Chapter 45: Revolution and *** Collaboration

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was about to collapse, and even the Germans in the empire were planning to "self-determine". The Hungarians also understood that their beloved Hungarian motherland would face a cruel fate. Woodrow Johnson's "Fourteen Points of Peace" was not about liberating Hungary, but about dismembering it. Hungary would never achieve the goals of the 1848 Revolution, and the independent and unified Greater Hungary that Ludwig Kossuth fought for would never appear. What the Allies were going to impose on the Hungarians was a much smaller country, about 25% to 30% of the territory of Greater Hungary. In addition, millions or even tens of millions of Hungarians would become "ethnic minorities" in foreign countries. This was unacceptable to any patriotic Hungarian.

So after the "ethnic minorities" in the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to declare autonomy or independence one after another. On October 30, 1918, the third day of the Czech Revolution. Budapest, the capital of Hungary, also became a sea of ​​revolution! Hungarians wearing autumn roses on their chests flooded into the streets like a tide, and then there was a mutiny in the Hungarian Defense Forces. That night, the demonstration and mutiny evolved into an armed uprising! The next day, Budapest fell into the hands of the insurgents.

Although the leader of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party, Mihaly Karoli, tried to maintain a united Austro-Hungarian Federation - this was not stupidity, but true love! Any German officer who has studied the Austro-Hungarian Empire knows that Hungarians love the Austro-Hungarian Empire more than Germans. Because the Germans still have Greater Germany (German-Austrian merger), and Hungarians can only rely on an alliance with the Germans to have a Greater Hungary. Of course, some Hungarians have realized that they can no longer rely on Germany, but have to fight on their own.

On November 1, the Hungarian Revolutionary Socialists (the predecessor of the Hungarian Bolshevik Party) organized a large-scale mass meeting and announced the unanimous demands of the domestic working people: to establish a republic immediately and sever all ties with the dynasty! At the same time, many Soviets of workers and soldiers' representatives also sprang up all over Hungary like mushrooms after rain - they are of course ancestors who cannot be offended, and will definitely make Hungary as chaotic as Russia. For the Hungarian Bolsheviks, which had not yet been formally established, this was an opportunity that came a little too early!

Just as the Austro-Hungarian Empire was about to die and the revolutionary storm was about to sweep across Central Europe. A train that seemed to be about to fall apart arrived at the Riga train station, which seemed to be a place isolated from the revolution. Inside the train station, everything was in order. The platform was bustling with workers loading and unloading goods, passengers getting on and off the train, and people coming to pick them up.

Hersman's fiancée Chloe was waiting for someone on the platform with a dozen plainclothes Stasi agents. When she saw the train stop, she stretched her neck and looked around. Suddenly, she seemed to see the passengers she was waiting for and shouted.

"Mrs. Kollontai, Mrs. Kollontai! I'm here!"

It turned out that she was going to greet Mrs. Kollontai, the Soviet Russian secret envoy who came all the way from Moscow today. After Hersman sent the news that Hindenburg agreed to send arms to Budapest and asked to keep in touch with the Bolsheviks to Moscow by telegram. Lenin immediately asked Mrs. Kollontai and the representatives of the Hungarian Bolsheviks to take the fastest train and secretly go to Riga, the capital of the United Baltic Principality. In this era of drastic changes, all kinds of possibilities exist, so Comrade Lenin will not rule out any options, including secretly maintaining relations with the Germans while tearing their faces on the surface.

"Comrade Kollontai, someone is calling you." Following Kollontai off the train was Comrade Ren Fuchen, a member of the "Chinese Red Army" (his fate was different from that in history, because the Red Army received more weapons, he did not die in the Soviet-Russian Civil War in 1918, and he also met Hessman before and after the October Revolution). He had pointed ears and was tall, and he found Chloe. "It's Ms. Heinsberg, she came to the train station to pick us up."

Getting off the train with Ren Fuchen was a young white man in his early twenties, tall and strong, with a big face, a pair of piercing eyes and a hooked nose that made him look a little treacherous. He looked in the direction of Ren Fuchen's finger and frowned.

"There are a lot of plainclothes agents there!"

"Nagy, those are Stasi fighters." Mrs. Kollontai turned around and said to the man with a hooked nose in Hungarian. "These people are the Baltic Cheka!"

"Aren't they secret police serving the Baltic bourgeoisie and landlords?" The Hungarian named Nagy shrugged, "What's the difference between them and the secret police of the Austro-Hungarian emperor?"

"Of course they are different!" Mrs. Kollontai said, "If you are captured by Karl I's secret police, you will be treated as a political F, serve your sentence in a prison with a good environment, eat better than outside, and don't have to work. There will be many lawyers and celebrities running for you, and you will be released soon. If you fall into the hands of the Stasi, you will be beaten mercilessly for three days and three nights without sleep, and then you will either betray the revolution or be shot!"

"Oh my God, Comrade Kollontai, are you telling the truth?"

"Of course it's true!" Kollontai said, "Our organization in the Baltic was destroyed by them!"

In fact, the destruction of various Soviets in the United Baltic Principalities was the result of the joint efforts of the SS and the Stasi, and it was the SS that played the main role. Compared with the Defense Force, the Stasi was, after all, an organization that had just opened its doors, and most of its personnel had either just completed training or were currently undergoing training. Moreover, the training they received had little to do with secret service work - the Stasi still had a long way to go before becoming truly powerful.

However, in the early days of its establishment, the Stasi had already shown enough ferocity!

While the two were talking in Hungarian, Chloe had already walked over with several Stasi agents.

"Alexandra, it's so nice to see you."

"Chloe, me too."

Kollontai and Chloe hugged and kissed each other affectionately, as if they were best friends. Then Kollontai pointed to the two people behind him and said: "This is Vasily, whom you knew when you were in Petrograd. This is Nagy Imre, he is a Hungarian and the representative of Comrade Bela." "

"Comrade Imre, nice to meet you." Chloe stepped forward and shook hands with Najib, greeting him in unfamiliar Hungarian. The other person replied in fluent German, "I'm very happy too, ma'am."

"Where's Ludwig? I thought he would come to the train station?" Kollontai asked Chloe, "Isn't he not in Riga?"

Chloe said: "He is in Riga because a big event happened, so he is giving a speech in the square outside the train station. We can see him when we go out."

On the square outside the station, a rally was being held at the moment. People were holding black cross flags on a white background - this is the flag of the United Baltic Principality - and they were also wearing field gray German Army uniforms, but they were obviously not German soldiers. The uniforms There are no collar insignias or military ranks, and most of them are elderly people and teenagers.

However, they still formed a quite neat formation in the square, as if they were an army being reviewed. Outside these neat teams, there were people wearing ordinary people's clothes, mostly Latvians living in Riga, looking at the organized Germans in fear and confusion.

The policy of relocating Latvians was implemented somewhat slowly because of a reluctance to take too drastic measures. In the past few months, less than 150,000 Latvians have been properly resettled in northern Lithuania, and they have all received more land than before - in the original Courland and Livland, most Latvians were relatively poor.

But not a single citizen living in Riga was driven away. According to the census of the Courland Autonomous Government, there are currently more than 400,000 Latvians in the Courland Autonomous State! In addition, there are many difficult-to-prove German and Latvian hybrids who will be recognized as Germans.

Opposite the train station waiting building, on a temporary high wooden platform, Hessmann, fully dressed in military uniform, was delivering a speech to tens of thousands of Baltics - the skills he learned in the Russian Revolution could finally be used in the Baltics. !

“…Today, I would like to take this opportunity to address you because our nation has reached a critical moment in its survival.

At 10 o'clock this morning, a great German country, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, gave up the struggle, gave up the hope of survival, and surrendered unconditionally to the enemies determined to destroy it! Half a month ago, the Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Karl I, who wanted to end the war and achieve peace, had issued a statement accepting the "Fourteen Points of Peace Conditions" proposed by US President Woodrow Johnson. It is this American president who has been harping on the whole of Europe since January this year, promising that he will bring a just peace, as long as we Germans accept his "Fourteen Points for Peace".

Karl I accepted, thereby destroying the Millennium Habsburg dynasty and the great Austro-Hungarian Empire. But what about a just peace? where is it? What about Woodrow Johnson's guarantee? Where is it?

Facts have proved that Woodrow Johnson and his country have no credibility! Their guarantees are worthless! It is a complete lie to deceive our German nation! Don't say that Americans can't convince Britain and France! Everyone knows that Americans are the saviors of British and French imperialism, and Britain and France cannot lose the United States. More than a year ago we came close to winning the war and achieving true justice, unity and lasting prosperity in Europe. If there were not millions of Americans armed to the teeth coming from across the Atlantic to support, a great Europe with the German nation at its core would have emerged!

Today's unconditional surrender of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the United States' repeated refusal to negotiate with the German Empire on the basis of the "Fourteen Points of Peace" can only illustrate the fact that the United States is here to destroy Germany and Europe, not to help us. …

Baltic German compatriots, what should we do in the face of this shameless, ferocious enemy who wants to destroy us? "

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