The Rise of the Third Reich

Chapter 670 The Fatal Achilles Heel

On July 23, 1942, Hessman and Chloe flew to Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic Estonian province, on a Fokker 36 passenger plane.

This is a city full of bearded old men in old military uniforms. These guys were all wearing tattered Tsarist uniforms. Most of them looked very destitute and sloppy. Many of them carried Mosin-Nagant rifles without bolts and bullets (the bolts were taken away by the German police station in Tallinn, and there were no bullets). They gathered outside the Tombia Castle all day to defend their queen.

"Ura! Ura! Ura..."

When the Mercedes-Benz car Hessman was riding in drove towards Tombia Mountain (the castle was on the top of the mountain), the cheers of "Ura, Ura" suddenly rang in his ears, which scared the dozing imperial marshal and thought that the Soviet Red Army was coming.

"Marshal of the Empire, this is the White Russians cheering for their queen." Lieutenant General Tipelskirch, the chief of staff of the Northern Army Group, was sitting opposite Hessman. Seeing Hessman's shocked expression, he hurriedly explained with a smile.

"So it's the White Russians..." Hessman nodded. He knew that there were many old White Russians who had gathered in Tallinn after the outbreak of the Soviet-German War.

"It's these White Russians, most of whom are down-and-out old men who still dream of restoring their former glory."

Lieutenant General Tipelskirch shrugged and continued, "Most of them belong to an organization called the Russian Military Alliance, and Queen Olga is the leader of the organization. Most of the members of the organization are White Russian soldiers who followed the queen to withdraw from the Crimean Peninsula more than 20 years ago. At that time, the queen ordered them to keep their weapons and be ready to counterattack the Soviet Union at any time."

Because Olga existed in this time and space, the leader of the White Russians was not Baron Wrangel, but Queen Olga herself. So the queen herself replaced Wrangel and became the main target of assassination by Soviet Russian agents.

Unfortunately, all the assassination attempts failed, so Empress Olga can still wear court clothes and walk out of the open main gate of Tombia Castle, accompanied by Baron Wrangel, who was supposed to have mysteriously died of acute infectious tuberculosis, and several other White Russian leaders.

When the White Russian old men gathered around the castle saw her coming out, they all shouted "Ura" excitedly, and even scared the visiting Imperial Marshal Hessman.

A team of bearded Queen's Guards, dressed a little more decently and carrying Mosin-Nagant rifles with bayonets, came out before the Queen went out. They blocked a passage in the cheering crowd so that the big car Hessman was riding in could drive to the main gate of Tombia Castle.

The car stopped. Colonel Stauffenberg got out of the passenger seat first. He opened the back door. Lieutenant General Tippelskirch, the chief of staff of the Northern Army Group, came out and saluted Empress Olga, then stood aside. Finally, the main guests of today's visit, Mr. and Mrs. Hessman, came out of the big car.

"Olga, what's the good news?" As soon as Hessman got out of the car, he saw Empress Olga with a smile on her face. He did not call her "Your Majesty", but called her by her name.

Olga laughed and said, "Haha, Ludwig, it is the greatest joy that you and Chloe can come to Tombea."

The empress is already in her forties this year, but she still maintains a considerable beauty, graceful figure, and radiant.

She did not extend her jade hand to Hessman and make a drooping gesture - this meant to kiss the hand, but she moved her cheek, which was painted with a lot of powder, closer to let Hessman kiss it, and then she also kissed Hessman's cheek. She and Hessman seldom met, but they seemed very affectionate every time they met, so much so that there were rumors about their special relationship.

After kissing Hessman on the cheek, the Queen also performed the same intimate etiquette with her best friend Chloe. In fact, the two of them were good sisters who often interacted with each other.

After greeting her good sister, the Queen stood between Hessman and Chloe, holding one of them in each hand, and then walked towards the Tombea Castle in full view of everyone.

When the White Russian old men saw their empress and the Junker army leader, the Imperial Marshal Hessman, being so affectionate, they shouted even harder. They had been poor for more than 20 years and had no integrity to speak of. They didn't care if their empress used "bed politics" or other shameful methods to deal with the Imperial Marshal...

"Olga, you have a lot of supporters." Hessman walked into the Tombea Castle and found it very lively inside. Tombea Castle was a large castle, and its layout was a bit like a small city. Outside was a city wall built on the mountain, and inside were dozens of very beautiful and exquisite buildings, as well as an Orthodox cathedral.

For most of the years before Olga arrived, all the buildings in the castle were vacant. But now it is thriving, and almost every window of the building has a head or half a body sticking out, but these people are not White Russian old men, they are mostly women and children, and should be the families of White Russian veterans.

"This is only a part of it!" Olga said with a smile, "There were more than 200,000 loyal subjects who followed me and left the Soviet Union, and there were millions of Russians who left the Soviet Union on their own. And there are also many people in Russia who support me."

While pulling Hessman and Chloe towards the palace where she lived, Olga felt very good about herself and said: "As long as I can return to Petrograd and raise the flag of the Russian Empire high again, at least there will be Thirty percent of Russians support me.”

At this point, she suddenly turned her head and looked at Hessman with a surprised look, "Ludwig, you came all the way to Tallinn to get me to return to Russia, right?"

"I really made you guess!" Hessmann smiled and nodded, "Oliga, are you willing to return to Petrograd with our army?"

"Yes! Of course I do!" Olga shouted happily like a little girl who got the clothes or jewelry she dreamed of, and then kissed Hessman on the cheek.

"Your Majesty, the Germans just want to take advantage of us..."

"Yes, my lord, I also feel that the Germans do not really want to help us capture Petrograd."

On the evening of the Hersmanns' visit to Tallinn, after the dinner and dance had dispersed. In the Queen's palace in Tombia Castle, Olga's right-hand man, Baron Wrangel, who is 64 years old and looks sick, and Felix, who has grown a big beard in his old age. Prince Yusupov all became suspicious of the Germans' intentions.

Their suspicions are of course justified, because until the Soviet-German war broke out, the German government still tightly controlled Belarus within the European Community and did not allow them to cause trouble with the Soviet Union. Its attitude of not supporting the restoration of Belarus was extremely obviously.

Olga sat motionless in front of a carved dressing table, letting a palace maid remove her makeup and comb her hair. After hearing the words of her two confidants, the Queen just smiled faintly.

"So what if we are used by others? It's good that we still have the value of being used. And... we may not have no chance. Maybe some people in the country have long been tired of the Bolsheviks?"

"Your Majesty, this possibility is very small." Prince Yusupov said with a wry smile, "The Bolsheviks have spent more than twenty years smearing us, and the current generation of Russians grew up hearing bad things about the Romanov dynasty. ”

As a Russian reactionary with an undying evil spirit, Prince Yusupov has always been paying attention to the internal situation of the Soviet Union, so he knows what the image of a Belarusian aristocrat like himself is in the minds of ordinary Soviet people.

The Queen of Russia sneered, shook her head and said: "My prince, I am also studying the Soviet Union, and more carefully than you... So I know that in today's Soviet Union, there are actually quite a few people who are very dissatisfied with the rule of the Bolsheviks. of!"

She said in a mocking tone: "The Bolsheviks are a party that advocates equality, resistance to oppression and heroism, but their rule is full of inequality, oppression and slavery. They claim to build an absolutely fair society, but they A hierarchical country was established.

People in the middle and upper echelons of the Bolshevik hierarchy naturally support Bolshevik rule. But people at the bottom of the oppressed class must have strong thoughts of resistance in their hearts, because the Bolshevik national education tells them to resist oppression! And our arrival will give them the opportunity to resist the Bolsheviks and change their own destiny! "

If the Imperial Marshal, who is currently sleeping soundly with Chloe in his arms, hears what Empress Olga says, he will definitely regret carrying her out and disgusting Stalin.

Because this woman really studied the country of the Soviet Union thoroughly!

Soviet society was by no means equal, on the contrary it was highly hierarchical. What level of people, what kind of house they live in, what they eat, what kind of car they take, and what the path to advancement is are all completely different.

Don't compare those high-ranking cadres who entered communism early with ordinary Soviet people. Even ordinary Soviet citizens actually have superiority and inferiority.

For example, does a young Soviet rural youth from a rich peasant family dare to say that he is equal to a Soviet rural youth from a poor peasant family? Isn't this a dream? Not to mention that this "black N-type" peasant from a rich peasant family should be compared with a revolutionary youth from the capital who is from a worker's family and has a Moscow household registration.

So inequality exists in the Soviet Union, and the people in the middle and lower classes are actually the oppressed class! At the same time, the national education implemented by the Soviet Union was instilling the concepts of equality and resistance to oppression... While practicing oppression, it also taught people to resist. This was the fatal Achilles' heel of Soviet society!

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