Chapter 49 The Working Class Needs a Rest

November 3rd is Kiel Port and November 5th is Hamburg, which shows that the fire of revolution is spreading in Germany!

After hearing Lieutenant Rosenberg's report, the faces of the people dining, except Hessmann, all changed drastically. Hersmann had long known that the November Revolution that started in the port of Kiel would destroy the Second German Reich... and was also the origin of the Third German Reich. This was not just random talk, but Hessmann had been A conclusion drawn from careful observation of German society during the First World War coupled with his knowledge of subsequent history.

From the port of Kiel to Hamburg and then to Berlin, the Second Reich collapsed in a matter of days, Wilhelm II went into exile in the Netherlands, and the arrogant German army fell apart. This shows that the Junker military aristocracy headed by the Hohenzollern dynasty no longer has enough power to suppress the opposition forces within Germany. Moreover, Juncker's power will be further weakened with the defeat of the war and the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. Correspondingly, there is the rise of the power of the German people.

It was the anger of the people that destroyed the Second Empire, causing it to crumble while it was still militarily viable. But when the German people thought that the Entente would fulfill its promise and give the German people peace in accordance with the "Fourteen Points of Peace Conditions". The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles gave the German people another blow.

The German people have been deceived. The pain of peace given by the Allies far outweighs the resistance to the end!

Then, greater and more devastating anger arose in the hearts of tens of millions of German people. This anger became the strength of the German National Socialist Workers' Party and the German Bolshevik Party.

What the Allies did at that time was to continue to restrict and weaken Juncker, instead of supporting the peace-loving Social Democratic Party, and let the Germans face the choice between the Bolshevik Party and the Nazis... and then let the rising Germany Beat them up - whether the Nazis or the Bolsheviks rule Germany, it will be a disaster for the Allies!

"I think... the disaster in Russia will not happen in Germany, right?" Grand Duchess Olga broke the dead silence in the restaurant.

"It depends on the Allies." Hersman shrugged. "Now Hungary has almost become a Bolshevik world... although the Hungarian Bolshevik Party has not yet been formally established! If they want to treat Germany like Hungary, then the German Bolsheviks He will also take charge!"

"God, what can I do?" The Grand Duchess glanced at her beer-bellied admiral.

"We must act immediately!" Yudenich shouted, "I must return to the United Baltic Principality immediately and assemble our soldiers there!"

He wants to rally White Russians in Estonia! After the August Revolution in 1917, many Belarusians fled from the Bolshevik-controlled areas to Finland, Poland, Lithuania and the United Baltic Principalities. A considerable number of them are not willing to live in exile overseas for a lifetime, and Yudenich is their leader.

The Grand Duchess looked at Hersmann again, asking for his opinion. She is not yet the real King of the Baltic States. The Germans have more than 100,000 troops there, and there is also a very mysterious Stasi organization. As the monarch of the Baltic States, the Grand Duchess does not even know about the Stasi. Who is the leader of the West Organization? I don’t even know how many people there are in this organization and what they are doing?

However, the Grand Duchess felt that she was not far from the day when she would truly take power.

"Your Majesty!" Because the Grand Duchess was already the king of a country, Hessman called her "Your Majesty." "If we call up the White Guards in Estonia, the non-aggression pact we just signed will be a piece of paper."

"Isn't it waste paper now?" The Grand Duchess's voice was a little displeased - the revolution that was about to break out in Germany meant that the United Baltic Principalities would be freed from German control, and by then she would be a monarch with power. Then, her voice became gentle again: "Colonel, I am the second heir to the Russian throne, and my brother Alexei suffers from severe hemophilia and is not suitable to inherit the throne."

This woman is actually dreaming of being a queen!

"Colonel, if you help me achieve my ideals." The Grand Duchess looked at Hersman again with tender eyes, "You will be my best friend. In the future... you can become the prince of the empire!"

Become a prince of the Russian Empire? What a big picture cake! It is a pity that Germany is about to end, and Britain, France and the United States will not spend their blood to support the Tsar.

"Thank you for your trust, my Majesty." Hessman dismissed the Grand Duchess's proposal in his heart, but he still dealt with it respectfully. "So when do we set off back to Polo?"

"The general will leave first to organize the royalists." The Archduchess frowned and said, "I still want to stay... to meet the future leaders of Germany! Colonel, I don't think they will be Bolsheviks, right?"

Obviously, Nicholas II and his daughter also had their own little calculations. It was easier to contact the West by staying in Berlin than in the United Baltic Principality. Now that Germany is about to end, the only people who may support the restoration of the Tsar are the West.

"No," Hersman said. "That seems to be the case at the moment."

"Colonel," the Archduchess smiled sweetly, "can you accompany me to meet the future German leader?"

Hessman was stunned, not yet thinking about how to answer. The Grand Duchess seemed to be pleading and said: "You are my military adjutant and my most trusted Baltic official... I hope that you can hold more important positions in the future Baltic and Russian Empires."

"Okay, I'll try to arrange it." Hessman said, looking at Chloe again, and then said, "But your majesty, you can't stay in the Glienicko Palace. If something happens, you can't run away!"

"Where should I go?"

"In Berlin, at Chloe's and my home. Let Chloe accompany you, and leave Berlin immediately if there is any trouble."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

...

Hessman took the Grand Duchess back to his home in Berlin, which was completely a precaution. But his arrangement really saved Olga Nikolayevna's life!

Because the internationalist fighters sent by his good friend Comrade Lenin had arrived in Berlin. On the night when Hessman, Chloe, Rosenberg and others accompanied the Grand Duchess into Berlin. Internationalist fighters Berzin and Yurovsky were attending a meeting in a large hotel on Kurfürstendamm not far from Hessman's home.

This was a meeting that made them a little discouraged. This was an important meeting of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. The meeting discussed launching an armed uprising in Berlin! The Spartacist faction of the Independent Social Democratic Party, which later became the German Bolshevik Party, proposed this suggestion. However, the Spartacist faction was too weak and could only rely on the Independent Social Democratic Party, which had a more radical stance than the German Social Democratic Party.

But the Independent Social Democratic Party was still the Social Democratic Party after all!

"Comrade Haase! We should hold a general strike immediately and then turn to an armed uprising!" Liebknecht shouted at the meeting.

"Immediately? It's the evening of November 5th, and tomorrow is the 6th. The 7th and 8th are paydays, so it's not appropriate to act." Hugo Haase, the chairman of the Independent Social Democratic Party, a Jew in his 50s with a Marxist beard, shook his head repeatedly.

"Then launch a strike on the 9th and an armed uprising on the 10th!" Liebknecht walked back and forth in the room, looking very anxious. Now is a critical moment! The Spartacists already knew that the Tsar and the Kaiser, the two most reactionary people on the European continent, had joined forces. Once the Allies spared Germany under the mediation of the Tsar, not only would the German proletarian revolution fail, but even the Russian revolution might fail under the joint intervention of Britain, France and Germany!

“The 9th, the 10th… those are Saturday and Sunday!” Hugo Haazes spread his hands and said in embarrassment, “The working class needs to rest. Are we going to deprive them of their right to rest by revolting?”

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