In the early morning of January 26, 1878, the Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg was already full of people. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info This 8-horse carriage parallel avenue is the main road of the city of Petersburg designed by Peter the Great himself, and there are many famous buildings along the way, such as the Admiralty Building, Alexandria. The Nevsky Monastery, the Stroganov Palace, the Kazan Cathedral, the Monument to Catherine II and, of course, the Hermitage Square, the Navy Square and the Petersburg Square complex, which has just been renamed the Square of the Uprising. It was along this street that the people of St. Petersburg marched to the Winter Palace a few months ago, overthrowing the reactionary rule of the Romanov dynasty and setting off the prelude to the most glorious proletarian revolution in Russian history". Today, almost the same people have gathered again, but this time they have become the enemies of the revolution, destined to be beaten with the iron fist of the proletariat of the Narodnaya Volya, and some of them will lose their lives.

These supporters of the Socialist Party and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, who had become class enemies, were still ignorant of their inevitable tragic fate. There they were still shouting reactionary slogans with all their might.

"Long live the Russian people!"

"Long live socialist democracy!"

"Down with the People's Enemy, the Narodnik Party!"

"Down with the dictator Nechaev!"

When these counter-revolutionaries shouting reactionary slogans entered the seemingly spacious Hermitage Square, they saw that a large number of rebels in gray uniforms and red armbands on their arms had already gathered in front of the Alexandria stone pillar. Each of the anti-rebel fighters had rifles with shiny bayonets in their hands, and some set up machine guns, the muzzles of black holes pointed directly at the marchers.

The pale-faced political commissars all stood in front of the anti-rebel fighters under their control. While waving the pistol vigorously. While making loud agitations.

"Comrades. The future of the Russian Motherland is in your hands, do you want the Socialist Party and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party to bring you a weak, bullying Russia? Or do you want the Narodya Volyam to bring you a powerful socialist Russian Motherland that will make all enemies tremble? ”

"We want a strong motherland!" The anti-rebel fighters spoke in unison.

"Long live the Narodnik Party!"

"Long live Nechayev!"

At this moment, the inside and outside of the Hermitage Square seemed to be drowned out by earth-shattering slogans. Inside the square, it was the rebels of the Narodnik Party who shouted in the name of the motherland and the revolution. Outside the square, it was the Socialist and Socialist-Revolutionary supporters who shouted in the name of democracy and the people.

And in the south of the square, the building of the former General Staff of the Russian Empire, arranged in the shape of a bow. Now the All-Russian Anti-Terrorism Committee building on the platform at the top of the famous double triumphal arch. Nechaev, the chairman of the Russian Narodnaya Narodnaya Narodna, was holding his arms and looking with gloomy eyes at the crowd of people facing each other inside and outside the square.

"Comrade Nechaev, do you understand what you are doing?" Someone is asking a question in German.

Nechaev looked back, it was Marx, the president of the International Workingmen's Association. Marx, the revolutionary mentor, had arrived from Warsaw a week earlier in order to persuade the Socialist, Social Revolutionaries and Narodnaya Volatonya to abandon the referendum that would begin in February, and at the same time to adopt a republican constitution and turn Russia into a people's republic. But he never imagined that Nechayev and Narodnaya Narodnik would use violence to reach the instructions of the "International Workingmen's Association"!

"Comrade Marx, do you know where the greatest failures of the Polish and English revolutions were?"

Nechaev asked rhetorically lightly, and then did not wait for Marx to answer. "The greatest failure of the Polish and British revolutions was democracy." There is no strong revolutionary vanguard to lead the country. The fact that Wilhelm I became king of the Republic of Poland and that William V became king of England proved that Engels's line did not work...... Although Comrade Engels was a very outstanding economist, he knew how to keep a country's economy in a virtuous circle and sustained growth as much as possible, and how to make the living standards of the majority of the people significantly improved.

But he did not know how to build a strong socialist state, which was built with a rich life of the people and a weak state, and if it were not attached to the powerful German Empire, the survival of socialist Britain and socialist Poland would be in question! Comrade Marx, do you think that such a weak socialist country, which cannot even protect its own security, can afford the arduous task of liberating all mankind and overthrowing capitalism? ”

Marx looked deep and did not say a word. He has always been a strong supporter of Engels' line. Because Engels is quite consistent with him to a certain extent, such as the planned economy, the restriction of capital, the implementation of democracy, the protection of the interests of workers and peasants, the realization of a welfare society, and so on.

Such a line has indeed achieved very good results in the practice of Poland, which before the war was already one of the most enviable rich small countries in Europe, and the standard of living of the people has increased several times compared with before the revolution. Moreover, the political power was firmly in the hands of the people, and Poland's democracy was a democracy that limited the participation of capital, so that in the 1o years before the war, power rotated between the two socialist parties, the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party, and the socialist multi-party rotation of power was practiced. The political power has always been under the effective supervision of the people, so it has always maintained integrity and efficiency.

But such an "ideal society" also has a fatal weakness: politics is dominated by votes, votes are dominated by welfare, and politicians do everything they can to work for the people's welfare in order to win the support of the people...... In fact, this was the original intention of the great teachers of socialism, so the success of Engels won him and Marx a great reputation for putting forward these propositions. But the problem also arises that the distribution of the whole society is heavily skewed towards the people, especially the ordinary workers, and the government and capital (mainly state capital) take too little share from it, and therefore do not have enough financial resources to build a strong socialist state. Although the enthusiasm of the Polish people at the outbreak of the war with Russia was very high, and they also organized a large number of troops, because they did not have the support of strong national strength, they were soon defeated by Russia, and in the end they could only pray for the protection of Germany, and formed a republican alliance with Germany, and the emergence of the Polish-German republican alliance was, in the eyes of radical socialists such as Nechayev, the bankruptcy of the Engels line!

It is impossible for a socialist country with a rich people and a weak country to survive in a world full of imperialist powers. And a socialist country that relies on the protection of imperialism is not really socialism either!

"Comrade Nechaev, I understand what you think, but can't we convince the Russian people in a more moderate way? Why is it necessary to use machine guns and rifles? Marx shook his head. After all, those people are just a crowd who don't know the truth! ”

"Don't know the truth?" Nechaev smiled and pointed at the armed rebels under Alexander's column, "They are the ones who don't know the truth!" And those who oppose me...... They all understand the truth! The truth is that we, the National People's Congress, want to be dictatorial and hold all power firmly in our hands. Because only in this way can we concentrate the human, material and financial resources of the whole of Russia on socialist industrial construction. Only when industry is strong will the country be strong, and when the country is strong, can it afford the noble mission of liberating mankind. And the people of Russia ...... Their greatest contribution must be made to the strength of the country and to the world revolution! They could not enjoy the fruits of their labour to the fullest like the Polish and English laborers. ”

At this point, it is already clear that this is probably the consistent style of Nechaev, who wrote the "Catechism of the Revolutionaries", right? He didn't bother to hide it in front of the great teacher, and he actually couldn't.

"Comrade Chairman, the anti-rebel fighters are ready to attack the enemy at any time!" A young revolutionary in a gray army coat walked briskly up to the double triumphal arch and shouted to Nechaev for instructions.

"Let's do it!" Without the slightest hesitation, Nechaev gave the order to suppress with a wave of his hand. And not just on Nevsky Prospect, but at the same time in Moscow, a few hundred kilometers away throughout Petersburg!

At this time, the people on Nevsky Street gathered more and more, almost forming a torrent and began to rush towards the Hermitage Square. Because most of the leaders of the Socialist Party and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party were arrested at the Tavlida Palace, and the headquarters and branches of the two parties in Petersburg were also closed down by the anti-rebel fighters, today's protest march was not very well organized, and the crowd was mostly spontaneously organized, with only a few minions of the Socialist and Socialist-Revolutionary Party agitating on the spot. Even if they see bad signs, these people are powerless to direct the masses to evacuate as soon as possible. Those who walked at the front were even pushed by the inertia of the procession towards the bayonets in the hands of the anti-rebel fighters.

As the surging crowd drew nearer, Plekhanov, the deputy political commissar of the All-Russian Anti-Counterterrorism Committee, who was in command at the Winter Palace, had already received the final instructions from Nechayev.

"Fire!" With a sharp wave of his hand.

Twenty-eight machine guns, which had long been ready, roared at the same time, and twenty-eight tongues of fire almost weaved into a dense net of fire, enveloping the crowd of marchers. The brass sounded in one piece, and the bullet casings splashed. Twenty-eight streams of fire, like the scythe of death, harvest to the densely dense ...... The crowd of reactionaries!

The blood mist was no longer spewing out in clusters, but in clusters, as if gushing. Looking down from the double triumphal arch where Nechaev and Marx were, one could see the crowd of people in shabby clothes and waving red flags on Nevsky Street, writhing and falling indiscriminately in rows, and their eyes were full of blood and fire.

But both of them know that today's sacrifice is the price that must be paid for the birth of a strong and powerful socialist country! (To be continued......)