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

socialist) reforms. Wang Mang strengthened the central government with
characteristic Oriental discipline and severity. He nationalised property
and prohibited the selling of slaves. The economic situation deteriorated
catastrophically. In the year 17, the peasants had had enough and started a
revolt to depose Wang Mang. They were successful and killed him like a
mad dog.
Antony Sutton emphasised that 95 per cent of the Soviet technology
came from the United States of America or their allies. His conclusion was
that the Communists would not have been able to remain in power for
even a single day without their aid. The Bolsheviks would undoubtedly
have lost the four-year-long civil war unless the West had offered to help
them. That was why the Allies staged the so-called intervention.
U. S. Congress while appropriating billions for defence against Com-
munism has at the same time given over six billion dollars in direct
military and economic aid to the Communists. Radar-equipped F-86 jet
fighter planes worth over 300 000 dollars each have been sold to the
Communist dictator of Yugoslavia for 10 000 dollars. The Eisenhower
Administration approved it. ("Report, U.S. Foreign Assistance", U.S.
Agency for Int. Dev., March 21, 1962.)
The "Intervention" as a Diversion
It is necessary to point out that the initiative for the "intervention" actually
came from the Bolsheviks. Leon Trotsky, people's commissary for
military affairs, sent a note written in English requesting military aid from
the Allies on the 5th of March 1918. British troops were to be sent to
Arkhangelsk and American troops were to occupy Vladivostok to prevent
the advance of the Japanese. (Yuri Felshtinsky, "The Failure of the World
Revolution", London, 1991, pp. 283-284.)
In the same month (March 19), 2000 British soldiers landed in Mur-
mansk. They were to halt the advance of Finnish troops. The local Bolshe-
vik leadership received orders from Petrograd to establish an all-round co-
operation with the British troops. (Staffan Skott, "Sovjetunionen fran
borjan till slutet" / "The Soviet Union from Beginning to End", Stock-
holm, 1992.) Trotsky approved the joint military soviet composed of Bri-
tish, Soviet and French representatives. (M. Jaaskelainen, "Ita-Karjalan
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