By this time, a young girl named Natalie had already walked up with several suspected Hungarian revolutionaries and accosted Chloe.

"Chloe, who is this? Can you tell me about it? Natalie looked at Hersman with playful and curious eyes.

"Ludwig. Hersman, my fiancé. Chloe didn't say the "von" who symbolized nobility. In Soviet Russia, the aristocracy was not very popular.

"Ludwig, she's Natalie. Lesinskaya, my friend. Chloe said, "she worked for the Bolshevik Foreign Central League. ”

"Hello, Comrade Lesinskaya." Hersman smiled and held out his right hand to shake Natalie's hand.

Natalie smiled charmingly: "Welcome to Russia, you are also here for the inaugural meeting of the Third International?" ”

The Third International was soon to be formed, and that was in March 1919. It was already September 1918, and many foreign revolutionaries were coming one after another.

"No, it's not." Hersmann smiled and pointed at Chloe, "We are not Bolsheviks, nor are we members of the Socialist Party or the Workers' Party, we are just friends of the Russian Bolsheviks." When I heard about the assassination of Comrade Lenin, I came overnight from Riga. ”

"Oh, so you and Chloe are transferring trains in Pskov, right?"

Now there is no direct train from Riga to Moscow, but a change in Pskov, which is to facilitate the Bolsheviks to control the passage in and out of Russia. Although the road to escape from Soviet Russia to foreign countries has not yet been blocked, it has become more and more difficult to walk.

"Yes." Hersman replied, "I hope to be able to take the train to Moscow immediately." ”

"It just so happened that there was a special train to Moscow, which was contracted by our Central Bolshevik League." Natalie. "The train is great, and there are a lot of empty boxes on it. I may ask Comrade Bella to take you both with me. ”

"That's great, Natalie, thank you so much." Chloe looked very happy, and she turned to Hersman and said, "Everything about the Central Alliance is the best in Russia, and now we can go to Moscow comfortably." ”

Now the various supplies in the territory of Soviet Russia are already very tight, and even the rations in Moscow and Petrograd are so small that it is difficult to fill the stomach. Moreover, the Bolsheviks of this era did not have privileges and bureaucracy, and they basically shared the weal and woe of the people.

The Central Bolshevik League was the only department with special supplies, since they were responsible for entertaining foreign revolutionaries. The Russian Bolsheviks treated them very favorably and cared for them, and many foreign revolutionaries in Moscow even provided them with carriages.

The conversation was abruptly interrupted and someone called out to Natalie. The name of Leshinskaya. Leshinskaya told Hersman and Chloe to wait at the exit of the "Special Passage". Then he took a few Hungarians and walked to an office with the "Reception Office of the Central Foreign Alliance" hanging on it.

"That Natalie is the Cheka?" After completing the customs clearance formalities, Hersman asked Chloe beside him in a low voice.

"I don't know, but the Cheka, the Bolshevik Foreign Central League, the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs or the Military Revolutionary Committee, in Russia there is really no difference. All were organs of the Bolshevik Party, and their functionaries were all fighters of the Bolshevik Party. ”

The Russian Bolsheviks in 1918 were so powerful! Although there are only a few hundred thousand or hundreds of thousands of party members, almost everyone is a party fighter. In this regard, the Russian White Guards simply cannot be compared! They did not have a core of leadership at all, and the so-called "White Guards" were just a general term. There was no unified White Army, and there was no leader who could command them all. So the conflict within the White Guards was no less than the conflict between them and the Bolsheviks.

"Oh, you're right." Hersman nodded, and then sat down with Chloe in two secluded chairs at the exit of the "Special Passage", waiting for Natalie to get them a box to Moscow - this must have been arranged by the foreign Central Alliance, and Chloe informed the Kremlin of Hersman's coming to Moscow in advance, and then had a chance encounter with Natalie. I just don't know what other drama is going to be played below?

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

Stockhausen was now working as a military adviser to Trotsky under the guise of a "German military expert", and every month he wrote a war briefing to the headquarters of the Russian-German companies, and at the same time suggested what kind of weapons the Russian-German companies should provide to the Red Army.

Hersman took his notebook and flipped through it, and there were many things written on it, first of all, he reported that a battle was taking place near Ufa, and that it was against the cabinet government.

The present White Russian army is roughly divided into three parts: the army controlled by the cabinet ruling government (Provisional Government) in Ufa; The Armed Forces of South Russia led by Denikin and Kornilov. The main force of the former was the Czech Legion, which received a lot of assistance from the Entente, and the number was around a hundred thousand. The main force of the latter was the Don Cossacks, loyal to the Tsar and supported by the Central Rada of Ukraine, which probably wanted to use them to weaken the power of the Bolsheviks. The White Guards in the Far East, controlled by Semenov, they were supported by Japan and the United States.

In addition, in the Estonian Autonomous State of the United Baltic Principalities and in Finland, many Russian nobles and officers who opposed the Bolsheviks were now gathered. Led by Yudenich, the former commander-in-chief of the Caucasian Front of the Russian army, they also supported the tsar against the Bolsheviks. Moreover, these people were also supported by Admiral Golz and Finland! However, they had not yet organized an anti-Bolshevik armed force.

And these White Guards, including Yudenich's men and horses, who had not yet really pulled up arms, totaled hundreds of thousands, much less than the Red Army. With the exception of Semenov, there was no reliable source of weapons and equipment, and although they occupied most of the territory of Russia, they were sparsely populated, and the White Guards did not establish reliable local powers, which were mostly controlled by the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, with whom they were in partnership.

It was impossible to defeat the Bolsheviks by them.

And what really worried the Bolsheviks were the two foreign intervention armies! The Anglo-French-American forces entrenched in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, and the Allied intervention forces with the main Japanese forces landing at Vladivostok in August.

Now Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders are very worried that the intervention forces that are currently marching into Russian territory are only the vanguard! With the defeat of the Central Powers, the Entente will certainly make intervention in the Russian Civil War their first post-war priority. The only countermeasure that the Bolsheviks could take was to use the theory of world revolution to support the Socialist Left Pai revolution in Eastern and Central Europe.

At the end of the report, Stockhausen argued that the Russian Bolsheviks, who were still preparing for the inaugural congress of the Third International, were preparing for the inaugural congress of the Third International in order to create problems for the Entente and to restrain their energies from expanding their intervention.

That is, the Bolsheviks needed a bird to pull hatred to attract the attention of the Entente!

Hersman closed his notebook, thinking that the United Duchy of the Baltic could not be the first bird anyway. Natalie had already walked over from the other end of the special aisle with a middle-aged man in his early forties, a bushy mustache, and a round dough face.

Chloe recognized the middle-aged man, and she whispered to Hersman, "It's Kuhn. Beira! ”