The Great October: A Revolution Financed By an Enemy Government

LeninCan 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.

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  • http://JudeoChristianAmerica.org Alexander Gofen

    This is a very prominent insight. However, besides Germany funding Lenin, isn’t it reasonable to suspect also Trotskiy bringing some funds from … America?!

    The One World Order “utopian communist” (bankers) existed since the time of Karl Marx. They possibly disliked the “rude” Marx/Lenin model, but why not to set it into motion far away as a step in the “right direction”?

    As to a possible reasoning of the Nazis in regard of exposure of the Soviets (“they would have certainly demonstrated them to the world in order to prove the illegitimacy of the rival dictatorship”), it is not obvious at all. And by the way, there existed even more damning evidence about Stalin first being a robber baron, and then – an agent for the Tsar Secret service “Ohrana” (Stalin vehemently chased any traces of such things in the USSR). Whichever Nazis thought, it is sure that the “world” could not care less about the truth related to the USSR. The world already made its based mind for supporting USSR – despite all the atrocities, GULAGs, show trials, genocidal famine (Golodomor) in Ukraine. Roosevelt established the Diplomatic relation with the cannibal like USSR right in the middle of all that.

    The “world” does not care about the truth now just like it did not then. It is up to you to speculate why the world is so “coordinated” in its indifference to the truth, whether it is a thing as big as Bowing 777 of the flight 370 in March, or as small as an Unidentified Foreign Operative with tentative names Obama-Soetoro-Soebarkach-Bounel…

    • UCSPanther

      I think that ultimately the only reason why Britain and the US allied with the USSR was that they looked like the lesser threat at the time, and had the “good sense” to not pick a direct fight with them like Germany did.

      In the earlier stage of WWII, the allies considered the Soviets part of the Axis, considering that the Soviets were loosely allied with the Nazis (part of this was the pact for both totalitarians to split Eastern Europe with each other). Thankfully, the two tyrants turned on each other (Since the world is not big enough for two bloodstained tyrants with grandiose ambitions for world domination) and the rest they say, is history…

      • emptorpreempted

        Britain was fighting for its life by the time Germany attacked Russia. The USSR was not a threat to Europe, not even eastern Europe unless with German cooperation. The alliance with Russia was the obvious, the only reasonable course of action at the time.

  • Bamaguje

    Nothing new here. Enemy governments have always supported or even instigated saboteurs or rebels in other countries.

    France supported American revolutionaries against Britain.
    The oil-rich Gulf Arab nations support Sunni Jihadis against Syria’s Assad.
    The defunct USSR supported Vietcong guerrillas against U.S. backed South Vietnam..
    China and USSR backed communist invasion of Korea… leading to the Korean war, and eventually two Koreas..
    CIA instigated coups in several countries – Chile, Iran, Zaire etc.
    Obama supported and enabled Islamists to oust Mubarak and Gaddafi from Egypt and Libya.
    As the Nuland tapes reveal, even the recent Ukrainian rebellion against Russia was partly instigated by the West.

    • UCSPanther

      The Soviets left their hideous mark on Africa, such as the murderous Derg of Ethiopia, and Robert Mugabe…

      • Olog Hai

        Don’t forget the African National Congress.

    • Valentin Katayev

      It’s an article for the anniversary of the revolution – Nov. 7th, which is today. What new facts did you expect? Would you comment the same way on an article for the anniversary of the American revolution – “Nothing new here?”

      Also, your historical parallels are flawed – there’s no comparison in the significance and the myth/reality ratio of these events, let alone the moral equivalency.

      And your reference to “the Nuland tapes” comes straight out of the Kremlin propaganda playbook. As someone from Ukraine, I know that America played no part in the Ukrainian events apart from moral support for which we are grateful – but that’s it. Obama didn’t send Ukraine any weapons, despite Russia’s claims to the contrary.

  • marlene

    Obama is a marxist enemy agent. WATCH this 19 second video, in his own words: http://stg.do/mfuh

    • Bamaguje

      More like a Muslim brotherhood trojan horse.

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  • ConcernedCitizen999

    If you want another theory about who financed Lenin read “Under the Sign of the Scorpion: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire” by Juri Lina. Lenin had more backers than Germany.
    Amazon thinks the book is priceless. The author sells a copy here
    http://jyrilina.com/english/under-the-sign-of-the-scorpion-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-soviet-empire/

  • edgineer

    Woodrow Wilson ordered American troops fighting the Communists in 1918 to withdraw, guaranteeing a Communist victory in Russia. American Communists have been key to the establishment of Communism in China and other countries. They call themselves Democrats or Progressives.