"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

Trotsky Abroad
Neither Trotsky nor Parvus stayed in Siberia. Both escaped. Parvus ended
up in Turkey where he became a businessman. Trotsky escaped on the
20th of February 1907 and lived first in Vienna and later in Geneva where
he occasionally discussed the prospects of Jewry with the Zionist leader
Chaim Weizmann. Parvus supported both Lenin and Trotsky financially.
They were even allowed to live with Parvus in Munich for a short period.
Lenin also regarded Parvus as his teacher, though he eventually came to
hate him.
Parvus became especially rich during the Balkan War (1912-13). He
dealt in anything from grain to condoms. On his coal deals alone he made
32 million Danish crowns in gold. Lenin and Trotsky took part in a
Masonic conference in Copenhagen in 1910, where the possibilities of
socialising Europe were discussed. (Franz Weissin, "Der Weg zum Sozia-
lismus" / "The Way to Socialism", Munich, 1930, p. 9.)
In 1912, Trotsky worked as a war correspondent in the Balkans during
1912. It was Parvus who had arranged this opportunity for him.
During the First World War Trotsky lived in France but he eventually
acted against the interests of that country. He had, among other things,
published agitatory articles in the exile newspaper Nashe Slovo, which he
had founded together with L. Martov (Julius Zederbaum). On the 15th of
September 1916, the newspaper was suppressed and on the following day
Trotsky was deported to Spain. A few days later he was arrested in
Madrid.
He was sent to Cadiz, then to Barcelona, where he was put on board the
steamship Monserrat and sent away to the United States of America. He
landed in New York on January 13, 1917. Many of his Jewish collabo-
rators (Grigori Chudnovsky, Moisei Uritsky and others) had also made
their way to New York.
In New York, Trotsky wrote a few odd articles for an insignificant little
Marxist newspaper Novy Mir, which had been founded by his Jewish com-
rades Mikhail Weinstein and Brailovsky. Nikolai Bukharin (actually
Dolgolevsky) worked in the editorial office, together with V. Volodarsky
(actually Moisei Goldstein) and other Jews. Trotsky also gave a few
lectures. Despite the fact that the newspaper could pay no normal
royalties, Trotsky and his family lived in a luxurious house in the Bronx
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