Medan
It was the capital of Sumatra and Indonesia's third-largest city, with a population of more than six hundred thousand. Situated on the Malacca Strait, it was Indonesia's western gateway for foreign trade, and its geographical position was of immense importance.
Now, this bustling port city no longer possessed its former splendor. All that remained was a landscape of shattered walls and ruins. The fire still burned, and faint weeping could be heard.
On June 6, 1926, dissatisfied with Dutch exploitation, Medan's workers launched a general strike, only to suffer brutal suppression at the hands of the Dutch colonial government.
Enraged, Medan's workers rose in resistance under the leadership of the Revolutionary Party. They had not expected the Dutch to be even weaker than they had imagined. They actually succeeded in seizing the city, igniting the spark of proletarian revolution in Southeast Asia!
"Your Majesty, this time it was a fire at the city gate that brought disaster to the fish in the moat. Three days ago, a workers' uprising erupted in Medan, and now the rebel forces have spread across the entire island of Sumatra!" Chekhov said with a bitter smile.
That was right. The source of this fire had been passed on from Bulgaria. It had originally been meant to trap the British, but the Dutch had stepped into it first.
Students from the Dutch colonies encountered new ideas in Bulgaria, then brought them back to the colonies and spread them further.
Of course, that alone was far from enough. Bulgaria's intelligence department had also specifically trained them in rebellion. Their instructor was Victor Kisis, an expert who had professionally stirred up revolts for twenty years—a successful man who had once wormed his way into becoming president, and who had now become a mentor of revolution.
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