Industrial area of Berlin, Siemens-Stadt, Germany.

In a worker's house, there is a small two-story building that looks very neat. Rented here are a few single young workers working at the Siemens plant. I'm all on my way to work today. The doors and windows of the entire building were closed, and the curtains were tightly drawn, making it look empty. There was a procession of leftist workers waving red flags on the streets, and there were many onlookers on both sides of the road, and the revolutionary atmosphere was very high. But the revolutionary German masses could never have imagined that their leaders were now gathered in a room on the second floor of this small two-story building, where they had been meeting all night.

"Ludendorff has secretly infiltrated Berlin, and Hindenburg has arrived from Hanover, where, according to reliable sources, they have met with the head of the reactionary army, Admiral Zeckert, in the dacha of the great Jewish capitalist Tranau! Most likely, the conspiracy to ban our GCD and suppress the workers' movement was discussed! ”

"The traitor Albert [their president] also summoned the ambassadors of Britain, France, and the United States, and the meeting lasted for a long time. It seems that the misappropriation of the loans of the Dawes Plan for the expansion of the Wehrmacht in order to suppress the workers was discussed! At this time, the reactionaries at home and abroad seem to have jumped out together! The cause of the emancipation of the working masses in Germany has reached its most dangerous time! ”

"Agents of the Army Political Bureau have appeared around our party headquarters, and members of our party in parliament have been placed under residential surveillance. The newspapers that sympathized with us were also warned...... Minister of Defense Otto. In the past two days, Gradus has also secretly met with some former leaders of the Free Legion. It seems that there are signs of reorganizing the Freikorps, and we need to act quickly. Don't let the enemy get the first shot! ”

"But how? Now most of the people in the Brandler group have left us, some have joined the Nazi Party, some have joined the Independent Socialist Party. And with the implementation of the Dawes Plan, the economic difficulties in the country will soon pass, and the support of the working masses will be greatly reduced. The vast majority of them are mere followers and not determined GCDs! If the reactionary forces at home and abroad are united, then the cause of the working class will be finished! The dream of building a Soviet Germany was completely shattered! ”

"So we must take up arms and prepare for battle as best we can! Now there is only one way to launch an armed uprising of the workers of Germany! ”

"That's right! Only the uprising was launched, and now the Freikorps had not yet recovered, and the Wehrmacht had only 100,000 land forces, and they were scattered throughout Germany, and the army around Berlin was less than 10,000. ”

"And the USSR will also support us. China and Japan will sympathize with us, and the working masses of all Europe will stand with us! ”

Since the Brandler right-wing clique was dealt a heavy blow at the recent national congress of the German GCD, the Central Committee of the German GCD has now been dominated by leftist revolutionaries such as Radek and Thälmann. So as soon as someone proposed an armed uprising, it immediately received the support of the overwhelming majority of the population. These German GCIST fighters were full of grief and indignation. I was disgusted to the extreme by the sudden change in the shape of the German revolution now. Who knew that a criminal "Dawes Plan" suddenly appeared, wanting to revive the German economy and the German ** team to contain the Soviet Union! Is Germany about to embark on the path of criminal militarism again? Was their ideal of a Soviet state in Germany doomed to be unrealizable? Now it seems that the only way to fight with the enemy is to fight with the enemy, even if not to plant the red flag all over Germany. It's also going to be a big one!

Radek, the general secretary of the German GCD, and Thälmann, the head of the Hamburg regional GCD, who presided over the meeting, looked at each other. The comrades have already raised the idea of an armed uprising, which is also the directive of the GC International. They all had a few months in their minds at the same time. Comrade Trotsky's address to them:

“…… Now the world revolution and the future of the German revolution are linked! Both are at their most dangerous moment, and it is not surprising that imperialism has united to extinguish the flame of the German revolution and put the Soviet Union in a cage. The enemy has never given up on destroying us! But we still have a chance, because the revival and rearmament of the German economy will require a process, and before that, the Weimar Republic was very fragile. The enemy has no more than 100,000 men in his hands, while the German working class has more than 20 million! As long as 10% is in our hands, there is a strong leadership of the German GCD. It would be enough to defeat all the reactionary classes in Germany and establish Soviet power! The possible imperialist intervention would be dealt with by an alliance between the Soviet Union and Germany, and even the three Baltic states, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. When the time comes, the whole of Eastern and Central Europe will be a world of red flags! The day of the victory of the world revolution will not be far off! ”

Is it really not far off? Radek and Ernst. Thälmann is not stupid. Of course, we can clearly recognize the strength of the reactionary forces in Germany! A sudden armed workers' uprising alone could not establish a consolidated Soviet power, even if Berlin could be captured! Moreover, Germany is not an insignificant small Eastern European country, and Anglo-American-French imperialism will definitely not sit idly by and watch Germany become a Soviet state! Was the Soviet Union ready to fight a world war with imperialism for the cause of the liberation of the German people?

Footsteps were heard outside, followed by a strong knock on the door. A cadre of the German Central Committee, who was in charge of the secret radio station, walked in excitedly with a telegraph. "Comrade Radek. Comrade Thälmann, the latest directive of the GC International, ordered us to launch an armed uprising and seize Berlin by the end of March 1922! Build Soviet Germany! The Soviet Union will do everything possible to support us! ”

……

The USSR is undergoing a secret military mobilization!

While Moscow, Petrograd, Kiev, Minsk. And Chita, the capital of the Far Eastern Soviet Socialist Republic, is still as calm as ever. The major Soviet newspapers, including Pravda and Izvestia, did not smell the slightest smell of war - they were full of articles propagating the first five-year plan and sounding the alarm of the class struggle. But outside these big cities, red conscription notices were distributed through the huge GCD bureaucracy that spread all over the Soviet state! The scale of this mobilization is around 1 million people. The place of mobilization was primarily the European part of the USSR.

It was only in mid-February 1922 that Zhong Zhijie heard a little news from some Russians who had entered Moscow on a business trip. Subsequently, at great risk, he obtained a general situation of the mobilization of the Red Army through a high-ranking cadre of the Soviet Red Army political department that he had bribed. The mobilization of 1 million troops will be completed by the end of March, when the total strength of the Soviet Red Army will double to 2 million!

It is clear that Lenin and Trotsky are ready for war! It's still a world war!

After handing over the telegram to the cadres of the communications group, he stood in front of the window and looked out. What is seen is the peaceful scene of the morning in Moscow: men in fur hats and women in turbans are walking to work, there are few cars on the road, and there are few horse-drawn carriages. The milk shops and bakeries on both sides of the street are lined up with Soviet aunts in front of the doors. As for the butcher's shop...... After the NEP was basically over, there was no longer a zài. A red star has just appeared above the Kremlin's towering spire, symbolizing that the huge, magnificent palace complex has become the center of the world revolution – a phrase that now appears frequently in Pravda and other Soviet newspapers. The Kremlin is the center of the world revolution, and its two masters are the greatest Marxists of our time, the teachers and prophets of the proletarians of the world. Maybe when they will be the saviors of all of Europe and even all of humanity?

Zhong Zhijie's mind suddenly conjured up a scene in which the two million workers' and peasants' Red Army filled every road from the Soviet Union to the West, and they were going to the Baltic countries, to Poland, to Romania at the same time as the proletarian revolution was taking place in Germany. Advance to Hungary, to Czechoslovakia! No force can stop them. This is obvious, and it is difficult to say whether there was even real resistance, and the working masses of these countries may have cheered for the liberation of the Red Army. Regardless of whether Germany will become a Soviet state in the end, the red flag will be planted all over Eastern Europe! In the event that Germany also fell into the hands of Lenin and Trotsky...... Zhong Zhijie can't imagine such a consequence anymore! Now we can only hope that the chairman of the Standing Committee in Nanjing will come up with some clever plan in time to defuse the impact of this great change in the world on China.

And Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China at this time. 1922 was the first year of China's first Five-Year Plan, and the whole country seemed to have entered a period of vigorous development, the days of turmoil were gone, and all that seemed to be left was a variety of construction and development policies and methods that everyone could not help but praise loudly, and countless construction sites that were under construction - most of which were not completely stopped during the Spring Festival just passed! The country now has some of the historical prosperity of the new dynasty. And the chairman of the Standing Congress, who "swept away the ** and the four seas", has naturally become a generation of heroes in the minds of the Chinese working people......

In the dining room of a bungalow in the Tangshan Mansion on the outskirts of Nanjing, a certain "generation of heroes" was eating hot pot with seven or eight bigwigs from the Kuomintang and GCD around a large mahogany round table. The table was filled with all kinds of snacks, lamb, beef, vegetables, all kinds of meatballs, and of course, a few bottles of good wine. In the wet and cold weather of Nanjing in winter, it is really a pleasure to eat a hearty shabu-shabu. However, these biggest figures in China at the moment did not move their chopsticks much, but were discussing something fiercely. Among them, the loudest voice is Mao Zd, the chairman of China's GCD. The current ** life is much more moisturized than the same period in history, and people have gained a lot of weight. It's a lot of the style of a generation of great men.

“…… It looks like the USSR is going to war! They are surrounded and blockaded by imperialism, and of course they have to look for a possible opportunity to break the blockade. The German GCD has always been the object of the GC International and the Soviet GCD, and Lenin and Trotsky certainly could not watch Germany being fostered by imperialism as a tool to contain the Soviet Union, taking advantage of the fact that Germany's economy was not improving. Of course, it's possible to give it a beat. But what does this have to do with us? The USSR fought the USSR. We build ours, don't meddle in Europe's affairs, and live our own lives is true. In the past few months, I have walked around the western part of China, and I have seen many problems, such as land degradation, water conservancy disrepair, local finances are poor and white, and the six-year compulsory education is only on paper in most areas, which is really poor! Even with the land reform, most of the peasants were still suffering from hunger and cold...... We have a responsibility to help the people there. There is nothing for us in Europe, even if it is a Second World War, it is none of our business! ”

His words immediately received many voices of approval. Including Hu Hanmin, Chen Duxiu, Jiang Jshi, Song Qingling, Zhang Junmao, and even Wu Shi and Bai Chongxi all expressed their approval. In particular, our Mao Runshuai's latest sworn brother, Brother J Shi, kept pointing a big bald head and muttered: "Comrade Runzhi is right, the focus of the current work should still be on construction." Now that the minds of the people are settled and the minds of the people are at ease, it will certainly be unpopular for the government to participate in disputes far away in Europe. And with our current national strength, how can we manage the affairs of Europe? What if the war that was supposed to start in Europe is brought to East Asia? What benefits can British and American imperialism give us? ”

Jiang Jshi's words suddenly ushered in a voice of approval. It is Chang Ruiqing himself. Although there was no expression on his face, he also somewhat agreed with the opinions of these two historical **oss. After it was basically determined that there would be great changes in Eastern Europe and Germany. Chang Ruiqing fell into a dilemma. On the one hand, he was afraid that the adventurous westward policy of the USSR really succeeded resoundingly! Judging by the current situation, this is very likely - the Soviet Union has bought time for a surprise attack by sending a diplomatic mission to Germany as a gesture of friendship and secret mobilization! Even if Germany and Poland start mobilizing now, it will probably be too late. And the situation in Germany does not necessarily allow the Wehrmacht to expand rapidly, as for Poland, now that Pilsudski has been ousted from power, without this small country, Poland is not a matter at all!

Once Germany and Poland fall into the hands of the Soviet Union, the whole of Eastern Europe and Central Europe will be the world of red flags! While this does not mean that GCISM will triumph globally, the leftist forces in China will inevitably rise. At that time, they will certainly launch an attack on the revisionist line they have pursued with the support of the GC International and the Soviet Union, and the situation of stable development that has finally emerged will be gone forever.

And on the other hand. He also feared that the Soviet Union's policy of moving westward and provoking revolution in Europe would prompt the German Nazi Party to seize power ahead of schedule! According to the reports sent back by Jiang Baili and Xu Haoyu, the ultra-left line currently implemented by the German GCD has caused a considerable part of the working class to turn to the right and become supporters of the Nazi Party. Moreover, the rightist political forces in Germany are also actively consolidating, and it is very likely that a situation of great rightist reunification with the Nazi Party as the core and Ludendorff, Hindenburg, and Hitler as leaders will be formed ahead of schedule. Under these circumstances, an armed workers' uprising in the German GCD could not have succeeded, and the consequence of the uprising could only be that Germany descended into civil war. However, the German right and centrists, with their broad supporters and British and French assistance, should emerge victorious in the short term. However, it is quite possible that the Soviet Union took advantage of the fact that the West was busy intervening in the German civil war. Sent troops to sweep Eastern Europe, and the three Baltic states, Poland, Hungary, and Romania, all of which were small Eastern European countries, were red...... In turn, it would lead to the rise of a Greater German Reich in Central Europe! Thus adding great suspense to the outcome of the real World War II in the future!

Chang Ruiqing's expression finally became solemn. He sat up straight and coughed lightly, and the dignitaries of the two parties in the room who were talking about it suddenly quieted down, and they all turned their eyes to Chang Ruiqing. Chang Ruiqing said: "Comrades, your opinions are very insightful, at present we should indeed be at ease with economic construction, try not to take care of the affairs of the world, after all, China's strength is limited, and you can't manage it if you want to!" ”

He glanced at Mao Zd, the face of the chairman of the Central G, with a vaguely excited look, it seems that he is eagerly looking forward to the victory of the European revolution, right? His relationship with Trotsky is said to be very good...... Chang Ruiqing took a breath and settled down: "But don't forget that the current center of power in the world is in Europe!" The South Seas, which are immediately adjacent to us, are almost all colonies of the European powers, and what will happen there in the event of a big war in Europe? Besides, did the Soviet Union really have the capital to fight a world war? Did Britain and France dare to fight? It's hard to say what the final result will be, so we have to make a variety of plans. Runshuai, you are the chairman of the GCD in China, and your visit to the Soviet Union last year was very successful, which led to the participation of the Soviet Union in the Shanghai Conference. Why don't you work hard again? In the name of informing Xinjiang of the actual situation of socialism, you can go to the Soviet Union, or bring Comrade Elai with you, and you two will talk to Lenin and Trotsky from the bottom of your heart. We should strive to coordinate the positions of the two countries and the two parties, and if the Soviet Union's westward expansion succeeds, we still need to deepen the Sino-Soviet friendship......"

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