Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 117 >

Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy.

“Long live Comrade Lenin! Long live the revolution!”

– Kwak!

Smoke billowed out along with the explosion.

Lenin was canonized.

Of course, this does not mean that Catholics canonized Lenin out of the blue.

However, the name Lenin became a legend.

He started an uprising in the capital of the world’s most powerful country, eventually failing and defeated, but temporarily turned a city into a liberation zone.

Of course, those with a little bit of insight would know that it was all a thoroughly crafted trap, and that the rebels were playing around and putting the title on the guillotine, which Lenin’s followers denied.

Although he acknowledged that the suppression of the rebellion was intended to be precise, it was said that it was aimed at the nobles in the first place, and that it was a revolution that only lacked power and struck the will of the authorities. They argued that this was the basis and that Lenin himself was never captured or killed.

Of course, Lenin was dead, and the Russian Empire thought it was very likely, but in any case, no body was found and no one witnessed his death, so it could not be concluded that he was dead.

Lenin did not die as he wished. Of course, his specter could no longer stay in Russia.

In an atmosphere of fear, they are swept from the center to the very end in the collapsed organization of the socialists, and in Ohrana, in accordance with the program of annihilation and annihilation of them by any means possible, Ohrana slaughtered its targets and, in addition, to overseas He even sent an assassination squad to those who were identified among the fugitives.

So his specter spread outside Russia and across Europe, and his name became the future of every young communist.

Of course, it is not that there have been no such revolutionary attempts in recent years. The German and Austrian revolutions were more fierce than that, and their liberation routes and duration were wider and longer.

However, they did not have a clear focal point, and the martyrs who would become symbols lacked the impact.

In any case, no matter how different his ideas may be from mainstream ideas, dead revolutionaries are very useful to living revolutionaries.

Italy was one such region.

All kinds of terrorism, including bombing and shootings, was carried out, and many of the victims were also in the Carabinieri.

“at there!”

Two members of the Carabinieri on patrol threw bombs and found the young men fleeing and began to pursue them.

But then, suddenly, the balcony door by the side of the road opened and a man opened fire with a submachine gun.

If it was the right thing, both of them would have died, but the improvised submachine gun, whose barrel was not properly pierced, bent even if it was literally fired in front of the nose. Even after killing the terrorist and shooting the captured gun, it was fortunate that one magazine was empty, and there were records that the bullet almost fell at the shooter’s feet at the last minute.

-Tatatang! Tata Tata Tata!

“Joshua!”

“I’m fine! Go after him! Ouch!”

An unlucky bullet struck the thigh, and while the Carabinieri crew sat down, the fire continued immediately.

-Tattatattattatang!

A shot from an automatic rifle rang out.

The 10-round magazine of the automatic rifle Chai-Licoti, which was employed in a small number by the Carabinieri, emptied at once.

Countries around the world analyzed that the source of their fighting power was the operation of tanks, the possession of a large number of heavy artillery, and the mass deployment of automatic weapons after the activities of the Russian Imperial Army’s internal forces. I was trying to place it.

The man who emptied the magazine in one fell swoop saw a corpse falling from the balcony.

“Take this gun!”

There was no time to reload. The crew, who received his gun from a colleague, threw his gun at his colleague instead and ran down the alley.

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Moments later, several gunshots were heard.

***

A banquet was being held at a high-end restaurant in Moscow.

It was a banquet to which military corps from different countries and officers of the staff were invited.

Chief of Staff Kim In-su was drunk and stretched out, and the Japanese advisory group was drinking whiskey.

The American advisory group was also enjoying the banquet.

However, there was a group of officers crumpled in one corner. They were the commanders of the Caucasus contingent.

It is clear that Lenin is dead. In the first place, even by 21st century Korean standards, if the patient could not be transported to a university hospital level emergency room within a few hours, 100% death was a serious injury.

Others, of course, remained silent, but as they used confessions in addition to torture, some rebels spit out near-mortal information at one interrogation.

Lenin died and his body was disposed of.

The question is, can you trust the information obtained through the confession?

First of all, it is possible that they misrepresented the death of another high-ranking official as Lenin’s death, and surprisingly, there are many cases where they confess with mixed information when interrogating using confessions or torture.

Contrary to popular belief, Confession is not a medicine of truth that anyone can blow up from when they were in LA if they get hit, but it destroys the defense mechanism with psychological stress in parallel with torture and devastates the mind. This happens because it is a kind of adjuvant that makes the truth come out.

Therefore, the information obtained through interrogation, whether obtained through confession or through torture, needs cross-validation, but the problem is that only one communist who spoke of Lenin’s death, and the rest superhumanly kept silent about Lenin’s current address.

In any case, the matter was reported to Ohrana, and the Internal Affairs Force withdrew its forces, noting that it was not worth keeping a large force in the Caucasus, whether Lenin died or escaped.

Of course, it was true that many of Lenin’s close associates were killed or arrested, and most of the remnants of Lenin’s party were wiped out.

“You will have dinner too.”

“…….. sorry.”

“Victory and defeat are fatal. In the East, there is a saying that if every defeated general had their head blown off, no one would be alive.

There are many opportunities ahead, and it is only after hearing the speech that no one does not fail, and that if you learn a lesson from it, that’s enough, the subordinates came out of their disappointment.

It would have been better, Lenin, if the communists dry up the soil itself anyway, they are just delusions and agitators. .

When I was in the right mood, I started moving to do what would be my last job for a while.

***

“George.”

“Please call me Marshall.”

Despite Marshall’s blunt reply, MacArthur spoke softly.

“What do you think?”

“It’s not for me to judge.”

The military obeys the civilian government.

Diplomacy is the government’s business, and they must not intervene, although it seems to be a principle that is not well followed in the Russian Empire.

“There is no comparison on the horizon, we are a democracy, but the Russian Empire is a tyrannical monarchy.”

Of course, it is nominally a constitutional monarchy, but in reality there is nothing the tsar should not want.

“Besides, the Duke is the state secretary of the Russian Empire and the leader of the most powerful warlords. It’s obvious why the Russian imperial family moved that way.”

Although the duke belongs to the Russian Empire, it is impossible for the imperial family to wield the duke at will. His private army is the de facto main force of Russia, and he is too large a warlord.

At first, the yellow press was arguing that this was an imperial dictatorship with sisters, but those with even the slightest knowledge agree that the decision of the empress was close to a political affair in the end.

In order to prevent the outbreak of warlords, he intends to prevent the empire from splitting in two by accepting the leader of the warlords as her husband at the risk of a ghost.

Those with a little more foresight could even grasp that the rebellion itself was, after all, the play of the nobles at the hands of the empress, that is, that it was induced to create a cause for the purge.

Of course, MacArthur and Marshall couldn’t have known that.

“The Empress wants the warlord to be her property, and although it may be difficult in her generation, if she marries him, it will naturally be passed on to her heirs in her children’s generation, the inheritance of his parents.”

An empire is an emperor, and an emperor is an empire.

Only in the Russian Empire it was a statement close to the truth.

“Isn’t that important now?”

“It will not be against the government’s will, either. What is the reason for sending military officials to the Russian Empire while making concessions, and what about the plans to build so many battleships? How about developing new weapons?”

“……”

“The enemies of the Russian Empire are obvious, red and orange. I think it’s worth accepting. In any case, it would be an acceptable deal for the United States to benefit to the fullest extent.”

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MacArthur, who was a little hesitant, added:

“Of course, it’s not for me to decide, it’s something to be decided in my home country.”

“Do you think the United States will enter the war?”

“I ask the other way around, is there any reason not to participate in the war? To be honest, was there anyone in the military who didn’t know that the reason why the scale of the last invasion of Mexico was bigger than expected was because it was a rehearsal in preparation for participating in the Great War.”

The war ended sooner than expected and we could not participate in the war, and if the war had dragged on for only one or two years, the United States would surely have joined the war.

“Any guarantee that we won’t go to war in the next great war? Where else is the guarantee that you won’t be attacked? Have you not seen the ambition of oranges today?”

But Marshall still looked uncomfortable. The alliance with Russia is not uncomfortable. However, I do not like what he is suggesting.

Is it due to differences in national political system or culture, or not…

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Marshall didn’t want to give it too much meaning, but he had to keep his eyes on the man next to him.

Knowing that or not, MacArthur said quietly.

“The United States of America must be great, but the United States of America is meant to be great in a way that is not the United States, but if the United States of America itself could be a great nation, who wouldn’t be allied with?”

“If the United States could become great, would you like to ally even with the demons of Hell?”

“Allied with such beings is not the way to greatness, George, don’t misunderstand me.”

“Marshall… it’s done.”

George Marshall kept his mouth shut, but he wanted to ask.

If so, what makes the United States of America ‘United States of America’?