Chapter 1728: Explosion
Chapter 1728 Explosion
Until after the war, when people tried to restore the starting point of the revolution in January 1914, they would be surprised to find that the Russian January Revolution, which shocked the world and even changed history, broke out from a worker gathering area. And the reason for the outbreak can be as simple as one sentence - "There is no bread"!
In the early morning of January 15, 1914, in the Vyborg district of Petrograd, a rumor suddenly appeared at the door of a bakery: "There is no bread." These words were like throwing a stone on the calm water, and the long queue outside the bakery suddenly became agitated.
"I saw there was bread inside!" I don't know who said a word. The people outside the line were full of violent tendencies due to extreme dissatisfaction and fear. A large number of people began to attack the bakery, and they climbed over the fence. , After smashing the cabinets and shelves, and rushing into the bakery, they crazily ransacked all the food they could see!
If in other countries, even if such a situation occurs, it is nothing more than a small chaos. Maybe the people who took advantage of the fire would be arrested by the military and police who arrived later, or they would disperse, but now, this is in Russia, in the The capital of Russia! This is a city that has been oppressed to the limit, and the middle and lower class residents have been squeezed to the edge of life and death. They are just numb and survive under the inertia of life. At this time, it is like a fire is lit on dry wood, and it explodes instantly Under the leadership of the activists, the commotion quickly expanded and deteriorated!
Individual conflicts quickly turned into large-scale demonstrations of thousands of people. A large number of housewives and factory workers walked out of their homes and factories, shouting: "Down with hunger, workers want bread!" and other slogans towards the city center advance.
At this time, at the Pudinov Arsenal on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, the workers and the factory were confronting each other. Two days ago, the factory stopped work on the grounds that the workers "disrupted production". In Russia at this time, no job means no income, and as a factory employee with rich experience in struggle, it is naturally impossible to leave like this. At this time, they were confronting the factory, and after being affected by the demonstration, thousands of workers began to walk out of the factory and sent liaisons everywhere. People connected in series, and the whole situation broke out as if half of nuclear fusion exploded rapidly. In just a few hours, more than 120,000 people participated in the parade, accounting for one-third of the city's workers! And these people quickly controlled several important streets and began to concentrate in the city center.
On the second and third days, the number of demonstrations began to increase rapidly. At noon on the 17th, more than 300,000 people took to the streets to express their anger and dissatisfaction to the government! Facing the escalating demonstrations, Khabarov, who served as the commander of the St. Petersburg Garrison, immediately mobilized 55 infantry companies and 24 cavalry companies from the army to suppress them. When the gunshots sounded, rows of people fell in a pool of blood, and when the Russian soldiers began to massacre their compatriots, everything was moving in an irreversible direction!
However, after nearly two years of fighting, the Russian army is no longer the army that followed the orders of the Russian government at the beginning of the war.
This war caused the Russians to lose a lot of blood. A crop of soldiers fell on the battlefield like harvesting wheat. At this moment, taking the St. Petersburg Garrison as an example, the troops are very mixed. Perhaps in the previous weeks, they were still workers. And farmers, and many of the demonstrators are their family members and friends. It is obviously unreliable to expect them to suppress with guns and sabers.
At noon on the 17th, a group of soldiers clashed with the army because they felt that the authorities were too brutal. When the sound of gunfire echoed over the urban area, the whole situation changed fundamentally, as if a domino had been pushed , the army began to mutiny into the establishment, from now on, they no longer loyal to the rotten bond of the Russian tsarist government, businessmen, bureaucrats and any wealthy class are their opponents, they think that their own poverty and the disaster of war These people brought in, they had guns in their hands, they had hatred, they had the ability and motivation to act, and the situation in St. Petersburg changed fundamentally!
The rioting soldiers led the citizens to capture the arsenal in St. Petersburg, and took out tens of thousands of various firearms and a large amount of ammunition from it. And this is only 5 days after the "bakery" incident! When the sun set on the fifth day, there was no army in the surrounding area of St. Petersburg willing to obey the orders of the tsarist government. At this time, Nicholas II, who was far away in Mogilev, discovered that the entire political situation was deteriorating rapidly. Your own capital is out of control!
The challenge Nicholas II faces is not only the rebellious army and people, but the people headed by the head of the Russian Duma, Rodenko, have begun to demand the formation of a Constituent Assembly government composed of enlightened people! The aftermath of the riot had such a huge impact that even the cronies around the Russian emperor began to consider their own way out.
On the night of January 18, Nicholas II's younger brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexander Lovech, the Director of the Army Cavalry, and Prime Minister Nicholas asked the Russian Emperor to consider the Russian Duma's proposal to establish a constitutional monarchy. . The Russian Revolution on this plane almost followed the historical pattern. Except for a very small number of people, no one would have imagined that such a huge empire, a dynasty that lasted for 370 years, would be defeated by a small bread. shop incident and went to his own end.
At the same time, leaving aside the chaos and disputes in Russia, at this time, whether it is the Kaiser in Brussels, Belgium, Ruprecht in Lviv, or even the Austrian in Vienna's Hoffmann Palace. The imperial capital put other things aside, because they knew that the last feast was about to begin! This is a feast that is rarely seen once in hundreds of years. Compared with this Russian collapse, the previous three divisions of Poland are just an appetizer and dessert!
But now, what the leaders of the Allied Powers need to consider is how to dig out as much meat as possible from the dying Normanov dynasty!
"We need to act quickly, not only in the direction of Ukraine, but also in the direction of Transcaucasus. Now, the Russian government has ignored the situation in the south. It is very easy for us to break through. The direction of Transcaucasus is the intersection of Eurasia. At this point, as long as we control this place, we will be at the crossroads of the Black Sea, Lili, Europe and Asia, and the strategic position is very important!" said the prince.
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