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

power in July but that it was too early. Why it was too early was not
explained. That was why the students were taught that what happened on
the 3-4th (16-17th) of July was just a "peaceful July demonstration".
On the 6th (19th) of July, Lenin published a defensive article in the
newspaper Listok Pravdy, where he angrily repudiated the accusations
against him as a "rotten invention" of the bourgeoisie. Lenin averred never
to have met Sumenson and to have nothing in common with Kozlowski
and Furstenberg. Lenin was not convincing in his unashamedness,
however, and his letters showed the opposite of what his article said. Nor
could he explain where he obtained the money to give out 17 different
daily newspapers, whose total circulation amounted to 1.4 million copies
every week. (Vladimir Lenin, "Collected Works", Vol. 35, Moscow, p.
260.)
Trotsky tried to maintain that the money came from the workers. But
could the workers really collect hundreds of thousands of roubles every
week just to support the Bolsheviks when there were other labour parties,
which were more popular than they were? Trotsky convinced no one with
his blatant lies.
On the 6th (19th) of July, other newspapers also began publishing
telegrams reporting transfers of German money to the Bolsheviks in
Petrograd under various innocent pretexts. (David Shub, "Russian
Political Heritage", New York, 1969.)
In Lenin's official biography (p. 177), all these accusations were re-
garded as libel on the part of the provocateurs. On the evening of the 6th
(19th) of July in Margarita Fofanova's flat, Lenin said to Stalin: "If the
least fact in connection with the money transfers is confirmed, it would be
exceedingly naive to believe that we should be able to avoid death
sentences." (Akim Arutiunov, "The Phenomenon Vladimir Ulyanov
/Lenin", Moscow, 1992, p. 73.) He might have believed so, but he was
wrong.
The government knew that Lenin had sent a letter to Ganetsky and
Radek in Stockholm on the 12th (25th) of April 1917, in which he told
them: "I have received the money from you!" That the Provisional
Government knew about these shady affairs and had access to Lenin's
secret letters is proved in the periodical Proletarskaya Revolyutsya (The
Proletarian Revolution) which, in the autumn of 1923, published several
of Lenin's strictly secret letters. He had sent one of those letters from
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