Chapter 54 ***Hacker
Historical truth is sometimes more interesting than fiction—Hessman is now swimming in historical truth. He was not involved in the formulation of the "Free Corps Plan". There were probably similar plans in history.
Otherwise, how could the fruits of victory of the vigorous German November Revolution fall into the hands of the Social Democratic Party, the Juncker Corps and the bourgeoisie?
To this question, Hirschmann has now found the answer. The fruits of victory of the German revolution turned out to be hacked by hackers. Before the climax of the revolution arrived, the forces opposed to the revolution had prepared Trojan horse viruses and planted them in the revolutionary ranks. Hersman had most of the day to train more than two hundred Trojan viruses named "Soldier Council Chairman." They will be divided into fifty-one squads, and then join the "scabs" sent by Albert to control the fifty-one barracks in Berlin. The officers in the barracks have received orders to fully cooperate with these "social democratic" agitators.
In addition, the wily Schleicher had also assembled one hundred and two carriages full of butter, cheese, bacon, sausages, eggs, beer and cigarettes in advance... While eating, drinking and reasoning, the effect should not be bad, right? ?
As for how to make sense and what kind of sense to make, that is Hersman's business. Although time was a bit tight, it was not difficult for Hessmann, who had participated in the Russian Revolution.
Because Comrade Lenin had already told Hersman the key to propaganda, and also asked Hersman to practice it in the Russian Revolution, and basically mastered the key to propaganda and agitation - first, to pretend to be "one of our own"; second, he had to practice it in the Russian Revolution. You have to pick out the words that the audience likes to hear; finally, if you repeat a lie three times, it becomes the truth!
Hersman divided the more than 200 people assigned to him by Schleicher into fifty-one groups, with an average of four to five people per group, and then learned about the situation. These people are all non-commissioned officers, all have squatted in trenches on the front line, all have been wounded, and all have received medals - Schleicher is indeed capable, and you can tell by looking at the people he selected. The most prestigious "old squad leader" in the class.
At a time when the soldier doesn't quite trust the officer, an "old squad leader" who has shed blood and fought for his life on the front line is definitely more effective than the worker propagandist sent by Liebknecht and his gang.
Because they are the soldiers' "own people"! When your own people deceive your own people, the best results will be achieved!
"Comrades!" Hessmann began to speak in a Bolshevik tone, "You are all heroes who have smelled smoke and poison gas on the front line, suffered bullets from the Allied Powers, and received medals from the motherland! For the soldiers in Berlin, Regardless of whether they have been on the battlefield or not, they will have a natural respect for you. This is your advantage! So you must repeatedly emphasize that you have been on the battlefield, received medals, and were honorably wounded!"
"As for what to tell the soldiers, it is actually very simple: first, the Social Democratic Party cares about them and is the only one they can trust; second, peace! Achieve peace immediately; third, realize socialist democracy, and those who are over 20 years old Each man and woman has one vote; fourth, demobilize as soon as possible and go home to live and work in peace and contentment.
These are the four things you must tell your soldiers over and over again. There is no need to talk about other messy principles. These four points should be repeated over and over again until everyone believes them. You must remember that even lies can become truth as long as they are told repeatedly. What's more, what you want to tell the soldiers is the truth!
If you meet someone from the Spartacists debating with you, don’t tell them what socialism or capitalism is. You can’t explain it to them. You only need to say two points: First, the civil war in Soviet Russia has begun in January this year, and it seems to be going on for a long time; second, the Bolsheviks used force to disperse the people elected by the Soviet people with one vote. Constituent Assembly - This was the cause of the Civil War in Soviet Russia. Don't argue with them about other things, just say these two points. No matter what your opponents say, as long as you insist on saying these two points, you will definitely win support. "
Soviet Russia, which had fought a civil war for ten months, was the best negative teaching material for the war-weary German soldiers! Russian soldiers wanted peace but could not get it, and were forced to kill each other. This is definitely not the ending the German soldiers wanted! Moreover, Germany still has a tradition of democratic consultation in history, and it also pays more attention to the spirit of contract. In the eyes of a considerable number of Germans, the January upheaval was the betrayal of the Russian Bolshevik Party! The Spartacists showed their pro-Russian stance everywhere and took the Russian Bolsheviks as their teachers, which also meant that they could not be trusted.
So as long as Hessmann's "Trojan Horse Viruses" stick to this point and criticize them to the end, they are competing with the Bolsheviks - no matter how good the Social Democratic Party is, whether it is a traitor or a scab, it can always bring peace. It can bring about one-person-one-vote democracy. The Bolsheviks had neither peace nor democracy, only civil war and Cheka. As long as everyone understands this, these "Trojan viruses" can be elected as chairman of the Soldiers Committee.
After the victory of the Berlin Revolution, these Chairman of the Soldiers' Committee will be able to attend the Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies in Berlin and vote for Soviet Executive Committee members and People's Commissar members.
For example, after the February Revolution in Russia, the provisional government and the Soviets coexisted and did not govern each other. This situation was impossible after the November Revolution in Germany.
Because as early as October, before Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were released from prison, the leaders of the German Social Democratic Party, Albert and Scheidemann, and the leader of the Independent Social Democratic Party, Haase, had already formulated a plan to disintegrate the revolution from within.
They decided that once the revolution was inevitable, they would join in and become the force leading the revolution. Then, by controlling the Workers' and Soldiers' Soviet Congress, they would firmly control both the Executive Committee and the People's Committee and completely exclude the Spartacists.
At the same time, they would join forces with the Junker officers and the German bourgeoisie to reach a series of agreements to jointly strangle the revolution. It can be said that the November Revolution in Germany was in an extremely unfavorable state just after it began.
However, since the Junker officers and the bourgeoisie had joined in, the revolution to overthrow the Hohenzollern dynasty was the last option.
On the morning of November 9, the revolutionary storm was getting stronger and stronger in Berlin, and most of the blocks had been controlled by the strikers and mutinous soldiers led by the Spartacists. The only areas that the German government could control were the official residence of the Berlin Royal City, the Reichstag, the Chancellery, the General Staff, the Navy Department and other few strongholds.
However, the leadership of the Spartacists was only superficial. It was instigated by people's dissatisfaction with the imperial authorities and the passionate speeches of revolutionaries, and did not really take root at the grassroots level - this was because the Spartacists were a very small faction, weaker than the Bolsheviks before the February Revolution. Moreover, before the First World War, Germany had always been the country with the fastest economic growth and good social welfare in Europe. The working people shared the dividends of Germany's economic growth to some extent and were not too dissatisfied.
In addition, Germany was basically a nation-state, and there were not so many "non-German" revolutionary activists who could fight for the Spartacists. Therefore, it was much more difficult for the Spartacists to expand their power rapidly than the Russian Bolsheviks.
However, on the morning of November 9, the Spartacists, who had little strength, were still leading the revolution and seemed to be about to win.
This was because their enemies had not yet made the final choice between infiltrating the revolutionary ranks and suppressing the revolution.
Inside the Reichstag, politicians from the Social Democratic Party and the Independent Socialist Party, representatives from the Entrepreneurs' Union, members of the Industrial Promotion Committee, and representatives from the German military were anxiously waiting for news from Spa, Belgium - the emperor had arrived there and was trying to mobilize troops from the front to suppress the revolution.
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