Chapter 1728: break out

Chapter 1728

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. The cause of the outbreak can be as simple as one sentence-"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." This sentence was like dropping a stone on the calm water, and the long queue outside the bakery was suddenly commotion.

"I saw bread inside!" I don't know who said a word. The people who lined up outside were full of violent tendencies due to extreme dissatisfaction and fear. A large number of people began to attack the bakery and they climbed the fence. , Smash the cabinets and shelves, and rush into the bakery, looting all the food that can be seen crazy!

In other countries, even if this happens, it is just a small mess. Perhaps those who took advantage of the fire would be arrested by the military police who arrived later, or scattered in a rush, but now, this is in Russia. The capital of Russia! This is a city that has been oppressed to its limit. The middle and lower-level residents have been squeezed to the edge of life and death. They are just numb, living under the inertia of life, and at this time, it is like the same ignition point on the dry wood, which bursts out instantly The commotion rapidly expanded and deteriorated under the guidance of activists!

Individual conflicts quickly transformed 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 toward the city center. Advance.

At this time, in the Pudinov Arsenal on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, the workers and the factory are facing a confrontation. Two days ago, the factory stopped work on the grounds that the workers "destroyed production". At this time in Russia, no work means no Income, and as a factory employee with a wealth of struggle experience, it is naturally impossible to leave like this. At this time, they are facing off at the factory. After being affected by the demonstration, thousands of workers began to walk out of the factory and dispatched contacts around. People connected in series, the whole situation broke out like half of nuclear fusion. In just a few hours, the number of people participating in the demonstration has exceeded 120,000, accounting for one third of the city's workers! These people quickly controlled several important streets and began to concentrate in the city center.

On the second and third days, the number of demonstrators began to rise rapidly. At noon on the 17th, more than 300,000 people took to the streets to express their anger and dissatisfaction to the government! In the face of escalating demonstrations, Khabarov, who served as the commander of the Saint Petersburg Garrison, immediately mobilized 55 infantry companies and 24 cavalry companies from the army to suppress it. When the gunfire sounded, rows of people fell in a pool of blood. When the Russian soldiers began to massacre their compatriots, everything was developing in an irreversible direction!

However, after nearly 2 years of fighting, the Russian army is no longer the army that followed the orders of the Tsarist government at the beginning of the war. This war has caused the Russians to lose too much blood, and a crop of soldiers is like cutting wheat. Usually fell on the battlefield. At this moment, taking the St. Petersburg Garrison as an example, the troops are very mixed. Perhaps in the previous few weeks, they were workers and peasants, and many of the demonstrators were the families and families of these fighters. Friends, expecting them to suppress them with guns and sabers is obviously unreliable.

At noon on the 17th, a group of soldiers clashed with the army because they felt that the authorities were too cruel. When the sound of gunfire echoed over the city, the whole situation changed fundamentally, as if a domino was pushed. , The army began to become an institutional mutiny. From now on, they are no longer loyal to the rotten securities of the Russian tsarist government. Businessmen, bureaucrats, and any wealthy class are their opponents. They think that their poverty and the disasters of war are all These people brought them. They had guns in their hands, hatred, ability and motivation to act, so the situation in St. Petersburg has undergone a fundamental change!

The soldiers in the riot took the citizens and captured the arsenal in St. Petersburg, from which they took out tens of thousands of various firearms and large amounts of ammunition. And this is only 5 days after the "bakery" incident! When the sun went down on the fifth day, there was no army in the surrounding area of ​​St. Petersburg willing to obey the order of the Tsarist government. At this time, Nicholas II, who was far away in Mogilev, realized that the entire political situation was rapidly deteriorating. Your own capital is out of control!

The challenge that Nicholas II faced was not only the rebelling army and the people. The people headed by the Russian Duma leader Rodenko had begun to demand the formation of a Constituent Assembly government composed of enlightened people! The impact of the aftermath of the riot was so huge that even the cronies around the Russian emperor began to consider their own future.

On the evening of January 18th, Nicholas II’s brother, Chief of Army Cavalry, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexander Lovech, and Prime Minister Nicholas all asked the Russian Emperor to consider the proposal of the Russian Duma and establish a constitutional monarchy. . The Russian revolution on this plane almost unfolded along the historical routines. Except for a few, no one wanted to get such a huge empire ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, and a dynasty that lasted for 370 years would actually be because A small bakery incident came to his own end.

At the same time, let’s leave aside the chaos and disputes in Russia. At this time, whether it is the Kaiser in Brussels, Belgium, Ruprecht in Lviv, or even Austria in the Hoffmann Palace in Vienna. The emperor threw other things aside, because they knew that the last feast was about to begin! This is a feast that is rare in hundreds of years. Compared with the collapse of Russia, the three previous partitions of Poland are just an appetizing dessert!

And now, the big brothers of the Allied Powers need to consider how to do so that they can dig out the largest piece of meat from the dying Normanov Dynasty!

"We need to act quickly, not only in the direction of Ukraine, but in the direction of Transcaucasus. Now, the Russian government can no longer take into account the situation in the south. It is very easy for us to break through. The direction of the Transcaucasus is the intersection of Eurasia. Point, as long as we control here, we will be at the crossroads of the Black Sea, Mighty, Europe and Asia, and the strategic position is very important!" said the prince.

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