[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The left would do well to consider the experience the Weimar Republic had with trying to leverage an ideology to bring down a governemnt. It couldn't control the result in 1917, and the left will not be able to control the result, if they get what they hope for, in 20XX."

Not to be picky, but the Weimar Republic didn't come into existence until 1919. In 1917 Germany was an imperial monarchy ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm. The Weimar republic was created by a national assembly. I'm not sure what you mean by leveraging an ideaology to bring down a government concerning the German republic created from the ashes of WWI. Are you perhaps somehow referring to the Bolshevics in Russia?

[Quiller]

You are absolutely correct -- my mistake.

And yes, I was referring to the sealed train that crossed Germany to St. Petersburg, carrying the "virus that would destroy Russia."

The German intent was to use Lenin to destroy Russia through revolution. The result? Yes, Russia was taken out of the picture, but the Ally's loss of WWI, and the success of communism in Europe, argues that leveraging the ideology to destroy the government wasn't exactly what Germany intended.