Chapter 459: The Wind and Cloud Change Color (I)
The almost total destruction of the more than 700,000 troops of the St. Petersburg Front dealt another blow to the fragile psychology of the Russian people, and what finally made them unbearable was that the tsarist government raised taxes again after the great defeat, and the capitalists naturally used this as an excuse to further reduce the wages of the workers, many of whom were even so low that it was difficult for even the workers themselves to survive, let alone feed their families......
But even when it was completely impossible to survive, the vast majority of the people of Tsarist Russia did not think of overthrowing the Tsar, and similar to China, the people of Tsarist Russia also had a similar "only against corrupt officials, not against the emperor." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info", even if the government imposes a harsh policy, they will take it for granted that His Majesty the Tsar has been deceived by villains. Thus, under the organization of the priest and other social activists, the desperate St. Petersburg workers went on strike to demand higher wages from the capitalists, while marching in the streets to petition the Tsar. However, not one of the more than 100,000 participants, including the organizers of the petition, could have imagined that the "father" in their hearts would entertain them with bullets and sabers......
However, the mentor, who was once a nobleman of Tsarist Russia and knew well the three views and style of the Tsar, had long expected that this day would come, and after learning that Tsar Nicholas II had sent troops to massacre the petitioners in St. Petersburg, he was indignant, but his heart was more excited, because only after the illusions of the Russian people were so bloodily torn apart could revolutionary consciousness be born. As the instructor had predicted, the day after the Tsar sent troops to suppress the protests, the workers of St. Petersburg set up barricades on Central Street, obtained weapons and ammunition from arsenals, shotgun shops, and wherever guns might be available, and launched a vigorous armed struggle. The news quickly spread throughout the country, and workers everywhere went on strike in solidarity, with four or five hundred thousand people participating.
Realizing that the revolution was about to break out, the mentor immediately told Li Hui to leave and return to China, although this was far from being as safe for him personally as it was to directly take the reformed Russian prisoners of war to form the Red Army from the Chinese-occupied areas, as Li Hui said, but it was much more politically advantageous. If we do what Li Hui said, it will be difficult for the Russian Red Army to get rid of the suspicion of "puppet army" even if it has a thousand reasons, and it will be much easier to wash away the white wash if the mentor first returns to China to launch a revolution, and then the Russian prisoners of war released by China launch an uprising in response.
Although there are still some Bolsheviks who stay in the country to work, this time they will go back to make a revolution, so military cadres are indispensable, so the mentor also brought many people back this time, Li Hui believes that with the organization and leadership of these people, the scale and effectiveness of this Russian revolution will far exceed that of the 1905 revolution in history.
However, in the future, the main force of the Red Army will definitely be those Russian prisoners of war that China is preparing to put back, first, their military quality and combat experience are obviously superior to the workers and peasants of the uprising, and second, Momen has agreed to transfer to them as much as possible all the weapons and ammunition captured in the previous war against Russia, the total amount is more than the current number of Tsarist Russian troops, and it is more convenient to obtain assistance with the back of China, and third, the Bolsheviks have a longer time to transform them, stronger control, and a higher degree of organization.
But not many can see this, and most of the Bolsheviks who came to China with their mentor were ready to return home with him, because it was always easiest to get ahead with the boss. Another point is that it is not honorable to accept aid from enemy countries after all, and even the mentor himself has in his heart that if the revolution is smooth enough, he will not use this strange army (which means that he will directly return to Russia as a Red Army to participate in the war, rather than waiting for the establishment of the Soviet Russian regime and then returning to China by releasing prisoners of war in the Chinese Republic). Remaining in China would therefore seem to be able to seize military power, but it is also very likely that in the future it will become a representative who only negotiates with China on the issue of the release of prisoners of war, and henceforth away from the center of power of the Bolshevik Party.
Since the Bolsheviks were not mature enough at this time, even the mentor himself was a little too optimistic about the prospects of the revolution (historically, they all paid tuition fees for this, not to mention that the time and space had been helped by China, the power of the Bolsheviks was already too strong, and blind optimism was inevitable). Most of the Bolsheviks magnified this possibility indefinitely, and in the end the responsibility of remaining in China to preside over the rehabilitation of prisoners of war fell to Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, who had not yet joined the Bolshevik Presidium......
"Comrade Iron has made the right choice again at a critical moment! The mentor was so optimistic that he really thought that if he returned to Russia with a few thousand backbones, he would be able to succeed in the revolution? The rule of the Tsar is not so fragile, not to mention that even if the rule of the Tsar can be overthrown, it will have to deal with the joint intervention of the Western powers in the future, and now that it has not experienced the attrition of World War I, the forces that countries can invest in interfering in the revolution in Soviet Russia are much greater than after the October Revolution in history! Li Hui sighed after learning about this, but he was more happy than sorry.
Despite his historical image of brutality and toughness, Comrade Iron was in fact a very cautious realist, especially in his dealings with foreign relations, not only from Trotsky, who had not yet joined the Bolsheviks, but also from his mentor, who was much more idealistic.
Historically, during the period when Comrade Iron was in power, the Soviet Union never provoked any of the great powers that were not sure of victory (on the other hand, all the wars initiated by the Soviet Union were won, and even the Soviet-Finnish war, which made countless mistakes, was finally won. Not to mention the various compromises and concessions of the United States, Britain and Germany, even after the crushing of Japan in the Battle of Nomenkan, the Soviet Union made huge concessions in the negotiations, which shows the extent to which Comrade Iron and Steel was cautious. Considering that in the future it will certainly be a strong middle and a weak Soviet Union, and that Soviet Russia will seek out China, the realistic and cautious "farming" comrades of Iron and Steel are obviously more in line with China's national interests as the leader of Soviet Russia than the "revolutionary" Trotsky or even his mentor.
As a matter of fact, the mentor had quarrels with Li Hui more than once during his stay in China, and if he were Comrade Steel, it would have been easier to reach a consensus on other aspects except for the territorial issue, which might be more difficult to negotiate, after all, it is enough to talk about interests with realists, while idealists are much more troublesome......