Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 130 >

“Stolipin is the one who wants to intervene.”

“So… are you going to aim the sword at Germany?”

“It has to be, it’s a simple matter, France is an ally, and Germany is close but south, if there is a dispute between the South and the alliance, you have to support the alliance, this is basic international diplomacy, and that’s the minimum trust a diplomat should have. .”

“……..”

concerned

what? The situation inside Germany.

Currently, there are quite a few slanderous rumors behind the scenes in Germany. In addition, public opinion on salt farms is less compared to the original history. The war should have ended so soon.

In addition, Hitler, who is currently active in Germany, is also a problem.

It is said that they are gathering veterans and the lower classes of society to rise up as one of the local political parties in Bavaria and confront the Conservative Party led by the Junkers, but there is a real problem.

Although there is no confirmation yet, there are suspicions that the Hohenzollern imperial family is backing Hitler.

Of course, it’s not because he liked Hitler, perhaps, what Hitler showed was that he was the first to suggest a third path, neither of the conservative rightists or communists, who were united around the Junkers, and the forces against the united Junkers. It must be because Hitler is the only third force that is not on the left center.

In the first place, Ohrana didn’t even have such high regard for Hitler.

Simple logic. The Junkers took full control of politics and the military, so the imperial family could not operate.

Then the imperial family raises Junker’s opponent, and the imperial family regains power.

Of course, he doesn’t give all the power, but it looks like he’s going to fight and take advantage of them… But it’s Hitler and the Imperial Family.

In this situation, if I intervene and press Germany… I don’t know, but in the next election, the Nazis won’t become the first party in the parliament.

Either that or Germany is dyed red, one of two things.

military strike? The Russian army and I are putting mulberry in so they look big, now our children are assholes. You bastard, there’s nothing better than a Soviet army fighting a winter war after a great purge! really!

But what about Germany? Sadly, it seems to have preserved much of the power of the First World War. This is evidenced by information coming from Austria.

There is a misconception that people have, but the Home Affairs Army faced the Germans and won only once. After that, they continued to fight on the Ottoman front, and the offensive of Army Group Confederation was blocked by Brusilov, and then Germany collapsed on its own.

me? I too am not confident if I fight twice with Mackenzen. The whole of Krakow almost collapsed due to the panic and shock effect of the Germans who encountered the tank for the first time in their lives.

If you take all of that and launch an invasion and somehow overthrow the Nazis, Hohenzollern will also be overthrown. And, as I realized from this situation, the Junkers are not that different from Hitler in their thinking circuits.

To do this, they would have to advance with France and cut Germany into East Germany and West Germany, but if it was a problem, France was afraid now. According to a report that Irina sent in contact with the French, the French plan itself is to fortify the defense while we defeat Germany, and we are not in a position to go to war.

So you’re tightening Germany economically, not militarily? With a 100% probability, Germany, which was hit by the Great Depression, will weaken, and the European economic community will collapse in an instant, leaving no trace.

However, if Anschlus is neglected, the pro-Russian regime in France will collapse. This cannot be left alone.

In addition, if Germany, which used to disperse aggression towards Russia in any way, collapses in any way, it will be a Murimgong at once.

A very good European tradition, is there nothing wrong with grabbing a good guy? If you don’t want to see Germany, France, Britain, etc. defeat Russia in the next war with one mind and one will, Germany must be alive. The moment we attack Germany, Britain will shout a declaration of support for Germany, and the US, which has invested heavily in Germany, will also have bad public opinion.

While thinking about it, the agreement went ahead, and in the meantime, Stolipin said that it is more urgent to seek investment from the United States than from Germany. He was skeptical of the European Economic Community from the beginning, but…

Even Irina dismissed Hitler as fundamentally just a delusion and agitator. But who knows, that crazy demagoguer runs a slaughter factory later.

In any case, the Russian Empire and the United States reached a broad agreement in economic terms and signed several contracts, but there was no political movement or joint statement.

In fact, it was normal. Unlike South America, which is their ‘front yard’, Europe and Asia, which have fluctuated this time, have been ‘someone else’s business’ to most Americans.

Is there any sarcasm that war is God’s chosen method for teaching Americans geography?

And Americans of this day hate foreign intervention very much.

From the point of view of the administration of the United States of America, with less than half of the president’s term remaining, he had no choice but to be conscious of what the next election would be like if he had acted out of ignorance in Europe or Asia.

In the end, stories that would be good for voters to listen to, including the revitalization of the economy, had to be given priority.

Of course, there were various agreements under the hood.

The US government, wanting to have the military power to put pressure on Britain, the biggest obstacle, to truly put the whole of the New World under the feet of the United States, wanted Russia, which is in direct confrontation with Britain, to hold Britain back.

The problem was Russia’s poor naval power. In short, it was difficult to say that Russia’s battleship building technology was good, even with empty words, and the construction of the Sinov-class battleship was also subjected to trial and error.

The US offered to help here. First of all, it was decided to provide technical support for the production of 16-inch guns and turrets, which suffered the most, and to cooperate fully in various areas, including the design of new battleships in the future.

In this regard, there was a proposal to build a large shipyard on the territory of the United States and Russia for the training of Russian engineers, and for maintenance, repair, and even the construction of battleships in case of emergency.

Of course, even though shipyards in Russian territory are not a private company, it was a political burden to have a dock owned by the Russian Navy, which is not a private company, capable of servicing battleships. The US government accepted it because there was a provision for employment in the US.

Of course, it will be built in the west, on the Pacific coast. The reason I proposed this was simple.

If a war breaks out and Russia confronts Britain and Japan at the same time, the shipyard in Vladivostok is highly likely to be destroyed by war. And there are no modest military ports in the Far East except for Vladivostok.

Therefore, in order to avoid the Pacific Fleet being annihilated at the same time as the start of the war, we must eventually get the cooperation of the United States. There is absolutely no guarantee that will happen.

Therefore, it was important to secure a dock that we can use as we wish in case of emergency on US territory. No matter how much the Japanese army flies and crawls, they cannot crawl beyond Hawaii to the west coast of the United States. It is literally a safe zone.

‘Of course, this assumes that the United States will immediately enter war with Japan, but even if that is not the case, it can be usefully used when the United States intervenes in the war after being captured and disarmed by the United States under international law and detained in the future.’

No wonder it’s not Churchill, and the US will not arbitrarily incorporate allied ships that are moored into the Pacific Fleet, and it would be common sense to demand joint operations after equipping them with weapons.

And during the Great Depression, American companies…

‘No, wait.’

Will the Great Depression really happen?

The current economic situation and international relations are completely different from those of the past, so can you be sure that the complex Great Depression will happen exactly the same as in the original history?

Originally, I passed this on to Stolipin and left the nobleman to ponder, but this is a topic that only me who knew the future and ‘was’ can ponder on.

How much will the changes I make have an impact on history?

Simply put, I ran too flashy. It ended World War I a few years earlier, and its form is completely different.

The Russian Revolution became a nonsense story, and the United States did not participate in World War II. Germany committed the Anschluss well ahead of schedule.

Nicholas II retreated to the back room, and I became the empress’s husband.

What kind of aftermath will it bring?

“It hurts.”

It’s not a topic I can confide in and discuss with anyone, so it’s a story I couldn’t confide in, whether it was a person I was dating at night, or the woman who gave birth to my child.

“What’s a headache?”

I turned my head, startled by Maria’s words that suddenly appeared from behind.

“I was terrified, let me pretend to be popular.”

“I just thought so deeply that I didn’t notice. Well, I kept putting out tea.”

“Haha… I just thought American politics was pretty confusing.”

“Is that right?”

“For now, President Hughes is going to go to the next election, and given the current situation, President Hughes’ approval rating is not bad. If nothing major happens, he will go down after four more years of office, so who can compete for the presidency of the United States in the 1924 election?”

“Well………”

“President Hughes is an interventionist but an isolationist, but he is an isolationist when he gets wet in the rain, continues to intervene, and if he continues to intervene and raises the military, he will gradually go deeper, and on the contrary, he will suffer a major military failure. could return to, but against South America? No way.”

The power of America we all saw. The sea of steel that spreads out in Detroit.

Although Russia was also progressing industrialization, it was impossible to even compare.

Since the United States did not participate in World War I, public opinion on salt fields and isolationism must be less than that of actual history. Given that there is constant contact with us, the interventionist public opinion may be surprisingly stronger than the original history…

“The next Republican nominee will probably be Leonard Wood.”

“What about the Democrats?”

“The Democrats… well.”

In original history, the Democrats did not have a president until Roosevelt. In other words, it is also said that there were not enough candidates for the Democratic Party. I lost to Harding, so I said it all,

Harding Hani says it, but the prohibition law has not yet been passed and is pending. If this is my karma, it is more than karma.

In short, while I nullified the Prohibition Law enacted by Nicholas II Lee, the harmful effects of the Prohibition Law, that is, those who drink anyway, even those who do not drink because of its scarcity, drink even those who do not drink, and mass-produce criminal organizations – the mafia in the United States Surprisingly, the communists distributed moonshine in Russia. Of course, after the abolition of the Prohibition Act, they were all hung up or mined for coal in the gulag, but the backbone was pulled a bit too much – it adversely affects the economy and causes national chaos, and it is safe to say that It was announced in a public report on the number of deaths due to the replacement of moonshine.

In addition, basic national expenses required to properly comply with the Prohibition Act – from the budget of the border guard to block the income of moonshine, to the budget for security, etc. – are summarized.

To invalidate the law that the tsar had enacted, I needed a good reason, so I gathered it up, and this was used as an argument for Democrats against the Prohibition Act as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

Roughly speaking, the Russian Empire had already implemented it and abolished it because the side effects were serious, but it was probably the argument of why they tried to repeat the same mistake.

Well, I don’t know, but if I do my best, the Prohibition Act may be rejected.

Anyway, this time in original history, the Democratic nominees for President of the United States at this time were James Cox, Vice-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR.

The result was a failure, and it is highly likely this time as well.

In the original history, after being diagnosed with polio in 1921, he was able to fully return to politics in 1928, so it can be said that he was not a nobleman until 1928.

After all, it was a Republican world until the Great Depression.

I would like to make contact with the FDR in advance, but the election is just around the corner, and it seemed better to give up because if a vice president each had a hammock and a foreign dignitary came into contact, the rumors would not be good.

“Really… I can only breathe.”

“What’s wrong?”

“I feel like the world won’t leave me alone.”

“Eh, cheer up. Uncharacteristically.”

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Maria, who was attached to the back of my back, started to rub my shoulders tightly.

“what?”

“Relax, I’ll give you a massage.”

I was going to say something, but I gave up on the rushing sensation.

“Uh uh… good. A little louder.”

It was the first time I realized that my shoulders were so tight. I took my strength away from the overwhelming coolness of reassembling the muscles and bones beyond disassembling them and then reassembling them.

“Cheer up, if even this helps, I’ll massage your shoulder anytime.”