Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 79 >

In the end, it was agreed that France would keep Hohenzollern in order to prevent the spread of the communist revolution under the premise that France could control Germany with certainty and, if inevitable, tolerate the annexation of Germany and Austria.

After all, the Russian Empire’s warning that the spread of communism in Germany and Central European countries and coalescing would be a catastrophe for the whole of Europe, and that it could become a reality, paid off.

However, the annexation of Austria was to be carried out in such a way that France and Russia would condone it if Germany forced it without stipulated in the previous treaty.

In the end, the final conditions of the negotiating country were as follows.

1. The German Empire cedes Alsace-Lorraine to France, and renounces all colonies.

2. Partition of Belgium, with Wallon to France, Luxembourg to Germany, and Flanders to the Netherlands.

The proposal was made because France’s strong demand for annexation of Walloon, support from Russia, and Britain’s impossibility to stop it.

3. Ban on deployment of troops throughout the region west of the Rhine, ban on deployment of troops in the 60 km section from the German-Russian border, and permission for aerial reconnaissance.

4. Transfer the mining rights of Saarland to France for 20 years.

5. Schleswig chooses between Denmark and Germany by referendum.

6. Galicia-Rodomeria, the whole of northern Anatolia including Thrace, Pozen, and Constantinople, Syria including Silesia and Antioch, Kurdistan and Armenia, and Palestine including Jerusalem are annexed by the Russian Empire. The Ionian region, Imbros and Tenedos is under the control of the British Empire, and the Phrygia, Konya and Antalya regions are under the military rule of the French Republic.

7. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is divided into Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The Grand Duchy of Krakow is annexed by Russia and the Duchy of Bukovina becomes Romania. Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Dalmatia, Judtyrol and the Istrian Peninsula belong to Serbia.

King Alexander I, who has been crowned this time, is in a position of controversy regarding the legitimacy of the accession because his father died in a coup of the Black Hand and he was a supporter of the Black Hand.

Although the Russian side said that Alexander I had no knowledge of the plot of the coup, he could barely afford a coronation.

As much as he knew that, Alexander I was in a situation where he could not help but look at Russia.

Russia, at least within Serbia, seemingly seems fair because it is not entangled in Serbian domestic affairs, and it is important that Serbs think so, regardless of what is actually fair.

Because how you play the press in Russia will determine whether you retain your position or get kicked out.

In other words, it means that we have been properly caught on the leash, and if we feed the territory in that situation, we will become the king’s adversary and stabilize our precarious situation.

It is impossible to completely rule out the civilian government, but to the extent that it overwhelms and maintains power. Rather than controlling the entire civilian government, it is better to control the king and give power to the king. I don’t want much, I just want to maintain the status quo, but I can’t do that either.

And anyway, Italy will run on the road over Suttyrol and press Serbia, then they will have no choice but to cling to us even more.

7-1. After five years of military administration in the Czechoslovak Kingdom, the Russian Empire can recommend an appropriate person as the king, and it is selected through a referendum.

7-2. Emperor Charles I of the Habsburgs renounced the throne, but was able to retain the kingship of the Kingdom of Austria. The monarch of the Kingdom of Hungary is Sophie, the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand.

This was our request based on the fact that Sophie is a child born of a ghostly marriage and does not have the right to inherit Austria. Austria could be absorbed into the German Empire in case of an emergency, but this was not an official document because it was a two-sided agreement.

7-3. Transylvania, the Kingdom of Hungary, has a referendum to choose between Romania and Hungary.

8. The main ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the German Empire will be moored at the Port of Sevastopol in the Russian Empire and will be distributed through a later agreement. After the neutral country calculates the value of the ship, the indemnity can be indemnified by that amount.

9. Pay 132 billion marks in gold to the negotiating countries over 50 years as compensation. Redemption in kind is also possible.

The Russian Empire placed an additional condition that each company could pay the indemnity in advance through securities, mechanical equipment, various technological exchanges, and royalty exemption.

Unlike the original history, there were no arms restrictions.

Surprisingly, this part was claimed by the British government. Of course it was, but it wasn’t pure intention.

If Germany were to become an ally, it would be highly likely to become an obstacle, and if Germany’s rearmament was banned and armaments were restricted, German engineers who worked in related fields would become unemployed, and there is no country that would welcome them.

Considering that Germany’s naval technology and various know-how had flowed into the Russian Empire, the British decided that it would rather tolerate Germany’s rearmament and focus on attracting Germany to its allies in the long term.

October 9, 1916 with the approval of this agreement by the governments of the participating countries. The war was officially over.

***

finished. It’s really over.

Damn World War I is over.

Feeling relieved, I almost woke up and cheered.

The possibility of a communist revolt is now greatly reduced. The Russian Revolution was only successful in the original history due to the combination of the peculiarity of the Russian Empire and the peculiarity of being at war in the first place. have.

Now, there are a lot of reforms that have been pushed back in Korea, and there are various problems, but once the great war is over somewhere. Since the Treaty of The Hague was more generous than the original history, it is unlikely that Germany will unite and cry for revenge.

Now, I will have some time to really relax and focus on my problems. Thinking like that, I hummed.

The only disappointing part, however, was the Communist Party.

The uprising, which had no major except for Karl Liebknecht, and Rosa Luxemburg, who should be the immediate leader of the Spartacus, and other key executives we identified, did not even show a chin in Germany.

The Karl Liebknecht was found hanged dead at the end of the uprising, but other officers were not absent, and some were captured.

And after torture, the German uprising had originally occurred on the premise of failure, and I was able to get a deep feeling that the uprising was aimed at other effects.

But what was the other effect, and what was their leader, Rosa Luxemburg, trying to achieve while using an old comrade as a discarding card?

I had no way of knowing. After interrogation, the revolution in Russia was abandoned at the international level, but some Russian-born revolutionaries refused to control the International and were only living as lonely wolves. What do you do with what you threw away? I can’t summon the soul and ask.

***

Switzerland, Zurich.

“Failure….you are.”

Rosa Luxemburg covered her face.

it’s a failure Karl’s sacrifice was ultimately futile.

But I couldn’t blame them. Things went so easily that even they were stunned.

read at https://readwn.com

Major nobles, even the imperial family, lost their lives to their guns. However, Kaiser and the Crown Prince fled to East Prussia to avoid their hands, abandoned their high self-esteem and surrendered to Russia, requesting military support.

And as the Russian army turned Berlin into a sea of fire, they mercilessly stained Germany with the blood of their revolutionary comrades.

It wasn’t just Germany. The Austrian-Hungarian revolutionary comrades were also brutally killed by the Russian army, who once again proved that their name as European military police was not a lie.

In the meantime, the Russian army clearly opposes indiscriminate bombing and sacrifice itself, building an image that the innocents were saved as much as possible, and Austria-Hungarian former emperor Franz Joseph I and Germany, who were brutally murdered by so-called ‘anarchist mobs’. They aroused a public opinion of sympathy for the Austrian imperial family and cleverly turned the object of the people’s hatred on them.

For them, it was outrageous.

“Unfortunately… it seems that the revolution in London is still there.”

At that, people sighed.

“But one thing is certain that we have learned through the sacrifices of our revolutionary comrades in Germany. Already, the anger of the proletariat has almost reached its critical point. There will certainly be opportunities in the not-too-distant future. The collapse of capitalism is imminent.”

She herself believed it. If this is not possible because of the strength of the angry workers, what would it be?

Sooner or later, capitalism will collapse on its own. I will stock up on weapons, recruit personnel, and wait under the water for that time.

“How long will it take?”

“The shortest is 10 years and the longest is 20 years.”

Rosa Luxembourg asserted.

“Capitalism collapses. Some of us may die watching the world revolution happen before we die. Even if we don’t, most of us will get the chance to give our lives for the world revolution.”

Who would dare to give up this glorious opportunity? If necessary, she would even take out her heart and offer it up as a sacrifice on the altar of revolution.

No, to be precise, if you weren’t that kind of fanatic, you wouldn’t be able to sit in a seat like this. They say they don’t believe in God, but their attitude towards their ideas was similar to that of religion.

“The indicators are already popping up everywhere. The slope of the supply and demand curves will be maximized, and prices for agricultural products will fall and prices for industrial products will rise dramatically.”

Among the socialists, Trotsky and others, some non-socialist economists had already warned of the scissors crisis or the negotiated price crisis in the 1910s.

Rosa Luxemburg, who predicted the collapse of capitalism with the theory of a negotiated price crisis, which is also believed to be one of the causes of the Great Depression in the 1920s, clenched a fist.

“On the day capitalism collapses, the International will be resurrected. Until then, we have to be patient and wait. Even if the cold wind blows, spring does not always come.”