Second Berlin Uprising
April 30, Berlin.
A month has passed since the last victory of the Berlin Uprising. The performance of the Albert Provisional Government in this month is not satisfactory. The remaining ships of the High Seas Fleet were packed and sent to Scarpa Bay. The Army was ordered to put down its weapons, and a large amount of war supplies were sent to France in a row.
Of course, more importantly, the people did not feel that their lives had become better. Not to mention that they were worse than before the war, but even in 1918. The extortion of the gangsters of the Allied countries made life more difficult.
"Tell Comrade Blacksmith that at 6 o'clock tomorrow, gather in Brandenburg Square!"
Like last time, Hoffman left in a hurry, so he didn't notice that Fried's expression was a little wrong, and he didn't notice that there were outsiders at Fried's home.
"You all heard it, you can let Rosa go now!" the big man said to the three uninvited guests in an almost begging tone.
Valdema Pabst glanced at the thin girl tied up, his lips curled up, and he sneered: "Fried, this is far from enough. Say, where are Luxembourg and Liebkne's tide?"
Fried replied with a sad face: "I am just an ordinary worker, how do I know where they are hiding!"
"You are very dishonest!" Pabst walked to the thin Rosa with a grim smile, and said gloomyly: "Give you a last chance, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!"
Fried was hesitant and entangled. He was unwilling to betray Luxembourg and Liebknecy, but he didn't want to lose his daughter either.
"Do it!" Pabst gave the two accomplices, and immediately these two vicious guys forced Rosa to the little one. It was obvious that they would never do anything good.
"Ah! Dad. Save me!" Little Rosa screamed.
Pabst ordered impatiently: "Clog her mouth and don't alarm the surrounding red elements!"
The scream immediately stopped abruptly. Fried was powerless to deal with the atrocities of the three beasts. He never cried and cried loudly. After some struggle, he could only surrender to the devil.
"Please let Rosa go! I said!"
Pabst showed a smug smile. He walked up to the big man, kicked him, and urged impatiently: "Then hurry up, our patience has a limit!"
Fried choked and said, "I really don't know where Luxembourg and Liebknesi are. If you want to know, you must go to Cobs!"
"Who is Cobs, address?" Pabst shouted coldly.
“Puppet Theater…”
Fried never hated himself so much. He never thought he would be a traitor or betray his dear comrades. He felt that he was a serious sin, but when he saw the trembling Rosa, he told himself that he was a father and had to protect his children.
"Great, how good it would be that you would have worked like this!" Pabst smiled sinisterly, "I don't cry until I see the coffin!"
As he said that, he said to his accomplice, "Get things done better!"
Fried raised his head in shock, looked at Pabst in fear, and whined in his throat, "What are you going to do? Haven't I told you everything?"
Pabst grinned and said, "Yes, because of this, you have no use. Useless waste is not worthy of staying in the world!"
Fried's eyes widened in fear. He tried hard to resist, but was outnumbered. As the sword light flashed, his blood splattered over the white wall.
A few minutes later, Pabst walked out of Fried's nest with four subordinates, and no one could tell that they were bloody executioners.
“All solved?”
"Yes, Mr. Canaris. All have been resolved!" Pabst showed off to the people in the car with some smugness.
"Where is the information?" Canaris asked again.
“Puppet Theatre, Cobbs.”
Canaris nodded and said coldly: "Go and get him done. I need to know the hiding place of Luxembourg and Liebknesi before dawn."
Looking at the car slowly driving away, Pabst was a little unhappy. He didn't understand why he had to figure out the hiding spots of Luxembourg and Liebknesi tonight. There was no need for this. According to their plan, a massive parade will be launched tomorrow. As the leaders of the parade, they must go to the front desk to lead the revolution. Are they still afraid that they will not be able to find them?
Pabst felt that he was just a hard worker, doing some inexplicable and meaningless dirty and tiring work, but who asked him to join the Liberty Legion! In this legion called freedom but actually iron blood, the most desirable thing is to make random questions, and all he wanted was to obey.
"Go ahead and keep working!"
Pabst tightened his collar and hurriedly disappeared from the street corner with several subordinates. On this night, they still had a lot of bloody work to be completed.
At the same time, Luxembourg and Liebknesi were nervously planning the final details of the uprising. The nature of the Germans made them like to pay attention to details and wished to calculate all the trivial matters clearly. They must be 100% sure before they can launch the uprising.
Such a work is really too boring and painful for their Russian comrades, such as Yue Fei and Radic. I remember that during the October Revolution, Lenin and Trotsky did so many meticulous preparations. As long as people participate in activities, there will be accidents, and the revolution will naturally be no exception. However, not all accidents need attention. Isn’t it enough to grasp the general direction?
But the Germans disagree. For an inconspicuous detail, they can argue for a day and night and propose countless possibilities and solutions. Only when all solutions are perfect can they take action. This is also an important reason why the Second Berlin Uprising was delayed for so long.
Of course, if the plan is more detailed, Yuefei and Radick will not have much opinion. What they really can't stand is Luxembourg and Liebknesi's plan for the May 1 uprising. According to the plan formulated by these two experts, the May 1st uprising will not be a real armed uprising at the beginning. It will be a peaceful demonstration of the proletariat's efforts to establish the Soviets in order to win the power. Further action can only be taken when the legitimate demands of the proletariat were rejected by the Albert Provisional Government.
And the so-called further action, whether an armed uprising is not a final decision, according to Luxembourg and Liebknesi's opinion, depends on the situation! Only when the Albert government shows the most reactionary side can the proletariat use violent self-defense.
To be honest, such a shit plan makes Yue Fei and Ladick quite a bit painful. Compared with the Germans' ability to pick up details, their overall planning ability or ability to grasp the general direction is really speechless.
Damn, when is it all? You still have to give the initiative to the enemy. From the day the Albert government came to power, they have been constantly rejecting your requests - refusing to establish a socialist republic, refusing to guarantee freedom of speech, assembly, and association, refusing to amnesty political prisoners, and refusing to eight-hour work system. In short, this party with the sign of social democracy is not unfavorable to all socialist and democratic things!
What's even more terrifying is that from all signs, Albert has reached some agreement with the Allies that they will tend to suppress the revolution!
In this case, it is very necessary to be proactive. If it were Lenin and Trotsky here, they had already begun to launch and arm the working class and start an armed struggle. But these naive Germans still had fantasies that they could drive away Albert and the Social Democratic Party just like the last time that she did not shed blood.
Yue Fei and Radick were quite disappointed and nervous about this. Only then did they realize that Lenin's warning seemed to make sense, and the Germans seemed to be really not ready for the revolution!
"It's only at this time that I asked this question and consulted the central government's opinions. What's the use?" Lenin angrily threw the emergency telegrams from Radick and Yuefei into the trash can.
He had warned before that the German revolution was more complicated, and the seemingly powerful working class in Germany was not ready for the revolution at all. He repeatedly told the two idiots that they must pay attention to this point. But they were fine, and at first agreed, looking like they were worried about everything, but when things were about to come, they said that there was something wrong with the preparation.
It’s time to do this, and if there is no sufficient preparation, what can I do if there is any problem?
Lenin was so angry that he almost wanted to overturn the table, and after a while he squeezed out a sentence: "My opinion is that if the German comrades are not prepared for an armed struggle, they should not rush to mobilize the masses to take to the streets. If possible, is it feasible to delay the May Day action? If it is impossible, can the May Day action be limited to a lower level?"
When Yuefei and Radek received a call from the Politburo, they smiled bitterly. It's not that there was something wrong with Lenin's opinion, but this is also the only way to deal with it. However, these two methods are useless and cannot be done. Because Luxembourg and Liebknesi were full of confidence in tomorrow's parade, they were optimistic that as long as the masses took to the streets again, they could scare Albert and gain political power peacefully.
In the early morning, Radick wrote in his diary: "...I have never been so anxious, even on the eve of the October Revolution, I have not been so uneasy... Comrade Luxembourg and Comrade Liebknecy were too confident, and they were not prepared for the cruelty of the enemy... I doubt that tomorrow's parade would evolve into a disaster?"
It was indeed a disaster. When the marching masses rushed to Brandenburg Square, and when they shouted various slogans of establishing Soviets and establishing socialist republics, a meeting to kill the revolution was coming to an end in Albert's office.
"The people who were incited by the rosy elements have taken to the streets," Albert said calmly and vigorously, without telling that he was about to become the executioner of the proletariat. "In order to protect the interests of Germany and to maintain peace and stability, we can only use powerful means to stop their atrocities! I authorize the army and the police to maintain order and restore peace in all ways!"
"Why haven't Fred arrived yet?"
Hoffman looked around for a while, but could not find his big comrade. You should know that Fred has been looking forward to this parade, hoping to establish a socialist republic with proletarian dictatorship as soon as possible. There is no reason not to participate!
Comrade Blacksmith's reply to this was: "Maybe Rosa's disease has occurred again, you know, asthma is high in this weather."
When he remembered Rosa Hoffman, he smiled. He hoped that after getting married, he would have a daughter as well as Rosa.
"It is very likely. Comrade Blacksmith. After the victory of the revolution, Rosa's illness should be cured, right?" Hoffman asked hopefully.
"Of course!" Comrade Blacksmith said, patting his chest, "Comrade Luxembourg and Comrade Liebknesi will not deceive us. The future socialist Germany will be a proletarian paradise, and everyone will have to take good care of it! No longer have to worry about work, hunger and disease!"
Hoffman smiled and raised the banner in his hand higher. It seemed that doing so would scare away the bourgeoisie and the Social Democratic Party, but he would never have thought that he would become the most conspicuous target, who seemed particularly positive!
With Albert's order, thousands of members of the Liberty Legion and police rushed to the parade, and gunfire and cries lingered in the streets and alleys of Berlin for a long time, and blood flowed into a river!
Hoffman was the first to be knocked down by a bullet. This honest worker was directly shot into a honeycomb coal by a machine gun. When he was dying, he widened his eyes, as if he could not believe that the enemy would shoot. The German working class as naive as Hoffman occupied the vast majority. They walked onto the streets with bare hands and fists excitedly, as if they were going to a dance party. But only bullets and bayonets awaited them. Faced with all this, they were powerless to resist without any preparation. They could only let the Free Legion slaughter.
"This is a massacre, a naked massacre!"
Liebknecy, who fled back to his hiding place in a panic, pounding the table on the surface. He could not believe that Albert was so cruel. He was an ordinary worker and had been seeking welfare for the working class for half his life, and he shamefully betrayed the working class.
"We want to accuse the atrocities of Albert's Provisional Government and the Social Democratic Party of the world, and call on the proletariat of the world to fight them together!"
Liebknexi kept roaring and venting. But Luxembourg seemed particularly calm. Of course, the Revolutionary Eagle was not really calm. She was more shocked than Liebknexi, because she had been worried about this day before the outbreak of the revolution. When all this became reality, she couldn't help but blame herself and regret it!
"Now is not the time to get angry or blame yourself!"
When the two great mentors fell into confusion, the first thing that calmed down was Zetkin. She first found the direction: "We must act quickly! The enemy's massacre is definitely premeditated. We must organize the workers and soldiers immediately, and we must use force to fight violence!"
Liebknesi also came back to God, and then he remembered the warnings from Lenin that Yuefei and Radick had conveyed before. Only then did he realize how accurate Lenin's judgment was. He finally found that the Russian comrades did not lack experience in fighting, and they were the ones who really lacked experience.
"Comrade Zeitkin, you go to the Russian Embassy immediately and contact Yue Fei and Comrade Radick. Armed struggle is imperative, and we urgently need their help!"
After saying that, he said to Luxembourg again: "We cannot continue to sit so stupidly. Before the working class suffers more severe injuries, we must resist and fight. The facts are already obvious. The glorious revolution does not exist! Armed struggle is the way out!"
Luxembourg showed a difficult look. After a long time, she nodded slightly and agreed to Liebknesi's judgment.
It has to be said that Luxembourg and Liebknecht woke up too late. They were too optimistic and did not have too much preparation for armed struggle in their previous plans. When things came to an end, they found that there was no preparation, no organization, no armed, and the powerful German working class was in chaos.
During this difficult time, the only thing they were counting on was Yue Fei and Radick, and they could only hope that the Russian comrades would tell them what to do!
However, what Luxembourg and Liebknesi did not expect was that Yuefei and Radick were also unable to protect themselves at this time. While Albert ordered the suppression of the march, he also issued another order - to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union!
On the morning of May 1, the German Provisional Government announced that it would sever all diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia and immediately arrest and expel Russian diplomats.
"This is a blatant violation of the Geneva Convention and the Vienna Convention, this is..." Yue Fei also tried to reason with the Germans, but he was greeted by ruthless old fist. A few minutes later, the Russian Embassy was destroyed by the Free Legion, and Radick and Yue Fei were in trouble together.
Seeing all this, Zetkin was shocked. Only then did she realize how ridiculous the optimism before was. It turned out that the bourgeoisie and imperialists at home and abroad had long been colluding with each other, and they had begun to join forces to kill the revolution.
Zetkin rushed back quickly, and she must inform Liebknesi and Luxembourg of the news immediately. The enemy had planned it and today's action was prepared long ago! It must be transferred immediately!
However, when Zetkin rushed back to the station, there were police everywhere, soldiers with live ammunition guns and guns everywhere, and Liebknesi and Luxembourg, who were bruised and covered in blood, were taken into the car by vicious soldiers.
At that moment, Zetkin felt like he was struck by lightning. The revolution had failed and there was no hope! Faced with the difficult situation, she was determined to stay with her comrades. She wanted to tell these cruel devils with practical actions that the Communists would never surrender and would never be afraid of sacrifice!
However, she had just taken a step forward and a tall figure walked out of the alley next to her. She grabbed her without saying a word, "Don't be impulsive, Comrade Zeitkin!" Li Xiaofeng said: "Fearless sacrifice is meaningless, and things are not irreversible!" (To be continued...)
ps: Bow and thank comrade Juventus!
Chapter completed!