The Communist revolution in Russia was Nov. 4th.
Several of my friends were there covering it for newspapers.
True story. The anti-communist social-democrat labor leader, the late Marx Lewis (yes his father named him after Karl Marx), once asked a group of us to ask him when he became an anti-communist. His reply was Nov. 4, 1917, and he wasn’t kidding
The Pulitzer Prize winning writer Isaac Don Levine was also in Russia back then and wrote about it. He was a lifelong anti-communist and was the man who took admitted Soviet spy Whitaker Chambers to the White House to see A.A. Abele in a quest to warn FDR about Soviet penetration there.
“He was a lifelong anti-communist and was the man who took admitted Soviet spy Whitaker Chambers to the White House to see A.A. Abele in a quest to warn FDR about Soviet penetration there”.
What was FDR’s reaction? My guess is that he shrugged it off.