Chapter 50 What Is Coming Will Come

"He actually said that the working class needs to rest, so they can't revolt!"

"He is a traitor! He should be shot!"

"Yes, we don't need them, the Spartacists can do it themselves!"

Hugo Haase, the chairman of the Independent Socialist Revolutionary Party, left, and the only people left in the room were Spartacists and internationalist fighters. Everyone saw the true face of Hugo Haase - he was delaying the uprising, not leading it.

"Yes! We do it ourselves!" Karl Liebknecht waved his hand, and the people who were talking suddenly quieted down. "We do it ourselves... Wait until the workers get their wages (Berlin workers are more affordable than Petrograd workers, and they must get their wages), and then issue a call tomorrow to start a general strike on the 7th and 8th, and on the 9th, we will march into the barracks and mobilize the soldiers to do it with us! Then we will occupy the Parliament, the City Hall, the police station, the railway station and the Telegraph Office."

"And the Glinekno Palace!" A man with a pair of protruding ears, but very handsome eyebrows and a very tall stature, interrupted in German with a Baltic accent.

He is Jan Karlovich Berzin, a Latvian revolutionary from the Baltic region, the future head of the Red Army Intelligence Bureau, and the biggest enemy of the Stasi. In the original history, he should be leading the Latvian Bolshevik organization in Riga at this time.

However, in this time and space, due to the strong suppression of the Baltic Defense Forces and the Stasi, and the number of Baltic Germans reached 1 million due to the addition of Russian Germans and part of the "ethnicity unknown" population was classified as Germans, while the number of Latvians was reduced to more than 400,000 for various reasons - this move was more deadly than the Defense Forces and the Stasi combined - so Berzin was not sent to Riga to die, but came to Berlin with Yurovsky to help the German Bolsheviks seize power.

"We also want to occupy the Glienicke Palace?" Liebknecht said, "It is close to Potsdam and is not the main imperial palace. If an uprising occurs in Berlin, William II will most likely flee to the German headquarters in Belgium."

When mentioning the German troops on the front line, Liebknecht could not help but frown. In contrast to the extremely war-weary situation of the Russian front-line troops, the German front-line troops generally still want to fight. Most of those who were bewitched by the Spartacists were the reserve troops and navy in the rear, and their combat effectiveness on land was limited. Once the German emperor mobilized the front-line troops to fight back, the revolution might fail.

"The Glienicke Palace is the residence of the Tsar's family." Berzin reminded, "The Tsar is now an ally of the German emperor... He is helping Germany to mediate a ceasefire. If successful, the German revolution will be immediately extinguished."

"We need to control the Glienicke Palace," Liebknecht nodded, "When we control Berlin, we will send people there!"

"We should also kill the Tsar's entire family!" Yurovsky added in stiff German.

"They will be extradited," Liebknecht said, looking at the thin, gloomy and seldom-talking Yurovsky, "and they will be handed over to Russian comrades as soon as the German Soviet government is formed... Nicholas II was sentenced to death by Russia, not by Germany."

"But..." Yurovsky wanted to speak, but was stopped by Berzin's eyes. Liebknecht obviously didn't want to kill the Tsar, and he was not a Bolshevik now, but an independent social democrat. This shows that Liebknecht still had illusions about the German Social Democrats. But what can be done about it? Berzin and Yurovsky sneaked in with a special team! As long as the Berlin uprising affected the Glienicko Palace, killing a few people would be a piece of cake?

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A shabby rented carriage carrying Hersman, Chloe and Olga stopped in a quiet alley next to the Kurfürstendamm. It was early morning on November 6, and the streets of Berlin were deserted, as if the storm of revolution had not yet blown here.

Several young men in shabby suits and masks came out of the cafe on the corner, their right hands stuffed into their bulging suit pockets, looking around vigilantly.

"Who are they?" Grand Duchess Olga got off the car and immediately noticed them.

"I don't know..." Hersman, who was also wearing a big mask, glanced at the few people - they were all Stasi spies! Led by Captain Stockhausen himself, they were secretly lurking in Berlin.

Before leaving the Glinico Palace, Hersman gave an order to Stockhausen, code-named "Shadow", to take people to guard near his residence in Berlin. However, looking at the carefree appearance of these spies, they were still too immature.

"They should be secret police, right?" The Grand Duchess actually guessed their identities. When she went upstairs with Hersman, she suddenly said to Hersman: "I heard that the United Baltic Principality has a secret police organization called 'Stasi'... Ludwig, I want you to take charge of them! You must do a good job and don't make it as useless as the old Secret Service!"

"Your Majesty, let's talk about this when we get to Riga." Hersman smiled at Olga, as a thank you for her "promotion" of himself, although she had no power to appoint the director of the Stasi.

After going upstairs, Hersman found that there were guests at home. The visitor was Schleicher, who had been the leader of the Thor Group when he was in the General Staff. He was going to be very successful now. His old boss, General Wilhelm Groener, replaced Ludendorff as the first quartermaster general on October 25, and Schleicher became Groener's right-hand man. In the past ten days, he has been running around for Groener, contacting the leaders of the Social Democratic Party and the Independent Social Democratic Party.

When Hersman got home, Schleicher was talking to Hersman's Jewish stepmother Odeya. Odeya returned to Berlin in early August. Her husband, old Hersman, fully recovered under her careful care and returned to the front line to squat. However, he was no longer a battalion commander, but was promoted one level to become a colonel and a colonel, and was awarded a first-class Red Eagle Medal.

But the old man was not happy at all because of the promotion and the medal. The letter to Hessmann was full of concerns about the situation in the rear, and the words also revealed a lot of low morale on the front line. Although there were still many soldiers willing to fight, the military's morale was still shaken - from late October, the situation in Germany began to deteriorate sharply. There were strikes, anti-war protests and riots everywhere. In addition, the deadly cold was also prevalent in the army, and many people fell ill or even died. The morale of the front line inevitably dropped sharply because of this.

However, at the same time, the attack of the Allied forces was resisted by the German army (in fact, the cold also played a role. The situation of the US military was particularly serious, and almost all the front-line troops fell ill). Moreover, the model of World War I was too favorable for the defending side, and the German army's combat effectiveness was higher than that of the Allies - looking at the casualties of the Allies and the Allies in World War I, although the Allies were defeated, the personnel losses were far less than the opponents - even if the rear was not stable, they could still resist.

However, with the surrender of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the surge of the German revolutionary wave, the heroic resistance on the front line seemed to be in vain.

"Odeya," Hessman greeted Schleicher first, then pointed to Olga, who was wearing a blue tweed dress and looked tired, and said to his stepmother, "She is Chloe's cousin Elizabeth. Take her to the guest room to rest."

After settling Olga, Hessman went into his study with Schleicher. Before he asked the other party to sit down, Schleicher spoke first: "Ludwig, change into our military uniforms and go with me to see Admiral Groener!"

"Now?" Hessman was stunned and looked at his watch, "It's five o'clock now."

Schleicher's face was a little ugly, "Something big is going to happen! The admiral wants to see you right away. I called the Glienick Palace and they said you went back to your residence in Berlin. So I came here overnight to wait for you!"

"What happened?"

"Don't ask, you'll know when you get to the Reichstag."