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The strike continues!

On October 2, 1902, the strike in St. Petersburg continued, initially only at the Putilov factory, at first only at the Varna factory district in St. Petersburg, and after five days, the strike spread throughout St. Petersburg, engulfing almost every industry.

Everyone was dissatisfied with the reality - the defeat of the Navy, followed by the defeat of the Army in Transbaikal. The loss of the fleet, which condensed the money and honor of the Russian Empire, and the defeat of the army, which supported the entire glory of the Russian Empire, made everyone feel extremely indignant. The dissatisfaction with reality accumulated over the years, combined with anger and humiliation, turned almost the whole of St. Petersburg and even the whole of Russia into a powder keg.

In the factory-lined Varna factory area, where the chimneys no longer spew smoke as usual because of the strike, and in the factories, Ulyanov, Trotsky and other activists of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party constantly preached to the striking workers, telling the revolution, in addition to preaching their demands, expressing their support for the workers, and, of course, more importantly, telling the workers that the Tsar could not be trusted.

Of course, although not every worker believed their words, at least their bread was well received by the workers - it was the bread they brought in every day that fed the workers and their families, and it was for this reason that the demands they made, which they had never thought of, or even did not know what they were, were accepted by the workers and became demands of the "working class".

At the same time, the priest of Gabang, the leader of Russia's only legal trade union, was also mobilizing the workers to petition the Tsar, saying that the workers' demands were legitimate, and that the Tsar's father would definitely meet them when they went to the Winter Palace, and in fact they had been soliciting people to sign the petition for the past five days.

After five days of collecting signatures, the workers collected more than a million signatures on the petition, and their demands were supported by workers in Moscow, Minsk, Kiev and other cities, and the trend of strikes is spreading throughout the country. But for the Russian government, they seem to be a little late-aware, and of course, one of the important reasons why they are late-aware is that now, for the Russian government, they will have to think about a reality - what to do to stop the Chinese attack, and a lot of intelligence has been shown that the Chinese are sending troops to Lower Udinsk, and perhaps, after this winter, a million Chinese troops will arrive there.

Will the Siberian winter be able to stop the offensive of the Chinese army?

Although every General of the War Department felt that winter might be able to stop the Chinese attack, in fact, no one could say this with confidence, after all, this war began in winter, maybe winter can stop Napoleon, but not necessarily those crazy Chinese.

But now, what will Russia do to resist the attack of the Chinese?

The surrender of the Far Eastern Army means that Russia has lost half of its army, although in order to reinforce them, Russia has drawn almost every force that can be drawn, but it is only less than 800,000 troops, and they are facing more than 1.5 million Chinese, what to stop their attack?

Just as the army staff was sending those troops to Siberia for the requisition, a "bad news" came, the governor of the northeast had ascended the throne as the emperor of China, and his last stumbling man, Li Hongzhang, had died, and Li Hongzhang's son had already expressed his submission to him, and even the governors of Liangjiang and Shaanxi and Gansu...... What does this mean? As emperor, he could unite the forces of the entire country and transfer the nearly a million troops of those governors to Siberia.

It's a nightmare!

Now in order to stop the Chinese, in addition to continuing to send troops as much as possible to reinforce the Siberian Legion, then there is only one option left - conscription!

That is, at the time of the general strike of the workers in St. Petersburg, orders for conscription were transmitted by telegram across the Russian land.

According to the new conscription order, Russia will recruit more than three million troops in the next month and five million troops in three months, thus maintaining its "absolute superiority" over the Chinese army. After all, according to pessimistic estimates, after Tang Haoran became emperor of China, the army he could mobilize was already close to 4 million people.

It seems that for Russia this is the real nightmare, and the invasion from the outside is the real nightmare.

Yes, over the past decade or so, the workers have petitioned again and again, but what can they do? There will be no impact on the country, but if the Chinese army tears through the defense line of the Russian Empire in Nizhny Udinsk, then 4 million Chinese troops will pour into Russia like a tidal wave, and then the Russian Empire may even become history.

While the workers were collecting and signing the petitions, Russian troops were marching on Siberia by train, and the peasants, who had just finished harvesting, threw down their hoes and went to the barracks, where the lack of officers, weapons, and even the most basic uniforms could not be provided, all in such a hurry, just as the Russian Empire was hastily preparing for the coming decisive battle. Although, as a result of the strike, 20,000 troops had been massed in St. Petersburg in preparation for martial law, the needs of the front eventually led to the transfer of two brigades of elite troops from these units to reinforce the more pressing front.

In St. Petersburg, the workers finally completed the final call. Finally, on October 3, the workers, carrying the portrait of the Tsar under the banner of the Orthodox Church, marched to the Winter Palace in several ways, and along the way, the workers gathered more and more, at first, only about 70,000 workers and their families participated in the petition, but only a few hundred thousand people participated in the petition, and along the way there were more and more people joining, ordinary citizens, intellectuals, and young students.

But there were no Socialist-Revolutionaries - who had warned them more than once in the last five days that the workers would be shot, and they told them that freedom was not obtained by petitioning the Tsar, but by taking up arms, but that they could not stop the march of people petitioning the Winter Palace, and that many of the workers believed that the Tsar would help them, and that Ulyanov and others, while understanding, were also preparing for this, in the factory area, They had set up a workers' picket armed with thousands of workers - in the name of maintaining order, of course, and when the workers petitioned and left the area, the workers' pickets took up hidden weapons.

Along the way, the petitioning workers saw troops in several places, and they thought they were there to maintain order, but they didn't care. On the Hermitage Square, military and police officers with loaded guns were already on standby. Father Gabang was at the forefront, and the workers followed him, and they took the whole family - wives, children and the elderly - to their Tsar, their "Bayushka", that is, their little fathers, and the unarmed people just carried the portrait of the Tsar, carried the church flag, and sang prayer songs. By the time they arrived at the Winter Palace, the procession had already exceeded 300,000 people, and on this day, almost the entire city came.

"We want to see the Tsar!"

In the Hermitage, in the face of the heavily armed military police, Father Gabon addressed their request to the military police, and it was clear that this request of his could not be fulfilled - because the Tsar was not in the Winter Palace - and now Tsar Mikhail II was crying in the Tsarskoye Village, for his fleet, for his army.

After receiving no answer to their demands, the workers began to preach their petitions to the citizens.

"We, the workers of St. Petersburg, together with our wives and sons and our elderly and frail parents, have come to ask for justice and protection from His Majesty the Tsar, who is living in hardship, oppression, bullying, humiliation and inhuman treatment...... We have endured it again and again, but we are being pushed day by day into the abyss of misery, disharmony and ignorance, and the tyranny and tyranny that oppresses us...... Patience has reached its limit, and we have reached the terrible moment when it is better to die than to let this unbearable pain continue......"

In the Russian tradition, the good people have always revered their tsar, calling him "Bayushka" Tsar, that is, the tsar who loves his people like a father, and they are full of hope that their "little father" will love them as he did in the past, but at some point, the news has been circulating - the petition march was instigated by Chinese spies, and the leaders of the procession were many rebels with Chinese funds to try to overthrow the Russian Empire. This, coupled with the uprisings that broke out in Finland, Poland, and elsewhere, made the Ministry of the Interior inclined to believe that the petition was orchestrated by the enemy.

It is for this reason that, unlike in the past, the government did not intervene to protect the workers, but ordered the workers to leave and return to the factories or their homes, of course, they did not immediately force them to leave, but told them that the Tsar was not in the Winter Palace.

At noon on that day, the army in the square ordered the petitioners to disperse, but the petitioners continued to advance, and in the face of these unwilling crowds, in order to block their assault on the Winter Palace, the troops lined up in front opened fire, and the sound of gunfire rang out.

Standing there, lined up with soldiers, constantly pulling the trigger, in front of them immediately fell a group of workers and their families, the sound of gunfire, so that the petitioning crowd immediately became confused, in order to avoid the bullets, people began to scatter and flee, but by this time it was too late, the Cossack horse team immediately rushed over, on the heads of the sabers flying, the military horses rushed and trampled, the unfortunate people like a toppled stake, lying on the side and lying in a large area, until the crowd in the square was dispersed, There was a moaning and cursing everywhere.

At the same time, gunshots rang out in other parts of Petersburg. The streets near the Hermitage Square were also littered with corpses, a scene that reminded the people of Petersburg of the suppression of the Decembrists 80 years ago, in the winter, when the snow melted from the ground with blood, and that time it was an artillery bombardment, and 1,300 innocent people alone died.

How many people died on the Hermitage Square on this day?

No one knows, but when the shots go off, nothing can be changed.

"Great!"

At the time of the gunfire, when the news of the soldiers shooting at the workers on the Hermitage Square came, and when the news of the killing of the workers and their families came, a cry of ecstasy came from the mouth of Ulyanov.

"No matter how many people died in the past, they did not shake the pious faith of the common people in the Tsar, and at most a thousand handfuls of human blood made this awe and illusion disappear in an instant, and the butcher's mark was stamped on the face of the Tsar "Bayushka". Now this shot has officially parted ways between the Russian people and the Romanov dynasty, comrades, this is exactly the revolutionary ...... we have been waiting for for a long time"

Ulyanov's whole body became a little excited, and he walked back and forth, talking as he went.

"Now, we need to act now and set up barricades here...... No! ”

Shaking his head, Ulyanov said resolutely.

"Let's not set up barricades here, our pickets, the workers' armies, are now going to protect our comrades, we are going to march on the Winter Palace, although our strength is still weak, but the anger of the workers will change everything, after all, their friends, their wives and children, their parents died at the hands of the Tsar, comrades, this is the opportunity we have been waiting for for a long time......"

The deaths and injuries of the workers, for these professional revolutionaries, seemed to be insignificant, nor did they arouse any sympathy in them, and they even secretly applauded the deaths and injuries of the workers, because all this confirmed their initial judgment that the Tsar was brutal, that he would have shot at the people, and now that they had indeed fired, it meant that an armed uprising was possible, and all that remained was for them to ignite this powder keg, to set the powder keg of Russia on fire!

"I'm going to Kronstadt!"

Almost as soon as Ulyanov's words fell, Trotsky spoke,

"I went there to mobilize the sailors there, and I heard that now the tsar is ready to mobilize all the fleets again to attack China, and I think the sailors there will never want to send them to death......"

No one knows from whom he got the news, but everyone knows that he went to Kronstadt to incite the sailors to join the revolution.

"There are other barracks, and we must mobilize every force as much as possible, at least keep some forces neutral!" (To be continued.) )