Posted on 11/23/2014 10:05:54 PM PST by wetphoenix
Can it be true that Vladimir Lenin, the alleged “leader of the world Proletariat,” whose monuments adorned central squares in every Soviet town and who inspired generations of Soviet citizens, had been a mere agent provocateur working for the German government?
In The World Crisis, Volume 5, Winston Churchill writes this about war-time Germany in 1917:
“They turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia.”
The rest is history: Lenin staged a coup and withdrew Russia from World War One, conceding large swaths of land to Germany. In the process, he consolidated his power, initiated the policy of Red Terror, brutally exterminated all opposition, and founded the world’s first totalitarian socialist state.
Many contemporary politicians had made claims that Lenin was a long-time agent of the Imperial German Secret Service. A warrant for his arrest was issued after the Russian government had learned that the Bolsheviks were financed by the Germans, with whom Russia was at war. However, with time these claims dwindled as no documentary proof could be found.
Why did Lenin’s culpability, which his contemporaries considered evident, stop being so evident to the following generations? What did the contemporaries know that we don’t?
It would be safe to assume that Soviet agents, who had penetrated all levels of Western societies early on, had successfully removed and destroyed all proof, along with all the witnesses. They apparently did it so well that even the Nazis, who inherited the German intelligence service about a decade later, couldn’t find any related documents, otherwise they would have certainly demonstrated them to the world in order to prove the illegitimacy of the rival dictatorship. Let’s leave further speculations to the authors of period spy thrillers.
The fact is, Lenin’s case wouldn’t be all that unique. At the time, the Imperial German Secret Service seemed to have a policy of recruiting agents among exiled Russian communists and financing their subversive activities and propaganda aimed to plunge Russia into turmoil. Some of them, like Fuerstenberg and Kozlovsky, were prominent Bolsheviks with close ties to Lenin.
This author provides a number of other examples of such recruitment and money trails, concluding his research by saying, “we know that the Bolsheviks conducted public relations that seemed to be beyond their means. We know that German agents – some with considerable funds at their disposal – were closely entwined with the Bolsheviks. And we know that Lenin lied when confronted about that situation.”
The truth was unearthed only in the late 1980s, with the opening of Soviet archives to the public. The newly declassified documents revealed the dates, the banks, and the substantial amounts of money provided to the communists by Kaiser’s Germany, which financed Lenin’s subversive, seditious activities. According to historian Albert L. Weeks, the German authorities cynically referred to Lenin as a “bacillus” who would “infect” Russia and thus incapacitate a major military adversary.
But do even the large money transfers and the intriguing return from exile in a sealed one-car train make Lenin a spy? Only in the most general sense of the word; strictly speaking, he was rather a sociopathic traitor and a criminally-minded, community-organizing opportunist, driven by the principle of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” In the words of Weeks, Lenin “merely took advantage of the Kaiser’s ‘generosity’ and exploited the subsidies for his own purposes in seizing and holding power in Russia.”
And yet, while the Bolshevik revolution could not have been engineered by the Western bankers as some modern conspiracy theories claim, there is enough evidence to suggest that Lenin could not have pulled it off without Germany’s financial and logistical help. And even if he had, the “leader of the workers and peasants” would surely have used less radical strategies had he not had a second career on which to fall back.
Common sense suggests that if left to their own devices, Lenin and his close comrades would be less likely to take such great risks; it was the helpful network of foreign agents with backup plans, escape routes, and other comforting factors that boosted their confidence and provided the feeling of relative safety. Thus, their motto, “we have nothing to lose but our chains,” was a lie. The selfless sacrifice and the blind trust in the Communist Manifesto was good enough for the people but not for the people’s leaders.
In this, Lenin was not an exception. Being the leader of the semi-legal communist party, he collaborated with his nation’s enemy in a time of war much like the American communists and other leftist groups, who have throughout history collaborated with enemies of the United States in order to gain more influence at the expense of their own country.
The irrefutable evidence that Lenin and his party conspired with and received funding from an enemy government sheds an unforgiving light on the seditious and treasonous character, methods, and motivations of all international communist and socialist movements, the Communist Party USA, and every communist party around the world, who continue to operate by Lenin’s methods and who still hold him as a major inspiration.
In the court of law, a verdict based on false or tainted evidence is usually overturned. We have to wonder if in the court of history, the verdict regarding the celebrated “people’s revolution” paid for by an imperial intelligence service will also be altered – and if our history books will be corrected accordingly.
From the German perspective, it was a brilliant ploy at the time and almost won the war for Germany. Yet it set the stage for a war that would decimate and forever change Germany.
...not to mention change the rest of the world. And not for the better.
The illuminati strikes again.
The Bolsheviks were financed by Wall Street, just a little bit of searching will reveal that.
The German High Command transported, funded and armed the Bolsheviks.
Antony Sutton again?
He was forced out of the Hoover Institution, which indicates he PO’d a lot of leftists there at Harvard and elsewhere.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Lenin was sent to Russia by the Kaiser’s secret police.
and, much like our president, the name he used was not his given name.
It is quite typical for communists as we see.
Not just Sutton, though he certaily provides facts.
The information is out there on the internet.
I see there have been “clean ups” of various articles in the past few years.
But it’s still out there.
And many people are finding it.
Of course, it’s often clodded with nutty crazy information and theories.
I’m just talking the basic facts, of American financial elites program to off the Romanovs; those facts point to a conspiracy of elites against “sheeple”.
Like this article - cheezeball whitewash.
It’s pretending that the whole operation was Lenin.
It’s a nice little fairy tale if one ignores the twenty years prior, Trostky or Bronstein or whatever his name was, “President” Wilson jumping to the orders of “Colonel” House and providing “Trotsky” with a passport, etc., etc.
The Rothschild/Rockefeller/etc./etc./ interests had wanted to off the Romanovs for a long time, and the “USSR” was theirs.
~The Bolsheviks were financed by Wall Street, just a little bit of searching will reveal that.~
It is actually a line from Goebel’s propaganda.
Wall Street is a financial arm of Global Jewry and Red Army is a militant arm of that same conspiracy following his idea.
I guess Germans didn’t discredit Soviets using the fact that Bolsheviks initially were their agents because it could make a crack on their main narrative.
I wouldn’t exclude there were a mix of interests from many parties involved though.
It is said by antisemites that Jacob Schiff financed the Bolsheviks, but that was not his intention. He sent his money to the Kerensky Government, but the Bolsheviks under Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Illych Ulanov) shortly took over and Schiff's money was unfortunately passed on to them.
I hesitate to bring up this story because the antisemites chime in, but that is the what really happened.
Prelude to WWII ping! ;-)
In my opinion the roots of world war one and thereby world war two lie in two events that occurred at the end of the 1700s: The partition of the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth that made Russia the neighbor of both Prussia (to be the German Empire) and the Austro-Hungarian empire. And the genie of ethnic nationalism unbottled by the French revolution
So Germany gave us all the worst ideas of the 20th century: Nazism, socialism, communism, and atheism?
Good analysis. The sins of the fathers is real.
They were big in quantum mechanics, too.
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