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

General Staff, was behind Lenin's journey, as revealed by Nesta Webster
and Kurt Kerlen in "Boche and Bolshevik" (p. 25). The government had
been strongly influenced by the socialists.
The Russian Provisional Government paid for the tickets for the journey
from Stockholm to Haparanda and from there to Petrograd. Lenin later
claimed that he was not welcome in Russia and that he lacked a visa. He
even asserted that the Provisional Government would have imprisoned
him, since he travelled without permission. This is all just Soviet
propaganda. The whole company was given a group visa by the Russian
Consulate General in Stockholm (except for Fritz Platten, since he was not
a Russian citizen). This visa is still preserved in the Helsinki City
Archives, where it can be seen that it was first issued on the 13th of April
1917. Lenin and his 29 travelling companions are all on the list. Some
(Karl Radek for instance) remained behind. Three new conspirators joined
instead. This was revealed by Hans Bjorkegren in his book "The Russian
Post" (Stockholm, 1985).
Lenin wanted to appear as an exceedingly poor revolutionary. That was
why he began with his beggar antics in Switzerland, which he later conti-
nued in Sweden. Of course, he did not say a word about the fact that he
had also begged for money from the Bolsheviks' secret fund in Stockholm.
He received up to 3000 crowns from this source, according to Hans
Bjorkegren. Alexander Parvus had founded this fund by the aid of the
banker Max Warburg.
I telephoned the headquarters of Svenska Handelsbanken (Swedish
Bank of Commerce) on January 24, 1991 and asked how much 3000
crowns were worth in 1917. This money was equivalent to 56 250 crowns
(approximately £5000) in 1991. 3000 crowns were nearly equivalent to
two years of a worker's wages (3256 crowns). I must point out here that a
worker with an annual income of 1628 crowns in 1917 could support his
wife and children. In 1991, the workers received an average of 120 000
crowns per year. It is impossible to support a wife and children with this
wage without also relying on the wife's salary and various benefits (child
benefit, housing benefit, etc). That is to say: 3000 crowns then might
actually have been closer in value to 350 000 crowns in 2002.
Lenin was not content with this. In Haparanda he received a further 300
crowns (more than two months' wages for a worker) as a contribution
from the Russian consul. Lenin confirmed this himself in a letter to a
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