Even though the Red Army had already proven itself in the civil war, the mentor did not ignore the adverse effects of the victory of the revolution of 1909, and although the tsar, the aristocracy, the bureaucracy, the landlords and the compradors were now brutally suppressed, the Bolsheviks still had a very weak foundation in the country, especially in the vast countryside. This is evident from the refusal of many peasants to sell their grain to the Soviet government. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Historically, due to the lack of experience in governing and the civil war that has not ended, the mentor has adopted an extreme "surplus grain collection system" to solve this problem, which has resulted in a large famine on the one hand, many people died of starvation, and the people born in the first fifteen years of the Soviet Union are generally short because of malnutrition, and on the other hand, it has aroused the strong hostility of homesteaders, and many of those who originally had a neutral attitude have fled to the side of the White Army, resulting in a more brutal and long civil war, with a total death toll of nearly 10 million. Almost 8% of Russia's population at the time, it was one of the most brutal civil wars in human history, which undoubtedly severely damaged Russia's vitality and sowed the seeds of hatred that persisted for decades.

But in this time and space, the civil war was soon over, the Red Army was incomparably stronger, the pressure on the mentor was much less than in history, and he learned a lot of economic means during his time in China, so he did not adopt the simple and crude method, and he was more patient and skillful in dealing with it.

The instructor referred to China's policy of unified purchasing and marketing, and bought grain from the peasants who supported the Soviets at a fixed price, and relied on imports to China for the time being. In fact, the total amount of grain imported by Soviet Russia was greater than the shortfall, and the role of this grain was not only to meet the needs of urban dwellers and military rations, but more importantly, to create the illusion that the government had enough food to force the "kulaks" to submit.

As a semi-industrial country, the Russian peasants did not live a self-sufficient life of "male ploughing and female weaving" like the Chinese yeoman farmers of the past, and their lives were completely inseparable from industrial products. However, after the establishment of Soviet Russia, all industrial products were in the hands of the Soviets, and if they did not accept the unified purchase and sale, even if they had money, they would not be able to buy them, and this day would be very sad.

Originally, the "kulaks" were still confident that they would be able to keep up with the Soviet power by relying on their previous accumulation, but seeing that the price of grain had not improved even in the green season because of the Soviet government's massive sell-off and suppression, more and more "kulaks" lost confidence and chose to give in.

In addition to China's grain, the millions of repatriated farmers, also from China, are also a factor that cannot be ignored. These peasants have lost their arable land, and the European part of Russia is relatively well developed, except for the South Russian steppe, which has been designated as a military horse farm, and most of the other unused arable land is forests, swamps, and other harsh terrain that can hardly be developed by a single person, and those ownerless developed "cooked land" are in the hands of the Soviet government, and they have no other way out than to accept the government's arrangement to join the collective farms.

Then, as the collective farms increased, the Russian government controlled more and more grain production, and even if it no longer imported grain from China, it would be enough to wear out the remaining diehards. However, the Bolsheviks were never a tolerant party, and families who joined the collective farms at the end were inevitably labelled as "bad elements......

After the peace, Russian industry, especially heavy industry, began to recover rapidly, and by August 1909 monthly steel production had recovered to 80% of its peak during the Tsarist period (the rapid end of the civil war, which caused much less damage than in history, was also an important reason for such a rapid recovery). Military production has greatly exceeded the highest level in history, and the monthly output of bullets has even exceeded 500 million rounds, ranking first in the world (Note 1).

With so many bullets, the training progress of the newly recruited Red Army soldiers was greatly accelerated, and the instructor optimistically estimated that if the war dragged on and broke out again next year, the Red Army would definitely be able to withstand the offensive of the anti-Soviet coalition, even if it could not sweep the European continent, and even had a great chance of liberating some more areas.

But the people in power of the Western powers are not stupid, it is impossible to give Soviet Russia such a long time to prepare slowly, especially everyone knows that the Russian winter is terrible, if the war is late, I am afraid that it will be trapped in the cold snap and difficult to move forward in a few days, and then give Soviet Russia a winter respite, if the war drags on to the second year, it will be difficult to fight, you must know that no country in European history has won a protracted war against Russia.

Thus, before September arrived, and the Polish army and their government had only tentatively completed their integration, the anti-Soviet coalition was in a hurry to send troops in large numbers......

On the Northern Front, nearly 400,000 German troops, two large armies, set out from East Prussia, relying on the overwhelming naval superiority of the Allies, rapidly advancing along the coastline, aiming at St. Petersburg, which is no longer the capital of Russia, but is still the largest metropolis and industrial center, well, now renamed Petrograd......

In other words, since the name St. Petersburg is derived from the German suffix, now that the two countries are at war with each other, the Soviet government was intent on clearing the remnants of the Romanov dynasty (since Peter III, all the tsars had German ancestry, and because the empresses were German aristocrats, they became more and more culturally close to Germans rather than typical Russians, which is evident in the place names of the Tsarist period). ), so it was soon changed to the authentic Russian name "Petrograd......

Note 1: Don't think it's impossible, in history, during the Russian Civil War, the Red Army alone lost 15 billion rounds of ammunition, more than 10 times the total output of Tsarist Russia during the First World War.