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

known Zionist conspirator, Alexander Shlyapnikov. (Hans Bjorkegren,
"Ryska posten" / "The Russian Post", Stockholm, 1985, pp. 264-265.)
In 1913 the Swedish worker earned an average of 135 crowns per
month (135 x 100 = 13 500 today, 1350 US dollars). Mikhail Goberman
had scrounged together another 1000 Swiss francs. The Swiss socialists
had, through Fritz Platten, donated a further 3000 Swiss francs to Lenin.
Platten, by the way, was in charge of solving all practical problems during
the journey. The Bolsheviks of Petrograd sent another 500 roubles. Lenin
sent begging-letters to Swedish socialists too, who managed to scrape
together several hundred crowns. Those socialists had no idea that Lenin
actually had plenty of money. At the end of March he had written to Inessa
Armand: "There is even more money than I expected for the journey."
Lenin could never get enough.
The trade unionist Fabian Mansson organised a collection among the
members of parliament. Even right-wing politicians gave money to Lenin,
since comrade Mansson had pointed out that the Bolsheviks would be in
power in Russia as early as the next day. The Swedish Foreign Minister
Arvid Lindman gave Lenin 100 crowns (a lot of money then). The
Swedish refugee committee gave Lenin 3000 crowns as well.
A second class ticket from Stockholm to Haparanda only cost 30
crowns in 1917. Besides, the Russian government paid for all the tickets!
In Finland, Lenin continued his journey to Petrograd, but now travelling
third class so that the Russians receiving him would see how poor he
was...
That was the way Lenin's journey to Russia was organised. He arrived
at Petrograd's Finland station at 11:10 in the evening of the 16th of April.
The freemason Nikolai Chkheidze, who was the chairman of the Petrograd
Soviet, came with flowers to meet him. Chkeidze even gave a speech of
welcome. Stalin was not among those at the reception. Not one photograph
confirms Stalin's presence, despite the fact that he later claimed to have
been there. There was even an armoured car waiting there. Lenin jumped
up onto the car and held an agitatory speech at once. Lenin was much
worse at public speaking than Trotsky, according to the Swedish
Communist Anton Nilson.
Lenin was later welcomed at the Winter Palace by a representative of
the Provisional Government, the Minister for Employment Mikhail
Skobelev, who was a Menshevik and a freemason.
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