"Down with the Provisional Government!"

"Complete trust in the Provisional Government!"

"Down with Milyukov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, the note to the Great Powers was sent in his name)!"

"Long live Milyukov!"

"Long live the Bolsheviks!"

"Down with Lenin!"

"Lenin was a spy of the German emperor!"

"Milyukov is a lackey of American capital!"

"You traitors, you took the German gold marks!"

"You are traitors, you took the Americans' dollars!"

On the square of the Palazzo Maria, the two processions met amid a chorus of slogans and invective. One was the "martyrs" of the Bolshevik organization; One was a procession led by the ********** of the Cadets, consisting of Petersburg students, the bourgeoisie, and a part of the military who supported the Provisional Government's war policy (and those who wanted to fight, mainly officers and cadets) - the forces of repression that the Provisional Government could and dared to use at the moment.

Like the "martyrs" of the Bolshevik organization, the supporters of the Provisional Government carried weapons - non-violent peaceful demonstrations did not exist in Petersburg in 1917. All political factions have their own armed forces! The difference was only in the strength of force, and the Bolsheviks won in the end because they had won the support of the most militants.

Clashes soon ensued between two demonstrators with different positions, first with fists, sticks, and then with guns! Outside the gates of the seat of the Russian Provisional Government, it suddenly became a battlefield of civil war!

It was almost a skirmish, and the soldiers of the Petersburg garrison and the cadets of the military academy and some active duty officers took part in the firefight.

By the time the civil war in Petersburg began, Hersmann's carriage had left the bustling, noisy and dangerous city of Petersburg.

The carriage bent along the road, bending around, avoiding some large potholes of stagnant water, and jolting along a potholed asphalt road. This road to Tsarshuang Village has probably not been repaired since the beginning of the war. On both sides of the road are large areas of barren land, and although it is spring planting season, there are few farmers in sight on these fields. Like Hersmann's hometown of East Prussia, the land around Petersburg was largely deserted!

They passed through small villages, which looked very poor, not as poor as in Germany, and full of grass-roofed log houses. Most of the houses were very old, and they seemed to be about to collapse. Near each village there is a church with a cross erected, which is the best and largest house. There was always a large flat area in front of the church, where men and women gathered, not praying, but holding some kind of assembly, and the red flag could be faintly seen.

"Why is it that most of the land is not cultivated?" Hersman asked curiously. It's already May, and if you don't plow, you'll miss the farming time. Even in the German countryside, where there is a shortage of strong labor, the seeds must now be sown as much as possible. The mobilization ratio in Russia is much lower than that in Germany, so it stands to reason that there should be enough labor to cultivate the land.

"The Provisional Government, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks are to blame!" Dzerzhinsky's tone was filled with anger. "The matter of distributing land to the peasants without compensation has been shouted for decades, and it has been shouted since the time of Alexander II. Now that they were in power, the landlords, kulaks, and peasants were waiting for them to fulfill their promises. The landlords were selling their land cheaply, the kulaks were buying it at a low price, and the peasants were reluctant to farm on land of unknown ownership. Moreover, the Provisional Government and the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies also announced a system of collection of surplus grain! ”

"Surplus grain collection system?" Chloe interjected. "What does that mean?"

"It is to collect the surplus grain in the hands of the peasants free of charge...... Surplus food in addition to rations and planting grains! ”

"But Petersburg is still very short of food." These days in the Vyborg district, grocery shopping and cooking are Chloe's errands, so she knows how tight supplies are in Petersburg.

"Because the peasants also have Soviets!" Hirschman replied in place of Dzerzhinsky, his brow furrowed, "The surplus grain collection system cannot be implemented at all, but it has discouraged the peasants' enthusiasm for growing grain." ”

The massive abandonment of Russian land meant that it would be difficult for Germany to obtain large quantities of agricultural products from Russia in the future. Several dark clouds surfaced on Hersmann's mind - if Russia could not produce enough food, it would be difficult for him to convince the Great General Staff to "spare" Russia, and too harsh peace conditions would call into question the legitimacy of the Bolsheviks...... Lenin will not be able to win the elections to the Constituent Assembly held after the October Revolution. At that time, Russia will be plunged into a brutal civil war. Naturally, Germany had no way to obtain resources from Russia to sustain the war, and the demise of the Second Reich would be inevitable!

But a brutal Russian civil war also had a good side for Germany. Sitting in a bumpy carriage, Hersmann was thinking in his heart about how to take advantage of the difficult situation in post-war Russia - both in the interests of Germany and in his own interests!

If history is still following its original trajectory, there have been no major changes. Then the civil war would have a catastrophic outcome for Russia, with all industries withering and the countryside and cities in ruins. Even a hard-hearted revolutionary like Lenin had to bow to the difficulties after the war, abandoning the idea of a direct transition to GCISM and instead pursuing a New Economic Policy similar to China's reform.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Although the "reopening" of the Soviet Union was abandoned halfway, it ended in 1929. But for Lenin and Hersmann, an old friend of the Soviet people, a lot could have been accomplished in nine years -- who could have imagined that when China was reopened, a foreign capitalist and chief designer would be a buddy, and what business could not be done? What else can't be earned?

Of course, Hersman is now an idealistic militarist! It was too boring to make money in the Soviet Union and then go to Switzerland for the rest of his life, and if he had the chance, he still wanted to be a respected National Socialist revolutionary of the older generation.

In order to do this, it was first necessary to preserve as much as possible Germany's war potential, mainly the strength of the military industry, such as aviation, shipbuilding, machinery, and other industries that had been severely limited and suppressed as a result of the defeat.

As far as Hirschmann knows, during the Second Reich, Germany was relatively leading in heavy industry, especially in aviation, shipbuilding, and internal combustion engines. In 1933, when Hitler came to power, due to the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was unable to develop its air force, navy and armored forces openly.

Cooperation with the Soviet Union and large orders from the Soviet Red Army was probably the only way for Germany's aviation, shipbuilding, and internal combustion engine industries to remain viable after the war. If we want factories to not stop, teams not to disperse, and achievements not to be lost, of course, we must have the support of the big market of the Soviet Union -- of course, when exporting technology to the Soviet Union, we must also pay more attention to it and grasp the most critical and core things in our hands......

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Just when Hersmann temporarily left Petersburg and moved to the beautiful Tsarskaya Village to think about the path of life. In the city of St. Petersburg, the wheels of history are still rolling forward.

The "small civil war" of May 2 showed all factions in St. Petersburg, except for the Bolsheviks, that civil war was really possible!

At the same time, the Allied missions, headed by US Ambassador Francis, demanded that the Provisional Government immediately suppress the Bolshevik rebellion, restore order in Petersburg, and begin a military offensive (against Germany) as soon as possible.

Under pressure, the Provisional Government ordered the commander of the St. Petersburg Military District, Kornilov, a self-regarded professional soldier who considered himself Napoleon, to mobilize cadets and some troops loyal to the Provisional Government (not very many) to carry artillery into the palace square and disperse the troublesome Bolsheviks.

But only to disperse, not to bloody repression. Because the armed forces controlled by Kornilov could not have equalized Lenin's men - not counting the armed workers and sailors, the Bolsheviks now controlled more than a dozen regiments of garrisons. Moreover, most of the remaining soldiers of the garrison also had a favorable opinion of the Bolsheviks.

If you want to suppress it, unless all parties act together!

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