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Who Was Behind the Bolshevik
Revolution?
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The anti-communist
movement in America has long been afflicted by an historical misunderstanding
which persists today. There is a widespread teaching about communism and its
origins which is false. It is a teaching which has influenced millions of
Americans.
The 20th century version of this teaching originated with
Russian anti-Semites. Relying on false documents and a conspiratorial
hypothesis, these anti-Semites blamed Jews and Freemasons for a wide-ranging
global conspiracy to destroy Christianity and create a world government. One of
the key historical facts alleged by these Russian anti-Semites has to do with
the origins of the Bolshevik Revolution.
In this context, the importance
of historical facts and interpretations should not be underestimated. If our
historical facts are incorrect, then our political understanding will be weak
and our actions will be misdirected. If we believe in enemies and conspiracies
that do not exist in reality, then real conspiracies will be misapprehended or
ignored.
A body of literature and testimony, based on false assertions
and bogus documentation, began to appear in the West after the Bolshevik
Revolution. This literature and testimony asserted (and continues to assert)
that certain American bankers, who happen to have Jewish names, had financed the
Bolshevik Revolution. Once the Russian anti-Semites planted this poisonous seed,
it spread rapidly. Henry Ford was an early convert to this claim. Hitler and the
Nazis were also believers in it.
After the collapse of Nazi Germany,
writers and publicists like Robert Welch, Gary Allen and Anthony Sutton
continued to advance the thesis that a sinister Western group financed and
directed the communist revolution in Russia. This group, it was said, used
international communism to advance their own sinister agenda in the
West.
George Knupffer, a Russian emigre, was an early advocate of this
view. As a Russian monarchist, he worked to influence American public opinion by
writing books. Long before the founding of the John Birch Society by Robert
Welch, Knupffer and his compatriots advanced the theory that Russia had been a
testing ground -- a preliminary experiment -- used by forces located outside of
Russia.
Who was behind this conspiracy?
According to Knupffer, it
was the Warburgs and Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. that financed the
Bolshevik Revolution. These were the alleged culprits and villains behind it
all. These were the evil geniuses of the October Revolution. Allen and Sutton
followed Knupffer's line -- which had previously been advanced by Henry Ford's
anti-Semitic publications of the 1920s and 1930s.
It must be said, in
response to this conspiracy theory, that the allegations against the Warburgs
and Schiffs are false. These allegations, which originate in anti-Semitic
propaganda, have been repeated so often that many good people have come to
accept them without question.
In truth, the culprits behind the communist
takeover in Russia were not in New York, and they did not have Jewish names. The
villains were in Berlin and they had German names. As it happens, the chief
architect of the Bolshevik Revolution was none other than German Foreign
Secretary Arthur Zimmermann. During the First World War the Political Section of
the German Foreign Office had been devising a plan to bring revolution to
Russia. It was Zimmermann's pet idea. From 1915 to 1917 the German secret
service began cultivating socialists of all parties. Baron Gisbert von Romberg,
the German minister in Switzerland, urged that the Kaiser put his money behind
Lenin and his Bolsheviks. Count Diego von Bergen, the German official in charge
of political subversion within Russia, believed that a large enough sum of money
could bring Lenin to power.
How much money did the Kaiser provide to
Lenin?
The German Social Democrat, Eduard Bernstein, later said that the
sum supplied to Lenin by the Kaiser "was very large, an almost unbelievable
amount, certainly more than 50 million gold marks."
General Max von
Hoffmann, who negotiated the German-Soviet Brest-Litovsk peace treaty, later
confirmed: "Lenin and his comrades received vast sums of money from the Kaiser's
government for their destructive agitation."
In fact, General Hoffmann
admitted that he blackmailed Lenin into signing the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and it
is simple to see how this was done. Since Lenin's takeover of Russia had been
accomplished with help from German agents and German money while Russia was at
war with Germany, Lenin's treason was obvious. All the Germans had to do was
publish the truth about their secret alliance with Lenin and the Bolshevik
government would collapse.
Once in power, Lenin did not want to sign the
peace treaty with Germany. But he had no choice. At the Time Kaiser Wilhelm
triumphantly pronounced that Lenin "was finished." The Kaiser could "out" Lenin
at any time and bring an end to Russia's Bolsheviks. But Germany disintegrated
later that year and the Kaiser abdicated. The treaty with Lenin became
meaningless.
The blackmail was left unused and later proved to be
something of a scandal and embarrassment for the German military
itself.
By a strange quirk of fate, the Bolsheviks broke loose from their
Imperial German sponsors.
Aside from German files and memoirs on the
subject, French counter-intelligence detected and documented collusion between
Lenin and the Kaiser in March 1917. The intelligence service of Russia's
Provisional Government also uncovered evidence of German-Bolshevik collusion in
July 1917. It was then learned that large sums of money were being channeled to
Lenin's people in Russia through the Bank of Siberia in Petrograd. This money
was traced back through Scandinavia to Imperial Germany. Because of this
discovery, Lenin had to go underground to avoid arrest as a German
agent.
In preparing its case against Lenin, the Provisional Government
compiled 20 volumes of evidence tying Lenin to German agents and German
money.
It is very important that we respect the facts of history. It is
even more important that we avoid building our political ideas around false
historical claims about New York bankers with Jewish names. The origins of the
Marxist revolution in Russia have been documented by an army of researchers and
writers. This work needs to be studied and understood.
We cannot combat
the false doctrines of the left with a false doctrine of the
right.
J.R. Nyquist is a WorldNetDaily contributing editor
and author of 'Origins of the Fourth World War.
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