For all the years of Soviet power, Leninists could not establish exactly when V. I. Lenin returned to Petrograd to carry out the Great October Socialist Revolution. When and where he was is not entirely clear. He was a conspirator! But why was such a conspiracy necessary?
A French intelligence report was declassified, according to which Lenin came to Berlin in August 1917 and met with the German Chancellor, then visited Geneva, where a meeting of bankers of both warring parties took place: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Great Britain and France, but without Russia.
If the French intelligence had the correct information, then only three issues could be discussed with Lenin: the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in Russia, the conclusion of a separate Bolshevik-German peace and the financing of all this.
Of course, Western financiers discussed the post-war world order and shared the "post-war pie", including that part of it, which was required to restore our country after the aggression of imperial Germany.
Lenin returned to Petrograd no later than 10 (according to the old style) October 1917, because on that day he took part in a meeting of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party and achieved a decision on an armed uprising; achieved with the support of L. D. Trotsky and despite the objections of L. B. Kamenev and G. E. Zinoviev. Therefore, Lenin himself called Lev Davidovich "the best Bolshevik." And Trotsky later reasoned: “If it were not for me in 1917 in St. Petersburg, the October Revolution would have taken place - provided that Lenin was present and led. If there were neither Lenin nor me in Petersburg, there would have been no October Revolution: the leadership of the Bolshevik Party would have prevented it from happening … If Lenin had not been in Petersburg, I would hardly have coped … the outcome of the revolution would have been questioned."
The October Revolution was growing under the leadership of Trotsky, chairman of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies. And Lenin, made up and shaved off his mustache and beard, appeared in Smolny on the evening of October 24, without waiting for Trotsky's invitation. Lenin with desperate decisiveness activates and directs the outbreak of an armed uprising. But the revolutionary Petrograd garrison has decayed, the Red Guards are not professional, and it's cold outside …
According to Lenin's doctrine of insurrection, the general strike of the workers should develop into it. However, the workers are not on strike!
And then strange stories happen. Fighting Cossacks offer A. F. Kerensky is supported and asked to allow them a religious procession on the day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God on October 22, but Kerensky does not allow and turns out to be without their weighty support. The chairman of the Provisional Government also ignores other specific offers of support, including the subsequent offer of the Cossacks loyal to the government.
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The Bolsheviks scornfully recalled that the Provisional Government in the Winter Palace was defended only by servicemen, women and youths-cadets. However, the women and youths for several hours did not allow several attempts to capture Winter. Lenin summoned soldiers from Finland to help, including those who did not answer the questions of the Petrograd people and did not understand what they were being told. Only on October 26 at three o'clock in the morning was it possible to capture Winter. This was followed by gang rapes, public flogging and torture of women in the military, drunkenness unprecedented in the history of Petrograd, and the robbery of the Winter Palace, from where even huge beds were stolen, and one can imagine how the triumphant lumpen proletarians carried them to their closets.
And the strange stories do not end there. One of the most informed newspapers in the world, The New York Times, comes out with the message that a new government has been created in Russia, headed by … Trotsky. At the same time, a large photo of Lev Davidovich is published.
Traditionally, it is believed that A. F. Kerensky at this time was tired, exhausted and inadequate. It is possible that it was so. However, questions arise: quite recently he was adequate - how the boy outplayed General L. G. Kornilov, and after that he became inadequate? Tiredness tiredness, some of us did not overwork, but not enough to refuse the offered help. And if Kerensky still remained adequate, then what? Then the assumption arises that it was not by chance that he sneaked out of the capital in the car of the US Embassy and, possibly, ceded power to L. D. Trotsky as the legal and popular chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, who did not refuse American money.
Trotsky's uncle was a millionaire banker A. I. Zhivotovsky, who had his own interests and connections in the United States and had as his employee the British intelligence officer Sidney Reilly; it was through his uncle that they fed Trotsky with the money of American bankers, and Lev Davidovich returned to Russia from the USA with the consent of Great Britain. And during the negotiations in Brest-Litovsk, Trotsky refused to sign a peace treaty with Germany; this was more beneficial to the United States and Great Britain, at war with Germany, than the position of Lenin, who was ready to sign peace on any terms, which, in turn, fully corresponded to the interests of Germany, which helped Lenin return to Russia and supported his party.
Or could L. D. Trotsky and V. I. Lenin forget about helping? They could. Just how not to remember that in 1917, during the revolutionary unrest, the best officers of the Baltic Fleet were killed with accurate shots. Not just a few, but 70 best naval commanders! Could this be accidental? Rather, another option suggests itself - cooperation between the radical revolutionaries who organized the unrest, and the German saboteurs who knew how and knew who to shoot. So when dealing with professionals it is not safe to burn all the bridges. In addition, a document has survived, indicating that German money entered Russia after October. The question is, whom were the Germans interested in financing? If the largest politician supporting a separate peace with Germany, then such was the chairman of the Soviet government, Lenin.
Intrigues around Russia and the 1917 Red Troubles in Russia itself evoke associations with modern intrigues and the role of Western powers in the "color revolutions". Let us take a look at what the then adviser to the American president M. House wrote: “If the allies win, this will mean Russia's dominance on the European continent”; therefore “the world will live more calmly if instead of a huge Russia there are four Russia in the world. One is Siberia, and the rest is the divided European part of the country. " Moreover, the adviser and President Wilson himself agreed even in the desire to separate Ukraine from the Russian state and transfer Crimea to Ukraine.
But let's go back directly to October 1917. The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies was held from 25 to 27 October. The Bolsheviks managed to make up 51% of the congress deputies, since the majority of workers 'and soldiers' councils did not send their representatives to the congress (the majority of councils were dominated by Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, who thus tried to sabotage the development of the revolution). And Lenin could not help but use such a "gift", and with brilliance.
Back on October 25, the Second Congress of Soviets proclaimed the transfer of all power in the center and in the localities to the soviets. On October 26, the congress adopted the peace decree proposed by Lenin, which on behalf of Soviet Russia proposed the conclusion of an immediate, just and democratic peace. The illiterate soldiers and workers were delighted and did not think about the most elementary: that Germany attacked our country not to conclude a just and democratic peace, and, therefore, such a peace would not be possible. The soldiers and workers thirsty for peace thoughtlessly supported the party, which openly called for the transformation of the First World War into the most terrible - civil war. For comparison: during the world war less than 1 million Russians died, during the civil war - more than 12 million.
The Second Congress of Soviets adopted the decree on land proposed by Lenin. Lenin based the decree on the text of the Peasant Instruction on Land, drawn up by the Social Revolutionaries from the instructions from the seats to the deputies of the First All-Russian Congress of Peasant Councils. It was a brilliant move. Lenin demonstrated to the peasants (including peasants in soldiers' greatcoats) that the Bolsheviks were ready to meet them halfway, to fulfill precisely their demands, and not the Bolshevik program of land nationalization, which was unpopular in the countryside. Lenin needed to win over to his side or neutralize the peasants. And he did it. And the illiterate peasantry did not notice that Lenin did not include the entire Peasant Mandate in the decree, but removed from it the sections that contained the political and economic conditions ensuring its implementation.
The self-confident peasants did not even think that the almost unknown party of Lenin would take power so much that it would refuse to follow the decree on land and would begin to carry out its own agrarian program. The peasants could not have imagined that Lenin's party would take away the land almost received by decree and bring about a second enslavement of the peasantry - now to collective and state farms.
Lenin later recognized that the decrees on peace and land were a form of revolutionary agitation. However, if you call a spade a spade, then Lenin's party deceived both the peasants and soldiers and workers. The October Socialist Revolution is a grandiose deception of the people of Russia.
If in its form October was a coup d'état, in its consequences it became a socialist revolution. Only dreamed about …
Vladimir LAVROV, Doctor of Historical Sciences