Chapter 671 Where Are the German Bolsheviks?

"Your Excellency, the Imperial Marshal, how much time do we have to prepare?"

"Time is a bit tight, less than a month... The specific date is of course confidential and cannot be disclosed."

"One month is enough. Tallinn has gathered tens of thousands of soldiers to form a royal army, but they don't have much equipment."

"Equipment is not a problem, we will provide it."

"Ludwig, my army will have many people participating. The tens of thousands of people in Tallinn are just a spark. As long as I appear on Russian soil, countless Russians will follow, so I need a lot of weapons."

"Oh... No problem, that's no problem at all. We have a lot of weapons to provide. As long as someone is willing to join your royal army, I can provide weapons."

"That's great."

On the morning of the second day after Hessmann arrived in Tallinn, formal negotiations began. There were not many people participating in the negotiations. Hessmann and Tippelskirch represented Germany, and Empress Olga, Baron Wrangel and Prince Yusupov represented the Russian Empire. Although there were not many people, the issues to be discussed were all quite important.

The first thing that was raised was the question of organizing the Russian reactionary army. Olga had no doubts about raising a large and powerful reactionary army.

Because her main job for more than 20 years was to promote the Russian imperial title and study the Soviet Union. Not only did she carefully read every issue of Pravda and every novel officially published by the Soviet Union, but she also frequently met with reactionaries who defected from the Soviet Union and German experts who worked and lived in the Soviet Union for a long time. She knew the inside story of the Soviet Union very well, and knew who would support the Bolsheviks and who would oppose the Bolsheviks. Of course, she also knew who to mobilize to join her army!

Those Soviet people with Moscow and Leningrad household registrations must be die-hard Bolsheviks (bad elements are generally not allowed to live in big cities), and it would be a dream to want them to support the empress.

But the "black N" elements in the collective farms in rural Russia must have a "change of the sky" in their hearts!

The leader in the hearts of these bad elements who dream of changing the world is undoubtedly Olga Nikolayevna Romanova, the "public enemy of the Soviet people" and the "corrupt and reactionary Empress of the Romanov Dynasty" - due to the Bolshevik authorities' persistent smear propaganda for more than 20 years, Empress Olga has always been an important part of Soviet social and cultural life!

It is no exaggeration to say that as many people in the Soviet Union know the great leader Stalin as many people know the reactionary leader Olga. So for the Soviet people, the reactionary Empress Olga is a bad person who can be compared with the revolutionary leader Stalin.

And everyone is very clear about Olga's reactionary conspiracy (or political ambition) - that is, to reverse the existing social order and hierarchy in the Soviet Union! Let the "black N class" become the superiors, and let the "red N generation" become traitors and pariahs...

So Olga and her royalists don't even need to do propaganda and agitation to have a group of natural supporters!

"So... will Germany and the European Community recognize that we are the only legitimate regime in Russia?" Queen Olga suddenly raised a slightly sensitive question at this time.

There is only one Russia! One Russia and one Soviet Union or two Russias will not work... If Germany officially recognizes that Queen Olga represents Russia, then the door to compromise with the Soviet Union will be closed.

The Soviet-German war may really be a fight to the death.

"Of course," Hersman nodded and said with a smile: "As long as you enter Petrograd to establish a government, we will recognize it at the first time."

As long as you enter Petrograd... this threshold is not low! In fact, Hersman has no intention of occupying Leningrad at all.

However, Queen Olga did not point it out, and still showed a very satisfied expression, smiling and saying: "We will definitely enter Petrograd soon, because there are still many people in Russia who will support me... By the way, can I recruit soldiers in the Soviet-German Friendship Prisoner of War Camp?"

"Yes." Hersman nodded and agreed to Olga's request. In fact, even if Olga did not mention it, Hersman would take the initiative to propose it.

Because of the existence of the Soviet Criminal Code of 1926, these Red Army prisoners of war captured by the German army, no matter what their identities were before being captured, have now become "black N category".

After returning, they have to undergo labor reform, and after the reform, they will be "capped" for life, and cannot live in big cities such as Moscow and Leningrad, and their descendants will also become "black N category family background"... Joining the party, promotion, and taking college entrance examinations are basically hopeless, and there is no way to rise, unless the Bolshevik Party collapses.

So in history, the Germans recruited many "Russian Liberation Army" from Soviet prisoners of war, some of whom became Nazi diehards and fought almost to the last moment.

At present, Olga, the reactionary empress of the Romanov dynasty who is well-known in the Soviet Union, has a much greater appeal than people of Vlasov's level. At least every Soviet knows this name. She is the number one reactionary and the undisputed leader of the small reactionaries in the prisoner-of-war camp!

Moreover, Empress Olga represented the old Russian Empire, so joining forces with Olga certainly wouldn't be considered a betrayal of Russia, right?

"Ludwig, I have never been married and have no legitimate children." Empress Olga suddenly changed the subject and brought up a personal issue, "So I plan to designate Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna as the heir to the Russian throne."

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna is a descendant of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, the fourth son of Tsar Alexander II, and is of the same generation as Empress Olga. Her father, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, is the heir to the throne of Empress Olga. If Olga dies now, he should be the Tsar, but the Grand Duke is already old and will probably not live longer than Olga. So Olga can legitimately skip him and choose an heir from his children, but Grand Duchess Kira is not the first heir after Grand Duchess Kirill. Grand Duchess Kira is the second daughter. So Olga did some work to make Grand Duke Kirill's sons and eldest daughter give up their inheritance rights, and finally let Grand Duchess Kira become the legal heir.

The only reason why she was so deliberate in turning Grand Duchess Kira into the future Russian Empress was that this Grand Duchess hooked up with Crown Prince Louis Ferdinand, the heir of the Hohenzollern dynasty. In other words, Grand Duchess Kira was the future Empress of the German Empire. If she inherited the Russian throne, Russia and Germany would become a monarchy alliance.

Empress Olga paused, and then continued: "In view of the future close relationship between the Russian Empire and the German Empire... the German Empire does not need to make new demands on the Russian Empire on territorial issues. The future border between the two countries can refer to the western border of the Soviet Union before September 1939."

That is to say, the Russian Empire can hand over the Right Bank Ukraine (west of the Dnieper River), Western Belarus and Karelia. But if Germany wants more, Empress Olga cannot agree.

Otherwise, she will not be a reactionary empress who wants to restore the Russian Empire, but a Russian traitor who wants to sell out the interests of the Russian nation.

Hersmann and Tippelskirch looked at each other. The Empress's request was somewhat in conflict with the policy of the German High Command. The German High Command wanted to take over the entire Ukraine, and if possible, the Caucasus oil-producing areas.

However, Hessmann did not believe that Olga could overthrow the Bolshevik regime with the support of Germany, and Germany had no such intention. Now it was just using Olga and the White Russians to attract hatred.

So Olga's request could be agreed to - she would not succeed anyway.

Thinking of this, Hersman nodded solemnly and said, "Olga, we can agree to your request in principle. The formal agreement cannot be signed now and needs to be approved by the Supreme Command meeting. However, the weapons and ammunition to assist you will be delivered soon, and the activity funds will be paid from July. Now we will give you 1 million European marks every month."

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"Comrade General Secretary, the German Nazis are likely to support Queen Olga to oppose the Soviet government!"

Hersman's activities in Tallinn could not be concealed from Stalin in Moscow. The day after he left Tallinn, Beria reported the matter to Stalin - the White Russians were monitored by the Ministry of Internal Affairs led by him, and among the White Russian veterans gathered in Tallinn, there were informants from the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Support Olga?" Stalin laughed. "The Germans were so stupid that they pinned their hopes of overthrowing the Soviet regime on an outdated figure like Olga."

Although Olga had always been the number one villain in the official propaganda of the Soviet Union, Stalin did not take her seriously. He was just continuing the standards of the Lenin era. What really worried him was Trotsky, who was in exile in Mexico!

Olga had some appeal among the scum at the bottom of some Soviet society, and those people could not threaten the Soviet regime at all. And Trotsky had a high prestige in the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet working class. But Stalin was so wise. How could he dare to provoke a world revolution without dismantling such a time bomb? Trotsky had been assassinated by Soviet agents two years ago.

But Stalin would not take Germany's support for Olga seriously at all. The Soviet Union could do the same thing!

"Comrade Beria," Stalin thought for a while and asked again, "Have those misunderstood German Bolshevik comrades been restored to their reputation?"