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Originally Posted by clive milne
David,
Thanks for posting that background info on Orwell... interesting stuff.
It's easy with the benefit of hindsight, but it might not be too unkind to suggest that he was not entirely correct with respect to the root cause of the Russian revolution.
I guess he was not to know that Lenin & Trotsky were cat's paw's of Jacob Schiff (representing some powerful international financial interests) through the banking house of Kuhn Loeb.
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I'm not aware of Orwell commenting on the root cause of the Russian revolution.
Questions: Why wouldn't international finance side with the Provisional Government, which was made up of bankers and other capitalists?
If that wasn't to their liking why not gain control over the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries? After all, they had the majority in the soviets after February and, lacking any sound political analysis, would have been much easier to influence.
If L&T were under the control of international finance why did they act against its interests?
If international finance (or the Germans, to cite another conspiracy theory) were supporting the Bolsheviks why were they so chronically short of money?
Are you suggesting the L&T instigated the February revolution while one was in Switzerland and the other in New York?