Rise of Australia

Chapter 482 Another civil strife in Russia
In February 1919, when the pandemic was still mildly ravaging the world, the situation in Russia was finally one step ahead of Germany, and it exploded like a keg of explosives.

Naturally, there is no need to repeat the disputes between the three major powers in Russia, and the direct explosion of this explosive barrel is naturally the military equipment that Nicholas II bought from Australasia.

The Russian capitalist government is the real power in Russia, the Moscow region controlled by the Workers' Union is the local government, and Czar Nicholas II is the representative of the aristocratic forces.

These three major forces all controlled a considerable part of the army, among which the bourgeois government nominally controlled all the troops of the original tsarist government, even reaching more than 700 million people during the war.

Of course, the Tsarist Russian government's statistics on the number of soldiers are also very exaggerated.According to the actual statistics of the bourgeois government, the Russian army on the front line only has more than 500 million people, but this is definitely not a small number.

After the armistice, the Russian government urgently reduced the army of more than 500 million people.

To be honest, even with the reparations from Germany, the Russian government cannot support such a large number of troops.

After a considerable streamlining, the army controlled by the Russian government is only in the early 100 million, which can also be said to have restored the size of the army of the Tsarist government before the war.

However, this also caused a problem, that is, the Russian government did not properly arrange for this part of the soldiers who were laid off.

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

As a result, the Russian government does not have enough jobs for these retired soldiers. The retired soldiers can only return to their old jobs and become farmers again.

The problem is that a significant portion of these ex-soldiers live in Eastern Europe.Their homes suffered a lot of damage, but they have not been compensated accordingly.

The Russian government paid only a small pension for the disabled and dead, which was not even as high as a soldier's salary.

This is nothing, the important thing is that a considerable part of the soldiers who participated in the First World War for the Russian government were dismissed by the government without getting enough salary at all.

This also caused a large number of Russian soldiers to be dissatisfied with this way of handling the situation. Many soldiers even took to the streets and broke out in demonstrations, demanding that the government give them adequate salaries and compensation.

The conflict that broke out between the government and the soldiers gave both Nicholas II and the Workers' Union an opportunity.

The two major forces began to frantically absorb these dissatisfied soldiers, waiting to deal a fatal blow to the Russian bourgeois government when it was most vulnerable.

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

With the outbreak of influenza, the Russian government clearly did not take any preventive measures, and within a few months, hundreds of thousands of deaths were born.

This is not the worst, because of the pandemic, a large amount of supplies cannot be transported to the city at all.

The workers and civilians in the city broke out in quite serious famine and chaos due to lack of supplies.

And these famines and chaos further affected the order of the city, making it more difficult for materials from other regions to enter the city.

Under the influence of one after another, the order in Russia is on the verge of collapse.

Although Russia's official statistics show that the number of deaths due to the pandemic is less than one million, the number of people who died of starvation has already exceeded one million.

Even if the Russian government imported a large amount of food from Britain, France and Australasia, it simply did not have enough manpower to transport it to major cities and put it in the hands of people suffering from famine.

The people couldn't get food and emergency supplies, and they became more angry with the government, and they started to march in the streets, which also exacerbated the outbreak of the pandemic.

Although Nicholas II and the Workers' Union were keenly aware that the opportunity had come, it was obvious that they did not dare to take any action when the pandemic was raging.

Regardless of whether the operation is successful or not, the pandemic will cause huge casualties to the people, which may even directly make their actions fall short.

After all, the reason why the Russian people are dissatisfied with the bourgeois government is because the bourgeois government failed to protect the rights of soldiers and the people, and because the government's negligence 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 a capitalist government and would naturally not be able to win the support of the people.

The two major forces are waiting for a more suitable opportunity, an opportunity when the pandemic is not so serious.

As time went into 1919, the flu actually became less serious.Although we dare not say that the second wave of flu is completely over, the number of people infected in Europe has fallen below 100 million, and the number of people infected in Russia is less than 50.

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

After careful consideration, Nicholas II decided to take the lead in taking action to regain power from the bourgeois government first, and then wipe out the Workers' Union in the Moscow region, rebuilding Russia into a great Tsarist Russia.

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

These armies will be the guarantee for Nicholas II to regain power, and after regaining power, Nicholas II also intends to quickly expand the army in his hands to more than 100 million with the help of Australasian weapons and equipment , to maintain absolute suppression of the bourgeois government and the workers' union.

Nicholas II's fantasy is actually very good. After all, the bourgeois government is no longer popular with the people. Nicholas II feels that he will be able to win the loyalty of a large number of Russian people with a wave of his arms.

Coupled with hundreds of thousands of Russian troops and a large number of weapons and equipment, it is not too difficult for the bourgeois government to seize power and successfully eliminate the Workers' Union.

On February 1919, 2, a Russian army raided St. Petersburg and quickly took control of the seat of government and the Winter Palace.

The people of St. Petersburg saw the exact same scene as two years ago, and were so frightened that they returned to their houses in a panic and locked the doors and windows so as not to make a sound.

The Russian bourgeois government naturally keeps in mind the way it seized power, and is always on guard against similar methods to seize power.

But the problem is that the bourgeois government's attitude towards pensions chills the soldiers, and the pandemic inevitably affects the families of some soldiers, resulting in a significant decrease in the loyalty of the troops stationed outside St. Petersburg to the bourgeois government.

In addition, this army was the reason for the sneak attack. Before the bourgeois government had time to respond, this army took control of the government and the Winter Palace, and Nicholas II also regained his power.

The news of Nicholas II's actions quickly spread to Moscow, and the Workers' Union made a decisive decision to expand its territory to Ukraine and the Caucasus, forming a situation of dividing St. Petersburg into the north and the south.

In fact, this is also a helpless choice. After all, St. Petersburg, the center of Russia's current political power, has been controlled by Nicholas II. The difficulty for the Workers' Union to seize St. Petersburg is no less than occupying the entire Russia at this moment.

Compared with the heavily fortified Poland and St. Petersburg in the north, Ukraine and the Caucasus in the south are areas that the Workers' Union has better control over.

On February 2, the workers' union launched action.The Bolsheviks publicly criticized the government for withholding military personnel's salaries and pensions, and accused the government of inaction during the influenza period.

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

The Workers' Union announced to the whole of Russia that it wants to build a truly fair and just country, to bring democratic ideas to all Russians, and to protect Russians from oppression of all classes.

Along with the hype of the new Soviet state was what the Workers' Union was doing during the flu.

I have to praise that the Workers' Union's control over the Moscow region is still very good.

This led to the establishment of a fairly reasonable material distribution system by the Workers' Union just after the outbreak of the flu.

Although it is unavoidable that a considerable number of citizens in the Moscow region will be infected with the flu, this centralized distribution system ensures that almost all the people in the Moscow region can get enough food to fill their stomachs, and will not cause too severe famine in this area .

Although it is nothing compared to the free and sufficient food supply in Australasia, compared with the chaotic management of the Russian government, the system of the Workers' Union during the flu period is quite excellent.

It is also an achievement of the Workers' Union to the outside world, which has been hyped up by the Workers' Union as the standard of absolute fairness and justice for the new Soviet Russia.

After all, during the flu period, the proportion of materials distributed between the top leaders of all parties in the Workers' Union and the public was the same, and there was no distinction between high-level government officials and the public.

Compared with the extravagant banquets held by the top officials of the Russian government during the flu season, the Workers' Union has indeed achieved fairness and justice.

However, the occurrence of small stoves and special cases cannot be avoided, but generally speaking, it is not biased. At least the people can have a meal.

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

Although the Ukrainian region is not so welcoming to the Workers' Union, compared with the Workers' Union, which has a larger army, Ukraine's strength does not allow them to resist, or it cannot resist for too long.

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's previous three-legged confrontation instantly became a two-power confrontation.

The scope of control of Tsarist Russia, in addition to the Baltic Sea coast, also includes the entire Polish region, and Eastern Europe north of the Volga River.

The Soviet Russia controlled by the Workers' Union controls the south of the Volga River, including most of Ukraine's southern Eastern Europe.

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

The Siberia region outside of Eastern Europe has not been affected by the separation of powers for the time being.

After all, the Russian regions outside of Eastern Europe are too barren and have no decisive effect on the civil strife in Russia.

Nicholas II and the Workers' Union value each other's competition with each other. Whoever can control the entire Eastern European region also represents who has the initiative to rule the entire Russia.

Nicholas II, who experienced a huge setback, also understood the importance of winning the hearts of the people.

Under the premise that the Workers' Union was trying to win over the civilian class, Nicholas II also announced that he would pay back pensions to all soldiers who contributed to the First World War. Long live Nicholas II!
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