Chapter 1167 The Victory of the Revolution Is the Beginning of the Problem
May 1863 finally arrived in a hail of bullets, shouts of slaughter, and cheers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoIn the past April, the world situation has been changing, and war is still the most important theme. The first is that the North American Civil War, which lasted for more than two years, seems to be nearing its end. The month after the Battle of Gettysburg and Washington, the Battle of the Great Lakes was fought on an unprecedented scale between the North and the South in the North American War.
On one side was the Confederate Army, which numbered more than 700,000 men, and on the other side was the Union Army, which numbered more than a million people. Although the number of the Federation Army is superior. However, the Southern Coalition Army has the advantage and initiative in the terrain, and the combat effectiveness of the Southern Coalition Army is also significantly higher than that of the Federal Army, and it is a unit that has won many battles, so it has a great psychological advantage. And it is also more than a cut above the level of command. Therefore, the outcome of the battle is still without suspense. After capturing Pittsburgh, a corps of 140,000 men commanded by Shi Dakai relied on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh to defeat the main force of nearly 300,000 troops of the Federal Great Lakes Army seeking a decisive battle. After five days of hard fighting, the Great Lakes Army lost 50,000 soldiers, and the waters of the Ohio River were almost dyed red! Eventually, it was the Confederate Mississippi Corps that attacked near Cleveland that the Great Lakes Corps was forced to come back. The newly defeated Great Lakes Army was again defeated outside Cleveland, and the remnants of less than 200,000 men retreated into downtown Cleveland, surrounded by the Confederate Legion.
The entire Great Lakes region of the United States was thrown into chaos and cut off from the rest of the Confederacy. The industrial advantage of the Federation is suddenly gone! Although the North American War did not end with this. But everybody knows. The sum of the Confederations is only a matter of time.
And just as the North American war was nearing its end. In the heart of Europe, another war is getting bigger and bigger. This was the Polish Revolutionary War, which was later called the first real proletarian revolution! Obviously, the Russians also made a major mistake in the suppression of the Polish revolution, they did not anticipate that the Polish Red Party and the Provisional Government would mobilize the Polish peasants for the war by means of equal division of land - in the previous Polish uprisings, only the burghers and some nobles had participated, and tens of thousands of people had already reached the sky. For Russia, which has an army of 1.4 million, it is simply an egg against a stone. So Alexander II after receiving a secret message from the Prussian side. There is the idea of luring the snake out of the hole, and I want to wait for the Polish rebels to jump out, and then eliminate them in one fell swoop! Who knew that it was not a snake that was lured out, but a noose, a red noose around the neck of the capitalist world!
The storm of the agrarian revolution swept through the countryside of western and southern Poland in a very short time, and nearly 2.5 million Polish peasants got their coveted land. More than 200,000 "turned peasants" took up arms and joined the revolutionary army led by the Polish Red Party. Neither France nor Prussia realized whether Poland was taking place with a new revolution or whether it had provided them with obsolete weapons as planned. Moreover, the Polish officers in exile in France and Prussia also served the Red Party as usual, and in a short time the Polish insurgents were able to master the most basic combat skills. It also plunged the Russian army that came to suppress it into a bitter battle. What makes the Russians feel even more at a loss. The storm of the Polish revolution soon spread to Lithuania, which was once part of the same state as the Kingdom of Poland (Conference Kingdom), and even to Belarus and Ukraine.
Meanwhile. The Ming Empire in eastern Russia also completed its initial mobilization, amassing hundreds of thousands of troops in the territory of the Kazakh Khanate and the territory of the East Siberian Company in the northwestern frontier region. The vassals of the Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Western Qing Dynasty, also mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops. For a time, the war clouds on the eastern and western fronts of the Russian Empire were thick, and the situation in the country became increasingly tense under the instigation of the Land and Freedom Society.
I don't know if I was intimidated by the prospect of fighting on two fronts and the outbreak of revolution in all Russia, but on May 10, 1863, the invincible Tsarist Russia finally bowed to the Polish people. Alexander II renounced the Polish throne and withdrew all Russian troops stationed in the territory of the Polish Congress Kingdom!
There is no doubt that this was a victory for the Polish people, and even more so for the Russian Narodniks (Land and Freedom Society)! Because the Polish Revolution proved the viability of the theory of the agrarian revolution!
"Long live the Republic of Poland!"
"Long live the land and freedom!"
"Long live the revolution!"
"Liberate all of Poland!"
"Hang the Tsar!"
"Long live socialism!"
An overwhelming whistling sound sounded in the square outside the red Warsaw Castle. Countless Poles have gathered, shouting slogans of revolution and victory, celebrating their victory.
Warsaw Castle is not really a fortress with heavy walls and fortifications. It's a beautiful, palatial palace. It is one of the symbols of Warsaw, as well as of Poland. The Polish Provisional Government has now moved from the Vilanov Palace on the outskirts of Warsaw to Warsaw Castle in the city of Warsaw. A red flag, a symbol of the revolution, is flying high above the spire of the castle.
Little did the cheering crowd know that in a conference room in Warsaw Castle, the leaders of the Polish revolution were debating the future fate of Poland, Russia, and the world.
"Comrades, the victory of the Polish revolution has proved that it is possible for a country to make a direct transition to socialism without going through the capitalist stage! Do you hear what the people outside are shouting? Long live socialism! Long live socialism! They have already shouted out their wishes, they want socialism, not the cruel and inhumane like Britain, France, Prussia and China, where only a few can make a fortune, and the majority are doomed to proletarian capitalism with nothing! ā
, although he is not a Pole. But there is no doubt that he was the brightest and brightest revolutionary star born of this Polish revolution. For the greatest factor in the success of the Polish revolution was his "theory of agrarian revolution" - and it is also historical! -- Because the advanced capitalist countries will not allow Russia to develop capitalism! He advocated the overthrow of the Tsar with an agrarian revolution and peasant uprisings, and then skipping the capitalist stage and stepping straight into socialism! However, this set of theories was resolutely opposed by Marx and Engels......
Historically, of course, Bakuninism was completely bankrupt, because Russia had already become a capitalist country before the First World War with the massive investment of French capital. However, in this era, there are so many places for French capital to invest, I am afraid that there will be no interest in Russia.
"Now the working class and peasants of the whole world already know or will know about the victory of the Polish revolution. What happened in Poland will greatly encourage the Russian people, the French people, the Prussian people, the Austrian people, the British people, the American people, the Indian people, and of course the Chinese people to fight for their own liberation! This, of course, depended on the path to be taken after the success of the Polish Revolution...... It is to build a socialist Poland where everyone is equal, free from exploitation, without oppression, and without poverty. Or build a capitalist Poland where one oppresses, exploits and eats man! If it were the former, the proletarians of the whole world would stand up and follow us, follow in the footsteps of Red Poland, smash this evil old world, and put the red noose around the necks of those emperors, ministers, generals and capitalists who are high above, and the future universe will be a sea of red flags!
If the latter, then what kind of country are we going to turn Poland into? A copy of imperialist China or a second of militaristic Prussia? Are we, revolutionaries, going to change careers to become emperors, ministers, generals, and capitalists? Is that what we're fighting for? (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and faster!)