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Title: Lenin & The Sealed Train
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URL Source: https://leninsbody.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/lenin-the-sealed-train/
Published: Feb 26, 2016
Author: Alan Nafzger
Post Date: 2019-10-15 20:45:52 by BTP Holdings
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Lenin & The Sealed Train

The day Lenin wrote his fourth “Letter from Afar” a telegram was received at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin from the German High Command. The telegram read: “No objections to the transit of Russian revolutionaries if effected in special train with reliable escort. Organization can be worked out between representatives of IIIb [Military Passport Office] and Foreign Ministry.” From the tenor of the telegram, it would seem that the German High Command was only disturbed by the possibility that the revolutionaries would escape from the train and preach revolution in Germany.

In later years Robert Grimm and Fritz Platten were to claim credit for opening the negotiations which led to the transport of the revolutionaries across Germany, but when the German Imperial archives were opened, it was seen that many other people were involved on many levels of negotiation, and even today the intricate threads are tangled. The people involved in the negotiations ranged from the Kaiser to the obscure Georg Sklarz, one of the minions of Dr. Alexander Helphand, who made a special journey to Switzerland to discuss the project with Lenin. An element of farce surrounds the negotiations, for in fact the Germans were only too eager to arrange the transport of the revolutionaries, and if they sometimes went to some pains to conceal their eagerness, there were also moments when they were horribly frightened by the possibility that the revolutionaries would not rise to the bait.

The Germans understood very well what the revolutionaries were about. They were fully informed about the lives, the love affairs, and the political ideas of the exiles in Switzerland and they were equally well informed about conditions in Petrograd. It was their aim to bring the war on the eastern front to an end in the shortest possible time, and for their purposes none of the revolutionaries possessed better credentials than Lenin, who had sworn to bring the fighting to an end, if he obtained power, and to plunge Russia into a class struggle which would inevitably weaken the military posture of Russia still further. Grimm and Platten went through the motions of conducting negotiations, while Diego Bergen in his office in the Wilhelmstrasse cynically waited for the appropriate moment when it would serve the German interests best to hurl the revolutionaries like a bomb upon Petrograd.

Of all men Diego Bergen was probably the man most responsible for arranging the journey. He was a devout Roman Catholic, trained in Jesuit schools, and he seems to have possessed an instinctive understanding of the revolutionary mind. One of his special functions in the Foreign Office was to study the possibilities of sabotage and subversion, and vast sums of money were made available to him for this purpose. He knew everything that was to be known about Lenin, and was only waiting to spring the trap.

Lenin, however, was wary. He made no overt move to contact the Germans, and he forbade members of his party to contact them. He was still pondering the possibilities of returning to Russia through France and England, and though he was conscious of a desperate need to reach Petrograd, most of his mind seemed to be occupied with the developing pattern of the revolution and the theoretical basis for the second revolution that he hoped to lead, and the practical affair of somehow crossing the frontiers took second place after the first blaze of excitement.

At this juncture Diego Bergen made the first of a series of moves by sending Georg Sklarz as his emissary to Zurich. He arrived in Zurich on March 27 and immediately sought out Lenin. He came with full authority: Bergen had notified the German legation in Berne and the consulate at Zurich to give him every assistance. The plan seems to have been to smuggle Lenin and Zinoviev through Germany in disguise without informing the Swiss authorities. From the German point of view the plan had great advantages. There would be no publicity. Quietly, stealthily, provided with false papers of remarkable authenticity by IIIb, Lenin and Zinoviev would vanish from Switzerland and they would not come to the surface again until they reached Petrograd.

No record of Sklarz’s meeting with Lenin has survived, and perhaps no record was ever made. Sklarz may simply have reported on the failure of his mission to Bergen, who thereupon set about devising better and more intricate traps. There was no question that Lenin wanted to leave Switzerland at once, but to be hurried across Germany in disguise, at the mercy of the German Foreign Office, was a prospect which left a good deal to be desired. There were, after all, advantages in publicity, especially in publicity which could be controlled and directed toward specific aims. He rejected Sklarz’s offer for many reasons — chiefly, it seems, because of the secrecy involved. If he followed this plan, there was nothing to prevent the Germans from murdering him casually en route, nor was there anything to prevent the Provisional Government from learning of these private negotiations and then arresting him and sentencing him to death as a traitor; for he was still a Russian, and Russia was still at war with Germany.

On the same day as the conference with Sklarz, Lenin sent a telegram to his old follower Ganetsky in Stockholm. The telegram was written on the back of a letter to Karpinsky in Berne, who had instructions to send it off from the Berne telegraph office. It read: “Berlin permit inadmissible for me. Either Swiss Government accepts railway carriage to Copenhagen, or will reach agreement on exchange of all Russian émigrés for interned Germans.” The words “to Copenhagen” were added in Krupskayas handwriting. The reference to “the Berlin permit” probably reflects the negotiations with Sklarz. What is clear is that the official negotiations were still far from arriving at any useful conclusions.

March 27 was a busy day for Lenin. There were letters to write, important conferences to attend, and a speech to be given to a group of Swiss workmen on “The Russian Revolution, Its Significance and Aims.” The speech had been arranged some days previously, and handbills with a brief summary of the ground to be covered had been prepared by Lenin in the careful handwriting he employed whenever his words were to be printed. At the bottom of the handbill was the statement that fifty per cent of the proceeds would be set aside for the support of émigrés suffering from tuberculosis.

The speech was delivered at 5:15 P.M. in a small dark hall at the People’s House in Zurich. Only a brief summary of the speech appeared in newspapers, but Lenin’s notes have survived. Where the Letters from Afar are often turgid, the essential ideas vanishing under the weight of theory, these notes have a quite extraordinary freshness and fervor. Here we find him thinking out the problems afresh, setting them briefly and pungently in their proper order. These notes should be quoted in full, because they provide the background for the far more famous “April Theses,” which were to follow. The speech was delivered in German, and the four opening sentences of the notes were written in German, the rest in Russian:

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#1. To: BTP Holdings, *Israeli Espionage* (#0)

Trotsky was given $20 million in gold by a Rothschild associate, Jacob Schiff, which would have been a million ounces at that time in April of 1917. He went on board a freighter with hundreds of Jewish Communists from Brooklyn. Canadian authorities stopped the ship at Nova Scotia. Wilson told them to send them to Russia even though they were going to attack our allies which would cause great harm to American and Canadian soldiers.

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Horse  posted on  2019-10-15   21:42:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Horse (#1)

Got a source on that? Major major MAJOR, a US president giving the fateful thumbs up on the fate of Russia where he could have squashed it underfoot like a nasty bug.

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2019-10-15   22:34:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: NeoconsNailed (#2)

Who financed Lenin and Trotsky?

http://www.wildboar.net/multilingual/easterneuropean/russian/literature/articles/whofinanced/whofinancedleninandtrotsky.html

It was a part of standard history books until the Jews edited our books and magazines.

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Horse  posted on  2019-10-16   1:14:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Horse (#3) (Edited)

You've got IT, Horse -- the info I could only get hints of via google and its alternatives. Kudos and thanks! What I've been looking for even more is how the US politicians helped build Eurasian communism, but your modest-looking italicized link above covers that just fine since Wall Street owns Pennsylvania Ave. and Crapitol Hill.

The Cold War was just a moneymaker for the bomb barons, the real antiwar patriots like Harry Elmer Barnes eclipsed by phonies like W.F. Buckley. The masks are off now, and wherever tyranny exists today you can count on DC rescuing it from the jaws of liberty.

You've just provided us with the true missing link of modern history -- proof for my instinctive thesis that there would have been no communist Korea or Vietnam without commie ameriKa, the crucially relevant subject that will never be brought up around dingy VFW watering holes. Everybody please bookmark this page and add more dirt dirt DIRT as you find it!

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2019-10-16   3:41:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: NeoconsNailed (#4)

Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh actually wrote a Declaration of Independence for Vietnam that was similar to the U.S. Declaration.

When the U.S. turned their backs on him, he went to the Soviets. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2019-10-16   7:19:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: BTP Holdings (#5)

He went to the Soviets before 1945. What you heard was propaganda. Two ships left Guam in 1945. One went with munitions to Hanoi to help set up the Vietnam war. And the other went to North Korea to help set up the Korean war. Jews like wars.

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Horse  posted on  2019-10-16   8:01:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Horse (#6)

Jews like wars.

And they absolutely love their proxy wars.

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Lod  posted on  2019-10-16   8:53:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: BTP Holdings (#5)

And I'm still wondering why every smaller poorer country has to "go to" the US, Russia (USSR) or China. Why did Cuba "go to" the USSR? Are smaller poorer countries leeches looking for somebody bigger to spoon help off of?

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2019-10-16   11:01:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: NeoconsNailed (#8)

And I'm still wondering why every smaller poorer country has to "go to" the US, Russia (USSR) or China. Why did Cuba "go to" the USSR?

The bigger countries can produce their own weapon systems. South Africa and Israel are exceptions to the rule.

As for Cuba, when Castro overthrew Batista, he naturally went to Russia for weapons since he was an avowed Communist. ;)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Ca stro

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2019-10-16   21:09:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: BTP Holdings (#9)

Oh but we're told he tried to "go to" ameriKa first ;)

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2019-10-16   21:37:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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