Chapter 677: Master Wang Is Coming
"God save the Queen! Powerful and noble, your rule brings glory, our glory! Your rule is feared by the enemy, and it rules Orthodoxy. God save the Queen..."
The national anthem of the Russian Empire echoed over the border town of Puchory. The residents of the town and several nearby collective farms who did not escape in time were detained by a group of old white men in the town, staring blankly at the entry ceremony that seemed to be a time and space disorder.
The ones entering the city were not the legendary German invaders - the Germans also came, and they drove away the Red Army in the town, but they did not hold an entry ceremony, and it seemed that they had no intention of occupying the city.
The first to enter the city in a show of force were a group of old white men who looked very old and wore outdated military uniforms from the Tsarist era. They either carried Mosin-Nagant rifles, or rode tall horses and held sabers, sang the Tsarist Russian anthem "God Save the Queen", and walked in a line in front of the Puchory Railway Station. Many people were crying as they walked - it seems that they have suffered a lot in the dark capitalist country over the years!
Following these old white men was a group of bearded old men wearing black robes, black hats and a cross in their hands. They also lined up in an orderly manner. After the old white men finished singing "God Save the Queen", they also started singing. They sang the Orthodox hymn "Holy Mother Mary".
These people in black robes turned out to be the "Royal Forbidden Spell Masters" of Empress Olga, and everyone was an Orthodox priest. Don't underestimate these Orthodox priests. Before the victory of the Russian Revolution, Russia was a country with a strong religious atmosphere, and almost all Russians believed in Orthodoxy. Even after the establishment of the Soviet Union, there were still many religious people. The Bolshevik regime was the mortal enemy of Orthodoxy. It not only banned all religious activities and arrested a large number of Orthodox clergy, but also made religious people "anti-G revolution". Among the people who were reformed through labor in the Gulag, many were unlucky because of their belief in God.
If these "forbidden spell masters" who openly sang hymns on the street had been put a few days ago, they would have been a crime of anti-G revolution group and had to go to labor reform!
But now... the power of the Virgin Mary is indeed greater than that of Queen Olga. When "God Save the Queen" was sung just now, the people on the street did not do anything, but just stared blankly. Now when the hymn of "Virgin Mary" started, many Soviet old ladies (women are generally more devout to religion, so most of the people who committed the "believing in God and opposing revolution" in the Soviet Union were women) immediately sang along.
Although the singing was a little off-tune, it immediately made the atmosphere in the small town of Puchory become reactionary.
"Don't, don't sing!"
"Be careful if others hear it!"
"You will be sentenced to labor reform..."
It seems that there are still people with high consciousness. Soon, some heads of families with sloppy looks and terrified expressions came out to stop them. The small town of Puchory and the surrounding collective farms are not remote places. They are close to Leningrad and are important border areas. They have always been the key monitoring areas of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (the border is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs). Living in this area, you must be careful at all times and must not say the wrong words or sing the wrong songs.
The heads of the families stepped forward to stop them, and the sound of the hymns on the street suddenly became much quieter, and the atmosphere seemed a little depressed.
On the upper floor of the waiting hall of the Puchory Railway Station not far from this street, Sepp Dietrich, the commander of the 1st SS Division responsible for capturing the town of Puchory, shook his head and said to Prince Yusupov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Imperial Guards beside him: "Prince, this doesn't seem to work... Shouldn't we arrest a group, imprison a group, and kill a group?"
Unlike the situation in another time and space, the German army that entered the Russian territory (referring to the part allocated to the Russian Empire according to the agreement) did not regard itself as an "occupying army" or exercise the power of an occupying army, but handed over the power of governance to the Russian Imperial Government of Empress Olga and its armed forces.
So Dietrich's SS could not kill people in the town of Puchory, and Prince Yusupov did not order the suppression of the Bolsheviks.
"Someone will do it," Prince Yusupov shook his head, "but the Queen doesn't want the Guards to do it because they don't understand the situation."
The old white men have been away from Russia for more than 20 years and have no idea what the country looks like. Therefore, it is not possible to use them to govern the local areas. This is just as unrealistic as expecting the German occupation authorities to govern the Russian land and people in an orderly manner.
And the ones who can really deal with these occupied areas are the traitors in the Nuremberg concentration camp. For example, the former political commissar of the 16th Mechanized Army, who became the Deputy Minister of the Interior because he took the lead in shouting "Long live Comrade Queen", is a man with a way.
He is now accompanying Her Majesty the Queen on the train to Berlin to meet Hessmann with the Minister of War Wrangel. On the train, he began to offer advice to the Queen.
"My Majesty, please forgive me for being frank. Your dream of sleeping in the Winter Palace in Petrograd will be difficult to achieve in the short term. Because Petrograd is the second capital of the Soviet Union, the civilians who can live there are the darlings of the Bolshevik Party. They enjoy the same welfare benefits as Moscow, which are the best among all the civilians in Soviet cities. Their lives are much happier than those of ordinary farmers.
At the same time, the Bolshevik Party also attached great importance to the purification of the residents of Petrograd and Moscow. Anyone who might pose a threat to the Bolshevik Party was not allowed to live in Petrograd and Moscow. The people who can move in from other places are relatively reliable politically. Therefore, our attack on Petrograd will definitely encounter stubborn resistance from the Petrograd working class and will never succeed. "
"We've been talking for a long time about just workers. What fighting capacity do they have?" Baron Wrangel, the Minister of War, interrupted Fegulov with disdain.
Although he was defeated by the workers' and peasants' army, the main force of this attack was the German army. If the Kaiser's army wanted to invade Petrograd more than 20 years ago, the workers and Bolsheviks there would not be able to resist at all.
"Baron, what you are facing now is not the Russian working class in 1917 or 1918, but a new generation of Soviets who were trained as communist fighters. They have been brainwashed by the Bolsheviks through education since childhood and are very loyal to the cause of the party. And they will also regularly receive various rigorous short-term military training to ensure that they can take up arms to liberate mankind when necessary, or to defend their beloved Bolshevik regime, such as Petrograd and Moscow! Such a big Soviet city is basically a huge military camp!”
What he said was indeed no exaggeration. At this time, the Bolshevik regime in the Soviet Union was still in an era of rising power and had strong organizational, mobilization and construction capabilities.
And the new generation of Soviets did receive strict military training - the military training in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era was not a game, it was very serious training!
This strictly implemented military training system can ensure that the Soviet Union can quickly mobilize endless troops after the outbreak of war! Even if the main force of the Red Army was wiped out by the Germans, the Soviet Union could quickly mobilize a large-scale new army with not too bad quality to fight the Germans. This is also the reason why the Barbarossa plan failed in history.
Baron Wrangel snorted: "Deputy Minister, according to you, don't we have no chance at all?"
"Baron, if the opportunity you are talking about allows His Majesty to become the master of Petrograd in the short term, then it does not exist. But Russia is very vast, not just Petrograd and Moscow. There are also endless countryside, and Compared with Moscow and Petrograd, it is a place without hope and future, a hell that everyone wants to escape from.”
"Hell?" Wrangel frowned. In his opinion, the Soviet Union under the rule of the Bolsheviks was full of hell.
"It is hell, and it is difficult to escape." Fegulov smiled and said, "Because the population of the Soviet Union cannot move freely. If someone is born in Petrograd or Moscow, he is undoubtedly very lucky and can have Sufficient supplies, good education, and a relatively wide path for advancement. Even if he is a good-for-nothing idiot, he can still be assigned a job with no worries about food and clothing. If someone is born in a collective farm, it will be miserable, really. It was very miserable, and there was even a certain chance that people would starve to death in the years just after the civil war and in the late 1920s and early 1930s. There were probably millions of people who had starved to death during the current industrialization of the Soviet Union. Industrialization on the bones of peasants! Moreover, the hell in the Soviet countryside was also hierarchical..."
"I know this," Queen Olga interrupted Fegulov, "I know that the Soviets have elements, which is probably the hierarchy. I think we should start from the countryside to restore the Russian Empire."
"Your Majesty, you only said half of what you said. The urban population of the Soviet Union is now much higher than it was more than 20 years ago, almost 40%. In many places, the urban population is more than the rural population." Fegulov said, "So we The southern Russian region, which is far away from big cities and has a relatively high proportion of farmers, and the Caucasus region, where ethnic conflicts exist, should be regarded as the foundation of the restoration of the empire. "
"Southern Russia?" Olga nodded thoughtfully, "That was also the last land ruled by our Romanov dynasty, and the Cossacks there have always supported us."
"Yes, there are indeed many people in southern Russia who still miss little mother Olga (some Russians call the Tsar their father and the Empress their mother)," Fegulov said, "but these alone are not enough, Your Majesty. We also need a truly strong royalist party, a party that can fight the Bolsheviks!”