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Volume 3 Far East Stories Chapter 598 (Part 1) Nonsense!

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    "Hey! I'm really anxious. Let me read the telegram of the other party's reply! It's more anxious to wait for Georgi Vasilyevich to speak than to wait for the cow to climb the tree!" Bukharin stepped forward and was caught off guard.  I snatched the telegram from the hands of the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, unfolded it, brought it to a bright place and read it.

    Chicherin's eyes darkened in anger and he almost collapsed. Dzerzhinsky stepped forward to support the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, while Bubnov stood up and carried his chair over. The two of them supported Chicherin.  Lin sat down, and Zinoviev had already brought a glass of hot water over. There was a small piece of black bread on the plate in his hand. Moscow's food supply became increasingly tense after losing the source of the lower Volga River.

    Throughout Moscow, from the Central Committee of the Soviet Union to ordinary workers, each person can only be rationed 600 grams of black bread per day. This amount of calories is very important to the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union who works overtime to guard the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and maintain contact with all over the world.  It is said that it is not enough at all. 600 grams divided into three meals is only 200 grams of bread each meal. Non-staple food is so scarce that most Muscovites are in a state of malnutrition.

    The limited food collected by the Soviet Russian government had to give priority to the troops on the Nizhny Novgorod front. Even the First Army, which was reorganized and reorganized on the Sarask front, was originally voluntarily sent back due to insufficient food supply.  There are endless incidents of Soviet prisoners of war becoming deserters because of hunger, and the deserters' destination is actually to return to the right bank of the Volga River, or to the south. Even in the prisoner-of-war camps of the Volga Federation, the food is much better than this.  At least three meals of brown bread and tubes are enough, and you can drink potato soup as you like!

    In order to solve the food problem on the spot, the troops of the 10th and 8th Army, which had retreated from the left bank of the Volga River to 50 kilometers west of the river bank due to the demarcation of the demilitarized zone, had to once again implement the so-called surplus grain collection system in the local area.  This in turn triggered successive revolts and small-scale riots and rebellions by local farmers.

    In the past, there was the natural barrier of the Volga River, but now the Volga Federation has naturally appeared in the 50-kilometer-wide demilitarized zone. Therefore, many farmers near the border of the Soviet-controlled area fled with their families because of their resistance to the surplus grain collection system.  The wave of march into the demilitarized zone is getting more intense day by day. Of course, the number of Soviet peasants heading south directly into the Volga Federal territories of Saratov, Voronezh and Kursk has also increased significantly.

    The Volga Federal Local Government accepts all comers. Even if there is no land for you to cultivate, it can at least be arranged on labor-intensive construction sites such as bridge construction, paving roads, and coal mining to solve your three meals a day and food and clothing problems for the whole family. If you have the skills to enter  If you look at factories in major cities in the Volga Federation, then the income of a worker is enough to support a family of six!

    Unknowingly, the Volga Federation became like a water-absorbing sponge, attracting farmers and refugees who could not survive in the areas controlled by Soviet Russia to make a living on their own land. The Volga Federation, with Pepelyayev as prime minister,  The population under the rule increases every day, with the addition of the Don and North Caucasus autonomous republics.

    By this time, the total area of ??the Volga Federation has exceeded 1.1 million square kilometers, and the total population has jumped to about 9 million.

    Not to mention that Chicherin almost fainted due to hunger and Bukharin snatched the telegram manuscript. At this moment when Dzerzhinsky, Bubnov and Zinoviev were taking care of Chicherin, Ulyanov  , Trotsky and Sverdlov all stopped and walked around Bukharin in the middle, listening to him read loudly the telegram from the Volga Federation:

    To the Council of People¡¯s Commissars of the USSR

    People¡¯s Commissar for Foreign Affairs G.Va. Chicherin

    July 25, 1918 18:25

    Your Excellency the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, regarding your protest, the so-called accusations that the Volga Federation violated the "Samara Peace Treaty" are pure nonsense. If the Volga Federation needs to support the Kazan regime to fight you, then there will be no Volga Federation at all.  With the emergence of the Volga Federation, do we need to spend so much effort to establish some sort of Volga Federation?

    The reason why your accusations are nonsense is because the establishment of the Volga Federation itself was the product of our opposition to the Kazan Kolchak regime's continued attack on the Soviet Russian regime. We regret that you did not correctly realize that the Volga Federation was for this purpose.  How much sacrifice and tolerance they have made for the happiness and future of the people on this land.

    As for what you said about the Volga Federation providing military assistance to Kolchak¡¯s Kazan regime, this is also nonsense. If the Volga Federation wants to be an enemy of the Soviet Russian government, there is no need to provide assistance to Kolchak. We  The 380,000-strong army can destroy your troops and Kolchak¡¯s troops at the same time, so why bother arming Kolchak¡¯s White Guards?  Wouldn't it be better for us to go into battle ourselves?

    ¡°In fact, if we had not promptly informed you of battlefield intelligence, Berzin¡¯s Third Army of the Volga Front would not have had the chance to evacuate to Nizhny Novgorod.?The Iron Triangle of Drovna was surrounded and annihilated by Kolchak's three armies!

    If we had not used the method of establishing a demilitarized zone on the left bank of the Volga River to objectively push back Kolchak's Cossack Cavalry Division going south, we can expect that the 37th Infantry Division of your Tenth Army in Gidis would have probably been defeated.  The opponent's two Cossack cavalry divisions were annihilated, and the 38th and 39th infantry divisions would also suffer heavy losses!

    If we hadn't shouldered the burden of Tsaritsyn for you, and had eliminated Denikin's Don White Guards in the south in the past two days, your Tenth Army and Eighth Army would have had no chance of going north to defend the Soviets and Moscow.  We have created all these conditions for you, and it is we who have lifted off your burdens and burdens!

    Similarly, the mess you left behind after you withdrew from the south was that our Volga Federation transported high-priced food relief from the east and fed the Russian farmers who were left behind by you. Now every day, people who cross the border and enter the Volga Federation have passed  Thousands of people, most of whom are farmers, entered our territory in order to survive because you took away the last few grains of food stored at home.

    If it were another country, they might have set up barbed wire and mounted machine guns on the border to deal with the illegal immigrants who crossed the border. However, not only did we fail to do this, we also distributed tents and relief food, and established border refugee camps to properly accommodate these people of yours.  And we have a policy of free coming and going, except of course the Cheka and the Bolsheviks!  I think you can understand this!
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