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When the undercurrents of the Kingdom of Hungary were surging and ready to switch jobs at any time, the Russians were also accumulating strength, ready to jump out and snatch the spoils at any time.

Since Nicholas II completed the Great Purge of St. Petersburg, the entire Russian Empire has been in a state of turmoil.

Nicholas II told the world with practical actions: the tsar is the tsar, and he is still so decisive when dealing with "rebellion"!

A total of more than 40,000 capitalists, officials and their families were arrested before and after. Nicholas II organized a mass trial, and then more than 10,000 people were sent to the gallows to the cheers of the people. All the people below were exiled to Siberia!

After killing these worms, without the restraint of interest groups, the mobilization efficiency of the tsarist government immediately increased by 50%. In February, the tsarist government once again mobilized 600,000 young men and took up arms to join the great and sacred army. in the extended family.

There is no doubt that this mobilization is naturally the selfless dedication of this group of capitalists. The weapons and equipment are all taken from their warehouses, and the military expenses are also stolen from their family property!

Nicholas II made a lot of money this time. The confiscated goods and cash alone amounted to more than one billion rubles, as well as hundreds of tons of gold, foreign exchange worth tens of millions of pounds, and a large number of antique calligraphy and paintings.

There are more real estates, thousands of factories, a large number of shops, residences, and large mines and farms scattered all over the country...

It took the Ministry of Finance of the Tsarist government more than two months to initially estimate the total value of the assets seized this time. It has to be said that Mao Xiong's family is solid. According to the most conservative estimates, Nicholas II's harvest this time is also more than £1.3 billion.

This huge sum has greatly eased the financial crisis of the tsarist government. Of course, this is only short-term, not to mention that the real estate here cannot be realized in the short term, even if it is all cash, it is not worth mentioning in the face of huge war expenses.

If you look at the financial expenditures of the major warring countries, you will know that this war is terrifying.

Fiscal expenditures by countries in 1913:

British Empire £197 million;

£201 million for the French Republic;

German Empire £220 million;

The Russian Empire £189 million;

Austria-Hungary £118 million;

Kingdom of Bulgaria £121 million;

£95.68 million in the Kingdom of Italy;

Fiscal expenditures by countries in 1916:

British Empire £2.568 billion;

£2.675 billion in the French Republic;

German Empire £3.262 billion;

The Russian Empire £2.746 billion;

Austria-Hungary £1.578 billion;

Kingdom of Bulgaria £1.136 billion;

£186,500 in the Kingdom of Italy;

More than 90% of this expenditure,

All of them are used for military expenditures. Faced with such huge military expenditures, it is not surprising that governments of various countries want to end the war as soon as possible.

When the cannon rings, gold is ten thousand taels! In order to raise funds, governments have racked their brains, such as raising taxes on the people, borrowing from syndicates, printing money and so on.

Now that Nicholas II has money in his hands, he naturally wants to make big moves, such as: speeding up mobilization, purchasing weapons and equipment, strategic materials, and so on.

According to the current rate of Russian mobilization, there will be three million Russian troops on the Eastern Front in April, and by the end of the year, this number will exceed the four million mark.

If the Allies cannot make a breakthrough on the Western Front in the short term, the outcome of this war is already doomed. In the second half of the year, they have to face a six-layered bear on the east front. If there are no millions of German troops, they will not be able to defend!

In desperation, the Hindenburg government decided to send the revolutionaries back to Russia to cause chaos for Nicholas II.

Moreover, the current Tsarist Russia really has a revolutionary foundation. Nicholas II and the capitalists have already broken up, and the two sides are deeply enmity, which creates favorable conditions for the revolution.

In the eyes of the Germans, Russia only needs a spark, and it will explode immediately. Even in order to protect themselves, the capitalists have to embark on the road of rebelling against the tsarist government!

Of course, even if Nicholas II does not start, in order to grab greater benefits, the capitalists will still do it, but the time is still uncertain.

And Nicholas II's St. Petersburg purge this time was just an incentive for them to launch.

After all, interests are always the best catalyst, and the rule of the tsarist government can no longer satisfy the growing appetite of the capitalists, and they attempt to establish a government that fully represents the interests of the capitalists.

It has to be said that the St. Petersburg purge launched by Nicholas II this time has done a great job, directly hitting the bourgeoisie and changing the balance of power between the enemy and us.

But Russia is too big, and the capitalists are smart people. When their colleagues in St. Petersburg were devastated, they were all ready, and it was impossible to kill them all.

Prepare to run, run, prepare to resist. Of course, whether they choose to resist, or choose to run away, the capitalists themselves will not charge.

The most typical example is that after the St. Petersburg Purge ended, the number of capitalists who went to Bulgaria for investment inspections soared, including their family members, an increase of more than 8,000 in just one month.

Obviously, these people are not expected to do big things. It is undoubtedly a fantasy to try to overthrow the tsarist government with telegram remote command.

Therefore, Hindenburg decided to send the revolutionaries represented by Lenin back to China, and also subsidized their weapons, equipment and activities. The purpose is very simple to make the Russian revolutionaries and capitalists merge.

Revolutionaries have experience in rebellion. Although they have all failed, they are also experience, right? The capitalists have strength and are scattered in major cities in Russia. Once they are launched at the same time, there will always be several successful cases.

Then the civil war in Russia should break out, and the pressure on the Germans' eastern front will naturally disappear. As for whether these people can overthrow the rule of the tsarist government, it is none of their business. Anyway, as long as Russia is disturbed, their goal will be achieved.

In fact, the tsarist government's political control over the country was still very loose. In May 1887, when Lenin entered the law department of Kazan University, he was expelled from his school for participating in the student movement and exiled to a remote rural area of ​​Kazan under residential surveillance. The village where Ulyanov and his brother-in-law live in Samara province is under open residential surveillance by the police.

In 1900, he was allowed to return to St. Petersburg, but he went to Western Europe to continue the revolutionary cause, writing a large number of revolutionary treatises. Thereafter, he became one of the de facto leaders of the Russian Revolution.

The Great Revolution broke out in Russia in 1905, and Lenin naturally joined in, until after the failure of the Russian Revolutionary Movement in 1907, he was forced into exile.

This revolution undoubtedly angered the tsarist government. As one of the leaders of the revolution, Lenin was naturally on the blacklist of the tsarist government.

He lived in Geneva, Paris and Bern successively. In 1916, Lenin moved from Bern to Zurich, and lived with his wife Krupskaya in the house of the shoe repairer Camerel.

Switzerland at that time was a place where spies gathered. Lenin lived a very low-key life in order to avoid being hunted and killed.

Occasionally, he would also use the evening hours to hold meetings in a small coffee shop haunted by proletarians, exchange ideas with them, and live a very fulfilling life.

Unlike history, the Germans came to the door before the Russian revolution broke out.

From the actual situation at that time, Russia did have the foundation for the outbreak of revolution. In order to complete the revolution as soon as possible to overthrow the rule of the tsarist government, he naturally did not mind cooperating with the capitalists once.

After all, the influence of the Bolshevik Party in Russia is too low now. After Nicholas II launched the St. Petersburg purge, one of their most important fundamentals was gone!

The cruel reality has been placed in front of the revolutionaries. This time the tsar and the capitalists are fighting for power and profits, and the tsar who has won the support of the military has the upper hand.

If the tsar wins this fight, the foundation of the tsarist dictatorship will become stronger, and the revolution will become a distant prospect!

In this context, the major anti-government forces in Russia have merged for the first time. Although they have different political ideas and it is difficult to form trust with each other, they still come together in order to overthrow the rule of the tsarist government.

And the St. Petersburg purge launched by Nicholas II this time did not leave hidden dangers, for example, he ignored the "legitimacy"!

The most typical is that the executed prisoners also included more than 100 members of Congress. Before they were deprived of their status as members, they were sent to the gallows, which became the anti-government forces attacking Nicholas II. The best excuse for the impure purpose of the St. Petersburg purge!

Outside of St. Petersburg, capitalists still hold a lot of power. Therefore, in places where many capitalists are powerful, Nicholas II's action this time is characterized as: the white terror that the tsar took to exclude dissidents!

This made Nicholas II very injured. Even with the support of the army, he still could not control all Russian cities.

The core factor is that the Russian bureaucracy has been corrupted by the capitalists, and Nicholas II cannot find so many qualified officials to replace them in the short term.

This created favorable conditions for the revolutionaries. After returning home, Lenin did not go to St. Petersburg. He knew that there was no basis for revolution there.

Instead, he came to Russia to make a big city - Moscow, the largest city in Russia after St. Petersburg, with hundreds of thousands of workers, creating a mass basis for the activities of the Bolshevik Party.

A very funny scene appeared, on the one hand to cooperate with the capitalists, on the other hand to fight against the capitalists. Of course, this scene also appeared in the February Revolution in Russia!

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