"Construction? That was after the victory in the Civil War. Lenin glanced at Hersmann and sighed, "Now we are in great difficulty, the White Guards have an empress and have united all our Russian reactionaries." Britain, France, the United States, and Japan also sent many intervention troops. Although Woodrow. Wilson mentioned in the Fourteen Points of Peace that foreign troops should be withdrawn, but now there are more and more foreign troops on Russian soil. ”

Lenin's words seemed to blame Germany, that Olga could become empress, and that Germany had a great deal of responsibility - mainly Hersmann's fault! Lenin also had spies in Germany and Tallinn, and of course knew that Hersmann and Olga were on good terms.

Hersman laughed, "Vladimir. Ilyich, it is impossible to predict the affairs of the world, and no one knows that the girl has such a great appeal that can make all the White Guard generals obey her. But so what? It is obvious that Britain, France and the United States do not really support her. ”

"Obviously?" Lenin remained silent.

"Of course! How many Intervention Forces are there? Not counting the Japanese in the Far East, who could not come to Europe, Britain, France, and the United States alone sent about 200,000 men to Russia. But why didn't they come to Tallinn? If Estonia is used as a starting point, plus Olga's nearly 100,000 White Guards, Petrograd will probably change hands. With Petrograd, Olga is the real Empress of Russia! ”

"Then the revolution will fail," Lenin said in a gloomy tone. "Then you will be the duke of Russia! What did the Empress tell you? ”

The current Soviet Russian Red Army is not the steel torrent of later, there are very few excellent officers, and even if there are "military experts" who cannot be relied upon. The armament was also poor, and it was maintained by second-hand and third-hand goods sold to Russia by the Russian-German companies in 1918 and obsolete equipment taken over from the original Tsarist army.

What's more, the Bolsheviks had no food to feed the population! If the enemy had entered Petrograd with food - which would not have been difficult for the United States - the Bolshevik red country would have been finished, but the red country had been maintained until 1991.

"But the intervention forces do not want to come to Petrograd!" "What are they trying to do in Murmansk, Eastern Ukraine and Transcaucasia and the Far East?" ”

Lenin said coldly: "They want to dismember Russia!" ”

Germany collapsed, Austria-Hungary dispersed, and now only France and Russia remained among the great European powers. The French, on the other hand, are reluctant to have more children, and now have a population of only about 40 million, which is a little smaller than that of Britain itself, which has a large white population in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and a much higher fertility rate than France. Therefore, France's threat to Anglo-American world hegemony is not great, unless France can crush Germany and swallow it piece by piece.

Before the war, Russia claimed to have a population of 180 million, tens of millions more than the United States, and its land area was larger than that of the United States. Although the degree of industrialization is insufficient, the potential is undoubted, so the intention of the British, French and American powers towards Russia is actually to dismember and weaken.

Hersman nodded. "Vladimir. Ilyich, I think you already have a way of dealing with the White Guards and the Interventionists, don't you? ”

Lenin had a dark and agitated look in his eyes, "Yes, we have a way to deal with it, but only if the Courland Defense Army does not enter the war." ”

Hesmann knew the Russian Bolshevik method when he was passing through Riga - ceding land and paying reparations to Poland!

The present Russian Bolsheviks were surrounded by the enemy on all sides, with Denikin's South Russian White Guards and 130,000 Anglo-French intervention troops to the south, the North Russian Provisional Government and the Anglo-French-American intervention forces to the north, Kolchak and the multinational Siberian Intervention Army to the east, and Empress Olga's army and the Poles to the west.

And of all the enemies, the most powerful is actually Poland. Because before and after the defeat of Germany, the policy of arming Poland against the Red Russia was pursued - and the Germans did the same in history. The troops withdrawn from the Eastern Front gave most of their weapons to the Poles. In addition, Pilsudski's Polish regiment was trained in the world war and had a large number of talented people who could serve as officers. So the Poles expanded their army by hundreds of thousands in a short time.

Now the front of the Russian-Polish conflict, which has been pulled from the Kurlan border to the territory of Ukraine, is the most stressful of the various fronts faced by the Red Army, and it has restrained a large number of the Red Army's troops. But the Poles did not have a penny of favor towards Tsarist Russia, and Pilsudski was notoriously Russophobic. He sent troops to fight against Soviet Russia, just to take advantage of the fire to loot and make a profit. As long as the Bolsheviks promised to divide Ukraine on the Dnieper River, and then divide half of Belarus to Poland. So Pilsudski would be satisfied—yes, what else was he not satisfied with? That's not the historical "Western Ukraine", but the entire right-bank Ukraine, almost 300,000 square kilometers! With the addition of Russian Poland, Western Galicia (Eastern Galicia is Western Ukraine), Lithuania, and Posen and West Prussia, which Britain and France had secretly promised to Poland, the territory of Greater Poland in the future was almost 700,000 square kilometers.

However, the situation in right-bank Ukraine is very complicated, and there are not many territories controlled by the Bolsheviks, most of which are in the hands of the Poles and the Central Rada of Ukraine, which is allied with Poland. And most of Ukraine on the left bank of the east bank of the Dnieper is controlled by White Russia - the position of White Russia is the Great Russian Empire, and Poland cannot be independent, let alone Ukraine? Therefore, after the Bolsheviks ceded right-bank Ukraine, the Poles and the Central Rada of Ukraine and White Russia immediately turned their faces. Not only was the pressure on the western front of Soviet Russia greatly reduced, but even the pressure on the southern front was greatly reduced.

In this way, they will be able to concentrate their forces on the Russian Empress in Estonia, and if the Courland Defense Force does not intervene, Olga will not be able to stay in Tallinn!

Lenin said earnestly: "We did not want Estonia, which has always been the homeland of the Germans in Poland." But Yudenich and Olga can't stay there! They had already launched an attack in March, and although we were repulsed, they still held back a lot of our forces.

So we have to deal with Estonia first! Now that our troops are concentrating on Petrograd and Pskov, it is expected that there will be a general battle in June, July or August. If you don't support Tallinn, then when we wipe out the White Guards in Estonia, trade will be fully restored, and Germany will be our strategic partner! When the time comes, we will buy German machines and ask German engineers to help us build. The offices of your Economic Promotion Corporation in Moscow and Petrograd can be restored immediately. In addition, we are going to set up a similar company and open an office in Berlin. ”

Lenin looked at Hessman, who nodded: "It's no problem at all!" As long as this office did not support the activities of the German Bolsheviks. ”

Lenin laughed and said: "I can guarantee that the Bolsheviks in Germany will not be supported, not only by this office, but by the Third International as a whole, I can sign the guarantee!" ”

"Okay, it's a deal!" Hersmann stood up and shook hands with Lenin. The visit to Russia was surprisingly smooth, and he thought to himself: it seems that Lenin also needs to improve relations with Germany......

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