Until after the war, when people tried to restore the starting point of the revolution in January 1914, they would be surprised to find that the Russian January Revolution, which shocked the world and even changed history, broke out from a workers' gathering area, and the reason for the outbreak was as simple as one sentence - "No bread"!

On the morning of January 15, 1914, in the Vyborg district of Petrograd, a rumor suddenly appeared at the door of a bakery: "There is no bread." This sentence was like throwing a stone on the calm water, and the long queues originally lined outside the bakery became turbulent in an instant.

"I saw bread inside!" I don't know who said something. The people outside were full of violence, stimulating the extreme dissatisfaction and fear. A large number of people began to attack the bakery. They climbed over the fence, smashed the cabinets and shelves, and after entering the bakery, they frantically ransacked all the food they could see!

If this happens in other countries, even if this happens, it will be just a small chaos. Perhaps those who take advantage of the situation will be arrested by the military and police who arrived later, or they will scatter. But now, this is in Russia, the capital of Russia! This is a city that has been oppressed to the limit. The middle and lower-class residents have been squeezed to the edge of life and death. They are just numb and survived under the inertia of life. At this time, it is like a little fire ignited on dry firewood. The instant commotion quickly expands and deteriorates under the guidance of activists!

The conflict between some individuals quickly turned into a large-scale demonstration of thousands of people. A large number of housewives and factory workers walked out of their homes and factories, shouting: "Down with hunger, workers want bread!" and other slogans heading towards the city center.

At this time, at the Pudinov Arsenal in the suburb of St. Petersburg, workers and factories were in a confrontation. Two days ago, the factory stopped work on the grounds that workers "destroy production". At this time, Russia had no jobs, which meant no income. As a factory employee with rich experience in struggle, it was naturally impossible for them to leave like this. At this time, they were confronting the factory. After being affected by the march, thousands of workers began to leave the factory and dispatched contact personnel everywhere to connect. The whole situation was like half of the nuclear fusion broke out quickly. In just a few hours, more than 120,000 people participated in the march, accounting for one-third of the city's workers! These people quickly controlled several important streets and began to concentrate in the city center.

On the second and third days, the number of people in the demonstrations began to rise rapidly. At noon on the 17th, more than 300,000 people had already walked to the streets to express their anger and dissatisfaction to the government! Faced with the escalating demonstrations, Khabarov, who served as the commander of the St. Petersburg Garrison, immediately mobilized 55 infantry companies and 24 cavalry companies from the troops to suppress them. When the gunfire sounded, rows of people fell in a pool of blood. When the Russian soldiers began to massacre their compatriots, everything was developing in an irreversible direction!

However, after nearly two years of battle, the Russian army was no longer the army that followed the orders of the Tsarist Russian government at the beginning of the war. This war caused the Russians to lose too much blood, and the soldiers fell on the battlefield like harvesting wheat. At this moment, taking the St. Petersburg Garrison as an example, the troops were very mixed. Perhaps in the previous few weeks, they were still workers and farmers. Many of the marching and demonstration teams were the families and friends of these soldiers. It was obviously unreliable to expect them to suppress them with guns and sabers.

At noon on the 17th, a group of soldiers clashed with the army because they felt that the authorities were too cruel. When the gunshots echoed over the city, the whole situation changed fundamentally, as if they had pushed a domino. The army began to mutiny in an organization. From now on, they were no longer loyal to the corrupt securities of the Russian Tsarist government. Merchants, bureaucrats and any wealthy class were their opponents. They believed that their poverty and the disaster of war were brought about by these people. They had guns, hatred, ability and motivation to act. Therefore, the situation in the entire St. Petersburg changed fundamentally!

The rioters led the citizens to capture the arsenal of St. Petersburg and took out tens of thousands of various guns and a large number of ammunition. This was only 5 days before the "bakery" incident! When the sun set on the fifth day, no troops in the surrounding areas of St. Petersburg were willing to obey the orders of the Tsarist government. At this time, Nicholas II, who was far away in Mogilev, found that the entire political situation was deteriorating rapidly and his capital had been out of control!

The challenge Nicholas II faced was not just the rebellious army and the people. The people led by the Russian Duma leader Luo Jianke had begun to demand the establishment of a constitutional parliamentary government composed of enlightened people! The aftermath of the riot was so huge that even the confidants around the Russian emperor began to consider their own way of retreat.

On the evening of January 18, Nicholas II's younger brother, the chief of the Army Cavalry, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexander Lovich and Prime Minister Nicholas all asked the Russian emperor to consider the proposal of the Russian Duma to establish a constitutional monarchy. The Russian revolution in this plane almost unfolded along the historical routine. Except for a very few, no one expected that such a huge empire, a dynasty that lasted for 370 years, would actually go to its end because of a small bakery incident.

At the same time, let alone the chaos and disputes in Russia, at this time, whether it was the German emperor in Brussels, Belgium, Ruprecht in Lviv, or even the Austrian emperor in Hoffmann Palace in Vienna, they threw other things aside, because they knew that the last feast was about to begin! This was a feast that was rare in hundreds of years. Compared with this Russian collapse, the previous three families' division of Poland was just an appetizing dessert!

Now, what the bosses of the Allied Powers need to consider is how to do it so that they can dig as much meat as possible from the dying Normanov dynasty!

"We need to act quickly, not just in the Ukraine direction, but in the Transcaucasus direction, we should act faster. Now, the Russian government no longer cares about the situation in the south, so it is very easy for us to break through. The Transcaucasus direction is the intersection of the Eurasian continent. As long as we control it here, we will be at the intersection of the Black Sea, which is powerful, and is at the intersection of Europe and Asia. The strategic position is very important!" said the prince.
Chapter completed!