The destruction of the Second Pacific Fleet had far-reaching consequences for the Tsarist government. Beyond the military impact, the political repercussions were fatal.
Since the Black Sea Fleet had already been buried in the Far East, the historical mutiny by Black Sea Fleet officers and sailors naturally never took place.
But what was meant to come would still come! The social contradictions Russia's Tsarist government had suppressed could no longer be contained! Dissatisfaction with the Tsarist government across all sectors of society had reached its breaking point!
On March 14, 1905, 12,000 workers at Petersburg's Putilov Factory went on strike to protest the factory owners' arbitrary wage deductions.
This move swiftly sparked a wave of imitation. Workers at other factories responded one after another, and in barely a week, the number of strikers had reached 150,000!
On March 26, under the planning of interested parties, over a hundred thousand workers gathered in Winter Palace Square, preparing to submit a petition to the Tsar.
Their demands included freedom of speech and publication, an eight-hour workday, land ownership for peasants, and the convening of a constitutional assembly.
Well, Nicholas II never received the petition. The military and police directly suppressed the petitioning workers instead, causing more than a thousand casualties. This became known as "Bloody Sunday."
Ferdinand knew that the fuse of the Russian Revolution had arrived!
He had thought that, thanks to his butterfly effect, Bulgaria's importation of more than two million laborers from Russia had eased Russia's class tensions enough to prevent a revolution.
Unexpectedly, the revolutionary fuse had merely come a few months later than in history. That meant the Russian Revolution should now be entering its countdown!
Ferdinand knew Nicholas II was in serious trouble this time. According to intelligence gathered by the intelligence services, this operation had