Letters from Vienna #117
The Russian Revolution
Revolution from Above
“The sudden growth of the German Reich during the second half of the nineteenth century compelled the British Commonwealth to launch a sweeping maneuver against the world’s continental landmass,”[1] Guido Giacomo Preparata tells us. “The chief objective was the prevention of a durable alliance between Russia and Germany. Britain proceeded to deter the union by signing a triple alliance with France and Russia designed to encircle the German Reich (1907). After the outbreak of war, the operation was deepened by enlisting the aid of the United States in a phase during which the Russian link of the alliance seemed to be giving (1917). As a perilous gap opened in the East, Britain hastened to fix it by encouraging a Liberal experiment under a straw man, a barrister by the name of Kerensky, which dissolved in a few months. Meantime, as a possible alternative, revolutionary nihilists – the so-called Bolsheviks commanded by the intellectual radical Lenin – were transferred to Russia through a labyrinthine network of organised subversion by obscure ‘agents’ such as the Russian Parvus Helphand, with the expectation that out of such inflow would emerge a despotic regime, whose polarity (materialist, anti-clerical, and anti-feudal) was the inverse of that of the German Reich.”[2]
“Suddenly, in 1916 the Russian rulers began to ask themselves: what did they stand to gain from all this? What was there to be had from Germany’s enmity? That Russia could occasionally teach the Hapsburg emperor Franz Josef a lesson in those eastern European and Balkan stockades that Russians and Austrians were vying to control? At these costs?”
“Though Britain might claim that she was fighting for her empire, France for her honour, and Germany for her survival, what could Russia advance to justify the holocaust? That such misgivings would have soon preyed on the Russians had been a predictable affair in London; for that reason in 1915 the Czar had been promised by the British, as a tempting bait, Costantinople and the Straits (yet to be wrested from Turkey) – no less facile was the suspicion in St. Petersburg that the British promise was empty, which indeed it was.”[3]
“Under German, and thus treasonous, sponsorship, Lenin returned; so did the Menshevik Plekhanov, who would support the pro-war Provisional Government, escorted to Russia by British destroyers. En route from New York with an American passport, Trotsky[4], after being intercepted aboard a Norwegian liner and detained in Halifax by Canadian naval officers on legitimate suspicion of traitorous and subversive activities (that is, to conspire against Russia’s new Provisional Government, a fighting member of the Entente), was inexplicably released upon orders from London and allowed in May to join his comrades in the Russian capital.”[5]
“Though the Leninists would have made peace – to withdraw the peasants and workers from the front – so went the British reasoning, imperial Germans and Bolshevised Russians could hardly fuse into the embrace: ‘A treaty means nothing,’ Lenin would tell his followers after signing the peace with Germany in March 1918, ‘there is no justice that can exist between two classes.’”[6]
Follow the Money
There were other, equally pressing, reasons why the Anglo-American Big Business, Big Bank (Illuminati/Freemason) establishment supported the Bolsheviks:
“Big Business saw socialism as a means for destroying the traditional foundations of nations and societies as well as a control mechanism”[7] Kerry Bolton tells us. “One early example of the way revolutionary agitation was used to bring down a system not to one’s liking was the funding of the 1905 Russian Revolution by Jacob H. Schiff, a senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York. The 1905 Revolution laid the foundations for the 1917 revolutions culminating in Bolshevism. The Russo-Japanese War played a significant role in the formation of a Russian revolutionary cadre.”
“The individual most responsible for turning American opinion, including government and diplomatic opinion, against Czarist Russia was the journalist George Kennan, who was sponsored by Schiff.”
“Robert Cowley states that during the Russo-Japanese War Kennan was in Japan organising Russian POWs into ‘revolutionary cells’ and claimed to have converted ‘52,000 Russian soldiers into ‘revolutionists.’ Cowley also adds, significantly, ‘Certainly such activity, well-financed by groups in the United States, contributed little to Russian-American solidarity.’”
“The source of the revolutionary funding ‘by groups in the United States’ was explained by Kennan at a celebration of the March 1917 Russian Revolution, as reported as by the New York Times:”
“Mr. Kennan told of the work of the Friends of Russian Freedom in the revolution.
He said that during the Russian-Japanese war he was in Tokyo, and that he was permitted to make visits among the 12,000 Russian prisoners in Japanese hands at the end of the first year of the war. He had conceived the idea of putting revolutionary propaganda into the hands of the Russian army.”
“The Japanese authorities favoured it and gave him permission. After which he sent to America for all the Russian revolutionary literature to be had . . .”
“‘The movement was financed by a New York banker you all know and love,’ he said, referring to Mr. Schiff, ‘and soon we received a ton and a half of Russian revolutionary and men went back to their country ardent revolutionists. The Friends of Russian
Freedom had sowed 50,000 seeds of liberty in 100 Russian regiments. I do not know how many of these officers and men were in the Petrograd fortress last week, but we do know what part the army took in the revolution.’”
“Then was read a telegram from Jacob H. Schiff, part of which is as follows: “Will you say for me to those present at tonight’s meeting how deeply I regret my inability to celebrate with the Friends of Russian Freedom the actual reward of what we had hoped and striven for these long years.’”
“The reaction to the Russian revolution by Schiff and indeed by bankers generally, in New York and London, was one of jubilation. Schiff wrote enthusiastically to the New York Times:”
“May I through your columns give expression to my joy that the Russian nation, a great and good people, have at last effected their deliverance from centuries of autocratic oppression and through an almost bloodless revolution have now come into their own. Praised be God on high! Jacob H. Schiff.”
“Writing to the New York Evening Post in response to a question about revolutionary Russia’s new status in world financial markets, Schiff wrote:”
“Replying to your request for my opinion of the effects of the revolution upon Russia’s finances, I am quite convinced that with the certainty of the development of the country’s enormous resources, which, with the shackles removed from a great people, will follow present events, Russia will before long take rank financially amongst the most favoured nations in the money markets of the world.”[8]
Thus, it should hardly surprise, as Kerry Bolton points out, that the British and Americans intervened militarily in Russia to support the Bolsheviks; once the Bolsheviks, who were only supported by a minority of the population, established their power the Allies withdrew their armies.
Given the fact that Big Banks and Big Business have always loved Socialism and Communism (and hated Anarchism, which threatens their power) the support the establishment currently shows for ideas like: “You will own nothing and be happy” should hardly surprise.
And the success with which so many revolutions have been accomplished with such surprise, skill and stealth means that this mode of operation remains well favoured. Revolutions might be “colour revolutions”, “regime change revolutions” or revolutions designed to further “deregulation” and “privatisation” (moving of property away from the people into the hands of the monopolistic oligarchs) but they are all ultimately about increasing the amount of power in ever fewer hands.
What we have experienced in the last two years must be regarded as yet another “revolution from above”. This time the aim is global and even more genocidal than in 1917.
[1] Conjuring Hitler: How Britain And America Made the Third Reich, Guido Giacomo Preparata
[2] p.1 Ibid
[3] p.27 Ibid
[4] “…we know that the Trotsky family apartment in New York had a refrigerator and a telephone, and, according to Trotsky, that the family occasionally traveled in a chauffeured limousine. This mode of living puzzled the two young Trotsky boys. When they went into a tearoom, the boys would anxiously demand of their mother, “Why doesn’t the chauffeur come in?” p.10 Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Sutton
[5] p.34 Ibid
[6] p.35 Ibid
[7] Revolution from Above, Kerry Bolton
[8] pp.57-58 Ibid