Chapter 261: France Bleeds

Chapter 261: France Bleeds



Following the events of the Russian Civil War, which began over a decade prior in this timeline when compared to that of Bruno's past life. Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, et cetera were all universally condemned by all the major powers in Europe.

Whether it was the German Reich, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, or even the French Republic a major crackdown and suppression began to affect far-left groups. Who were presented as radical extremists whose sole objective was destruction, violence, death and chaos for its own sake.

Because of this, many of the people who adhered to such foolish beliefs were quickly driven underground, those who were not apprehended and tried as seditious individuals went deep into hiding.

But... War presented opportunities for a return of humanity's single most destructive ideology. And as the Great War continued to wage, and the French Republic continued to suffer horrific loss after horrific loss. The people of France began to become a bit... agitated. Demonstrations began to take place across the country. And while they started off as peaceful, there would always be those willing to take things too far and escalate them beyond their original intent.

Agitators were embedded within the ranks of the protestors who stood outside the French Parliament demanding an end to the war. Too many of France's beloved sons had either been wounded or worse already.

It would be one thing if they were exchanging losses for wins. But eight months into the war, and France had yet to gain a single victory worthy of note. The only reason Paris had not been seized already was because the Germans were what one from the 21st century might call "farming the French soldiers for xp..." at this point.

Many citizens had grown concerned about the state of the ongoing war, and why they were continuing to fight when Serbia, their ally who had dragged them into this mess to begin with had already capitulated.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Shouts and slogans were being made, as French citizens forced their voices to be heard. Not the slightest bit aware that their protest had been fully infiltrated by some rats whose intentions were far from pure.

A French woman, wearing a distinctive red overcoat, and a striped scarf no older than roughly twenty years of age looked over at a man perhaps ten years her elder, and nodded her head. Before uttering her thoughts aloud.

"This is for Leon..."

She then pulled out her satchel and yanked a draw cord that was attached to it, before hurling the device at the police.

As the satchel landed in front of the wall of police who were trying to get what until now had been peaceful demonstrators to go back to their homes, causing one of the younger lads to go and fetch it. Unfortunately for him, the satchel was a timed explosive, which detonated the moment the young officer reached to grab it.

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Heinrich looked at Bruno as if he was merely being paranoid again, and his tone was equally as incredulous when he finally spoke after a long pause.

"Come on man, really? Who is crazy enough to go commit mass murder just to prove that they are still around? This was an obvious attempt to provoke the government into harming innocent civilians and then trying to spin that narrative to gain more members and power." Bruno however responded to this statement, which while perfectly sound in reasoning with three clicks of his tongue followed by a condescending tone in his voice.

"Tsk... Tsk... Tsk... Oh my dear and stupid old friend... You really don't understand who you are dealing with do you? Even after all that time we spent in Russia fighting these vermin together, you never really learned quite how they think, did you?

Heinrich, of Marxists was remotely capable of logical and rational thought. They wouldn't be Marxists to begin with... No, we are dealing with highly emotional, spiteful, and petty ideological fanatics of which are driven mad by the idea of falling into obscurity.

They did this not out of any practical gain, but rather out of a desire to let the world know that they are still here, and will return in full force, eventually. It's a pity... Had I operational control over France I would send my attack dog on these rats, and he would take care of the problem within a year at the latest.

Unfortunately, I currently do not have any jurisdiction over the French Republic, its lands, and its people. And because of this, I cannot send our dear friend Erich to go exterminate these vermin. Hence, we will have to wait and see how the French government responds to these

attacks.

Either way, we have our own guerilla problem to solve now don't we? So how about we focus less on what is happening in the west, and more on what is happening here in our own backyard, shall we?"

After this, Bruno and Heinrich had a relatively complicated discussion about how they would hunt down and destroy the various ethno-nationalist and religious paramilitary organizations that were still causing problems in the Balkans.

Even though things had begun to die down as a result of Albania's restoration of law and

order. The violence never really ended, and because of that Bruno would now begin a mission

of seek and destroy.

All the while France was forced to deal with its own internal civil strife, one that would continue to grow as the war waged on.