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

Why it was necessary for Trotsky to put up a show will soon be evident
to the observant reader. Trotsky wanted the whole spectacle to appear
more dramatic than it actually was. For this reason, he had a number of
shells fired from the Peter-Paul Fort while trams continued to roll over the
Troitsky Bridge, according to the British ambassador Sir George Bucha-
nan (who, by the way, was involved in the deposition of the Tsar). The
remarkable thing was that those shells never hit the Winter Palace. The
official explanation was that they were aimed too badly. But why could
the Bolsheviks not find anyone among all those thousands of
"revolutionary soldiers" who could aim properly?
It appears that those who fired the shells suddenly lost their ability to
aim straight. All those explosions only managed to break one single
window. Why were precisely 35 shells fired? Did that number have some
Cabbalistic meaning?
The Red Guards waited for a while outside the Winter Palace despite
the absence of guards at the side-door, according to Mikhail Heller and
Alexander Nekrich ("Utopia in Power", London, 1986, p. 41). Neither did
the Petrograd Garrison take any action against the Bolsheviks. They just
watched the show.
The Red Guards walked around in the city and coerced a few sailors
into following them to the Winter Palace, including Indrikis Ruckulis, who
was a 27-year-old Latvian officer from Kronstadt and the commander of a
group of sailors. He was threatened with death when he refused to
accompany the Red Guards. He asserted that no single shell was fired
from the armoured cruiser Aurora to give the signal for the storming, as
was later claimed. (Expressen, the 17th of October 1984.) This was
another myth.
There was no storming of the Winter Palace. Everything proceeded
calmly. No blood was spilled. The Red Guards just waited until it was
time to march in. They waited until 1:30 in the morning, according to
Indrikis Ruckulis and several other sources. They opened fire for fifteen
minutes for the sake of appearances. Nobody was hurt during this "battle",
according to a young Marxist, Uralov, who was there. There was nobody
to hurt. The Bolsheviks' fire was never answered.
The Red Guards and sailors then walked through side doors into the
Winter Palace, according to the historians Mikhail Heller and Alexander
Nekrich, who had found testimonies relating this. The remaining members
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