Chapter 152 Hitler's New Deal 2

"Comrade Lesinskaya, now is a matter of life and death for the German proletariat. A fascist government has emerged in Germany, and the pace of military expansion has begun. If we don't tell the truth to the people, then Germany will fall step by step into the hands of the Nazi-Junker war group. And if the people know the truth, then the conspiracy of the Hitler-Junker war group to issue banknotes will be shattered, and their rule will suffer a heavy blow..."

In a small beer hall with few customers in Siemens City, a working-class gathering area in Berlin, Natalie Lesinskaya, an old friend of Hersman, was holding a glass of beer and listening to a middle-aged man with a bald head, frowning eyebrows, and high morale in his eyes.

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

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

The figure of Hersman emerged in Lesinskaya's mind. She and him had not seen each other for several years. It was not that Hersman had not been to the Soviet Union, but that her situation had always been bad - she was Polish and had once been a Trotskyist. After Lenin's death, a series of power struggles and purges took place in the Soviet Union.

Trotskyists and Poles were the focus of the purge, and Lesinskaya was therefore dismissed from all positions and sent to a miners' school in the Ural Mountains to be a teacher. Her friends and fiancé left her, and she lived alone for several years in the face of possible arrest at any time. Moreover, all kinds of treatment (she was a senior cadre of the Bolsheviks and enjoyed special housing and supplies) were deprived, and she suffered from the shortage of supplies in the "economic hardship period" like ordinary people in the mining area.

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 Bolsheviks recalled her back to Moscow. Then she met Stalin in the Kremlin and was invited to have dinner.

Then everything she had lost came back - she had a beautiful apartment, servants and cars, special supply treatment at the department level, and many tailors with outstanding skills came to help her make beautiful clothes of various styles.

Friends also came back - of course not all of them, many people disappeared in recent years - invited her to various parties, and some people introduced boyfriends to her very enthusiastically. Because her fiancé who was a brigade commander in the Red Army had married another woman.

However, Lesinskaya 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 friends in trouble with the same attitude... This is a good cultivation that a Bolshevik party member should have.

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

"Comrade Thälmann, do you really believe that you can seize power by a majority vote in parliament?" Lesinskaya just looked at the leader of the German Bolshevik Party coldly, "Do you know who are the people who rule Germany now? Do you know how many bloody storms 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-Hessmann is!" Thälmann looked at Lesinskaya seriously - this beautiful woman did not look like a well-tested Bolshevik, and it was definitely a mistake for the Third International to send her to Berlin.

"That's why I can't let him do whatever he wants," Thälmann said, "Once his war line succeeds, Germany may be destroyed! The German proletariat will become cannon fodder for the fascists! And the victory of the socialist revolution in Germany will be far away!"

Lesinskaya frowned. Although the German Bolshevik Party was theoretically a branch of the Third International. But they have a strong sense of autonomy, or in other words, they want to compete with the Soviet Bolshevik Party that dominates the Third International. I, a vase-like representative of the Third International, can't convince them at all.

Because these German Bolsheviks have never regarded themselves as the younger brothers of the Soviet Bolsheviks. It was better when Lenin was there, but now it has been replaced by Stalin, who advocates "socialism in one country" and is fighting with the German reactionaries. Naturally, the German Bolsheviks are becoming more and more disobedient...

But why did the organization let me come to Berlin to deal with these Germans who don't listen to advice at all? My specialty is obviously international trade, right? Lesinskaya thought. Since she left Moscow, this question has been lingering in her mind.

"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'!" said Thalmann. "At the same time, we will call for a general strike, oppose the excessive issuance of banknotes, and ask the government to cut the army to save expenses."

"What if...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 knives.

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

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

"Yes, we held a meeting a week ago, before you arrived!"

"When will we start?"

"We will start after we have reached an agreement with the Social Democratic Party." Thalmann said firmly.

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

...

"Lieutenant General, your old friend Natalie Lesinskaya has arrived in Berlin and may have become the deputy representative of the Third International in Germany. Yesterday afternoon, she met with Thalmann of the Bolshevik Party in a beer hall called "Wolf" in Siemens City."

Major General Canaris, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, handed a photo taken in front of the Wolf beer hall to Hersman. The person in the photo was Natalie Lesinskaya.

"It's her." Hersman 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 now she is in her early 30s." He paused and said, "Last year when I went to Moscow to meet Stalin, I got drunk in the Kremlin - I was drunk by those damn Russians - and I seemed to talk about her. Now, she has come to Berlin. I don't think this is a coincidence!" "Lieutenant General, you mean..." "Arrest her!" Hersman said without hesitation. "Arrest?"

"Yes!" Hersman said, "Stalin sent her here to show that he was going to give 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 new deputy representative of the Third International so quickly!"

Canaris was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "We only knew she came to Berlin after receiving the secret report. But... why did Stalin do that?"

"Just like why he wanted to purge the Trotskyists!" Hersman said coldly, "Moreover, Stalin knew very well that the German Bolshevik Party would not win... Those guys can only mess us up, and maybe it will delay his five-year plan and the plan to jointly attack Poland in the future."

The Soviet Union's iron leader did not come to power by playing parliamentary democracy, and he could not understand the rules of the game of parliamentary democracy. In his view, the German Junker Group has regained its strength and joined forces with the extreme right-wing Workers' Party, which will definitely suppress the German Bolshevik Party.

The German revolution will inevitably fall into a low ebb, and the most favorable layout for the Soviet Union is to continue to maintain the alliance with the Junker officer group and set up a spy network in Germany at the same time - the German Bolshevik Party is better to go underground instead of continuing the parliamentary struggle.

"Franz, let the Stasi fighters go out!" Hersmann said, "According to the original plan, just catch one more Natalie."

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

The plan to suppress the Bolshevik Party was formulated before the Nazi Party came to power - wasn't it for this reason that the Nazi Party came to power?

The Nazi Party has a foundation in the lower class. They not only have party organizations that penetrate into the working people and can mobilize millions of supporters, but also stormtroopers that can act as professional political thugs. The backbone of the stormtroopers has now been reorganized into the Waffen SS and deployed to major German cities outside the Rhine region. They will participate in the action to suppress the Bolshevik Party!

The Military Intelligence Bureau and the Stasi organization established by Hersmann will also participate in the action. 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 German Bolshevik Party will be uprooted! Tens of thousands of Bolshevik members will be arrested and sent to concentration camps controlled by the Stasi. At the same time, thousands of "anti-war people" will be arrested and sent to concentration camps, and the Junker-Nazi alliance's control over German society will be greatly strengthened.

The situation of the joint rule of Germany by the Junker Group at the top and the Nazi Party at the bottom will basically take shape. Opposition to the implementation of Hitler's new policy will also be greatly reduced.