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    As for your request that we provide you with food, arms and oil in order to achieve a certain political balance, we believe that as a neighbor of Soviet Russia, we feel uncomfortable watching you suffer and starve, but we now have to feed ourselves  With 9 million people and 380,000 troops, the food on hand is far from enough, not to mention that we have to help your people who have crossed the border?

    As for your proposal to purchase our arms supplies, the time is not yet ripe. Since the Volga Federation is a formal member of the Allied Powers, and although you have not officially joined the German-Austrian Allies, in fact, the Soviet Union and Germany and Austria maintain friendly economic, trade and military relations.  In this case, as a full member of the Allied Powers, we cannot provide you with any arms supplies.

    The same is true for oil. As an important fuel and strategic resource, the oil of the Volga Federation cannot be exported to potential German-Austrian allies. We hope that you are not, but in fact, because of historical and well-known reasons, if we export oil to you,  It is very likely that you will use it to exchange arms with Germany and Austria, so oil cannot be exported to you!

    As for the ownership of the Volga Fleet, we hope that the battlefield intelligence we provided last time and our rescue work of the three infantry divisions of your Tenth Army have properly reflected the existence value of the Volga Fleet.  Until the end, it will always be controlled, managed and used by the Volga Federation.

    Fleet commanders, political commissars, Chekas and sailors who are loyal to the Soviets and Bolshevism will be handed over to the Eighth Army in the west through Syzran before 12 o'clock tonight. We do not regard them as prisoners of war, so they are in  They were deported from the territory of the Volga Federation without compensation. As for the remaining sailors and commanders, they have all sworn to join the Volga Federation.

    Finally, regarding the cannons and machine guns you accuse us of providing to the Kolchak regime in Kazan, as far as we know, this is a private arms trade. The main parties to the transaction are private arms merchants. Kazan is obviously interested in providing the sellers.  items in exchange for the arms that were eliminated by the Volga Federation Army. I might as well tell you that as a formal member of the Allied Powers, the Volga Federation's national defense forces will gradually replace them with Chinese-style weapons.

    If you have appropriate private channels, I believe you will get what you need, provided that you can pay the price that the seller is interested in. There are no permanent friends in this world, but there are no permanent enemies. Each party believes that they will  Get the final victory.

    As far as the Volga Federation is concerned, we have saved many more people in the past few months than we have killed on the battlefield. We will continue to do so in the future. As long as we have a clear conscience and are worthy of the people and people on this land, we believe that  , victory must belong to us!

    Another time: Kolchak¡¯s main force staying on the front line of Cheboksary has been rested and replenished, and will launch a new offensive at any time!  God bless you!

    Volga Federal Republic

    Government Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

    Vasily Nikolayevich Pepelyaev

    July 25, 1918 18:25

    "What's next? Nikolai Ivanovich, hurry up and continue reading!" Sverdlov listened in rapt attention and urged involuntarily.

    "Well, Yakov Mikhailovich, it seems that there is no more text below." Bukharin turned over the telegram in a daze, but did not find that there was anything more below.

    "Good guy! He spoke so eloquently and so eloquently. Pepelyayev is so eloquent. No wonder he became Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Volga Federation!" Member of the Soviet Central Committee, Chairman of the Moscow Soviet and  The garrison commander Bubnov murmured from the side.

    Ulyanov, Trotsky and Sverdlov, the three big bosses, remained silent. They were silently chewing and digesting the information revealed in the reply from the Volga Federation. Next to Zinoviev  Then he grinned and said disdainfully,

    "Pull it down, Andrei Sergeyevich, what kind of telegram is this from Pepelyaev of the Volga Federation? Behind it must be the will of the King of China of the Allied Powers. Maybe the draft of this telegram is from the King of China."  The secretary drafted it! It was even drafted by the King of China himself!" Zinoviev said disapprovingly.

    "Hey! What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear the telegram that our fleet in the Volga region was swallowed up? Even the Bolshevik sailors and political commissars in the fleet have been driven off the ship and escorted to  The Eighth Army is gone! Didn't you hear that the Volga Federation and the Allied Forces are treacherous and unreasonable bandits! We can't just let it go!"

    "Pravda" editor-in-chief Bukharin has come to his senses now, waving his hands excitedly and shouting, "RecentlyThe good news in Pravda, the central organ of the Soviet Union, is far less than the bad news. This guy's lies are so smooth that I don't know what to say, such as why Tsaritsyn was abandoned, and why the advantages of the Demilitarized Zone outweigh the disadvantages.  , why is the growth of the Volga Federation good news for Soviet Russia?  Why did the frontline win a great victory but the enemy was already approaching Novgorod?

    I wanted to answer a series of questions but couldn't answer them. I saw that the sphere of influence of the Soviet Russian regime was getting smaller and smaller, food rations were getting smaller and smaller, and there were fewer and fewer smoking chimneys in factories. Workers were going to the front to fight.  Now, who will produce it?  As for the farmers, they were waiting for the summer grain to harvest crops to relieve the famine, but the Soviets and the Soviet Red Army had to continue to harvest farmers' grain reserves to support the front line if they had no choice.

    "Quiet! Nikolai Ivanovich, you have such a loud voice and you know how to make noise. Is this the time for you to give a speech and encourage the masses?" Sverdlov got a little angry and lowered his face coldly.  roared.

    Bukharin blushed when he heard this. After overthrowing Joseph, Sverdlov concurrently served as the commander of the Volga Military District and the Front Army. At the same time, he continued to be in charge of the organization and personnel work of the Central Committee of Soviet Russia. He has become a leader of Soviet Russia.  Although Bukharin, the undisputed third person in the Central Committee, despised Sverdlov, a young and old Bolshevik, he really did not dare to have any direct conflict with him.

    The editor-in-chief of Pravda sat down in his chair angrily. Here Trotsky had already raised his head and asked Chicherin, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs who had just swallowed a piece of black bread and drank some water to regain his energy.

    "Georgi Vasilyevich, this telegram from the Volga Federation did not deny that Kazan received the cannons and machine guns they replaced. The other party kept saying that this was between Kolchak and private arms dealers.  What do you think about this issue? Can we find a suitable private transaction channel? You are the only member of the Central Committee who went to Samara to meet Pepelyaev in person!"

    Trotsky is obviously still confused about the nature of the private transaction emphasized in the Volga Federation's telegram. Is it a hole left open so that private accommodation can be made in the future, or is it just a way for the Volga Federation to shirk its responsibilities?  Since Chicherin was the only member of the Soviet Central Committee who had been to Samara when negotiating the contract, the Chairman of the Supreme Military Council hoped that Chicherin's answer would solve the mystery.
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