Chapter 35 Someone Needs to Attract Hatred

At this time, a girl named Natalie had come up to Chloe with a few people who were suspected to be Hungarian revolutionaries.

"Chloe, who is this? Can you introduce him to me?" Natalie looked at Hersman with a playful and curious look.

"Ludwig Hersman, my fiancé." Chloe did not say the "von" that symbolizes aristocratic status. In Soviet Russia, aristocrats are not very popular.

"Ludwig, she is Natalie Lesinskaya, my friend." Chloe said, "She works in the Bolshevik Foreign Central League."

"Hello, Comrade Lesinskaya." Hersman smiled and stretched out his right hand to shake hands with Natalie.

Natalie showed a charming smile: "Welcome to Russia, are you here to attend the founding conference of the Third International?"

The Third International will soon be established, which happened in March 1919. It is now September 1918, and many foreign revolutionaries are coming one after another.

"No, no." Hersman pointed at Chloe with a smile, "We are not Bolsheviks, nor are we members of the Socialist Party or the Workers' Party. We are just friends of the Russian Bolsheviks. I heard that Comrade Lenin was assassinated, so I rushed here from Riga overnight."

"Oh, so you and Chloe changed trains in Pskov?"

There is no direct train from Riga to Moscow now, but you have to change trains in Pskov, which is to facilitate the Bolsheviks to control the passage in and out of Russia. Although the road to escape from the Soviet Union to foreign countries has not been blocked, it has become increasingly difficult to travel.

"Yes," Hessman replied, "I hope to take the train to Moscow immediately."

"What a coincidence! There is a special train to Moscow, which is booked by our Bolshevik Central League." Natalie Lesinskaya said, "This train is great, and there are still many empty compartments on it. I can ask Comrade Bella to take you two with me."

"That's great, Natalie, thank you so much." Chloe seemed very happy. She turned to Hessman and said, "Everything in the Central League is the best in Russia. Now we can go to Moscow comfortably."

Now all kinds of supplies in the Soviet Russian area are very tight, and even the rations in Moscow and Petrograd are so few that it is difficult to fill the stomach. Moreover, the Bolsheviks of this era did not have privileges and bureaucracy. They basically shared the joys and sorrows with the people.

The Bolshevik Central League was the only department with special supplies because they were responsible for entertaining foreign revolutionaries. The Russian Bolsheviks treated them very well and took care of them. Many foreign revolutionaries in Moscow were even given carriages.

The conversation was suddenly interrupted, and someone called Natalie Lesinskaya's name. Lesinskaya asked Hersman and Chloe to wait at the "Special Channel" exit. Then she led a few Hungarians to an office with a sign "Foreign Central League Reception Office".

"Is that Natalie from the Cheka?" After completing the customs clearance procedures, Hersman whispered to Chloe beside him.

"I don't know, but the Cheka, the Bolshevik Foreign Central League, the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs or the Military Revolutionary Committee, there is actually no difference in Russia. They are all organs of the Bolshevik Party, and their staff are all fighters of the Bolshevik Party."

The Russian Bolsheviks in 1918 were so powerful! Although there were only hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of party members, almost everyone was a fighter of the party. In this regard, the Russian White Guards could not compare at all! They did not have a leadership core at all, and the so-called "White Guards" was just a general term. In fact, there was no unified White Army, and there was no leader who could command all of them. Therefore, the conflict within the White Guards was no less than their conflict with the Bolsheviks.

"Oh, you're right." Hersman nodded, and then he and Chloe found two secluded chairs at the exit of the "special passage" and sat down, waiting for Natalie to get them a box to Moscow - this must be the arrangement of the foreign Central Alliance. Chloe informed the Kremlin in advance that Hersman would come to Moscow, and then she met Natalie by chance. I just don't know what else will happen next?

"Ludwig, this is Lieutenant Stockhausen's report." Chloe took out a notebook from her handbag and handed it to Hersman.

Stockhausen is now serving as a military adviser to Trotsky in the name of "German military expert". He writes a war situation report to the headquarters of the Russian-German Company every month, and at the same time suggests what kind of weapons the Russian-German Company should provide to the Red Army.

Hersman took the notebook and flipped through it. There were many things written on it. The first was a report on a battle taking place near Ufa, which was against the Cabinet Executive Government.

The White Russian army is now divided into three parts: the army controlled by the Cabinet Executive Government (Provisional Government) in Ufa; the armed forces of southern Russia led by Denikin and Kornilov. The main force of the former is the Czech Legion, which has received a lot of assistance from the Allies and has a number of about 100,000. The main force of the latter is the Don Cossacks, who are loyal to the Tsar and have the support of the Ukrainian Central Rada - the Central Rada may want to use them to weaken the power of the Bolsheviks. The Far Eastern White Guard controlled by Semenov has the support of Japan and the United States.

In addition, many Tsarist Russian nobles and officers who opposed the Bolsheviks were now gathered in the Estonian Autonomous State and Finland, which belonged to the United Baltic Principality. They were led by Yudenich, the former commander-in-chief of the Russian Caucasus Front, and they also supported the Tsar and opposed the Bolsheviks. Moreover, these people also have the support of General Goltz and Finland! However, they have not yet organized anti-Bolshevik armed forces.

And these White Guards, including Yudenich's men who had not yet been truly armed, totaled hundreds of thousands of people, much less than the Red Army. Except for Semyonov, the other two routes have no reliable sources of weapons and equipment. Although they occupy most of Russia's territory, they are sparsely populated places, and the White Guards have not established reliable local governments - those places Most of the regimes were controlled by the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, and they had a cooperative relationship with the White Guards.

It was impossible for them to defeat the Bolsheviks.

What really worries the Bolsheviks are the two foreign intervention forces! The British, French and American coalition forces entrenched in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, as well as the Allied intervention force with the Japanese army as the main force, landed in Vladivostok in August.

Now Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders are very worried that the intervention forces currently entering Russian territory are just the vanguard! With the Allies defeated, the Allies would definitely consider intervening in the Russian Civil War as their top priority after the war. The only countermeasure the Bolsheviks could take was to use the theory of world revolution to support the socialist left parties in Eastern and Central Europe to launch revolutions.

At the end of the report, Stockhausen believed that the Russian Bolsheviks were currently sparing no financial resources to support revolutionaries in various countries and were still preparing for the founding conference of the Third International. The purpose was to create trouble for the Allied Powers, divert their energy, and avoid the expansion of interference.

In other words, the Bolsheviks need a leader who can attract the attention of the Allies by spreading hatred!

Hessmann closed his notebook and was thinking that the United Baltic Principality should not be the first person under any circumstances. Natalie had already walked over from the other end of the special passage with a middle-aged man in his early forties, with a thick mustache and a round, doughy face.

Chloe recognized the middle-aged man, and she whispered to Hessman: "It's Kun Bella!"