The “Russian” Revolution: The origins of the Bolshevik Revolution(s) have become almost too familiar to need elucidation. However, some detail may be enlightening. Despite extensive financing, the 1905 revolution failed. “According to the information of the London Jewish Chronicle, the contribution of international Jewry to the Russian revolutionary cause in 1905 was £874,341.” (About £90,100,000 in 2013.) (The World at the Crossroads, Boris Brasol, p. 76).
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. (Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946)
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On the other hand, the logic of the class struggle does not exempt us from the necessity of using our own logic. Whoever is unable to admit initiative, talent, energy, and heroism into the framework of historical necessity, has not grasped the philosophical secret of Marxism. But conversely, if we want to grasp a political process—in this case, the revolution—as a whole, we must be capable of seeing, behind the motley of parties and programs, behind the perfidy and greed of some and the courage and idealism of others, the proper outlines of the social classes whose roots lie deep within the relations of production and whose flowers blossom in the highest spheres of ideology (Vintage edition of Trotsky’s 1905, p. 37).
Pure wind from the opportunist who had succeeded in, or had been allowed to marry the daughter of banker Abram Zhivotovsky, a Rothschild associate, and became the most bloodthirsty of the new tyrants.
There is nothing immoral in the proletariat finishing off the dying class... in one month at most this terror will assume more frightful forms, on the model of the great revolutionaries of France. Our enemies will face not prison but the guillotine [which] shortens a man by the length of a head. (Leon Trotsky, quoted by Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution [Vintage, 1990], pp. 791-2)
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In the autumn of the same year (1904) Trotsky went to stay with Alexander Israel Helphand/Gelfand (Parvus) in Munich. Parvus, twelve years older than Trotsky, was also a Russian Jew; he had lived in Germany since the mid-1890s. The meeting of the two had a profound influence on Trotsky’s thinking which lasted for the rest of his life. Parvus had an enormous reputation as a Marxist writer and political thinker at the time. In his autobiography Trotsky writes:
“Parvus was unquestionably one of the most important of the Marxists at the turn of the century. He used the Marxian methods skilfully, was possessed of wide vision, and kept a keen eye on everything of importance in world events. This, coupled with his fearless thinking and his virile, muscular style, made him a remarkable writer. His early studies brought me closer to the problems of the social revolution, and, for me, definitely transformed the conquest of power by the proletariat from an astronomical ‘final’ goal to a practical task for our own day.” (Trotsky, My Life, p.167)
...in 1915, after Parvus had turned social patriotic and Trotsky had broken all ties with him, Trotsky still in all honesty expressed his intellectual debt to Parvus:
“The author of these lines considers it a matter of personal honour to render what is due to the man to whom he has been indebted for his ideas and intellectual development more than to any other person of the older generation of European Social Democrats ... Even now, I see less reason than ever to renounce that diagnosis and prognosis, the lion’s share of which was contributed by Parvus” (Nashe Slovo, 14 February 1915) (Tony Cliff, Trotsky: Towards October 1879-1917)
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As early as 1895 Parvus had forecast a war between Russia and Japan and foreseen that out of that war would develop the Russian revolution. Soon after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war he started a series of articles for Iskra under the significant title War and Revolution (later reprinted in his book Rossiia i revoliutsiia) which opened with the prophetic sentence: “The Russo-Japanese war is the blood-red dawn of coming great events.” (A.L. Parvus, Rossiia i revoliutsiia (St Petersburg 1906), page 83) (ibid.)
The Russo-Japanese war had its roots in Russia’s desire for the Pacific warm-water port of Port Arthur. The Japanese victory over Russia was unexpected. As usual, it turned out to be due to money, as it was in the Zionist interest to weaken Russia in advance of their financed and engineered revolutions.
Schiff’s most famous financial action was during the Russo-Japanese War, in 1904 and 1905. Schiff met Takahashi Korekiyo, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, in Paris in April 1904. He subsequently extended loans to the Empire of Japan in the amount of $200 million, through Kuhn, Loeb & Co. These loans were the first major flotation of Japanese bonds on Wall Street, and provided approximately half the funds needed for Japan’s war effort. (Kowner, Rotem, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War. ISBN 0-8108-4927-5: The Scarecrow Press, p. 344-345)
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This loan attracted worldwide attention, and had major consequences. Japan won the war, thanks in large part to the purchase of munitions made possible by Schiff’s loan. Some within the Japanese leadership took this as evidence of the power of Jews all around the world, of their loyalty to one another, and as proof of the truth of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In 1905, Japan awarded Schiff the Order of the Sacred Treasure; and in 1907, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, the second highest of the eight classes of that Order. Schiff was the first foreigner to receive the Order in person from Emperor Meiji in the Imperial Palace. Schiff also had a private audience with King Edward VII of the United Kingdom in 1904. (Wikipedia)
Russian soldiers returning from the lost Russo-Japanese war made useful “revolutionaries” in the 1905 abortive revolution (Schiff had even arranged for 50,000 of them to be re-educated through Marxist reading materials), as did a large number of incarcerated criminals released by the Tsar in January 1905, under a mass amnesty:
In 1916, Alexander Parvus (Israil Lasarewitsch Gelfand, a Russian revolutionary, sometime member of the German Social Democratic Party, turned “millionaire Marxist”-- Michael Pearson The Sealed Train) suggested that the German government should finance Lenin and his Party still more intensively. They would be able to make a separate peace with Germany if they reached power in Petrograd. It was also clear to the Germans that the Bolsheviks would be able to efficiently weaken Russia.
The Kaiser’s Zionist adviser Walter Rathenau (1867-1922), a rich industrialist, also recommended financing the Bolsheviks. Germany’s ambassador in Copenhagen, Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, who was a well-known 33rd degree freemason and Illuminatus, was of the same opinion. (Nesta Webster and Kurt Kerlen, Boche and Bolshevik, New York, 1923, pp. 33-34.)
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Parvus was close to him and had great influence over him. Parvus himself made 20 million marks from this suggestion. (Juri Lina, Under the Sign of the Scorpion)
It was Ulrich Brockdorff-Rantzau’s letter on the 14th of August 1915 which finally decided the question of financial support to the Bolsheviks. This letter, addressed to the German vice-state secretary, summarized a discussion between Brockdorff-Rantzau and Gelfand-Parvus. The ambassador strongly recommended employing Gelfand to undermine Russia since “he is an exceedingly important man, whose unusual power we should be able to utilize during the war.”
But the ambassador added a warning: “It is probably dangerous to use the forces which are behind Gelfand, but if we should refuse to use their services, since we fear that we may not be able to control them, it will surely only demonstrate our weakness.” (Professor Z. A. B. Zeman, Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918. Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry, London, 1958, p. 4, Document 5.) (Juri Lina, Under the Sign of the Scorpion, 1998)
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Helphand then estimated the cost of organizing the revolution “completely” at “about twenty million roubles.” Brockdorf-Rantzau received authority from Berlin to make an advance payment and Hephand’s receipt is in the documents: “Received from the German Embassy in Copenhagen on the 29th of December 1915 the sum of one million roubl
es in Russian banknotes for the promotion of the revolutionary movement in Russia; signed, Dr. A. Helphand” (Royal Institute of International Affairs journal, London, April, 1956—quoted in The Controversy of Zion p. 359)
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Lenin, and Trotsky in particular, had intricate associations with many un-proletarian individuals and interests. Several of the more obvious were Trotsky’s old mentor Israel Helphand-Parvus who like several other individuals managed to combine an opulent lifestyle as a capitalist while being also a committed and very active Marxist; and the “Bolshevik banker” Olof Aschberg of the Nya Banken, Stockholm, who served as a conduit of funds for the Bolsheviks, and after the revolution became the first director of the Soviet state bank, Ruskombank1. Another well-known personality at the time was Col. William Boyce Thompson, a Wall Street banker and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank, who organised the 1917 Red Cross Mission to Russia as a cover for the purpose primarily of studying the Russian situation for the outlook of future business deals with the Bolsheviks. (K.R. Bolton, Trotsky, Stalin and the Cold War, Academy of Social and Political Research (Athens)
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The dealings of Sir William Wiseman, British Military Intelligence chief in the USA, and his deputy Norman Thwaites, with Reilly and associates were concealed even from other British agencies. Wiseman had kept Trotsky under surveillance in New York. Trotsky secured a visa from the British consulate to proceed to Russia via Nova Scotia and Scandinavia. The Passport Control Section of the British Consulate was under the direction of Thwaites. Trotsky was to remark on his arrival in Russia about the helpful attitude of consular officials, despite his detention as a possible German agent at Nova Scotia. Trotsky had been able to pay for tickets aboard the Kristianiafiord for himself and his family, and also for a small entourage. What is additionally interesting about Wiseman is that he was closely associated with banking interests, and around 1921 joined Kuhn, Loeb and Co. In 1955 Wiseman launched his own international bank with investments from Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Rothschild; Rockefeller; Warburg firms. (ibid.)
In summary of the above, it would be no exaggeration to state that Parvus was just another Rothschild agent. He had trained Trotsky, a “menshevik,” opposed to bolshevists, who only converted to Bolshevism when their revolution had succeeded—to head the movement.
Not less interesting is the composition of the congress from the standpoint of nationalities. Statistics showed that the majority of the Menshevik faction consists of Jews—and this of course without counting the Bundists—after which came Georgians and then Russians. On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of the Bolshevik faction consists of Russians, after which come Jews—not counting of course the Poles and Letts—and then Georgians, etc. For this reason one of the Bolsheviks observed in jest (it seems Comrade Aleksinsky) that the Mensheviks are a Jewish faction and the Bolsheviks a genuine Russian faction, so it would not be a bad idea for us Bolsheviks to arrange a pogrom in the party. (Benjamin Pinkus, The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 143–144)
Following a general strike in Russia in March 1917, the Tsar abdicated and Russia withdrew from the conflict in December of that year. In collaboration with the German secret service, Parvus organized Lenin’s illegal immigration from Switzerland, through Germany, to Russia, arriving on 16 April, 1917 (the so-called “sealed train”). In October, came the revolution:
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was the work of Jewish planning and Jewish dissatisfaction. Our Plan is to have a New World Order. What worked so wonderfully in Russia, is going to become Reality for the whole world (The American Hebrew Magazine, Sept. 10, 1920).
The 1917 revolution was financed by bankers from London and New York, principally Jacob Schiff (a tool of the Rothschilds):
Today it is estimated even by Jacob Schiff’s grandson, John Schiff, a prominent member of New York society, that the old man sank about $20,000,000 ($395,800,000 in 2013) for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia. (Cholly Knickerbocker, N.Y American Journal, February 3rd, 1949)
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We must turn her (Russia) into a desert populated by white Negroes upon whom we shall inflict such a tyranny as none of the most dreadful despots of the East have ever dreamt of. The only difference is that this tyranny will not come from the right, but from the left, and will not be white, but red, in the literal sense of that word, for we shall shed such streams of blood that all the losses of human lives in Capitalist wars will shrink and pale before them. The biggest bankers on the other side of the Atlantic will work in very close collaboration with us. If we win the Revolution, crush Russia, we shall consolidate the power of Zionism on her funereal remains and become such a force that the whole world will go down on its knees before it. We will show what real power is. Using terror, blood-baths, we will reduce the Russian intelligentsia to a complete idiocy, to a bestial condition...
And meanwhile, our youth in leather jackets--the sons of watchmakers from Odessa and Orsha, Gomel and Vinnitsa, oh how magnificently, how rapturously they are able to hate everything Russian! With what enjoyment they are annihilating the Russian intelligentsia - officers, engineers, teachers, priests, generals, academicians, writers... (Trotsky speech, Petrograd, December 1917, Aaron Simanovich, Memoirs, Paris, 1922, Molodaya Gvardiya, Moscow, No. 6, 1991, p. 55., quoted in Under the Sign of the Scorpion, Juri Lina)
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We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles (do not forget the immense wealth of some monasteries and lauras). ...In order to get our hands on this fund of several hundred million gold rubles (and perhaps even several hundred billion), we must do whatever is necessary. But to do this successfully is possible only now. All considerations indicate that later on we will fail to do this, for no other time, besides that of desperate famine, will give us such a mood among the general mass of peasants that would ensure us the sympathy of this group, or, at least, would ensure us the neutralization of this group in the sense that victory in the struggle for the removal of church property unquestionably and completely will be on our side.
One clever writer on statecraft correctly said that if it is necessary for the realization of a well-known political goal to perform a series of brutal actions then it is necessary to do them in the most energetic manner and in the shortest time, because masses of people will not tolerate the protracted use of brutality.... In addition, it will be more difficult for the major part of our foreign adversaries among the Russian emigres abroad, i.e., the Socialist- Revolutionaries and the Milyukovites [Left Wing Cadet Party], to fight against us if we, precisely at this time, precisely in connection with the famine, suppress the reactionary clergy with utmost haste and ruthlessness.
Therefore, I come to the indisputable conclusion that we must precisely now smash the Black Hundreds clergy most decisively and ruthlessly and put down all resistance with such brutality that they will not forget it for several decades.... The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and the reactionary bourgeoisie that we succeed in shooting on this occasion, the better because this “audience” must precisely now be taught a lesson in such a way that they will not dare to think about any resistance whatsoever for several decades. (Letter from Lenin to Molotov, March 19, 1922)
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The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90 percent of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a worldwide social revolution. (David R. Francis, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Russia from the American Embassy 1916-1918)
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It has been estimated that 95 percent of the Jews in America today are descended from these East European immigrants. What the American Jew is now, his style of living and thinking, comes to him from the shtetl [a small town or village formerly found in Eastern Europe], tempered in the furnace of the lower E
ast Side [of New York City] ... the early Sephardic settlers, for example, left practically no descendants who are still Jewish ... They disappeared not because they intermarried but because they refused to intermarry ... without sufficient choice among their own, they remained unmarried and died out.... choosing extinction rather than assimilation. (James Yaffe, The American Jews)
The shtetl culture led naturally to the ghetto culture. Both involved an inbred population whose life was totally controlled by their “religious” leaders. The Lower East Side Jews, imported in the main from Galicia (Poland), were the ideal spearhead to reinvade Eastern Europe and, in particular, Russia, as the vanguard of the Bolshevist usurpation of power.“With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of leading figures are Jews. Moreover the principal inspiration and the driving power come from Jewish leaders.” (Winston Churchill, Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8, 1920.) In fact, Lenin’s maternal grandfather was Jewish. “Over one-third of the Jews in Russia have become officials.” (Jewish Chronicle, January 6, 1933)
“It is essential to safeguard the Soviet Republic from its class enemies by isolating them in concentration camps.” Bolshevik order (George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police, Clarendon Press, 1981, p. 179)
“Communist Jews were the commandants of 11 out of the 12 main Stalinist-era Gulags, or concentration camps. Ultimately, some 14 million people would be detained in the 53 camps which operated from 1934 to 1953.” (Dr. Hermann Greife, Jewish Run Concentration Camps in the Soviet Union/Slave Labour in Russia, 1937)
We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power. (Chaim Weizmann, quoted in World Conquerors, Louis Marschalko, 1958, p. 227)
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