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

power to aid them. The United States of America was the only nation to
make a huge profit on the war. All the other warring powers lost gigantic
sums and came to owe the United States a total of 14 billion dollars. It has
been calculated that the international financial elite made a total of 208
billion dollars on the war.
The British government also knew about the Bolshevik plans, since they
also recommended that their subjects leave Moscow at least six weeks
before the take-over. (Antony C. Sutton, "Wall Street and the Bolshevik
Revolution", Morley, 1981, p. 45.) So it appears both London and
Washington knew whom they were dealing with.
The 8th of November came ever closer and the Bolsheviks did every-
thing in their power to spread apathy among the workers and soldiers,
which they later intended to exploit. They also tried to tempt people with
the magic word: "Peace!", which no longer felt so treasonable.
The Bolshevik Party was not very large at this point. Furthermore, it
had an Illuminist core of 4000 members who were most active.
Meanwhile, the circulation of Pravda decreased from 220 000 to 85 000
copies.
According to Margarita Fofanova, Lenin returned to Petrograd on the
5th and not the 20th of October, as officially claimed. He stayed with
Fofanova until the take-over. The authorities knew perfectly well that
Lenin was in Petrograd. Lenin's sister Maria confirmed this to an official.
The Provisional Government did not in any way try to pursue or arrest
Lenin.
The Bolshevik plans to seize power were no secret. The general public
was not ignorant about them and least of all the Provisional Government.
Zinoviev and Kamenev wrote quite openly of their plans in the newspaper
Novaya Zhizn on the 31st of October. Lenin had also spoken publicly of
those plans on a number of occasions. The historian E. M. Halliday ad-
mitted in his book "Russia in Revolution" (Malmo, 1968, p. 114) that the
authorities knew of the Bolshevik plans in detail. So why, unless they
were involved in the conspiracy, did they do nothing about it?
For several historians, however, the mystery was not so much the fact
that the Bolsheviks had officially discussed their take-over plans in the
press, but that the Provisional Government took no steps to protect itself;
in fact it did quite the opposite. Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky
refused to order special troops to Petrograd, when this was suggested.
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