The Rise of the Third Reich

When they walked out of Moscow's Rizhsky Railway Station, Hersman and Kuhn Bella had become good friends who talked about everything. They chatted all the way on the train, and even the two stunning beauties Chloe and Natalie were left out in the cold.

Although one is the National Socialist Party and the other is the Bolsheviks. However, Hersman discovered that the two sides still had many common topics - if the Hungarian Bolsheviks represented by Kun Béla wanted to succeed, they must combine with Greater Hungary nationalism and partially become a nationalist party.

Because Kun Bella could not allow the Allied Powers led by Britain and the United States to carve up Hungary... If the Hungarian Bolsheviks ceded more than 70% of the country after taking power, they would definitely lose the support of the people. Moreover, the Allies would not support the Hungarian Bolsheviks because of this. They were not Germany in a bitter war. By the time the Allies put pressure on the Hungarian Bolsheviks, the Allies had certainly won the war. After the Hungarian Bolsheviks backed down, the Allies only intensified their attacks.

The Hungarian Bolshevik Party, which lost the support of Hungarian nationalism, had only a dead end. In a history that Hessmann didn’t know much about, Lenin saw this very clearly, so he was firmly opposed to Kuhn. Bella had to compromise with the Allies, but Kuhn was intimidated by the force of the Allies and didn’t know how to fight. .Bela did not listen to Lenin's advice - which also shows that the Hungarian Bolsheviks had considerable autonomy at that time - and ended up ruining the Soviet state.

After repeatedly exchanging opinions with Hessmann, and even doing a few simple map assignments with a map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kun Bella also gained some confidence. At least we know how to prolong the war. This is entirely possible!

First of all, Hungarians are willing to fight to defend their country. The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the previous Hungarian struggle against Ottoman rule have proven this.

Secondly, this time there would be no powerful Russian-Austrian coalition to suppress the Hungarian revolution. In 1848, the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire combined to almost dominate the world, a force that the Hungarian revolutionaries could not contend with.

But now, Soviet Russia supports the Hungarians, and although Austria will not support it, it will never fight the Hungarians. The only ones who will be sent to attack Hungary at first are the Czechs, Romanians and Serbs. It is difficult to defeat the Russians and Germans. Are you not sure about defeating Romania, the Czech Republic and Serbia?

As for the intervention armies of Britain, France and the United States, it is impossible to arrive so quickly. Because the hinterland of Hungary is far away from the coastline, if the Hungarians can even destroy the railway between Transylvania and Banat and walk on two feet... I really don’t know when the Allied troops and heavy weapons will be able to enter the Hungarian plains!

Third, if the German army can store a large number of weapons and ammunition in warehouses in Budapest before defeat - this depends on the outcome of the meeting between Hessmann and Lenin - then the Hungarians can quickly form a large number of troops after the victory of the revolution. Army, this ensures that the Hungarians can resist for a long time.

Once the Allies fall into a protracted war and a people's war in Hungary, anti-war sentiment in Britain, France and the United States is likely to intensify! In particular, the people of Britain and France have already experienced the suffering of five years of war. If they are faced with endless Hungarian intervention in the war, you can only imagine what emotions they will have...

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"Down with all reactionary forces!"

"Down with the reactionary and traitorous regime!"

"Destroy all counter-revolutionary terrorists!"

"Resolutely implement the red KB!"

"Long live the red KB!"

Hessmann met the demonstrators on the streets of Moscow. Red flags were flying and slogans were loud! It has the feeling of mass excitement seen in some later revolutionary films. The procession blocked the road, and Hessmann wanted to see Lenin quickly—the proper attitude when visiting a sick person. So I suggested getting off the bus and walking to the Kremlin.

The four of Hersman, Chloe, Kun Bella and Natalie Lesinskaya walked through the alley and quickly reached the end of the slowly advancing parade. Hersman found several crumbling trucks filled with tied-up people and the Cheka soldiers who were guarding them.

"Who are these people who were arrested?" Hessman stopped and asked knowingly.

"It's the counterrevolutionaries!" Natalie Leshinskaya said in a tone full of hatred, "They were the ones who shot criminal bullets at Lenin!"

This Polish girl was talking nonsense, Hersman thought: There are dozens of people there! If each of them shot a few times at the mentor, the mentor would have been eliminated long ago.

"Are they landowners and capitalists?" Hersman asked.

"Most of them are not," Natalie Leshinskaya replied. "The vast majority of the landlords and capitalists in Moscow and Petrograd are honest. The ones who are still causing trouble are mainly the remnants of the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks. These People are the worst, and the murderer of Comrade Lenin was one of their own.”

Now the landowners and capitalists in the Soviet-controlled areas have either died, have fled or are trying to escape to foreign countries, or are living their lives resigned to their fate. Those who are still making a fuss are the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks... In other words, the Bolsheviks think that they are the main threat - this understanding should be correct, because the landlords (or rich peasants) and capitalists are engaged in production and management, and the social revolutionaries The Party and the Mensheviks are engaged in politics.

"Will a lot of people be arrested?" Chloe interjected.

Natalie Lesinskaya did not answer, but looked at Kun Bella. It was obvious that the matter needed to be kept secret and she had no right to leak it to class enemies in foreign countries.

"Yes!" Kun Bella said in a cold tone, "Cheka will launch large-scale arrests in Moscow and Petrograd. This time at least 20,000 people will be arrested."

"They...will all be shot?" Hersman asked.

"Shoot some of them," Kun Bella said with a cold tone, "the rest will become hostages."

"Hostages?" Hersman asked again knowingly - of course he knew that the Bolsheviks captured hostages in many places to ensure that local residents did not resist their rule and obeyed orders.

"This is a necessary means!" Kun Bella said, "If white terror occurs again, some of them will be shot!" He shrugged, not caring. "Revolutions always kill people, don't they?"

Of course Kun Bella didn't know at this time that he himself would later become one of those people who "always die"! He was arrested during the "Great Purge" and executed on November 30, 1939...

"Yes, revolution always kills people, either the enemy or our people!" Natalie Lesinskaya supported.

Hessman stared at this beautiful woman, suddenly smiled and asked: "Natalie, have you ever joined the District Alliance Party?"

"Ah, yes." Natalie didn't understand why Hersman asked this, but nodded anyway.

"Or Polish?"

"Yes, I'm Polish!"

"Oh." Hessman smiled and nodded. The District Alliance Faction is Trotsky’s faction and can also be seen as the origin of Trotskyism. And the Poles...were the key targets of the subsequent Great Purge!

What a beauty, almost as beautiful as Chloe. Hessmann said to himself, "I don't know when I will be shot."

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