less than 10 days, and after this battle, Russia's military power on the front line completely collapsed. By the time Comrade Lenin came to power, Russia had no force at all to stop Germany's actions. So we can only take what we want from Germany......

In other words, the "Brest Treaty", which almost killed the hair, actually has Kerensky's responsibility! If he had not exhausted the old roots of the Russian army, Germany would probably not have persecuted Lenin in this way.

But a few months after the signing of the Treaty of Brest, the same disaster befell the Germans themselves - the revolution disintegrated the army, making resistance impossible, and then Britain and France imposed the "Versailles yoke......

If the Russian Provisional Government had withdrawn from the war immediately after the February Revolution, Germany would have launched the Ludendorff Offensive a year earlier - not in the spring of 1918, but in the spring of 1917, when the United States had not even entered the war and France could have been beaten out of the war!

It can be said that it was the sacrifice of the Russian Provisional Government that allowed Britain and the United States to win the First World War and prevent Europe from being dominated by the German Empire.

Hersmann sighed softly, although he knew that he did not have enough power to reverse the fate of the Second German Reich, he should still do everything possible to buy time for the Reich. You can't get a year anyway, but you can try it in two months -- let's try to bring forward the October Revolution to August!

"No, there won't be any problems!" Hersmann affirmed, "Max. General Hoffmann was a genius, and the plan for the Battle of Tannenberg was actually drawn up by him, and Admiral Ludendorff and Field Marshal Hindenburg only signed the plan drawn up. With him on the Eastern Front, the Russian offensive will inevitably suffer an extremely painful defeat! And...... I have already reported the imminent offensive of the Russian army to the Grand General Staff. ”

This is an admission of who you really are, but it is absolutely necessary. Because Hersmann feared that Lenin and the Bolsheviks would lose their breath and launch an uprising before the final victory or defeat of the front was decided. This would expose the relationship between the Bolsheviks and Germany - although everyone in Petersburg now knew that Lenin had received the Golden Mark (and it is estimated that many people had received it from the Bolsheviks), it was not the same thing as taking the Golden Mark and coming out to stab the Russian Fatherland at a critical moment.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks were pro-German, and now all the factions in the Provisional Government had a foreign financier behind them. But the problem is that it is necessary to act for foreign masters on the basis of safeguarding the fundamental interests of Russia - the Russian Empire can have its current borders, and its domestic nationalism is of course very strong!

If Lenin had played the wrong card on this issue, his victory would have been delayed.

Hersman looked at Lenin with blazing eyes, "Vladimir. Ilyich, I think you should have guessed who I really am...... I was not a German Socialist, I was a staff officer of the Grand General Staff of the German Empire, named Ludwig. Feng. Hersman. I had fought the Russian army on the Eastern Front for four years, and I was well aware of the strength of the German army on the Eastern Front. Although the Austro-Hungarian army is unreliable, our German army is very strong! Even before the revolution, a major offensive by the Russian army had to be carefully and carefully planned. Playing like the Provisional Government now, 100 percent will not win. ”

Seeing that Lenin and Stalin were still worried—certainly not worried about the Russian troops at the front—he smiled coldly and added: "It would be better to do so, Vladimir. Ilyich, arrange for me to go to the front for a while...... Then arrange for me to meet with the Bolshevik Council of Soldiers' Councillors at the front, so that I can know the direction of the main attack of the Russian army. ”

Knowing the direction of the main attack, the Germans can make corresponding adjustments, and if they can't win, they won't be Germans! Comrade Lenin sighed...... With this reassurance, he will be able to wait in Petersburg to see Kerensky's jokes!

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