Posted on 03/20/2016 12:06:26 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Correction: Lenin was sent to mess with the provisional government. The Tsar was out by then. The German involvement in Lenin’s return was intended to get the Russian army out of WWI.
The middle class party - Menshivics was struggling and Germany paid Lenin to go into Russia and set up a peace deal with Germany which was one way to get Russia out of World War One. The Tsar was long out of picture at that point. The Bolshevics were actually a small minority party at first.
lol!
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