Well, $20 million during World War I sounds like a pretty nice bankroll, to me. Of course, the Kaiser’s government helped Lenin out, as well, in particular with his travel arrangements. I don’t know why anyone would take exception to the assertion that Jacob Schiff bankrolled Lenin and the Bolsheviks. And sadly, it turned out the anti-Semitism in Russia transcended tsarist rule. Jacob Schiff helped the unfortunate Russian people convert from their original, Russian home-grown, Russian Orthodox Christian form of tyranny to a worse — because it was more efficent — form of tyranny devised by godless foreigners. The only constant in this equation has been the anti-Semitism. You haven’t been a member of this forum very long, have you?
You basically suggested that Jacob Schiff is personally responsible for the USSR. A little bit, but not really. He managed a bank that loaned money to various countries that did all sorts of things with it. He does not deserve to be vilified. He had his reasons for loaning to the Bolsheviks, which were probably good, he died in 1920, he changed his mind before that, and he did not know the future. Kuhn Loeb must not have been the only bank they did business with. I never implied that antisemitism in Russia ended at the Revolution. I have been on this forum for several months.