In mid-May 1917, the Bolsheviks seemed to be experiencing defeat against all their opponents, and the Cadets, the Progressives, the Octobers, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks formed a grand coalition government which soon had the support of the overwhelming majority of the Soviets in Russia, and the Russian troops at the front seemed to be on the side of this grand coalition.
And, of course, the Great Powers such as Anglo-American, French, etc.
Congratulatory telegrams flew like snowflakes to the Palazzo Maria and Tavlida, and the newspapers were full of praise, except for the Bolshevik Pravda, which was still publishing articles in vain invecting the Provisional Government and the policy of war.
However, most people were not interested in it, and now there was a truly revolutionary government in Russia, and everyone expected it.
The peasants wanted to get their land early.
When workers want to increase wages and reduce work, it is better to divide the factory.
Ordinary citizens want enough bread and milk, and preferably meat.
And the soldiers at the front had a "minister of persuasion" who could speak the most beautiful language and persuade them to go to death so-so "I can't provide a big meal, but I can make you die with honor," Lenin shouted out Kerensky's slogan in a contagious tone in a richly decorated living room.
Comrade Lenin looked at the expressionless Hersman and sighed: "That's really good, I was a little touched by him, he was really a brilliant agitator Otto, if you were an officer of the Russian army, would you also be moved?"
"Yes" Hersmann nodded, as an officer brainwashed by German nationalism, there are no conditions to die for the country.
"Most of the Russian officers too," Lenin nodded as well, taking a sip of Chloe's coffee, "as for the soldiers, hot-headed people also exist, and as far as I know, there are quite a few women in the city of St.
Petersburg who have also been agitated to sign up for the women's death camp. ” Hersman knew about these women, and they, along with the cadets of the military academy, were historically the last armed forces of the Provisional Government in Petersburg.
It was these people who defended the Winter Palace on the eve of the October Revolution.
The mentor raised his head, looked at Hersman, and said word by word: "Moreover, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks were influential in the soldiers' councils at the front.
Kerensky also gave persuasion speeches all over the front line in an attempt to boost morale.
Maybe there's going to be a decent offense."
Lenin seemed to be a little anxious, and it was the first time that Hersmann had known Lenin for more than two months, and it was the first time he had seen such emotions exude such emotions.
Now the Bolsheviks had rallied all the anti-war forces, and there were not many of them enough to overthrow the "Provisional Government of the Great Black Cauldron".
Unless the offensive organized by the Provisional Government turned out to be a complete disaster, the soldiers of the Petersburg garrison, who had supported the war, would fall to the Bolsheviks, or they would have to die on the battlefield.
With their support, the revolution will succeed But if the Provisional Government wins, it will not be a big victory, but a small victory, and then Kerensky will use that eloquent mouth to propagandize, and the prestige of the Provisional Government will immediately rise dramatically.
At that time, Lenin and the Bolsheviks will be completely out of play For Lenin, the opposition war was certainly the only right choice, but it was also a gamble on the defeat of the Russian offensive, and the Bolsheviks were "right" to take advantage of the opportunity.
Otherwise, the Bolsheviks were finished.
"Otto, there won't be any problems at the front," Etel was also in the living room, sitting side by side with Hersman on a large fluffy sofa, as if he was also a little worried.
"Yes, the latest news, German and Austro-Hungarian troops are being transferred out of the Eastern Front," Stalin also asked with concern.
He came with Lenin, and it seems that the purpose was to get to the bottom of Hersmann, and since Ettel had leaked his mouth in Switzerland, Lenin had long known that Hersmann had been sent by the German General Staff.
Later, Hersman's performance as chairman of the soldiers' council of the 1st Petersburg Machine Gun Regiment also proved that he was a professional soldier with quite good qualities.
Hersman knew about the "Kerensky offensive" because it was so funny that many people knew about it in later generations.
However, Hersmann only knew that Kerensky had to organize an offensive of hundreds of thousands of people after Kerensky had wasted his old nose, and was defeated by the German-Austrian forces in less than 10 days, and after this battle, Russia's military power on the front line completely collapsed.
By the time Comrade Lenin came to power, Russia had no force at all to stop Germany's actions.
So we can only take what we want from Germany In other words, the Brest Treaty, which almost killed the hair, actually had Kerensky's responsibility, and if he had not put together the old roots of the Russian army, Germany would probably not have forced Lenin like this.
However, a few months after the signing of the Treaty of Brest, the same disaster befell the Germans themselves: the revolution broke the army, making resistance impossible, and then Britain and France imposed the yoke of Versailles If the Russian Provisional Government had withdrawn from the war immediately after the February Revolution, Germany would have been able to launch the Ludendorff Offensive a year earlier, not in the spring of 1918, but in the spring of 1917, when the United States had not even entered the war and France was likely to be beaten out of the war It can be said that it was the sacrifice of the Russian Provisional Government that allowed Britain and the United States to win the First World War and prevent Europe from being dominated by the German Empire.
Hersmann sighed softly, although he knew that he did not have enough power to reverse the fate of the Second German Reich, he should still do everything possible to buy time for the Reich.
You can't get a year anyway, but if you can try it in two months, try to bring forward the October Revolution to August "No, there will be no problem," said Hersmann with certainty, "that General Max Hoffmann was a genius, and that the plan for the Battle of Tannenberg was actually drawn up by him, and that Admiral Ludendorff and Field Marshal Hindenburg only signed on the plan that had been drawn up.
With him on the Eastern Front, the Russian offensive will inevitably suffer an extremely painful defeat, and I have already reported the news of the imminent offensive of the Russian army to the General Staff. ” This is an admission of who you really are, but it is absolutely necessary.
Because Hersmann feared that Lenin and the Bolsheviks would lose their breath and launch an uprising before the final victory or defeat of the front was decided.
This would expose the relationship between the Bolsheviks and Germany, although now everyone in Petersburg knows that Lenin received the Golden Mark, and it is estimated that many people have also received it from the Bolsheviks, but the receipt of the Golden Mark and the knife that came out to stab the Russian Motherland at a critical moment are two different things.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks were pro-German, and now all the factions in the Provisional Government had a foreign financier behind them.
But the problem is that the Russian Empire can have its current borders on the basis of safeguarding Russia's fundamental interests, and its domestic nationalism is of course very strong If Lenin had played the wrong card on this issue, his victory would have been delayed.
Hersmann looked at Lenin with blazing eyes, "Vladimir Ilyich, I think you should have guessed my real identity, I am not a German socialist, I am a staff officer of the Great General Staff of the German Empire, named Ludwig von Hersmann."
I had fought the Russian army on the Eastern Front for four years, and I was well aware of the strength of the German army on the Eastern Front.
Although the Austro-Hungarian army was unreliable, our German army was very strong, and even before the revolution, a major offensive by the Russian army had to be carefully and carefully planned.
Playing like the Provisional Government now, 100 percent will not win. ” He saw that Lenin and Stalin were still worried, and they were definitely not worried about the Russian troops on the front, so he smiled coldly and said: "Why don't you do this, Vladimir Ilyich, arrange for me to go to the front line, and then arrange for me to meet with the Bolshevik commissars of soldiers at the front, so that I can know the direction of the main attack of the Russian army." ” Knowing the direction of the main attack, the Germans will be able to make corresponding adjustments, and if they can't win the battle, they won't be the Germans, and Comrade Lenin breathed a sigh of relief, and with this reassurance, he could wait in Petersburg to see Kerensky's jokes Is there still a collection and a recommendation, Rollo needs a little motivation. t1706231537: