yevkassem72
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Antonin Sakoriov was not too fond of the new regime in Petrograd. Why should he be? He'd lost an eye fighting the Austrians, before being sent back shortly after Brusilov's successful offensive in 1916. Now the former lieutenant from a middle-class family, who had achieved his rank through a field commission in actual combat, was stuck back in the family bookshop, while Lenin seized power in the capital.
"Peace, Bread, and Land", the Bolsheviks had promised. Well, the peace idea wouldn't be so bad, if it didn't mean decades to come of the Kaiser dictating terms to the Russian Motherland. Bread would take more than socialist rhetoric to achieve, for any government. And land.....well, he would have no problem with land reform. He was not an aristocrat and didn't mind seeing a few thousand of them impoverished or worse, sent to Siberia where many of them belonged in his opinion. Nor did he mind the idea of a strong, centralized government. Democracy had proven as incompetent as Tsarist despotism.
But Marxists, who were reportedly working with the Germans? Never! And the new laws were insane. Nationalization of banks and factories was no answer. What would become of Antonin, if the new regime decided to expropriate his shop? He'd have to be a mere clerk for the State? He hated bureaucrats and didn't fancy becoming one himself. The idea government for him would be a military dictatorship, with a strongman imitating Bonaparte. A strong Russia that would hold out until the Americans could force Germany to terms. Then Russia would get better terms. A purely defensive strategy could buy time. Sign a dishonorable peace with Germany? Never!
Well, Antonin had other problems, too. Unlike many of his fellow shopkeepers, he had no taste for marriage or family life. He liked being a randy bachelor, with the chance to chase as many women as he pleased. But his Uncle Vanya and others were pressuring him to take a bride. As if he needed such things. They pointed out that women loved war veterans. That, to him, was a good reason to stay unmarried and not have a wife nag him about his affairs (literally).
OOC: This and the Corporate Wives SRP are going to be the only ones I do, until or unless one of my Bonapartist threads picks up. The Incest in America one and the others are apparently dead, after all.
"Peace, Bread, and Land", the Bolsheviks had promised. Well, the peace idea wouldn't be so bad, if it didn't mean decades to come of the Kaiser dictating terms to the Russian Motherland. Bread would take more than socialist rhetoric to achieve, for any government. And land.....well, he would have no problem with land reform. He was not an aristocrat and didn't mind seeing a few thousand of them impoverished or worse, sent to Siberia where many of them belonged in his opinion. Nor did he mind the idea of a strong, centralized government. Democracy had proven as incompetent as Tsarist despotism.
But Marxists, who were reportedly working with the Germans? Never! And the new laws were insane. Nationalization of banks and factories was no answer. What would become of Antonin, if the new regime decided to expropriate his shop? He'd have to be a mere clerk for the State? He hated bureaucrats and didn't fancy becoming one himself. The idea government for him would be a military dictatorship, with a strongman imitating Bonaparte. A strong Russia that would hold out until the Americans could force Germany to terms. Then Russia would get better terms. A purely defensive strategy could buy time. Sign a dishonorable peace with Germany? Never!
Well, Antonin had other problems, too. Unlike many of his fellow shopkeepers, he had no taste for marriage or family life. He liked being a randy bachelor, with the chance to chase as many women as he pleased. But his Uncle Vanya and others were pressuring him to take a bride. As if he needed such things. They pointed out that women loved war veterans. That, to him, was a good reason to stay unmarried and not have a wife nag him about his affairs (literally).
OOC: This and the Corporate Wives SRP are going to be the only ones I do, until or unless one of my Bonapartist threads picks up. The Incest in America one and the others are apparently dead, after all.
