Chapter 37: The Great War Part 9, Revolution Part 1
While all the warfare in America was faught we go back once more to an earlier period in the war, but none the less just as important to the ultimate outcome of who is victor and who is defeated. This is the Russian Revolution brought on by Stalin's letter to Lenin after the battle for Siberia.
Ivan stood outside the Kremlin with a contingent of Cossacks, their guns amed at the amassed crowd of angry citizens, wanting change and reform. Some of the citizens threw rocks at them one hitting Ivan square in the face, he did not flinch as it hit him nor did he reach to wipe the blood of his face, he just stood stairing at his people sadly.
Ivan could nto believe what was happening, of all the times for riots and civil wars to break out he thought to himself another rock flying just past his face. Ivan's face remained emotionless as the rioters grew in number. After another few minuets someone fired a gun and all hell broke lose, The Cossacks started to open fire on the rioters who started to jump run at the Kremlin in Moscow (1) the rioters however were constantly cut down by the Cossacks who's faces were filled with regreat and pain.
Several Rioters made it through the volleys of bullets the Cossacks let lose and used what ever they had in their hands, Knives, rocks, pitchforks, some with guns even and started to wail on the wall of Cossacks. Ivan had let a tear escape his eye as he watched his own people start to kill each other, but as he noticed it he heard a sudden crack. He bent over and clutched his head and started to scream loudly, the civil war splitting his mind in two, effectively shattering the fragile sanity that had held him together through out all those years.
Ivan got down on his knees and started to laugh loudly, and every one stopped fighting to see the person who found this so histerical. Ivan lifted up his face streams of tears with a smile as he looked on all of them and said, "Children shouldn't fight, Da?" He stood back up a smile on his face with tears still streaming down his face and pulled out his saber that he had brought with him, and started to kill anyone and everyone not discriminating between ally and enemy as now the split minded Russia had no ally or enemy, they were all against him and for him, therefore they must all die.
Ivan plunged his saber deep into the man on his right kicking him off his blade as he pulled back decapitating the person on his left. The fighting continued on both sides either ignoring Ivan. Ivan continued to kill effectively both sides until there was only two people left to alive both on either side of the revolution, one a Cossack a very loyal one at that. The other a lower class man who had pure determination of the working class in his eye. Ivan stood there unable to determine which was truly his enemy and which was his friend. One side yelled at him to kill the Cossack and that revolution was upon us. The other said to finish off the traitor and put down the petty rebellion. Ivan could do nothing as he fell to the ground once more, finally coming to his sense and looked around him seeing all the dead Russians. He started to cry and did nothing as the two men continued to fight.
The duel between the two men seemed to last forever, but after along time, the lower class man had managed to push the Cossack to his back and take the bayoneted gun that had fallen out of the Cossacks hand and thrust it through his head. The lower class man then threw the gun down bloody and tired he walked over to Russia and held his hand out and said, "In times like this we must band together comrade come join the revolution, and free the motherland." Ivan looked up and took the hand. The revolution had the country on its side and it was only a matter of time before they would take over.
(1) The Kremlin in Moscow was a fort, not the capital, the capital was St. Petersburg.