

Gambit
Episode 7 | 51m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
Reilly heads to Moscow to persuade the Bolsheviks to end their peace treaty with Germany.
1918: Reilly heads to Moscow to persuade the Bolsheviks to end their peace treaty with Germany. Should Russia fail to resume fighting in World War I, Reilly must enact an audacious plan to overthrow the government.
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Gambit
Episode 7 | 51m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
1918: Reilly heads to Moscow to persuade the Bolsheviks to end their peace treaty with Germany. Should Russia fail to resume fighting in World War I, Reilly must enact an audacious plan to overthrow the government.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(pleasant music) (dog barking) - Must be the last dog in Petersburg.
(gun fires) (dog yelps) - Was the last dog in Petersburg.
Do you eat dog?
- Yes, if it doesn't actually say dog on the menu I do, yes.
Usually says something like (bell rings) (speaks foreign language) or something like that.
- It's a disgusting practice, Sasha.
- Oh come on old boy, how do you think Amundsen got to the South Pole?
He ate his dogs.
Suppose the English ate each other, did they?
- Sidney Reilly?
- Yes.
- Come in, I'm Cromie.
Have you got a rank Mr. Reilly?
- [Sidney] Yes, I'm captain flying corps.
- Ah the flying corps.
And Mr. Grammaticoff?
- I'm Sidney's lawyer.
- Really?
Does he usually take a legal adviser on active service?
- Well sir, if there was ever an enterprise in which a man needed a lawyer, it is this one.
By the way can I use your phone?
- In the study.
Captain Reilly, this is captain Hill.
George, Sidney Reilly.
- [George] You're one of Cumming's men.
- [Sidney] Yes.
- Have some coffee.
- Thank you.
- [Cromie] George has his own organization.
- In Ukraine mostly, although recently I've extended my operations to Moscow.
- Like all pongos, he's not really happy unless he's blowing something up.
George is here because I wanted a witness.
- [Sidney] How much is in there?
- A million pounds.
Of which you will be getting 100,000 pounds.
- That's generous of you.
- I'm not being generous, captain Reilly.
It's a loan, from the Navy, and I shall expect it back.
- What are you going to do with it?
- I'm going to take it up to Moscow to see what it will buy in the way of a new government.
- Any particular model in mind?
- Not really, as long as it fights Germans.
- Well, if you want any help let me know.
- [Narrator] In 1917 when the Great War was at its height, the Bolsheviks took Russia by storm, promising peace with Germany.
This so concerned the British prime minister Lloyd George that Reilly was sent back into Russia to see what could be done to reverse the situation.
Officially he was attached to commander Cromie at the British legation in Petrograd, but within days Reilly left for Moscow, taking his old friend Sasha Grammaticoff with him.
They planned to overthrow the Bolsheviks and replace them with a new government which will continue the war against Germany.
That government was to be headed by Reilly himself.
(dramatic music) (thunder rumbles) - Mademoiselle Friede.
- What do you want?
- To speak to your brother.
- Well he's at the Kremlin.
He's a garrison commander this week.
- I know, Dagmara sent me.
My name is Sidney Reilly.
- Well, come in I'll telephone.
(humming) He says it will have to wait 'til next week.
He can't leave his post.
- Can't wait a week.
Tell him I shall meet him in 15 minutes at the savior gate.
I have an appointment with Lenin.
Madam, we are embarked on a great adventure.
This is no time for hesitation.
- He has an appointment with Lenin.
Will you meet him in 15 minutes at savior gate?
He says you must be mad, but he'll be there.
- Good.
(dramatic music) - What do you want?
- I want to speak to Lenin.
- Wait here.
(phone rings) - Lockhart.
- We have a man at the gatehouse who wants to see Lenin.
He has a message from Lloyd George.
- What's his name?
- Sidney Reilly.
He also has a letter from our man in London, Litvinov.
- Captain Reilly?
- Yes.
- I'm colonel Friede.
Follow me.
- That places us in an extremely embarrassing position.
Here we have a man who claims he comes from a British government, you say you know nothing about him.
- Places me in an embarrassing position, Karachan, not you.
- Seems genuinely put out.
Doesn't know anything about this man.
- You've been here before?
- Yes in the old days.
- Things have changed.
- So I've noticed.
For instance, the Kremlin is now guarded entirely by Latvian troops.
- That's because Latvian soldiers are the best ones in the Bolshevik army.
Some say the only soldiers.
- And you are commander.
- I'm honored to do so.
There are only two disciplined armies in the whole of Russia.
The first is Latvians, the second is the Czechs.
- There will soon be a third.
Within a month the British will land at Archangel.
Their orders will be to engage the Germans wherever they may find them, then to wheel west to liberate Latvia and Estonia.
Now what the British would dearly love to know is whether your Latvians will support them.
Or will they obey Lenin's orders, which undoubtedly will be to drive them back into the sea?
- Highly unlikely that Lenin would risk such an an-- - You're evading the question, colonel.
- The loyalty of the Latvian troops is to their officers.
Our loyalty is to Lenin.
- Despite the fact that the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk handed Latvia to Germany on a plate?
- In the long run we will repossess it.
- You may be able to take the long view, but can your men?
I suggest colonel that you give serious thought to the question I put to you.
- What is your proposal?
- Just this.
That if Lenin resists the idea of a landing he should be replaced.
With the aid of your troops, of course.
- Captain Reilly.
- I am Bonch-Brouevich, this is Mr. Karachan.
Lenin is busy, but perhaps we can help?
- I have a letter from Litvinov.
- He says you brought a personal message to Lenin from Lloyd George.
- Yes that's right.
- Let's have it.
- Mr. Lloyd George addresses Mr. Lenin as follows.
The Germans are about to launch a major offensive on the western front.
In order to prevent our complete collapse, it is imperative that you reenter the war.
Ludendorff has amassed a vast army which includes many units which were previously in Russia.
- That is the message.
- That's the first part.
He goes on to assure you that if you do as he asks, the British government will do all it can to support you in the difficult days which lie ahead.
- And if we don't?
- Mr. Reilly.
The Bolshevik party did not want to get out of the war with Germany.
We were persuaded with eight million casualties that it would be better to accept the most humiliating peace terms than to see the defeat of our revolution, and that is why we signed the treaty.
- If we revoke the treaty tomorrow, the Germans could be in Moscow the following day.
That is the harsh reality of the situation.
We have no alternative.
- There is an alternative.
We could land our own troops and engage the Germans on your behalf.
- That is a polite way of saying that you intend to invade our country.
- They would be deployed against the Germans, not against yourselves.
- The British envoy to Moscow assured us there would be no intervention.
- That was before the German buildup.
Believe me gentlemen, the situation is desperate.
Paris will fall, there is a distinct possibility that we will lose the war.
- Lenin has made his attitude plain.
He will view any landing of Allied troops on Russian soil as a violation of our territorial integrity.
It will be considered a direct threat to the revolution, and treated accordingly.
- What is more, he will repudiate all Russian war debts and confiscate all Allied property including banks, factories, and transport systems and drive your soldiers back into the sea!
If necessary, with the help of the German invaders.
- That is the message I am to take to Lloyd George?
- Yes captain it is.
- Colonel Friede.
Show captain Reilly to the gatehouse.
A word, captain Reilly.
I wish we could have been of more help to you.
- Not at all.
- How did Lenin react?
- Predictably.
- [Sasha] What about Friede?
- [Sidney] He's hooked.
- [Sasha] So where's the next port of call?
- Commisar Orlov, secret police.
- Sidney, you son of a bitch!
Sasha!
Welcome to Bolsavia!
- Orlov you old hound!
(chuckles) (ominous music) - Who was that?
- Felix Dzerzhinsky old boy, head of the Czech.
This is his headquarters.
Don't get mixed up with him, Sidney.
He shows his teeth in his eyes if you know what I mean.
- You're looking for?
- Commissar Orlov.
- Follow me please.
- That Rolls was outside Miss Friede's tonight.
- Yeah he's something of a ladies man I'm told.
When he isn't eating babies and killing people.
- She his mistress?
- I think it's a reasonable assumption.
- Sidney, how are you?
Let me introduce you.
This is Smidchen of the Latvian brigade.
Smidchen the pigeon as he is known about here.
- That was uncalled for commissar.
- Lieutenant Smidchen reports to us all tittle tattle in the Latvian mess.
- Gentlemen, you must excuse the commissar.
He has dined too well.
- Get out!
You son of a St. Petersburg pimp!
(laughing) I see you too have survived the deluge.
- Yes, not with quite the same style as you old boy.
- Well you know what my father used to say, when you live amongst wolves you should howl like one.
Well, here's to us.
- I'll drink to that.
So.
You joined the Czech?
- It's only been going for six months, but during that time we've got together the biggest gang of nasties you're likely to see this side of hell.
I was one of the few who could read, so I've risen to my present position with meteoric speed.
(chuckles) - And how is Moscow?
- The Bolsheviks lumber from one crisis to another.
We're running a book on how long we can last.
The German army's within three hours by train and they've installed a fearful man called Meerbach who constantly threatens to call them in.
A social revolutionary party who include many of the Czechies are about to take to the streets again to protest against the German occupation of the Ukraine.
There are more and more shootings and the whole thing could end up in a bloodbath if we're not careful.
So, in answer to your question, situation Moscow is deteriorating.
- Well, Petrograd's no better you'll find.
There was no food, they've eaten all the dogs.
No transport, they've eaten all the horses.
Typhoid's everywhere.
- They've eaten all the doctors?
(laughing) - Not quite.
- Well, let's emigrate.
How's Paris these days?
- It's about to be overrun by the German army.
- Oh, a desperate times we live in!
- However, the British are landing at Archangel.
- When?
- In a month or so.
- How many men?
- Hopefully between 10 and 20,000.
- They're not going to get far with 20,000 men.
This is Russia, not the Dardanelles.
- I know, so Savinkov plans a rising in the north and I'm going to try and see what I can do in Moscow.
- You mean a coup of some sort?
- With the aid of the Latvian guard.
- We take over the Kremlin, arrest Lenin, and form an interim government.
You will have the justice department, I shall be the treasury, Savinkov if he survives, will be minister of war.
- And the number one?
- Will be Sidney here.
- And where do the Romanovs fit into your plans?
- They don't.
- Land reform?
- There will be no going back to the old ways.
The people will keep their land.
- Sounds all right to me.
What are your requirements?
- We need papers, passes, automobiles, fuel requisitions, slips, whatever it takes to move couriers around the country.
- Have to build up an organization from scratch.
- I tell you what's going to be your big problem.
The German army.
Social revolutionaries are doing everything in their power to provoke them.
- Then we must talk to these social revolutionaries.
- Sure, that can be arranged.
By the way, you want to become officers of the Czech?
It's the easiest way to get about.
- Is that possible?
- Listen, everything is possible in Bolsavia.
(laughing) - Ah, Sidney this is my niece Dagmara.
And her friend Natalia Chekalva.
Girls, this is Sidney Reilly of whom I've told you so much.
- And that's Sonia.
Did you talk to Marie Friede?
- Yes I think she would have thrown me out if I hadn't mentioned your name.
- We used to do class together.
- That's dance classes, old boy.
They're all dancers here.
Their bones crack like hell.
Can get bloody noisy at night.
- Well that's all right with me.
I can sleep through anything.
- Do you want to eat?
- No I just want to get my head down.
Where do I sleep?
- You sleep in my bed, Sasha bunks with Natalia, Sonia has the stove.
- Is that all right with you?
- Would you rather I slept on the floor?
- No, no, no.
- Tomorrow night Sonia will have the bed and I'll have the stove.
(sighs) - I've got it all worked out old boy.
- Who is Sidney Reilly?
And what is he doing in Moscow?
- Sidney Reilly is one of our most experienced agents.
He has been sent in fact to Petrograd to ensure that the Russian fleet is scuttled if the Germans take the city.
- I thought that was the Navy's job.
- The Navy asked for political advice, we sent them Reilly.
- So Reilly was sent to Petrograd.
To advise Cromie on the timing for the scuttling of the Russian fleet.
- Correct.
- So, what is he doing in Moscow?
- Nothing in particular and doing it very well.
- Well according to Lockhart, he knocked at the Kremlin door and demanded to see Mr. Lenin.
He said he had a message from Lloyd George.
Well had he a message from Lloyd George?
- You would have to ask the prime minister that.
- I'm asking you.
- Reilly saw the prime minister before he went, that's all I know.
- And what do you know of a Boris Savinkov?
- Savinkov is a social revolutionary and he's minister of state in Karinsky's cabinet.
- Is there a relationship between Reilly and Savinkov?
- I really couldn't say, sir.
Certainly Reilly has great admiration for him.
- Did you know that Savinkov was planning an uprising?
To coincide with the British landings at Archangel?
- No sir I did not.
- Is it conceivable that Reilly and Savinkov got together to topple Lenin, and put themselves at the head of a new government in Russia?
Is it?
- It is just conceivable.
- That is indeed what Lockhart told me.
If this event comes to pass, I shall hold you personally responsible.
- On what grounds?
- Because he is one of your men.
- Reilly is Russian born and a free agent when it comes to politics.
- He is not free when it comes to throwing a spanner into our entire eastern strategy.
- The situation in Moscow as I understand it is that the Bolsheviks are by no means in control of events.
They may well be stripped from power with or without Reilly's efforts.
My theory is that we shall wake up one morning to find a new Russian government controlled directly from Berlin.
- That is precisely why we have given our support to Mr. Lenin.
- But what if Mr. Lenin fails?
- He will not fail, given our support.
- There are those who disagree with his policies.
- What you fail to realize commander, is that I view a Russia run by Reilly with as much alarm as I view one run by the Bolsheviks.
At least we know where we stand with them.
Furthermore, they will be removed when the time is ripe, but through the proper political channels.
Not by some part time employee of the British Secret Service.
Do I make myself clear?
- Perfectly.
(orchestral music) - Ah wonder if master Savinkov is up here.
- So it's 180 miles from here to Moscow, 500 to Archangel, so you see it's ideal for our purpose.
Have you had confirmation from London?
- Oh yes the landings are going ahead as planned.
- Good, good.
- I have to say however Boris, I'm more than a little concerned for you.
- Don't worry.
There's nothing between here and Archangel but a few Latvian regulars and a trip or two of cavalry.
If the British land on time, yes?
Together we'll win a great victory.
- How will you raise a province with five men?
- Napoleon landed in France with less.
I always make sure that my underwear is sterilized.
More people die from gangrene in the field than from their original wound, did you know that?
- You're also short of supplies.
- We'll pick up what we need from the enemy.
Greatest danger that we face is incursions by the German army.
Anything that you can do to keep them out of Yuroslavo, anything, yes will be greatly appreciated.
- I'll see what I can do.
In the meantime, I hope you'll accept some money for this insurrection.
- Do I need this?
- [Sidney] It's sometimes easier to bribe armies than it is to shoot them.
- Yes, but it takes time.
(knocking) Come in.
- Your friends have arrived.
All five of them.
- Good.
- Before you go, a toast.
- I don't drink.
- It's a Napoleon brandy old boy.
- Well in that case, I'll make an exception.
Well, here's to a great victory.
(glass tinkling) - Last night my car was ambushed in the Derdrinka district and my chauffeur killed.
- We very much regret that this happened, your excellency.
- Had I been in the car, Mr. Bonch-Brouevich, I would have been killed.
In such a situation would not be regretting the incident, you would be deploring it because you know and I know that the imperial German army would by now be at the gates of the city.
And you would be out in the streets, hunting down my murderers in order to placate my superiors in Berlin.
Now, I wish to bring to the attention of the committee two facts.
First, the social revolutionary party which is responsible for last night's outrage does not seem to accept the peace treaty which our two nations have jointly signed.
And second, not only are you helpless in face of their operations here in Moscow, but I am informed that you are actually financing their terrorist activities in the Ukraine.
- [Man] Felix, can you shed any light on this?
- On what Elliott?
- Are we funding terrorist groups in the Ukraine?
- Not to my knowledge.
- There seems to be some mistake there, count Meerbach.
We are not funding any social revolutionary activity in the Ukraine.
- Not only are you doing so sir, but the money you give to the terrorists in the Ukraine is part of the money we give to you.
- Karachan.
- Ilyich?
- Are we getting any funds from the Germans?
- Not a sausage.
(laughing) - You have been misinformed, your excellency.
- I have not been misinformed, Mr. Lenin on either score.
- It is unfortunate that the social revolutionaries have never accepted the principles of our peace treaty, but there's very little we can do about that.
And when they see your armies plundering our countryside and pillaging our industries I ask you, is it any wonder they continue to oppose you?
- What you call plunder are the legitimate fruits of victory.
I demand that something be done to halt the social revolutionaries in their tracks!
If you're not prepared to stamp out terrorism in your own city, then the Germany army will do so for you.
- The SRs will be dealt with in due course, your excellency.
In the meantime, I advise you to be calm.
We will do everything possible to protect you and your men.
Won't we Felix?
- Well.
If that's all you have to say, sir.
- Yes your excellency, that's all.
- Now remember this, we put you into power sir and we will remove you if need be.
(men chattering) - There is some truth in what he said.
The social revolutionaries are out of control.
- What do you want me to do, lock them up?
Start a civil war?
- Well either you stop them or we have Prussians turning up at the gates.
- That's a chance that I have to take.
- What about the funds for the guerrillas in the Ukraine?
- Double them.
(dramatic music) - Welcome to the headquarters of the social revolutionary party.
- What are you doing here George, helping out?
- We shot up the ambassador's car last night.
- Yes, good job he wasn't in it.
- Why?
- 'Cause the Germany army would now be on the march.
- I thought that was the whole point to get Russia back into the war.
- The plan's changed, George.
(dramatic music) - Elena, this is Sidney Reilly and Sasha Grammaticoff.
This is Elena Petrovna and Alex Alexandrovich.
Both of them are members of the SR central committee.
- What can we do for you Mr. Reilly?
- I'm here to prevail upon you to stop operations against the Germans until such time as the British have landed.
We don't want them provoked until the troops are ashore.
Now if you persist, the Germans will occupy Moscow.
- That's exactly what we want.
- But it will be premature, and it'll be a hell of a job to get them out.
- You underestimate the anger of the people when they see German troops in the Kitagarod.
- Look, it would be considerably more effective if we could all act together.
Savinkov has already agreed to hold his fire.
- What Savinkov does is his own business.
We have our central committee to answer to.
(phone rings) - What is it Felix?
- The man you saw a month ago, Sidney Reilly?
He's still in Moscow.
- So?
- He's the most dangerous agent in the British bag and he's trying to buy your Latvians.
(phone rings) - Yes?
- Captain Reilly?
This is Marie Friede.
My brother has thought it over and has agreed to help you.
Can you meet him tonight to discuss it further?
- [Sidney] Where?
- Here.
- When?
- 10 o'clock?
- I'll be there.
- He's agreed.
- Excellent, excellent.
- Take care of yourself.
- I will.
- Captain Reilly?
- Yes.
- [Woman] Robby, Reilly's here.
- Lockhart.
The Kremlin garrison is with us.
I'm meeting Friede tonight.
- So?
- So we move onto stage two.
I shall need money.
- May get it from Cromie, he's got a million I'm told.
- Cromie's in Petrograd and anyway it's Navy money.
- Well how do you expect me to raise it?
- From the banks.
They all want to get their money out of Moscow.
We offer to repay them in lenten.
- Why do you need me?
- Because the notes will need the signature of the official British envoy in Moscow and that is you, dear boy.
- Reilly, when I first met you I thought you were either a madman or a crook.
And now I'm convinced you're both.
You want me to underwrite an unauthorized loan of say-- - 10 million.
- 10 million kerensky rubles to be repaid in London at the standard rate of exchange, am I right?
- Look Lockhart, you know the situation here.
You know that very soon, everything can fall apart and we have to move now.
- I'll lose my job.
And possibly be charged with embezzlement if I do what you're suggesting.
- You're quibbling about a bloody loan when your brother's dead in France in a war which we can end if we get the Bolsheviks out.
- We'll be able to redeem this note in London.
- And the rate of exchange?
- Will be calculated on date of surrender.
It should operate in your favor since gold's going up all the time.
Who shall I make this payable to?
- The Baltic Exchange.
- How much?
- 10 million.
- He looks uneasy, as if it was someone else's money and not his own.
- We've met before, haven't we?
- Yes, St. Petersburg before the war.
- You had a lot of German friends.
- So did you.
- So, what brings you to Moscow?
- Lockhart.
I like him.
- I want to thank you on behalf of the British government for loaning us this money.
I was sent out here to make friends with Lenin to promise him our support.
Now I'm forced to connive in an attempt to remove him from office.
It's dirty, it's dishonorable, and it won't work.
- A little faith, Lockhart.
Seven come from the north, the British landing at Archangel a palace revolt here, it's all coming together.
(knocking) - [Marie] Felix.
- Search the house.
- Well I suppose he could just be taking her to dinner.
- [Man] Where are your shoes?
- They were taken from me.
- Anything else?
- My watch.
- Fetch them.
- Has my brother been arrested?
- Oh yes.
We're in the middle of a revolution.
And a very dangerous allied agent calls on the sister of the commander of the Kremlin guard.
Now what am I to make of that?
I, who am entrusted with the task of protecting the revolution from its enemies.
He was going to call on you.
You're very fond of your brother?
- Yes.
- Then for his sake you should make a statement.
- He was going to call, but...
It was a personal matter.
- Are you trying to tell me that you succumbed to his charm?
- It was the other way around, I think.
- I'm going to put you in the cells for the time being.
And I regret that you have to stay there until he's been caught.
(knocking) - Tell me which are hers, commissar.
- None of them are mine.
- Take her downstairs.
- Live for the present.
Die for the future.
(bell rings) Czech.
- An officer of the Czech is here your excellency.
He says it's urgent.
- What does he want?
- He has news of an attempt on your life.
- Show him in.
- You can go in now.
- What's your name?
- Blumkin sir.
I'm from the Bianca seven.
- There's to be an attempt on my life.
- Yes your honor.
- When?
(gun fires) - Your excellency!
(gun fires) (gunfire) (phone rings) - Good morning citizen.
This telephone exchange is under control of the socialist revolutionary party.
(booming) - Yes what's going on?
- Following the assassination of the German high commissioner, the socialist revolutionary party has taken up defensive positions in the following public buildings.
Post office, the Crosky barracks, the Bianca.
- Sasha!
The SRs have jumped the gun, they've shot Meerbach!
(gunfire) - George?
- What are you doing here?
- Looking for a woman called Marie Friede.
She was picked up yesterday by Dzerzhinsky.
(gunfire) - She's probably downstairs.
It's like a rabbit warren down there.
- What have you been up to George?
- Well, I helped install a few buildings.
They have a good chance of taking the city if they put their minds to it.
They outnumber the Bolsheviks three to one.
- It's the garrison at Cazan.
Do we need assistance?
- Inform the commissar at Cazan that everything is under control.
- The Soviets also asked the same question.
- Inform the Soviet that the situation is under control.
- With all due respect skipper, is the situation under control?
- Simburski's 200 miles away, Cazans on the other side of the Volga.
What good can they do us?
(gunfire) - It's 26, George.
Grab the keys.
- Are the units moving colonel?
- No, they're waiting for the motorized regiment.
- [Man] What's wrong with the motorized?
- They say their trucks won't start.
- Well get down there and get them moving.
- [Colonel] Sir.
- What's the situation in Bianca?
- We've lost both buildings.
- I want them retaken colonel, do you understand?
(gunfire) - Sorry it took some time to track you down.
- What's happened?
- The SRs have taken the building, we can just walk out of here.
- No please, my brother.
I can't leave without him.
- Where is he?
- I don't know.
- Can we argue this upstairs?
If the Bolsheviks counterattack-- - No just leave me here.
- Madam it is my fault you are here.
- Thank you for coming to help me, but can't you see it's better that I stay here.
Can you guarantee that my brother will be safe?
- I think they're beginning to pull out.
- One minute!
Look, it is important that you come.
You influence the others.
The whole fate of our enterprise may depend on you.
- No!
You must, you must use Berta now.
- Who's Berta?
- Give this to him.
He is my brother's second in command.
Tell him that you saw me, and that I want him to help you.
- [Sasha] Sidney!
- What's the position?
- The Czech have over.
- What have we got left?
- The Latvians, and there's a call come from the post office.
They say it's Dzerzhinsky.
- Put him through.
(booming) - Pick it up commissar.
- Dzerzhinsky here.
- Felix would it be impolite to ask what you are doing?
- Came here to persuade them to call off their demonstration.
Unfortunately I was not able to do so.
And I am being held here at gunpoint.
- I see.
Well, we've been here before, Felix, at Kachina.
- They were the tsar's men.
This time it's different.
These are our comrades.
- We are in the middle of a revolution.
Their actions today can only be construed as treason.
So there'll be no compromise.
Should they wish to talk about surrender, their calls will be taken by Karachan.
Otherwise, as soon as I've gathered sufficient forces, we will storm the building.
I hope that for once you agree with my analysis.
- I do.
- Goodbye Felix.
- Well?
- There will be no deals.
(dramatic music) - [Narrator] Although it seemed a foregone conclusion that the social revolutionaries will take over Moscow, Lenin's Latvian regiment outnumbered three to one fought them to a standstill.
The rest of the troops in the city, uncertain of their allegiance held back awaiting the outcome.
By the evening, the insurrection was crushed.
(somber music) While Lenin went off to placate the Germans who were threatening to invade Moscow, an angry Dzerzhinsky returned to Bianca to reap the grim revenge.
- You're-- - Yes, indict them tonight.
- What do we do with them?
- Shoot the men.
- Hello Felix.
To what do I owe the pleasure?
- Where's my Rolls?
- I gave it to Berzin.
His car was shot up.
Listen!
He saved the day!
Elena Petrovna.
- The same.
- At ease.
Keep your eye on that car.
Shoot anybody who tries to steal it.
You're Reilly aren't you?
How did you get in?
- One of your officers brought me here.
- Dzerzhinsky wants you very badly.
(knocking) - Commissar Dzerzhinsky outside sir.
He wants the key to his car.
Thank you sir.
- I think we should talk.
- I think we should.
(pleasant music)
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