Rather surprisingly, after the attempt on Bruno's life, and the propaganda used to depict it as an attack by the Red Army. It was not just the Russian Army's forces who were bolstered by mass recruitment.
When the news reached the shores of the German Reich, tens of thousands of men were up in arms. Declaring their intention to join the Iron Brigade and put an end to the Bolsheviks once and for all.
There were chants for war in the streets of Berlin, as veterans and civilians alike demanded the blood of the Marxists who had dared to do something as cowardly as attack their General in the streets of Saint Petersburg.
Naturally, the outcry for war, and the tens of thousands of men who rallied in support of it had the French sweating bullets, as they realized they were incredibly lucky that their attack was mistaken for one conducted by the Red Army.
