Chapter Eighty-One: Oppression and Resistance

  Soon after the victory of the October Socialist Revolution in Russia, the Soviet government, under the leadership of Lenin and others, quickly put down the rebellions launched by the old Russian military officers in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and Moscow, crushed the anti-Soviet rebellion led by Kerensky, the head of the former provisional government and the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, and Krasnov, stopped the counter-revolutionary rebellion activities at the old Russian military headquarters in Mogilev, and successively dispatched armed forces to the Don River region, Ukraine, South Ural, Belarus, South Caucasus, Turkestan, Siberia and the Far East, suppressing the anti-revolutionary armed forces everywhere, eliminating a number of sources of counter-revolutionary activities, and almost established Soviet power throughout the country.

  For this emerging Soviet regime, even if history has changed, its red nature will not change, and it is absolutely impossible to escape the crazy siege fate of capitalist countries. From the high sympathy of imperialist powers towards Nicholas II at the Paris Conference and their enthusiasm for the rebellion, it can be seen that capitalism absolutely does not tolerate another color of regime in this world, absolutely not!

  The Soviet government then signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, formally withdrawing from World War I. After that, the Soviet Union vigorously rectified the domestic environment, arresting and imprisoning a large number of powerful and dignitaries under the rule of the former Russian imperial government, teachers and scholars, trying to eliminate all the shadows of the Romanov dynasty, forcing a large number of Russians to flee abroad. On the one hand, it was closely united with poor peasants, on the other hand, it was an iron-blooded policy against traditional forces. The Soviet Union walked exceptionally fast on the road to consolidating the rule of the proletarian regime.

  The Paris Peace Conference did not invite the Russian government, which had already been replaced by the Soviet Union. The Allied Powers were extremely hostile to the Soviets and it was impossible for them to be invited to participate in the conference. However, the conference did not give the Soviet Union, which represented the Russian people, any gains from their contributions to the war, despite their early withdrawal, but also made a great contribution to the final victory of the Allied Powers, and should have participated in the division of post-war interests.

  The fact is just the opposite of what ordinary people think. The Soviet, which was supposed to benefit from this, changed everything due to Nicholas II's crying appeal. The Allied powers found a suitable reason for military intervention, and the glorious "restoration" became a righteous excuse. The Allied powers only needed an excuse to send troops, and they would not see how popular the Soviet was among the people in Russia. A government that represents the interests of the vast majority of the people is the legitimate and rightful government of that country. It is clear that the Allied powers could not see this point.

  On December 18, 1920, after the Entente-led coalition issued a preliminary plan for dealing with the Soviet Union, more active and effective means of intervention were quickly explored. In addition to a comprehensive economic blockade and arms embargo, the best approach was direct military intervention. However, the war-weary Entente armies needed time to rest and stockpile war materials, and also needed to develop a more perfect battle plan...

  When the anti-imperialist wave was still rising in China, the Entente Powers seemed to have not heard anything at all, and their preparations for intervention against the Soviet Union were completely unaffected. Of course, they would not have any impact on future military actions either. It can be said that the entire anti-imperialist movement within China had no effect on the imperialist powers whatsoever; their focus was always on how to eliminate the red Soviet Union, rather than paying attention to the petty squabbles of the Chinese people.

  In early February 1921, when the winter snow within Soviet borders had not yet melted, the British, French and American interventionist forces landed in Murmansk, formally opening the curtain on the war of intervention against the Soviets. At the same time, a tripartite interventionist coalition formed by Britain, America and Japan successfully landed in Vladivostok. Later, the Allied forces entered Central Asia and South Caucasus.

  The well-prepared interventionist army adopted a steady and steady tactic, with sufficient supplies and supplies to deal with the Red Army. General-purpose machine guns, heavy machine guns, rapid-fire artillery, howitzers, the interventionist army almost gathered all the most advanced and reliable killing machines at that time, but the strength of the Red Army was questionable.

  Inheriting from the Tsarist government, they were originally not capable, and after establishing their regime, they greatly destroyed the original military-industrial system, persecuted a large number of useful talents, and let a large number of talents and wealth flow overseas. As a result, their strength has not yet reached the level at the beginning of World War I, and even because of the lack of training for soldiers and equipment for the army, they are inferior to the Tsarist government.

  In this world, there are few people who send charcoal in the snow, but there are many things that add frost to the snow. As a defeated country, Germany, for some unknown purpose, quickly joined with Turkey and violated the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, sending troops to occupy Crimea and South Caucasus. The war brought not only great losses to Germany, but also some benefits - they gained a large number of seasoned veterans. At this time, the German army was truly one of the best in the world, as long as supplies were adequate. The Allied Powers pulled them into the conflict, and for the newly established Soviet government, the phrase "adding frost to the snow" is somewhat inadequate to describe the current situation.

  The bad news was one after another, the Czechoslovak Legion, composed of 50,000 Austrian prisoners of war, launched a rebellion on its way back to Siberia via Vladivostok, successively occupying the middle reaches of the Volga River, Ural, Siberia and the Far East. After joining forces with the Far Eastern Intervention Army formed by Britain, America and Japan, they received a large amount of weapons, equipment and supplies, making them even more powerful than at the beginning of the rebellion.

  The White Guards of the Don region, led by Krasnov's Cossacks, and the "Volunteer Army" of Denikin in the North Caucasus, successively rebelled, established counter-revolutionary governments, and began to expand their rebellious armed forces, contacting the Entente organizations for material supplies and support to expand their strength.

  As a result, the entire Soviet government soon faced internal and external difficulties, lost three-quarters of its territory, had no external support, and did not even have voices supporting their cause. They truly became isolated and surrounded by enemies on all sides. If the current situation is not changed, for the Soviets, there is only one choice: extinction.

  In a critical moment, in order to defend the Soviet regime and defeat counter-revolutionary forces at home and abroad, the Soviet People's Committee knew that imperialism would inevitably launch an interventionist war against the Soviet Union, regardless of whether Nicholas II existed or not. Therefore, on December 20, 1918, it began to form the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Navy by decree, quickly establishing the Supreme Military Council to unify the command of national armed forces, followed by the establishment of local military institutions, implementing universal military training nationwide, and solving the problem of military strength at once.

  Of course, as the leader, Lenin was the first to criticize the brutal rule of Nicholas II's government, believing that Slavs must take charge themselves in order for Russia to prosper, and that returning to the Romanov dynasty would be a historical regression, which history and people no longer tolerate. He, like everyone else, believed that the great Bolshevik Party would win the victory of the war.

  Although the words sound good and the slogans are shouted very loudly, it is not enough to just move your lips to truly win. Faced with the situation of internal unrest and external worries, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee passed a decree on the implementation of universal military service, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet government decided to mobilize the country's manpower and material resources, and all work was transferred to the wartime track.

  On February 14, 1921, the Eastern Front was established to counter threats from the Far East. The Czechoslovak Legion and the interventionist forces of the United States, Great Britain, and Japan were not to be underestimated, so this front received sufficient attention. On February 20, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, which had been established shortly before, ordered a comprehensive expansion of troop formations.

  According to their plan, in addition to the Eastern Front Army, the Southern Front Army, Northern Front Army and Western Defensive Region will also be formed. The Soviet must make a lot of military deployment for the four-sided attack against the interventionist army, and of course, a lot of preparation work is needed.

  Large numbers of peasants began to be mobilized into the army, regardless of whether they could shoot or not, as long as they put on a military uniform, they were soldiers and should make sacrifices for the great Soviet power and become brave warriors. Workers lost all their holidays, women also joined in production activities to provide clothing, canned food, and ammunition for frontline soldiers.

  The war was going quite fast, but its development direction was not what the Soviet people wanted. The imperialist powers' united army, which had been tested by war for a long time, had become a group of seasoned soldiers, with an understanding and acceptance of war far surpassing that of the Soviet Red Army, which was composed of peasants. Many Red Army soldiers could hardly pick up the guns of their fallen comrades, let alone fire them accurately. Facing the well-equipped, experienced, and high-spirited interventionist army, it was not easy for the Soviets to reverse the trend and stabilize the situation.

  The recently concluded great bloodshed in Europe has proven that the life of a soldier may be equivalent to less than 10,000 rounds of ammunition, and the life of a new recruit may only be worth one bullet fired by an old soldier or half a shell fragment. In the face of interventionist troops with machine guns and artillery, it is precisely the Soviet Union's untrained soldiers who are often required to listen to sharp whistles in order to understand their commanders' intentions.

  Either a full-scale attack or a stubborn defense, these two commands are still relatively easy to understand. However, whether it's a counterattack or a defense, the bullets shot out by the interventionist army's machine guns are always fatal spells. The Red Army can only accept being slaughtered like wheat being harvested by scythes, and the interventionist army is almost advancing towards Moscow on land stained with blood. The Red Army, which relies on human power to resist the attack, cannot withstand the hail of bullets and artillery shells, and retreating step by step is the only way to preserve their lives. But how can the Soviet Red Army retreat again? One step back could be a vast expanse of sky, but it could also be a plunge into an abyss. With only human power advantage, they cannot retreat unless they are completely annihilated.

  The interventionist army formed by the Allied forces was not the main force, but their role was enormous and irreplaceable. However, to restore the country still depends on the Russians themselves, of course, they are also the ones who fought the hardest. The White Army led by Kolchak launched a surprise attack from the Eastern Front, while Denikin, Yudenich, and Miller's troops launched supporting attacks from the South, West, and North respectively, all targeting Moscow. These guys' desires were in sync with their advancing footsteps, trying to outdo each other to see who could get Lenin's head first and gain merit for themselves.

  The Czechoslovak Legion occupied Ufa, Votkinsk, Chistopol, Bugulma, Buguruslan, Orenburg, and Aktubinsk, approaching Kazan, Simbirsk, and Samara, cutting off the Red Army's connection with Turkestan, while the Far Eastern interventionist forces were also actively cooperating, so that the defense line of the Soviet Eastern Front was in danger of being broken through at any time.

  On the Western Front, Yudenich's troops quickly broke through the Red Army lines and, with the help of internal forces, successfully occupied Petrograd after a bloody battle. Then it was what the interventionists had long agreed upon: to consolidate their hold on one city or region before advancing further. Petrograd soon became an important base for Yudenich's operations and also the site of his mass slaughter of Bolsheviks.

  On the Southern Front, Denikin's army quickly succeeded in occupying the important city of Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd) on the lower reaches of the Volga River, cutting off all connections between the Soviets and the Caucasus region. He then gathered a large amount of supplies and troops under the escort of British and American naval vessels and sailed up the river to support Kolchak's army fighting in the Kazan sector. Having received a large amount of supplies, he became more confident in his ability to quickly capture Moscow. However, like Yudenich, he followed Nicholas II's instructions that after victory, it was necessary to massively capture and kill the Bolsheviks who organized the rebellion, and only by eliminating them could the stability of the restored monarchy be ensured.

  The interventionist forces stationed in Ukrainian cities such as Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev and Sevastopol were led by French and Greek troops, with the assistance of a hastily arrived British fleet. They quickly crossed the Dnieper River, which was heavily defended by the Red Army, under the cover of superior firepower. The interventionist forces then advanced towards Kursk and other areas, killing anyone suspected of being a Bolshevik along the way, using iron-fisted policies to prevent Bolshevik elements from causing trouble in the rear.

  Such a strategy is undoubtedly correct, the Soviet has a close relationship with the people, and in the eyes of the vast poor people, it must be supported by the Soviet Red Army. However, support also requires personnel organization. The interventionist army defeated countless Red Army troops along the way, slaughtering a large number of combatants and excellent soldiers, making the Red Army's combat effectiveness lower and lower. At the same time, arbitrarily killing cultured and thoughtful people, these are the easiest to be deceived by the Reds, and even those who have already joined the Red Army ranks must be resolutely dealt with.

  So, in this way, although the high-pressure policy was very cruel and inhumane, it also indirectly reduced the threat posed by deserters to their own supply lines, laying a solid foundation for the victory of interventionist warfare. Little did they know that such actions would cause immense losses to the Russian people, resulting in the loss of a large number of cultural, technical, and scientific talents, which would have a severe impact on Russia's development. But all this was irrelevant, because what the Russian emperor wanted was a group of ignorant and foolish people; the smarter ones were not liked by him, because the more intelligent people are, the easier they are to cause trouble and threaten his ruling position, thereby threatening the entire capitalist world.

  On April 5, 1921, when the Czechoslovak Corps, which had arrived from the Far East and was rebelling, and interventionists from all sides who had set out from Ukraine were occupying Soviet land inch by inch, when the entire Soviet Union was already extremely short of manpower and lacked food and military supplies to continue the war, when workers, exhausted from long periods of intense labor without receiving due compensation, went from enduring hunger to harboring discontent. When women and children were sent to factories for hard labor, while men were sent to the battlefield to be killed by a few bullets and declared "martyrs", could such a fate, worse than under Tsarist rule, be tolerated?

  They began to miss the Romanov dynasty when they at least had a limit on their survival, but the Red Russians were hungry all day and still had unfinished work. The so-called land revolution dream became empty talk, thousands of households gathered together to discuss collectivism, with few people working and many eating, was this really the prosperity and well-being that the Reds advocated for?

  Nicholas II also yielded to public opinion and announced a series of policies after their restoration, which would reduce the majority of peasants' taxes, increase workers' treatment and welfare, etc. After a comeback, Nicholas II already knew how to converge some, and at this critical juncture, what could be promised was everything, so people who were poor and thinking about change began to slowly turn their heads to intervene in the military, and the war finally came to an end. The world's only red regime, the Soviet, from the start of the revolution to its complete elimination, did not last even four years.

  War is an inhumane and painful thing, it has no distinction between justice and evil, its victory or defeat belongs to the competition among men, only with strength can one win respect and victory, on the contrary, the weak can only accept the pain of failure. No matter how many people support you, sympathize with you, without a matching force waiting for oneself is always failure.

  The Bolshevik Party, the world's first red party, advocated for an ideology and implemented a governance strategy that was largely correct and effective. However, when they launched a great revolution in Russia, which was comparable to China in terms of poverty, they encountered too many difficulties. Just the geographical location adjacent to numerous capitalist countries in Europe was enough to give them headaches. The capitalist world would not allow a color revolution or the emergence of a red regime right at its doorstep.

  Insufficient strength, the Soviet with a shallow foundation cannot be said to have been defeated by the powerful military blows of the interventionist forces, but was defeated by its own limited strength. Having good relations with the people is not enough to make a living. The beautiful blueprint promised by the political party has become an illusion, endless suffering has become a nightmare. Who will still believe in the beautiful dream conceived by the Bolshevik Party? They only care about their next meal, do they still have to work for over ten hours tomorrow? Do they care about their family having to sacrifice themselves for the politician's beautiful dream? Do they care about their family's future having to spend it in such poverty and lack of freedom...

  The failure of the Soviets was not inevitable, but in the face of powerful external intervention and their own weak strength, their failure seemed inevitable. In any case, even if the capitalist world won its first victory over the proletarian regime, it does not mean that the proletariat will be willing to sink and be oppressed. China, which has lost its sovereignty and dignity trampled, knows to unite against imperialism, this world is not yet a place where the powers can run amok.

  Where there is oppression, there will be resistance, whenever and wherever.

  Today, I continue to fulfill my promise of double updates on Thursday, and as today marks the 81st chapter, the dull and tasteless plot is also coming to an end. In other words, the first volume of this book is about to conclude. Thank you all for your continued support; the second volume of Da Guo will be arriving soon. I humbly request that everyone provide some firepower support?