Message from @Silkiri
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Frost stop shitposting
im asking a legit question
Yes I am but it literally doesn't matter
@Deleted User He's talking about the White Army (Tsar) not whites as a race
Old Communist vs newfag
let's begin
im gonna sleep its 4am im a sperg
night
@Silkiri Lenin was sent and funded by the German Empire to cause disruption
The Imperial German government secretly arranged safe-passage for Vladimir Lenin to return to Moscow from Switzerland in 1917. Moreover, the Germans gave him financing through 1918 with the hope that Lenin would start a revolution that would cause Russia to withdraw its war with Germany during World War I.
I mean it doesn't really matter if they did or not
It kinda backfired on them
They didn't expect him to actually win
Relying on numbers from Eduard Bernstein, the German government sent "more than 50 million deutsche marks in gold" from 1917 to 1918 to help the Bolsheviks establish and hold power.
They did
Because they invested heavily
In modern currency thats over $200 million
They didn't actually want Lenin to succeed
They knew the dangers of having a revolution on their doorstep
Germany WAS the birthplace of the revolution after all
Wrong, they purposefully sent Lenin. German papers made available after WWII the German Foreign Secretary at the time of Lenin's passage Richard von Kühlmann said in a letter "I strongly believe that the safe passage of Vladimir Lenin to the Russians will cause a revolution that will result in the utter withdrawal of the war by the Tsar in the process."
"cause a revolution that will result in the utter withdrawal of the war by the Tsar in the process'
That means they wanted them to break the Russian war effort
"utter withdrawal of the war by the Tsar"
" by the Tsar'
You missed the last part @The Big Oof @Silkiri
How
"...in the process"
They intended him to overthrow the Tsar
"in the process of the revolution"
is how I see it being meant to be interpreted
Anon no it doesn't
Yes, it does.
It doesn't imply that they expect them to overthrow the Tsar
Germany wanted Lenin to be in power
According to former professor Albert L. Weeks, Lenin was a Germanophile. Weeks argues that Lenin viewed Germany as the central linchpin to an eventual proletarian revolution. Weeks further discusses the close relations enjoyed between the two nations after World War I, and how this relationship extended back into the 19th century.
Because Lenin had to spend a significant portion of his time in political exile in Germany
and the only real choices of countries he had
Were like Switzerland and Germany