In February 1919, when the flu was still mildly ravaging the world, the situation in Russia finally took a step ahead of Germany and exploded like a barrel of dynamite.

Naturally, there is no need to repeat the dispute between the three major powers of Russia, and what caused the direct explosion of this explosive barrel was naturally the military equipment that Nicholas II exchanged from Australasia.

The bourgeois government of Russia was the real ruler of Russia, the Moscow region controlled by the workers' union was the local power, and Tsar Nicholas II was the representative of the aristocratic power.

All three of these powers controlled a considerable part of the army, of which the bourgeois government nominally controlled all the armies of the original tsarist government, and even more than 7 million people in wartime.

Of course, the Russian government's statistics on the number of soldiers were also very exaggerated. According to the actual statistics of the bourgeois government, the Russian army on the front line is only more than 5 million people, but this is definitely not a small number.

After the armistice, the Russian government urgently reduced the army of more than 5 million men.

To be honest, and the reparations from Germany, the Russian government could not support such a large number of troops.

After a considerable downsizing, the Russian government controlled only a little more than 1 million troops, which can also be said to have restored the size of the pre-war tsarist government's army.

However, this also led to the problem that the Russian government did not properly resettle this part of the soldiers who were laid off.

The devastation of the war on Russia was enormous, and the damage to the Russian economy was enormous.

As a result, the Russian government did not have enough jobs for these discharged soldiers, and the discharged soldiers had to return to their old jobs and become peasants again.

The problem is that a significant part of these discharged soldiers live in Eastern Europe. Their homes have suffered a lot of damage, but they have not compensated for it.

The Russian government paid only a small pension for the wounded and killed, and the amount of this pension was not even as high as the salary of the soldiers.

This is also nothing, the important thing is that a considerable number of soldiers who fought in World War I for the Russian government were dismissed by the government without receiving enough salaries.

As a result, a large number of Russian soldiers were not satisfied with this treatment, and many soldiers even took to the streets to protest and demand that the government give them adequate salaries and compensation.

The contradictions that erupted between the government and the soldiers saw an opportunity for both Nicholas II and the Workers' Union.

The two powers began to frantically absorb these disgruntled soldiers, waiting to deal him a fatal blow at the most vulnerable moment of the Russian bourgeois government.

Soon, Nicholas II and the Workers' Union waited for the opportunity.

With the outbreak of the pandemic, it became clear that the Russian government had no precautions and hundreds of thousands of deaths were born within a matter of months.

And that's not even the worst of it, because of the pandemic, there are a lot of supplies that can't be transported to the city at all.

Workers and civilians in the cities were short of supplies, and there was considerable famine and chaos.

These famines and chaos further affected the order of the city, making it more difficult for goods from other areas to enter the city.

Under the influence of one ring after another, the order in Russia was close to collapsing.

Although the official number of deaths due to the flu in Russia is less than a million, the number of people dying of starvation has already exceeded one million.

Even if the Russian government imported large quantities of grain from Britain, France, and Australasia, it simply did not have enough manpower to transport it to the major cities and put it into the hands of the famine-stricken population.

People were outraged by the lack of food and emergency supplies they should have, and they began to march in the streets, which also exacerbated the outbreak.

Although Nicholas II and the Workers' Union were keenly aware of the opportunity, it was clear that they did not dare to take any action while the pandemic was raging.

Regardless of whether the operation is successful or not, the pandemic will take a huge toll on people, and it may even directly undermine their operations.

After all, the reason why the Russian people are dissatisfied with the bourgeois government is because the bourgeois government does not protect the rights of soldiers and people, and because the government's negligence has caused a large number of casualties among the people.

If Nicholas II and the Workers' Union could not put an end to this, they would be no different from the bourgeois government, and naturally they would not be able to win the support of the people.

Both forces are waiting for a more opportune opportunity, an opportunity where the pandemic is not so serious.

As we moved into 1919, the flu was actually less severe. Although it is not possible to say that the second wave of the flu is completely over, the number of infected people in Europe has fallen below 1 million, and the number of infected people in Russia combined is less than 500,000.

And most of the infected people at this time are mild, which also means that the flu is not so deadly now.

After much deliberation, Nicholas II decided to take the lead in regaining power from the bourgeois government, then to destroy the workers' union in Moscow and re-establish Russia as a great Tsarist Russia.

Before the operation, Nicholas II contacted several generals in the army who were loyal to the royal family, and through these generals he controlled hundreds of thousands of Russian troops.

These armies will be the guarantee of Nicholas II's regaining power, and after regaining power, Nicholas II also intends to quickly expand his army to more than 1 million with Australasian weapons and equipment, and maintain absolute suppression of the bourgeois government and the workers' union.

Nicholas II's fantasy was actually very good, after all, the bourgeois government was now unpopular with the people, and Nicholas II felt that he would be able to win the allegiance of a large number of Russian people with a wave of his arms.

Combined with hundreds of thousands of Russian troops and a large amount of weaponry, it will not be difficult for the bourgeois government to seize power and successfully eliminate the workers' union.

On February 15, 1919, a Russian army raided St. Petersburg and soon took control of the seat of government and the Winter Palace.

The people of St. Petersburg watched this exactly the same plot as two years ago, and they panicked and returned to their houses, locking their doors and windows and not daring to make a sound.

The Russian bourgeois government is naturally mindful of the ways in which it seizes power, and is always on the lookout for ways like this to seize power.

But the problem is that the attitude of the bourgeois government towards pensions chills the soldiers, and the inevitable impact of the pandemic on some soldiers' families, has led to a significant reduction in the loyalty of the troops stationed outside St. Petersburg to the bourgeois government.

Coupled with the fact that this army was the cause of the sneak attack, the bourgeois government and the Winter Palace were taken over by this army before they could react, and Nicholas II regained his power.

News of Nicholas II's actions soon reached Moscow, and the Workers' Union decided to expand its territory into Ukraine and the Caucasus, creating a situation of division between the north and the south of St. Petersburg.

In fact, this is also a helpless choice, after all, St. Petersburg, the center of political power in Russia at present, has been controlled by Nicholas II, and it is no less difficult for the Workers' Union to seize St. Petersburg than it is to occupy the whole of Russia at this moment.

Ukraine and the Caucasus in the south are better controlled by the Workers' Union than Poland and St. Petersburg, which are heavily fortified in the north.

On 17 February, the Workers' Union launched an operation. The Bolshevik Party openly criticized the government's withholding of military salaries and pensions, and accused the government of inaction during the flu.

In order to make its actions look less like a rebellion, the Workers' League officially declared that it would break away from the rule of the Russian Provisional Government and form Soviet Russia, with Moscow as its capital.

The Workers' League declared to the whole of Russia the creation of a truly fair and just state, to bring to all Russians the idea of democracy, to protect Russians from the oppression of all classes.

Along with the hype of the newly formed Soviet state, there was also the behavior of the workers' union during the flu.

It has to be commended that the Workers' Union has a very good control over the Moscow region.

As a result, immediately after the outbreak of the flu, the workers' union established a fairly rational system of material distribution.

Although it is inevitable that a significant part of the citizens of the Moscow region will be infected with the flu, this centralized distribution system ensures that almost all the people of the Moscow region have enough food to fill their stomachs and do not cause too much famine in the region.

While this is nothing compared to the free and adequate food supply in Australasia, the Workers' Union's system during the flu was quite good compared to the chaotic management of the Russian government.

It was also the external achievement of the Workers' League, which was hyped up by the Workers' League as the standard of absolute fairness and justice in the new Soviet Russia.

After all, during the flu, the top of all parties of the Workers' Union and the people distributed the same proportions of supplies, and there was no distinction between the top of the government and the people.

Compared to the lavish banquets held by the top brass of the Russian government during the flu, the Workers' Union is indeed fair and impartial.

But it can't avoid the occurrence of small stoves and special cases, but on the whole it is not biased, at least so that the people can have something to eat.

Thanks to the achievements of its peers, the Workers' Union is still very popular in the surrounding areas of Moscow.

Although the Ukrainian regions are not so welcoming to the workers' union, Ukraine's strength does not allow them to resist, or they cannot resist for long, compared to the workers' union, which has a larger army.

By the time the European countries and Arthur received the news, the Workers' Union and Nicholas II had successfully completed the partition between the north and the south, and Russia had changed from a three-legged rivalry to a two-legged rivalry in an instant.

Tsarist Russia controlled the entire Polish region, in addition to the Baltic coast, as well as Eastern Europe north of the Volga.

Soviet Russia, which was controlled by the workers' union, controlled southern Eastern Europe, south of the Volga, including most of Ukraine.

Although the hand of the Workers' Union has not yet reached Transnistria, it is already inevitable.

Siberia, outside of Eastern Europe, has not yet been affected by the separation of powers.

After all, the Russian region outside Eastern Europe was too barren to play a decisive role in Russia's civil strife.

Nicholas II and the Workers' Union valued each other's rivalry, and whoever could control the whole of Eastern Europe also represented the initiative to rule the whole of Russia.

Nicholas II, who had experienced a great setback, also understood the importance of winning the hearts and minds of the people.

Under the premise that the Workers' Union was vigorously co-opting the civilian class, Nicholas II also announced that he would pay back pensions to all soldiers who had dedicated themselves to the First World War, a move that immediately won the favor of a large number of soldiers, and even shouted long live Nicholas II in the army!

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