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Trotsky left New York aboard the S. S. Kristianiafjord (S. S. Christiania), which had been
chartered by Schiff and Warburg, on March 27, 1917, with communist revolutionaries. At
Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April 3rd, the first port they docked at, the Canadians, under orders
from the British Admiralty, seized Trotsky, and his men, taking them to the prison at Amherst;
and impounded his gold.
Official records, later declassified by the Canadian government, indicate that they knew
Trotsky and his small army were “socialists leaving for the purposes of starting revolution
against present Russian government...” The Canadians were concerned that if Lenin would take
over Russia, he would sign a Peace Treaty and stop the fighting between Russia and Germany, so
that the Germany Army could be diverted to possibly mount an offensive against the United
States and Canada. The British government (through intelligence officer Sir William Wiseman,
who later became a partner with Kuhn, Loeb and Co.) and American government (through Col.
House) urged them to let Trotsky go. Wilson said that if they didn’t comply, the U.S. wouldn’t
enter the War. Trotsky was released, given an American passport, a British transport visa, and a
Russian entry permit. It is obvious that Wilson knew what was going on, because accompanying
Trotsky, was Charles Crane of the Westinghouse Company, who was the Chairman of the
Democratic Finance Committee. The U.S. entered the war on April 6th. Trotsky arrived in
Petrograd on May 17.
Meanwhile, Lenin had been able to infiltrate the Democratic Socialist Republic established
by Kerensky. In October, 1917, when the Revolution started, Lenin, who was in Switzerland
(also exiled because of the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution), negotiated with the German High
Command, with the help of Max Warburg (head of the Rothschild-affiliated Warburg bank in
Frankfurt), to allow him, his wife, and 32 other Bolsheviks, to travel across Germany, to
Sweden, where he was to pick up the money being held for him in the Swedish bank, then go on
to Petrograd. He promised to make peace with Germany, if he was able to overthrow the new
Russian government. He was put in a sealed railway car, with over $5 million in gold from the
German government, and upon reaching Petrograd, was joined by Stalin and Trotsky. He told the
people that he could no longer work within the government to effect change, that they had to
strike immediately, in force, to end the war, and end the hunger conditions of the peasants. His
war cry was: “All power to the Soviets.”
He led the revolution, and after seizing the reins of power from Kerensky on November 7,
1917, replaced the democratic republic with a communist Soviet state. He kept his word and
made peace with Germany in February, 1918, and was able to get out of World War I. While
most members of the Provisional Government were killed, Kerensky was allowed to live,
possibly because of the general amnesty he extended to the communists exiled in 1905.
Kerensky later admitted to receiving private support from American industry, which led some
historians to believe that the Kerensky government was a temporary front for the Bolsheviks.
Elections were held on November 25, 1917, with close to 42 million votes being cast, and the
Bolshevik Communists only received 24% of the vote. On July 18, 1918, the People’s Congress
convened, having a majority of anti-Bolsheviks, which indicated that communism wasn’t the
mass movement that Lenin was claiming. The next day he used an armed force to disband the
body.
In a speech to the House of Commons on November 5, 1919, Winston Churchill said:
“...Lenin was sent into Russia ... in the same way that you might send a vial containing a culture
of typhoid or of cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with
amazing accuracy. No sooner did Lenin arrive than he began beckoning a finger here and a