After several contacts with the Russians, Parker Li found that things were easier than he had imagined.
The Russian negotiator was a naval lieutenant and captain of the battleship Glorious. At first, Parker Li was quite surprised when he learned about his military rank and position. Thinking about the current situation in Russia, he suddenly realized.
In 1917, the Tsar was overthrown, and the bourgeois provisional government was replaced by the Bolsheviks. The domestic turmoil naturally affected the army.
During the Kerensky government, most of the senior officers, such as Kolchak, went abroad for inspection. During the Bolshevik era, they were treated worse than the bourgeois provisional government. Some were executed for being landlords and nobles, some followed the White Army and the royal family, and the rest were mostly mediocre.
The Russians who were captured by the Germans during the war and returned to Russia after the war were also confused. They had no idea what to do with the government they had sworn allegiance to, but it was overthrown. They had no idea about forming a government. Joining the White Army? Many of them were also unwilling to do so.
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