#1407 - Cheka

Now that the European countries have united, even if it is only a temporary and superficial union, its targeting is very strong. In addition to Russia, the obvious enemy, the United States and East Africa should also be classified as "potential enemies."

East Africa's choice to concede on debt issues, to a certain extent, can actually intensify the competition between Europe and the United States. The United States can only swallow this bitter pill, as it is impossible for the United States to abandon the massive benefits it gained in World War I simply out of fear of Europe.

Smith cursed Gels, the "traitor," hundreds of times in his heart, but when dealing with European countries, he still maintained the tough stance of the United States.

"The United States cannot completely compromise on the debt issue, after all, this is not a small problem of millions or tens of millions, but a major issue involving billions and related to the economic and social development of the United States, the savings of all American people."

"We can conduct new negotiations with European countries on the debt issue, and we can allow more time for some debts that are indeed impossible to repay, but we will never allow the wealth of the American people to be written off for nothing."

He didn't completely close the door, but it is foreseeable that the United States and the debtor nations of Europe will engage in a long-term dispute.

This is not entirely a bad thing for the United States. As long as Europe still recognizes the debt, the United States can take this opportunity to infiltrate Europe. After all, the creditor's inability to collect the debt does not mean that the debtor countries in Europe can really act like overlords. In the face of creditors, debtors generally have to be humble, and even sacrifice some unimportant things.

What really gives the Americans a headache are countries like Russia. Previously, the United States had made considerable investments in Russia, but Russia just refused to pay the debt and was very tough, as if they were the creditors of the United States.

Of course, most major powers in the world have suffered losses from Russia, except for East Africa, which chose to withdraw in time and grabbed a large sum of money before leaving, and Japan, a poor imperialist country. Other powers have suffered economic losses of varying degrees on the Russian issue.

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At the end of 1923, the League of Nations was finally established, but after weighing the pros and cons, both the United States and East Africa chose not to join the League of Nations.

The permanent members of the League of Nations Council were the four traditional European powerhouses: Britain, France, Germany, and Austria, along with Japan, Brazil, Spain, and the Ottoman Empire, forming the League of Nations Administrative Council.

In the previous life, the permanent members of the League of Nations were Britain, France, Italy, and Japan. The United States was originally scheduled to be included, but the United States refused to join, so Britain, France, Italy, and Japan were the four permanent members.

Now, without a unified Italy, it can only be considered a minor European power, and Japan's strength among the great powers is relatively low, so it can only serve as a non-permanent member of the Administrative Council in the League of Nations.

Belgium and Greece, which had a certain status in the League of Nations in the previous life, were also unable to be promoted this time. After all, in the previous life, they joined the League of Nations as part of the Allied victory camp and were supported by Britain and France.

Brazil's joining the Administrative Council is the same as in the previous life, which is obviously a joint decision made by Europe to contain the United States and East Africa. After all, Brazil is currently considered the largest country in South America on the surface.

The Ottoman Empire, as a member of the Allied Powers, received support from Germany and Austria-Hungary and also obtained a seat on the Administrative Council.

In this way, the League of Nations as a whole is still balanced. Britain, France, and Japan are considered one group, Germany, Austria, and the Ottoman Empire are one group, and Brazil and Spain are considered two neutral countries.

However, the three world powers, East Africa, the United States, and Russia, are outside the League of Nations, which greatly discounts the influence of this international alliance.

But only East Africa, the United States, and Russia have the strength to ignore the League of Nations. East Africa and the United States have almost no shortcomings, and Russia also has the ability to be self-sufficient. Other countries in the world, except for these three, still want to actively join the League of Nations, an international organization.

Rhine City.

Ernst, who was far away in East Africa, thought to himself after reading the League of Nations documents: "This so-called League of Nations has similarities with the previous life, but there are also great differences. In the previous life, the League of Nations can be said to have been dominated by Britain. As for France, although it had a great say in the League of Nations, after World War I, due to its weakening strength, it basically chose to advance and retreat with Britain. To a certain extent, the two can be regarded as one."

"Now, the so-called League of Nations is composed of the two major European camps, the Allied Powers and the Allied Powers, with Britain and Germany as the main countries respectively."

"This also destined that the League of Nations will not be peaceful in the future. However, the League of Nations cannot play a big role, after all, we, the United States, and Russia have not joined."

"In the previous life, the United States and the Soviet Union divided the world. From this point of view, the influence of this international alliance is very limited. Whether Britain or Germany wants to use the League of Nations to achieve its strategic goals, it is basically impossible."

This is very similar to the European Union in the previous life, which thought it could stand on the same stage as the United States and the Far East Empire, but in reality, it can't even deal with Russia.

Don't look at Russia's severe decline in the 21st century in the previous life, but Europe is also in its twilight years, and no European country can independently deal with the threat from Russia.

Of course, the situation in Europe is definitely much better now. Britain and Germany alone would not have much trouble dealing with Russia, but Russia's size is there. As long as Russia completes its industrialization according to the historical process of the previous life, then Russia will inevitably become an important pole no less than East Africa and the United States.

It is worth mentioning here that Russia has not yet become the Soviet Union. In the previous life, the Soviet Union was established in 1922, but this is normal, after all, the Soviet Union is a union of countries, and before that, the scope of control of the Russian Labor Party was only the original Russia and Central Asia and other regions.

Thinking of this, Ernst asked someone to call Molin, the head of East African Intelligence, to Rhine Palace. Soon, Molin followed the telephone line and drove to Ernst.

"Sit!" Ernst said to Molin.

Today, the East African National Defense Security Bureau has become the most professional foreign intelligence agency in the world. However, other countries have also established corresponding organizations, such as the newly reorganized Russian Cheka, and Britain established MI6 before World War I.

These are also the three most formal and well-established intelligence organizations in the world today. Of course, East Africa also has a military intelligence agency, but it focuses more on serving the military.

The Russian Cheka is a naturally established intelligence organization. After all, after the Russian Labor Party seized state power, it faced serious internal and external problems.

Abroad, imperialist countries and various anti-Labor Party forces severely infiltrated Russia and actively supported the anti-Labor Party forces within Russia, and even personally entered Russia to carry out sabotage activities, such as the East African National Defense Security Bureau.

During the Russian Civil War, the East African National Defense Security Bureau destroyed many East Africa-related investment industries in Russia, such as various mining production equipment with East African backgrounds during the Tsarist era, and also plundered talents and wealth from Russia.

A part of the Russian high-end talents were kidnapped to East Africa by the National Defense Security Bureau and are now serving East Africa's scientific development.

Besides East Africa, Britain and Germany also conducted frequent intelligence and espionage activities in Russia. Britain's involvement is understandable, as every major world power became a key surveillance target after the establishment of MI6. This wasn't solely aimed at Russia; MI6 agents were active in countries like the United States, Germany, East Africa, and the Far East Empire.

Germany's frequent activities in Russia were even more straightforward. The two countries were at war, so Germany would resort to any means to hinder Russia, whether it was stealing military intelligence, sabotaging the Russian army's logistics, or creating internal strife in the Russian rear.

However, Russia's Cheka was equally formidable. Germany had a large number of pro-labor party members willing to cooperate with Russian actions.

Overall, although the Cheka was established relatively late, it grew the fastest. Just dealing with the infiltration and sabotage activities of imperialist countries made Russia the main battlefield for intelligence agencies from various countries around the world.

With rich experience in struggle, broad authority, and involvement in a wide range of fields, it was impossible for the Cheka not to grow in strength over the years, which to some extent was a helpless measure by the Russian labor party.

After all, from its inception, the Russian labor party regime faced more serious problems than any other country in the world. Perhaps only the later Far East Empire could compare.

Moreover, as an idealist political party, many of the Russian labor party's policies and guidelines did not conform to the current situation, such as the 'slacking' issue mentioned earlier.

The Russian people are also human, and humans have a hard time escaping human nature. Overall, most people are pleasure-seeking, lazy animals, a problem that no one can avoid, and everyone is somewhat affected.

The Russian labor party wanted to solve this problem, but it was clearly impossible. In imperialist countries like East Africa, the wage system could be used to drive people to work actively.

However, in the early days of Russia, 'egalitarianism' prevailed, and the wage system was not very effective. After all, if someone really wanted to slack off, they could rely on Russia's relatively high lower limit. Therefore, the Russian labor party could only use the Cheka's methods to deal with slackers, in other words, to strengthen the punishment of slackers.

In short, the Cheka, Russia's secret service organization, although it had a short development time, had become the largest secret service organization in the world, even surpassing East Africa's National Security Agency in size.

It should be noted that East Africa's National Security Agency was established in the last century and had been developing for decades to reach its current scale.

It is foreseeable that the Russian Cheka will definitely become a strong opponent of the East African National Security Agency in the future, and even a powerful opponent of the intelligence organizations of imperialist countries around the world.

Therefore, Ernst asked Molin: "How is the National Security Agency's work in Russia going recently? Has the Cheka, this Russian secret service agency, had too much impact on your work?"

Molin said: "Your Majesty, as you predicted, the Russian Cheka is indeed the most powerful and most difficult opponent that our National Security Agency has encountered since its establishment."

"They have a large number of personnel, so our organization has to be careful in the process of returning to Russia. If we are not careful, we may be discovered. Moreover, their mass base is much better than ours. Many Russian people will actively cooperate with their work."

"Last year, two of our members were reported by Russian people and discovered by the Cheka. Therefore, every step of our actions in Russia must be careful. This is completely different from the Tsarist era."

In the Tsarist era, Russia was almost infiltrated by the East African National Security Agency, otherwise, East Africa would not have been able to transport the gold from Kazan.

However, in just a few years, under the leadership of the labor party, Russia has undergone earth-shaking changes. The Russian labor party's control over the country can be said to have penetrated to the grassroots level, which makes the work of the East African National Security Agency in Russia very difficult to carry out.

Even if the infiltration is successful, it is difficult to climb to a high position and obtain high-value intelligence. In the Tsarist era, East Africa could buy off Tsarist officials, but this trick is basically ineffective against the Russian labor party.

What's even more terrifying is that the current Russian officials are not only not easily bought off, but also have a high level of awareness. If they find something wrong, they may turn around and sell East Africa's agents to the Cheka.

Molin continued: "The Russia of the Tsarist era and the Russia of the labor party era are completely two types of countries. In the Tsarist era, it was easy for us to place as many people as we wanted, but in the Russia under the labor party, it is not only difficult to place personnel, but we must also be careful. In addition, if they have not undergone special training, people with wavering will may be co-opted by the Russian labor party."

"This makes the number of our intelligence personnel in Russia, including peripheral personnel, only a few hundred, and they are basically mixed at the bottom."

The shrinking number of East African intelligence personnel in Russia is not entirely due to this reason, but is also affected by the last overall retreat from Russia.

However, the overall retreat from Russia was a wise decision. After all, with the Russian labor party's brainwashing ability, if such a large organization and so many personnel were really maintained, whether these personnel would serve the East African government or the Russian labor party would be a big question mark.

Moreover, even if they stayed, they would easily be attacked by the Cheka. In the Tsarist era, East African intelligence personnel could basically disguise themselves as merchants, technicians, officials, or even foreigners.

Without a doubt, these identities are ineffective against the Russian labor party. For the Russian labor party, what matters is being politically reliable, and East Africa would obviously not disguise its agents as grassroots workers in the Tsarist era, let alone send them to participate in the activities of the Russian labor party, as that would easily turn a fake into a real one.

Therefore, it was necessary for East Africa to withdraw its intelligence personnel in Russia on a large scale. The original relationships and intelligence networks of the Tsarist era were completely useless because the people managing the country had completely changed.