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

fact that the Soviet propaganda later claimed the opposite. Alexander
Parvus, meanwhile, began publishing spiteful attacks against Alexander
Kerensky in the German press. He also sabotaged any possibility of peace.
Lenin's, Zinoviev's and Kamenev's denials were repeated in Maxim
Gorky's paper Novaya Zhizn on the 1 lth (24th) of July.
On the 13th (26th) of July, the Petrograd Soviet demanded that Lenin
and Zinoviev should be put on trial. Lenin continued to ignore those
demands since he knew very well what might be revealed during a trial.
The Bolshevik and freemason Nikolai Sukhanov (actually Gimmel)
maintained, like many of his comrades, that Lenin was innocent and had
nothing to fear from a possible trial. Lenin was afraid of such an
investigation.
In September 1991, the lawyers' union in St. Petersburg demanded that
the accusations against Lenin should be investigated after the event. They
wanted to put him on trial posthumously.
Pavel Milyukov's bourgeois newspaper Rech (Speech) also accused
Leon Trotsky of having received 10 000 dollars for propaganda. That was
why Trotsky called July 1917 "the month of the greatest libel in the
history of the world".
The pressure of public opinion led to the arrest of Leon Trotsky and
Anatoli Lunacharsky (actually Bailikh-Mandelstam) on August 5th. The
authorities also arrested Alexandra Kollontay (1872-1952). Finally, even
Mieczyslaw Kozlowski, Leon Kamenev and Yevgenia (Dora) Sumenson
were arrested. This was only done to calm the public. All those people
were accused of having contacts with Alexander Parvus who was regarded
as an agent of the German Kaiser.
The man in charge of the investigation, Alexandrov, collected plenty of
material, filling a total of 24 volumes. They were kept in a special archive
and made available to historians only after the fall of Communism. The
authorities never got any further than this, despite having all the evidence
they needed that the accused persons had collaborated with the enemy
during wartime. This evidence would have been enough to execute all
those involved. But the authorities took no further action.
The 6th Bolshevik Congress began on the 26th of July (8th August).
Some of the delegates (Joseph Stalin, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Nikolai
Skrypnik, Nikolai Bukharin) were against Lenin and Zinoviev appearing
voluntarily in court. V. Volodarsky was among those who wanted Lenin
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