African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1402 Cheka
Since European countries have united together, even if it is a temporary and non-in-depth union, its targeting is very strong. In addition to Russia, the obvious enemy, the United States and East Africa should also be classified as "potential enemies."

East Africa's choice to give in on the debt issue will, to a certain extent, intensify the competition between Europe and the United States, and the United States can only choose to swallow this loss. After all, it is impossible for the United States to really give up the huge benefits it gained in World War I because of fear of Europe.

Smith called Gers a "traitor" hundreds of times in his heart, but when dealing with European countries, the United States still maintained a tough attitude.

"It is impossible for the United States to completely give in on the debt issue. After all, this is not a small issue of a few million or tens of millions, but a major issue involving billions of dollars and related to the economic and social development of the United States. It is the savings of all American people."

"We can have new negotiations with European countries on debt issues, and we can give some European countries some leeway on debts that they really can't repay, but we will never let the wealth of the American people be wasted in vain."

He did not make a final statement, but it is foreseeable that the United States and European debtor countries will engage in a long-term quibble.

This is not entirely a bad thing for the United States. As long as Europe still recognizes its debts, the United States can take this opportunity to infiltrate Europe. After all, the fact that creditors cannot collect their debts does not mean that the European countries that owe debts can really act like the boss. In front of creditors, debtors generally have to be humble, and it is even common to sacrifice some unimportant things for this.

What really gives Americans a headache are countries like Russia. Before this, the United States had invested a lot in Russia, but Russia just refused to pay its debts and was very stubborn, as if they were the creditor of the United States.

Of course, most of the major powers in the world have suffered losses at the hands of Russia. Except for East Africa, which chose to withdraw in time and made a lot of money before leaving, and poor imperialist countries like Japan, the economic losses of other powers on the Russian issue only differed in the amount.

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At the end of 1923, the League of Nations was finally established, but after weighing the pros and cons, neither the United States nor East Africa chose to join the League.

The permanent members of the League of Nations were the four traditional European powers, Britain, France, Germany and Austria, and the four countries of Japan, Brazil, Spain and the Ottoman Empire formed the League of Nations Council.

In the past, the permanent members of the League of Nations were Britain, France, Italy and Japan. It was originally planned to include the United States, but the United States refused to join, so Britain, France, Italy and Japan are the four permanent members.

Now, without unification, Italy can only be regarded as a small European power, and Japan is relatively weak among the great powers, so it can only serve as a non-permanent member of the Executive Council in the League of Nations.

Belgium and Greece, which had a certain status in the League of Nations in their previous lives, had no chance of being promoted this time. After all, in their previous lives, they joined the League of Nations as part of the victorious camp of the Allied Powers and were supported by Britain and France.

Brazil's joining the Executive Yuan is the same as in the previous life. This is obviously a joint decision made by Europe in order to balance the United States and East Africa. After all, Brazil is currently the largest country in South America.

As a member of the Central Powers, the Ottoman Empire, supported by Germany and Austria-Hungary, also gained a seat on the Executive Council.

From this perspective, the League of Nations was generally balanced. Britain, France and Japan were in one group, Germany, Austria and Austria were in another group, and Brazil and Spain were two neutral countries.

However, the fact that three world powers, East Africa, the United States and Russia, were outside the League of Nations greatly reduced the influence of this international alliance.

However, only in East Africa, the United States and Russia have the strength to ignore the League of Nations. East Africa and the United States have almost no weaknesses, and Russia also has the ability to be self-sufficient. Except for the three countries, other countries in the world still want to actively join the League of Nations, an international organization.

Rhine City.

Ernst, who was far away in East Africa, thought to himself after reading the League of Nations documents: "This so-called League of Nations has similarities with the previous life, but there are also big differences. In the previous life, the League of Nations could be said to be a one-man show by Britain. As for France, although it had a big say in the League of Nations, after World War I, due to the weakening of its strength, it basically chose to advance and retreat with Britain. To a certain extent, the two can be regarded as one."

"And now, the so-called League of Nations is composed of the two major camps in Europe before, the Entente and the Central Powers, with Britain and Germany as the main countries respectively."

"This also determines the future. The League of Nations will not stop. However, the League of Nations will not play a big role either. After all, we, the United States, and Russia have not joined."

"In the past, the United States and the Soviet Union divided the world into two. From this point of view, the influence of the League of Nations is very limited. Whether Britain or Germany wants to use the League of Nations to achieve their own strategic goals, it is basically impossible."

This is very similar to the European Union in its previous life, which thought it could stand on the same level as the United States and the Far East Empire, but in fact it couldn't even deal with Russia.

Even though Russia declined severely in the 21st century, Europe is also in its twilight years, and no European country can deal with the threat from Russia alone.

Of course, the situation in Europe is definitely much better now. Britain and Germany have no problem dealing with Russia alone, but Russia's size is there. As long as Russia completes industrialization according to the historical process of its previous life, Russia is bound to become an important pole that is no less important than East Africa and the United States.

It is worth mentioning here that Russia has not yet become the Soviet Union. The previous Soviet Union was established in 1922. However, this is normal. After all, the Soviet Union was a union of countries, and before that, the Russian Labor Party’s control area was only the original Russia and Central Asia.

Thinking of this, Ernst asked someone to call the East African spy chief Morin to the Rhine Palace. Soon, Morin followed the telephone line and came to Ernst by car.

"Sit down!" Ernst said to Morin.

Today, the East African Defense Security Agency has become the most professional foreign intelligence agency in the world. However, other countries have also established corresponding organizations, such as the Russian Cheka, which has just been reorganized, and the British MI6 established before World War I.

These are also the three most formal and well-established spy organizations in the world. Of course, there is also a Military Intelligence Department in East Africa, but it focuses more on serving the military.

Russia's Cheka was a naturally formed spy organization. After all, after the Russian Labor Party seized state power, it faced serious internal and external troubles.

Abroad, imperialist countries and various anti-labor forces have seriously infiltrated Russia and actively supported anti-labor forces within Russia. Some even personally entered Russia to carry out sabotage activities, a typical example being the National Defense Security Agency in East Africa.

During the Russian Civil War, the East African National Defense Security Agency destroyed many East African-related investment industries in Russia, such as various mining production equipment with East African backgrounds during the Tsarist era, and also plundered talents and wealth from Russia. Some high-end Russian talents were kidnapped by the National Defense Security Agency and taken to East Africa, and now serve the scientific development cause of East Africa.

In addition to East Africa, Britain and Germany also frequently carried out intelligence and espionage activities in Russia. Britain can understand this very well. After all, after the establishment of MI6, every major power in the world has become a key target of British surveillance. This is not just aimed at Russia. MI6 espionage activities can be found in the United States, Germany, East Africa, the Far East Empire and other countries.

Germany's frequent activities in Russia are even more pure. Now the two countries are warring countries, so in order to steal military intelligence, disrupt the logistics of the Russian army, create civil unrest in the Russian rear, etc., Germany will do whatever it takes as long as it can hold Russia back.

But on the other hand, the Russian Cheka was equally difficult to provoke. After all, Germany had a large number of Labor Party members who brought their own food and were willing to cooperate with Russia's actions.

Overall, although the Cheka was established relatively late, it grew the fastest. Just dealing with the infiltration and sabotage activities of imperialist countries made Russia the main battlefield for the confrontation between intelligence agencies of various countries in the world today.

Inside Russia, the Cheka also had a heavy workload. It had to deal with the remnants of the imperial era, aristocrats, old bureaucrats, landlords, capitalists, anti-Labor elements, even factional struggles within the Labor Party, and saboteurs. It was a mess.

The former are easy to deal with, but the latter, so-called saboteurs, are more general. They include Russian peasants who resisted grain collection during the civil war, or workers who cheated in factories.

Therefore, the work of the Russian Cheka is to export ideological struggles abroad, provide intelligence to the army on the front line, arrest various reactionaries at home and abroad, and even interfere with production, life and work. It is no wonder that its power is so great.

The Cheka is involved in the military, politics, civilians and finances. As for the financial aspect, Russia is now blocked by various countries, so in order to obtain funds and technology to complete industrialization, it also has to get involved.

Therefore, with rich experience in struggle, great powers and wide-ranging areas of involvement, it is unlikely that the Cheka will not grow stronger over the years. This is also a helpless move by the Russian Labor Party to a certain extent.

After all, from the very beginning, the problems faced by the Russian Labor Party regime were more serious than those of any other country in the world. Perhaps the only country that could be compared to it was the later Far Eastern Empire.

Moreover, as an idealistic party, many of the policies and guidelines of the Russian Labor Party do not conform to the current actual situation, such as the "work slowdown" problem mentioned earlier.

The Russian people are also human beings, and it is difficult for human beings to escape from human nature problems. Generally speaking, most people are greedy, lazy and gluttonous animals. This is a problem that no one can avoid and everyone will be affected by it to some extent.

The Russian Labor Party wanted to solve this problem, but it was obviously impossible to do so. In imperialist countries like East Africa, the wage system and other means could be used to drive the people to work voluntarily.

In the early days of Russia, "egalitarianism" prevailed, and the wage system and other effects were not outstanding. After all, if someone really wanted to give up, it could be achieved relying on Russia's higher lower limit. Therefore, the Russian Labor Party could only use the Cheka's means to deal with slackers. In other words, it was to strengthen the punishment of slackers.

In short, although the Cheka, a Russian spy organization, has a short development history, it has become the largest spy organization in the world, even larger than the National Defense Security Agency in East Africa.

You should know that the East African National Defense and Security Agency was established in the last century and it took several decades of development to reach its current scale.

It can be predicted that in the future the Russian Cheka will definitely become a powerful rival of the East African National Security Agency, and even a powerful rival of the intelligence organizations of imperialist countries around the world.

So, Ernst asked Morin, "How is the work of the National Security Agency in Russia going recently? Has the Russian secret service agency, the Cheka, had a big impact on your work?"

Morin said: "Your Majesty, as you expected, the Russian Cheka is indeed the most powerful and difficult opponent we have encountered since the establishment of the National Defense Security Bureau."

"They have a large number of personnel, so our organization has to be careful when returning to Russia. If we are not careful, we may be discovered. Moreover, their mass base is much better than ours. Many Russian people will actively cooperate with their work."

"Last year, two of our members were reported by Russian citizens and discovered by the Cheka. Therefore, every step of our operations in Russia must be careful. This is completely different from the imperial Russian era."

During the Russian Empire era, Russia was almost infiltrated by the East African National Defense Security Agency. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for East Africa to transport the gold out of Kazan.

However, in just a few years, Russia has undergone earth-shaking changes under the leadership of the Labor Party. The Russian Labor Party's control over the country can be said to have penetrated into the grassroots level, which makes it very difficult for the East African National Defense and Security Agency to carry out its work in Russia.

Even if the infiltration is successful, it is difficult to climb to a high position and obtain high-value intelligence. In the Russian Empire era, East Africans could bribe Russian bureaucrats, but this trick basically has no effect on the Russian Labor Party.

This is not the most terrifying thing. Russian officials are not only not easily bribed, but also have a high level of awareness. If they find something wrong, they may sell out the East African spies to the Cheka.

Morin went on to say, "Russia during the Imperial Russian era and Russia today during the Labor Party era are two completely different types of countries. In the Imperial Russian era, it was easy for us to place as many people as we wanted, but in Russia under the Labor Party, not only is it difficult to place people, but we also have to be careful. In addition, if someone does not receive special training and is not determined, he or she may be turned by the Russian Labor Party."

"This means that our current intelligence personnel in Russia, including peripheral personnel, only number a few hundred people, and they are basically mixed in at the bottom."

The decline in the number of Russian intelligence personnel in East Africa is not entirely due to this reason, but is also affected by the last overall withdrawal from Russia.

However, the great withdrawal from Russia was a wise decision overall. After all, given the brainwashing ability of the Russian Labor Party, if it really maintained such a large organization and so many personnel, it would be a big question whether these personnel would serve the East African government or the Russian Labor Party.

Moreover, even if they stayed, they would be vulnerable to attacks by the Cheka. In the Russian Empire era, intelligence personnel in East Africa could basically achieve their goals by disguising themselves as businessmen, technicians, officials, or even foreigners.

There is no doubt that these identities will not work for the Russian Labor Party. For the Russian Labor Party, what matters is the red bloodline. East Africa obviously would not disguise its own spies as grassroots workers in the imperial Russian era, and it would be even more impossible to send them to participate in the activities of the Russian Labor Party. Doing so would easily turn the fake into the real.

Therefore, the large-scale withdrawal of East African intelligence personnel in Russia is a necessary measure. The original relationships and intelligence networks from the imperial Russian era are no longer effective because of the collapse of the Russian Empire. After all, the people who manage the country have completely changed.

(End of this chapter)