The Bolsheviks organised a military plot against the legitimate authorities. ibid.
There will be no victory. Only strikes and riots. Nicholas & Alexandra 1971 starring Michael Jayston & Janet Suzman & Laurence Olivier & Tom Baker & Timothy West & & Jack Hawkins & Brian Cox et al, director Franklin J Schaffner, sidekick
The League of Nations was the money cartel’s first attempt at world control. But Czar Nicholas II of Russia caught on to their plot and sabotaged it; that proved to be a deadly mistake. Schiff, Warburg, Rockefeller, Harriman and Morgan backed uprisings that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution. Their strategy was to finance both sides of wars and revolutions which gave them control over the winners, the losers and the outcome. Ring of Power, 2008
Between 1918 and 1921, 14,000,000 Russians died of war and starvation under Lenin’s Bolsheviks. By 1919 Lenin ran up a national debt to the Rothschild banksters of $60 billion, which put Russia firmly under their control. ibid.
They [the women strikers] threw some snowballs at the men’s factories to get them out. And when the men came out on the street, it became clear there was a very significant strike in the capital [Moscow]. Steve Smith, University of Essex
He [Lenin] pronounces his ten principles like Moses coming down with the tablets, the Ten Commandments. The April Theses. The ten theses. Chris Reid, University of Warwick
By psycho-politics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is the first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses. Lavrent Pavlovich Beria, in charge of Stalin’s secret police
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo. Harry S Truman
In the early hours of March 2nd 1953 the most powerful man in the world lay dying alone. He had suffered a stroke at least twelve hours. His guards were worried but they did not dare go into his bedroom. How could a man worshipped by millions be left to lie helpless soaked in his own urine? Stalin had built an empire on a framework of terror justifying it in the name of a political faith, and through it he ruled his country, his government, his party and his family. Stalin: Inside the Terror, BBC 2003
In the Soviet Union his image was everywhere; he had become a living icon. The subject of a cult of personality. ibid.
The real man was a mass of contradictions. A dictator whose position was unassailable yet who was haunted by paranoia. Stalin used terror more effectively and scientifically than any other ruler. ibid.
Family photos show a warm gentle man surrounded by daughters, son, aunts, in-laws … Most of the people in these photos would be destroyed by him. ibid.
Stalin proved his usefulness to the Bolshevik cause by his diligent work as a bank robber and agitator. His reward was a post on the party’s central committee. ibid.
He loathed the intellectually arrogance of the silver-tongued Trotsky. ibid.
Stalin now had control of the party machinery; he would use it over the next six years to destroy Trotsky and all his other rivals. ibid.
Over 100,000 people in Leningrad alone would be imprisoned or shot. ibid.
‘The terror was organised deliberately from the centre … It was done by quota, by numbers, and not even by name.’ ibid. Simon Sebag Montefiore
The circle of terror slowly closed in on everyone, tightening and tightening until it touched his own family. ibid.
Those he hadn’t killed were rotting in the camps. ibid.
The man he chose to deliver the final coup was the Georgian secret policeman who had been looking after his mother: Lavrentiy Beria. ibid.
Stalin decreed that the wives and families of prisoners should be treated as traitors. ibid.
He had won the war and conquered eastern Europe. ibid.
His family had started to disappear as early as 1938, but for them the terror never stopped. ibid.
For 20 years Stalin’s NKVD security forces have imposed the great terror. The Death of Stalin 2017 starring Steve Buscemi & Simon Russell Beale & Paddy Considine & Rupert Friend & Jason Isaacs & Michael Palin & Andrea Riseborough & Jeffrey Tambor & Adrian McLoughlin et al, director Armando Iannucci, opening caption
If the leader is incapacitated, the committee must convene. Article 17 ii. ibid.
He’s on the floor! He’s on the fucking floor! ibid. Krushchev
We need to start putting together a plan: we need change – put a halt to the arrests, prison releases, maybe even reform the Church. ibid.
Who the fuck in their right mind would want everlasting life? ibid.
The dream that we had is dying. If Bolshevism means the peasants taking the land, the workers taking the factories, Russia’s one place where there is no Bolshevism ... The central state has all the power. All the power is in the hands of a few men and they are destroying the revolution. They are destroying any hope of real communism in Russia. They are putting people like me in jail. Reds 1981 starring Warren Beatty & Diane Keaton & Jack Nicholson & Gene Hackman & Edward Herrmann & Jerzy Kosinski & Paul Sorvino & Maureen Stapleton & Nicolas Coster & William Daniels & E Emmet Walsh & Ian Wolfe & Bessie Love et al, director Warren Beatty, Emma
How far they had soared, these Bolsheviki, from a despised and hunted sect less than four months ago, to this supreme place, the helm of great Russia in the full tide of insurrection! John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World
Following these warnings, the revolution in Russia became a reality; it was fostered by the Freemasons from the several lodges still remaining. Even texts written by Karl Marx himself have been shown to be blatant copies of the writings of Adam Weishaupt of the Illuminati from the 18th century. Philip Gardiner, film Angels, Demons and Freemasons
The Russian revolution, by eliminating the Czar, protector of the Orthodox Church, had it not decapitated the great rival and helped the penetration of the Roman Church? ... One century after their expulsion by Czar Alexander the First the Jesuits will again undertake the conquest of the Slav world Edmund Paris, The Secret History of the Jesuits
My next visit to Moscow took place after the fall of Yekaterinburg. Talking to Sverdlov I asked in passing, ‘Oh yes and where is the Tsar?’ ‘It’s all over,’ he answered. ‘He has been shot.’ ‘And where is his family?’ ‘And the family with him.’ ‘All of them?’ I asked, apparently with a touch of surprise. ‘All of them,’ replied Yakov Sverdlov. ‘What about it?’ He was waiting to see my reaction. I made no reply. ‘And who made the decision?’ I asked. ‘We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn’t leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances. Leon Trotsky, diary entry, cited G King ‘The Last Empress’ p364
August 20th 1940, Coyoacan, Mexico City: Two men enter this house. The older sits down at this desk to read. Suddenly his trusted companion pulls out a vicious-looking ice-pick and buries it in his skull. For the last ten years one of the world’s most notorious revolutionaries has been on the run. Now an assassin has caught up with him. Infamous Assassinations: Leon Trotsky
October 1920, Moscow: Leon Trotsky’s finest hour. ibid.
November 7th 1917 Petrograd Russia: the storming of the Winter Palace marks the beginning of Soviet rule. ibid.
Trotsky loses his seat on the Politburo. ibid.
Trotsky founds the Fourth International as a revolutionary and internationalist alternative to the Stalanist Comintern. ibid.
Governments in the First World War feared one thing almost as much as defeat: revolution. The First World War: Revolution, Channel 4 2003
The Tsar ordered the protests crushed ... Over fifty civilians were shot dead. The massacre forced Petrograd soldiers to choose whom to defend – the people or the Tsar. They shot their duty officer dead and poured on to the streets. ibid.
Germany’s greatest help to Lenin’s cause was getting him back to Russia. ibid.
Lenin was soon winning converts. ibid.
What he said was, End the war. ibid.
Lenin’s ideas spread to the front. ibid.
The city [Petrograd] woke to a new world order. ibid.