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"The storm is changing!

The storm of 1902 swept through the two largest empires in the world, and before the war, they used to be the top two **** empires in the world, but that war changed everything. It can even be said that it has fundamentally changed the direction of the development of human history.

At the beginning of the war, people always thought that the changes brought about by the war were at most only the expansion and contraction between empires, but no one expected that the war actually witnessed the birth of an empire, and also witnessed the decline of an empire. This is something that people at the time never thought of......"

"Looking Back on the 20th Century" - the prelude to the war

What happened to Petersburg?

In October 1902, after the outbreak of the revolution, almost everyone asked this question, and why did they ask this, because they were surprised to find out that Petersburg had fallen into anarchy, but at the same time there was also a government - the Soviets, but this Soviet power was, to some extent, illegal.

The form of the revolution is changing!

On the evening of October 6, soldiers, workers, students and citizens poured into the Tavlida Palace from all directions, and as they poured into the Tavlida Palace, a large amount of ammunition was brought into the Tavlida Palace from all sides, and then the weapons were stored in a room, where the Provisional Executive Committee of the St. Petersburg Soviet was formed - there were no elections and no revolutionaries who had been extremely active in the past. Rather, just a group of professional revolutionaries of the Social Revolutionaries.

However, unlike in the past, these professional revolutionaries did not only have their mouthpieces, but they also had an armed army of tens of thousands of workers, and the Tsar's repression made the workers feel grateful for the Red Guards as their "own", and the propaganda of the revolutionaries made them have a new idea of their own "vanguard". The Workers' Red Guards were no longer the policemen who kept the law and order in the factories and workers' quarters.

This was the cadre of the future insurrectionary army, and in the midst of the mutiny of the army, the workers' Red Guards easily took the city and occupied the Tavlida Palace.

For a time, the Tavlida Palace became the center of the uprising and the headquarters of the revolution. While some revolutionaries of other parties tried to operate in the cities in the face of this revolution, their activities were resisted and even suppressed - the Workers' Red Guards carried out the orders of the Soviets - and all the plots of careerists to usurp the fruits of the victory of the revolution were stopped by all means. On the other side - the professional revolutionaries of the Socialist-Revolutionaries are actively expanding their forces - these professional revolutionaries are constantly going deep into the barracks to convince the soldiers who have remained neutral to turn the troops into revolutionary troops, although they still wear the white uniform of the tsar, but they wear red scarves and thus become a "Red Army". The officers who restrained them concentrated on shooting, and the army began to "fall" towards the revolution little by little.

At this time, the revolutionary situation in St. Petersburg brought the Socialist-Revolutionaries to the political forefront, and on the very day they took control of the city, the Provisional Executive Committee of the Soviets held the first meeting of the St. Petersburg Soviet, which was attended by representatives of workers, citizens, students, and very rude soldiers.

In spite of the intensity of the meeting, in the end the Socialist-Revolutionary Ulyanov was undoubtedly elected Chairman of the Soviets, and of the 11 members of the Soviet Executive Committee elected, nine were Socialist-Revolutionaries, one was organized by trade unions and cooperatives, and one was a soldier's representative, which in fact was a party composed entirely of Socialist-Revolutionaries.

What is really most surprising is that the organizational membership of the Executive Committee of the Soviets has a striking feature - a majority of non-Russian ethnic groups, including Jews, Georgians, Latvians, Poles, Lithuanians, etc. Representatives of the other parties were not invited to the Executive Committee of the Soviets, and from the very beginning the Socialist-Revolutionary, which was dominated by professional revolutionaries, tried to fully control the Soviets.

During the meeting, people came in at any time to congratulate them, and the meeting was often interrupted. There is no protocol. Each speaker spoke in a rambling and casual manner, while others interjected at will. The first topic was the study of the food problem - in the past few days, there had been problems with the food supply in Petersburg, and the Food Committee was formed, which was different from the law in the past. This meeting, which was composed mostly of the lower classes of the population and the rough and uneducated soldiers, authorized the committee to confiscate all flour from official and public reserves, to arrange the supply of bread and other food for the garrison and the inhabitants of the capital, and it was decided to unite the garrison with the workers in the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

At the same time, the Soviets took measures to arm the workers, instructing them to organize a tenth of the workers in the enterprises to join the Workers' Red Guards, which were voluntarily formed armed forces that could become Red Guards of any citizen, regardless of political and revolutionary beliefs, sex, or nationality, without pay, in short, an armed contingent of workers under the orders of the Soviets, which had been dominated from the very beginning by the revolutionaries headed by Ulyanov, had been at the outbreak of the revolution and still is so.

That is, on the night of the meeting, the crowd stormed the Maria Palace, the office of the tsarist government, and arrested all the ministers who were in session.

As a result, groups of arrested princes, ministers, and generals were escorted to several rooms in the palace, which became exhibition rooms and shelters for the arrested. The once splendid halls, filled with the chatter and laughter of these men, were now heard only sobs and sighs, and a captured general sat limply in a nearby chair. Several officials graciously poured a cup of tea for a countess.

The other general, looking at the arrested colleagues around him, shouted with some excitement:

"We are witnessing the demise of an empire!"

Unbeknownst to the general, they had not witnessed the fall of an empire - for they died before the fall of the empire - and just after their arrest an order was issued from the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, a newly created organization of the Socialist-Revolutionaries.

Put the arrested reactionaries in prison and await the trial from the people!

Who are the reactionaries?

It was the princely ministers, in fact, not only who, but the former comrades-in-arms, the Social Democrats, became the enemies of the professional revolutionaries.

And now, they don't know that.

When confronted with a rioting soldier, when a general tries to show a bit of authority. He was surprised to see that the soldiers first looked at him and were stunned, and then surrounded him, and these soldiers not only did not have a trace of respect on their faces. Instead, they had a provocative and impudent expression, even pointing their rifles at the general. Just when he was forced into a cold sweat by the bayonet and didn't know what to do, the men burst into laughter, as if to laugh at the general's cowardice.

"They're just a mob of lawless people......"

Just as those soldiers laughed and left with their rifles on their backs. While the lieutenant general was cursing to them, he heard the news that the Soviets had ordered the army to advance to Tsarskoye Village!

"We must bring down the tsarist regime and their lackeys once and for all!"

In the Tavlida Palace, Ulyanov once again stood on the podium, and he loudly encouraged the workers and soldiers that the revolution had now reached the most critical moment, and that the Tsar still held the authority and could strike back at any moment, despite the good news coming from many cities and the formation of soviets in many cities.

"We have information that the Tsar is preparing for an armistice with Chinese in order to suppress our uprising, and that they are going to cede all the territories east of the Ural Mountains to Chinese in exchange for an armistice with the Chinese, and then to transfer the Siberian Army back to Russia to suppress our uprising, comrades, this is the Tsar we once loved, who is sacrificing the interests of Russia......"

Ulyanov's speech was interrupted again and again, interrupted by the shouts of the workers and soldiers, for these rough people, Ulyanov's speech succeeded in arousing their hostility towards the Tsar, and the previous gunfire had made their respect for the Tsar disappear, and now, after hearing that the Tsar was going to cede the land at the cost of an armistice, they were even more angry, and the anger gathered in the palace, and when the angry roar burst out of the people's voices, Ulyanov laughed, It seems to be for its own success.

"Vladimir, do we really have that intelligence?"

Trotsky looked at Ulyanov with some puzzlement and said that it would have been easier to lobby the soldiers if he had this information, and for the past few days he had been lobbying the barracks for recruits who had just been drafted - veterans were either transferred to the front or into Chinese prisoner of war camps.

"I don't know!"

Ulyanov answered his comrade-in-arms' questions bluntly, and to Trotsky's astonishment, he pointed to the agitated workers.

"But, I know, how to stir up their emotions, my friend, we must understand that in the revolution there are only two positions, one revolutionary and the other reactionary, and as revolutionaries we must set up a reactionary object for the revolutionary masses and then destroy them at all costs, only then can the revolution be carried out,"

Ulyanov's answer made Trotsky's brow lock slightly, but he did not refute it, and in the agitation of the soldiers, he found a phenomenon, whenever the officers blocked, when the soldiers used their fists to stop the officers' blockades, the emotions in the barracks were not very excited, but when the soldiers killed the officers with bayonets and bullets, the soldiers' emotions immediately became agitated, and they became supporters of the revolution at the first time, because in addition to supporting the revolution, They have no other choice, and even those who were previously neutral will be forced to turn to the revolution at this time.

"Right now, the defense of Tsarskoye is very weak, probably a Cossack of a brigade or so,"

Ulyanov pointed to the Tsarskoye village on the map and continued.

"Trotsky, for Russia, the Tsar is the spiritual leader of Russia, and if we want to overthrow his rule, there is only one way, and that is to arrest him, and then force him to abdicate, as long as he announces his abdication, then we can convene a national Soviet, and thus the whole country! Thus building a country that belongs to us, to the proletarians! ”

At the mention of the future National Soviet, Ulyanov's breathing seemed a little rapid, and at this moment he seemed to forget the afflictions of syphilis, and while he was immersed in the illusion of the future, Trotsky frowned and asked rhetorically.

"But we don't have a lot of influence in Russia, so what if we lose the election?"

Trotsky's rhetorical question made Ulyanov frown slightly, and he first glanced at the Tsarskoye on the map, and then said in a relaxed tone.

"The fruits of the victory of the revolution cannot be usurped, let alone usurped by the careerists, and I think that the workers will never accept the fruits of the revolution being taken by the careerists, and then we can start another revolution, my comrades, when they are all gathered in St. Petersburg, then the choice will not be theirs, but ours......

When Ulyanov's words fell, the light reflected on his bare forehead, forming a thick shadow in his eye sockets, and his words seemed calm, and in that calm there was a power, a power that had never been shown to the world.

"Now, the Tsar is trying to bring us down with violence, then we must not hesitate to bring down the Tsar and all the Tsar's supporters with violence, when the White Terror descends on Russia, when the Tsar tries to block the revolution with the White Terror, then we must use the Red Terror to fight back, to fight back against those counter-revolutionaries, to make them tremble in the ********, and to make them fully feel the anger from the people!"

On this day, in the Tavlida Palace, a voice echoed there, and in the midst of that agitated voice, an unprecedented revolution broke out, by the most unexpected of means, by the way in which the government of the country failed. (To be continued.) )