The Rise of the Third Reich

"Comrade Leshinskaya, now is a time when the life and death of the German proletariat is at stake. A fascist government has emerged in Germany, and the pace of military expansion and war preparations has begun. If we do not tell the people the truth, then Germany will fall step by step to the Nazi Party. -In the hands of the Junkers War Group, if the people know the truth, then the conspiracy of the Hitler-Junkers War Group to issue excessive banknotes will be shattered, and their rule will suffer a heavy blow..."

In a small beer hall with few customers in Siemensstadt, a workers' district in Berlin, Hessmann's old friend Natalie Lesinskaya was holding a glass of beer and listening to a bald head with brows. The middle-aged man locked his eyes tightly and spoke with high morale in his eyes.

The man who spoke was the chairman of the German Bolshevik Party, Congressman Ernst Thälmann. In the general election two months ago, the Bolshevik Party led by him suffered a defeat, but as long as the Nazi Party-Fatherland People's Party coalition government fails to govern, the unemployed and bankrupt petty bourgeoisie who originally voted for the Nazi Party will vote for Bolshevik Party.

"Comrade Thälmann, do you really think that you can seize power in Germany as long as you become a majority in parliament?"

Lesinskaya's mind flashed to the figure of Hersman. She hadn't seen him for several years. It’s not that Hessmann has never been to the Soviet Union, but that her situation has always been bad—she is Polish and was once a Trotskyist. After Lenin's death, a series of power struggles and purges took place in the Soviet Union.

The Trotskyites and the Poles were both the focus of the purges, and Lesinskaya was dismissed from all posts and sent to be a teacher in a school for the children of miners in the Ural Mountains. Her friends and fiancé left her, and she lived alone for several years under the threat of arrest at any time. Moreover, she was deprived of all kinds of benefits (she was a senior Bolshevik cadre and enjoyed special housing and supplies), and she suffered from the same lack of supplies in "hard economic times" as ordinary people in the mining areas.

Just when she thought she would spend the rest of her life in loneliness and various tortures, a telegram from the Y Organization Department of the Bolshevik Center recalled her to Moscow. Then she met Stalin in the Kremlin and was left to eat.

Then everything she lost came back - she had a beautiful apartment, equipped with servants and a car, she also received special supply treatment at the department level, and many tailors with outstanding skills came to help her with all kinds of work. Beautiful style of clothes.

Friends have also come back - of course not all of them, many have disappeared in recent years - inviting her to various parties, and some are very enthusiastic about introducing their boyfriends to her. Because her fiancé, who served as a brigade commander in the Red Army, was already married to another woman.

However, Leshinskaya did not resent the man at all and maintained a good relationship with him. She also did not resent those friends who avoided her when she was in trouble, because she would treat her friends in trouble with the same attitude... This is the good cultivation a Bolshevik Party member should have.

After more than a month of comfortable life, Natalie Lesinskaya was called to the Organization Department again, and this time she was assigned a job. She became a member of the Third International's delegation to Germany and secretly arrived in Berlin in late March 1931 - with a special mission!

"Comrade Thalmann, do you really believe that you can seize power by relying on a majority vote in parliament?" Leshinskaya just looked at the leader of the German Bolshevik Party coldly, "Do you know who are ruling Germany now? You Do you know how many bloody events they have participated in? Do you know how well they know us Bolsheviks?

The organization sent me to Germany to preserve the strength of the party, not to help you seize power... because that is impossible! "

"I know who Count Ludwig von Heinsberg-Hersmann is!" Thalmann looked at Leshinskaya seriously - this beautiful woman did not look like she had experienced anything for a long time. Testing the Bolsheviks, it was definitely a mistake for the Third International to send her to Berlin.

"That's why I can't let him continue to act recklessly," Thalmann said. "Once his war line succeeds, Germany may be destroyed! The German proletariat will become fascist cannon fodder! And the victory of Germany's socialist revolution will It will be a long time coming!”

Lesinskaya frowned. The German Bolshevik Party was theoretically a branch of the Third International. But their independence, or their awareness of competing with the Soviet Bolshevik Party that dominated the Third International, was very strong. He, a vase-like representative of the Third International, could not convince them at all.

Because these German Bolsheviks never regarded themselves as little brothers of the Soviet Bolsheviks. It was a little better when Lenin was here, but now he has been replaced by Stalin, who is "socialist in one country", and he is still fighting fiercely with the German reactionaries. Naturally, the Bolsheviks in Germany became increasingly disobedient...

But why did the organization ask him to come to Berlin to deal with these Germans who didn't listen to advice at all? Your specialty is obviously international trade, right? Leshinskaya thought. This question had been on her mind since she left Moscow.

"So, what are you going to do?" Natalie Lesinskaya frowned tightly.

"We will unite with the Social Democratic Party to expose the truth about the 'job creation bill'!" Thalmann said. "At the same time, we will also call for a general strike to oppose the indiscriminate issuance of banknotes and demand that the government cut the army to save money."

"What if... what if they suppress you because of this?" Natalie's voice was full of worry. She was sure that the German reactionaries would raise their butcher's knife.

"Armed uprising! If the counterrevolutionaries use it against us, then we will use revolutionaries against them!"

"Is this the decision of the Central Y Committee?"

"Yes, we had a meeting a week ago and decided before you arrived!"

"When will we do it?"

"Let's take action once we have reached an agreement with the Social Democrats," Thälmann said firmly.

Natalie Lesinskaya nodded, "Okay, I will report it to the Third International."

…

"Lieutenant General, your old friend Natalie Leshinskaya has arrived in Berlin and may have become the deputy representative of the Third International in Germany. Yesterday afternoon, she was in a restaurant called 'Wolf' in Siemens City. Met Thälmann of the Bolshevik Party in a beer hall.”

Major General Canaris, the director of the Military Intelligence Agency, gave Hersman a photo taken in front of Wolf's Beer Hall. The person in the photo was Natalie Lesinskaya.

"It's her." Hessman picked up the photo and glanced at it. "It's been many years. I first met her in 1917... She was only 17 years old at that time, and she is now in her early 30s."

He paused and then said: "When I went to Moscow to meet Stalin last year, I drank too much in the Kremlin - drunk by those damn Russians - and it seemed that I was talking about her. Now, she is in Berlin. Come on, I guess it’s not a coincidence!”

"Lieutenant General, what do you mean..."

"Arrest her!" Hersman said without hesitation.

"arrest?"

"Yes!" Hessman said, "Stalin sent her here to show that he was giving up the German Bolshevik Party. She was a signal... At least that's how I understand it. Otherwise, your people wouldn't have found the Third International so quickly. New deputy representative!”

Canaris was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "We only found out she came to Berlin after receiving the tip. But...why did Stalin do what he did?"

"Just like why he wanted to purge the Trotskyites!" Hessmann said coldly, "Furthermore, Stalin knew very well that the German Bolshevik Party would not win...the best those guys can do is mess us up, and maybe it will delay us. His five-year plan and plan to jointly attack Poland in the future.”

The Iron Leader of the Soviet Union did not come to power by playing parliamentary democracy, nor could he understand the rules of the game of parliamentary democracy. In his view, the German Juncker Group has regained its strength and joined forces with the far-right Workers' Party, which will definitely suppress the Bolshevik Party in Germany.

The German revolution is bound to reach a low ebb, and the most beneficial arrangement for the Soviet Union is to continue to maintain the alliance with the Junkers officer group while setting up a spy network in Germany. It is better for the German Bolshevik Party to go underground rather than continue to engage in parliamentary struggles. .

"Franz, let the Stasi soldiers go out!" Hessmann said, "Follow the original plan, we just need to capture one more Natalie."

Major General Canaris stood up and said, "Lieutenant General, the Stasi will never let you down!"

The plan to suppress the Bolsheviks had been drawn up before the Nazis came to power - wasn't that what brought the Nazis to power?

The Nazi Party had a base at the grassroots level. They not only had a party organization that went deep into the working people and could mobilize millions of supporters, but also had stormtroopers who could act as professional political thugs. The backbone of the Stormtroopers has now been adapted into the Waffen SS and has been deployed to major German cities outside the Rhineland. They will participate in the operation to suppress the Bolshevik Party!

The Military Intelligence Agency and the Stasi organization established by Hersman will also participate in the operation. And it will also play a key role, and will be responsible for creating excuses and arresting important figures of the German Bolshevik Party and the Third International.

Through this action, the power of the Bolshevik Party in Germany will be uprooted! Tens of thousands of Bolsheviks would be imprisoned in Stasi-controlled concentration camps. At the same time, tens of thousands of "anti-war people" will be imprisoned in concentration camps, and the Juncker-Nazi alliance's control over German society will be greatly strengthened.

The situation of joint rule of Germany with the Juncker Group at the top and the Nazi Party at the bottom will basically take shape. Opposition to the implementation of Hitler's New Deal will also be greatly reduced.