The famous political commissar system actually originated in France, in the Paris Commune!
This civil war is completely a psychological war and propaganda war. Military skills are not the decisive factor in this civil war!
Both sides are fighting hard under the waving of the French tricolor flag. The leaders of each side are claiming that they are just, and everyone says that they are justified!
In order to compete for people's hearts and support, the Thiers government and the Paris Commune began to desperately slander each other!
Both sides activated all their propaganda machines, printed hundreds of millions of leaflets and newspapers, and began to promote their own principles. The Paris Commune added six new newspapers within a month, and the Thiers government approved more than 20 new ones. The newspaper started printing.
The whole of Paris, including France, has been thrown into chaos by this propaganda campaign!
Every day, the two opposing sides began to distribute leaflets desperately, hoping to undermine the morale of the other side, and there was even a phenomenon of shouting in front of the formation.
The debaters of the Paris Commune who came out of the street speeches hid in the safe area closest to the government army position and started shouting with loudspeakers!
From scolding the emperor for his incompetence to the decadence of the new government, and then promoting the benefits of various commune reforms, how beneficial it was to the people!
The government forces also began to scold each other. From the Franco-Prussian War Commune holding back, to their assassination riots, they even scolded these people for sharing wives. The dirty words were extremely unpleasant!
But in such exchanges, the Commune mostly has the upper hand, because no matter what, the Commune's reform measures are fatally attractive to every civilian soldier in the government army!
Who doesn’t like a raise in pay and a reduction in hours? Who doesn’t want to have a pension when he is disabled? Who doesn’t want to lower housing rents and lower the price of bread?
Children of poor people can enjoy free education, and public hospitals are opened in urban areas. These reforms are related to the well-being of every ordinary person.
The capitalists do not want these reforms, but for every soldier, this slogan is undoubtedly a fatal temptation!
The commune's propaganda was really powerful. Under the continuous propaganda offensive, more and more government troops began to defect, and there were even grassroots officers defecting with their squads into the establishment!
The battle situation in Paris that Thiers saw was already hell. All the government army barracks and trench fortresses were filled with reactionary leaflets!
The soldiers secretly peeked at the commune's attractive paintings in the tunnels, and even a fool could see the war-weariness in their eyes!
Coupled with the continuous brainwashing by experienced street speakers outside, the morale of the government troops has collapsed!
This trend must not be allowed to develop. Before Marshal McMahon leads his troops to fight back, the existing position must be defended!
Thiers ordered the printing presses to be turned on and gave death orders to all newspapers of his own faction!
"We not only want to start a war of words in Paris, we also want to start a war of words across France! We will continue to smear them and let their ugly faces be exposed!"
From that day on, all major cities in France began to raid progressive newspapers that were close to the left. Bosses and editors arrested batch after batch, and newspapers began to be sold on the streets that slandered the commune.
The streets and alleys are full of propaganda posters that vilify the commune. The pictures are as disgusting as they are!
Not only that, Thiers even spent money to ask Xiao Letian for help, asking for the rent of the Zeppelin airship "Head" on a daily basis.
Airships suddenly emerged during the Franco-Prussian War and became one of the most eye-catching mysterious war weapons. Although this type of airship does not have great strategic significance, at the tactical level this new weapon still has some tricks!
Precisely because they saw the potential value of airships, Germany also placed an order with Zeppelin Company. By the time Thiers asked for help, Xiao Letian owned two Zeppelin airships, and the number of German airships had reached four.
There were a total of six airships, all of which were rented by Thiers. They had one job every day to drop leaflets from the sky to the areas occupied by the commune!
"Isn't it just a scolding battle? In the end, it all comes down to who has the loudest voice!"
"I have all the resources in France, so I don't believe I can't scold you..."
Six airships began to continuously drop leaflets at high altitudes in Paris. All the weapons of the Commune could not threaten this aerial fortress!
The snow-like leaflets began to undermine the morale of the commune, and the situation in France was beginning to turn against the commune!
In the leaflet, Thiers arrogantly declared that your commune only had some small advantages in Paris for a short time, while all other cities were under the control of the government.
Want to fight the whole of France in just a few blocks of Paris? You are daydreaming!
The people who sell pancakes to appease hunger in the commune are all liars. What's the use of slogans no matter how good they are if they can't be implemented?
Keep your eyes open, how much capital is needed to invest in so many reforms? Does his commune have that much money, and does it have the financing ability?
Now you are struggling just by stealing the little bit of money from the rich people in Paris. Once these resources are exhausted, you will be dead!
It's not too late to surrender now, otherwise you will be in dire straits!
Not to mention, Thiers' royal writer still has two brushes, and these sticks hit the key points!
The Commune was a very strict military organization. How could the enemy be allowed to be so deceptive? Under the deliberations of the Commune leaders, an organization was born.
Political and military police!
Yes, they were not called political commissars back then, but the work these people did was no different!
The Paris Commune ordered the National Guard to form its own companies in each Paris administrative district. These companies, large and small, were locked together with villagers, neighbors, and relatives as ties.
Select a person who is extremely loyal to the commune to serve as the political and military police!
They have great powers and are mainly responsible for investigating disloyal officers and soldiers, prohibiting soldiers from accepting the enemy's reactionary propaganda, and can hold emergency meetings at any time!
And these police officers have their own channels to respond to emergencies!
To strictly guard against the enemy, basically one hundred National Guard soldiers are supervised by a political and military policeman, and no one dares to mess with these officials who are not responsible for combat operations.
Even though they can't fight, they can decide whether you are loyal or not with just one word. All officers and soldiers are afraid of them!
As soon as these political police appeared, the combat effectiveness of the commune immediately tripled. Under their strict guard, no soldier dared to touch Thiers's reactionary leaflets.
The commune organized a group of illiterate women to clean these flyers every day and turn them into fuel for the fire at night!
At this point, the morale of the commune has reached an unimaginable level. In the general headquarters of Place Vendôme, Varland and Duval toasted in celebration!
"Our comrades! As long as we persist, and persist a little longer... Thiers will give in, and then we can be lenient!"
"Negotiate with them, force them to release the teacher, force them to admit that we are the largest party in France!"
"The flame of revolution is burning! Starting from Paris, it is burning all over the world!"
Raoulli, who was sitting alone in the corner with a beer, rolled his eyes at them and secretly cursed "a bunch of idiots!"
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