Sergei Melgunov, a Russian historian in exile, shows how in

February 1917, when the coup d'etat took place, the military branch

of the freemasons was led by Alexander Guchkov, while the civilian

branch was led by Alexander Kerensky (Melgunov, "On the Road to

the Palace Coup", Paris, 1931).

After the overthrow of the tsar, a masonic commission was unable

to locate a single document proving the alleged crimes of the tsar

(Oleg Platonov, "Russia's Crown of Thorns: The Secret History of

Freemasonry 1731-1996", Moscow, 1996, p. 271). In spite of this, the

commission demanded his execution. The plan was never carried out,

however. When the British royal family wished to invite the tsar

family to come to England, masonic forces headed by Jacob Schiff

made sure that the threat of a general strike would keep the tsar

family out of Britain.

Large numbers of documents concerning the atrocities committed

by freemasons were however removed from the archives and

destroyed. Alexander Kerensky, who was a member of the provisional

masonic government, ordered the destruction of all objectionable

documents, including an edition of "The Protocols of the Elders of

Zion".

Kerensky also received money from Germany, another reason why

the Provisional Government was unwilling to prosecute the bolshe-

viks. Kerensky had Trotsky temporarily incarcerated, to prevent him

from talking too much. There was a risk of his revealing the Pro-

visional Government's true source of financial support used for the coup d'etat. It was Kerensky's intention to keep this information

secret (Igor Froyanov, "October 1917", St. Petersburg, 1997, p. 81).

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On 24 March 1917, The New York Times reported that the banker

Jacob Schiff had paid tribute to Lev Trotsky: "He was the person we

had been hoping and striving for through all these years." Schiff

(B'nai B'rith) had arranged for Trotsky to arrive in the United States

in January 1917, and to be able to live comfortably with a limousine

at his disposal.

The Red Guards were subsequently made to wear a medallion

around their necks, bearing the image of Trotsky (Grigori Bostunich,

"Freemasonry and the French Revolution", Moscow 1995, p. 89).

International bankers from Great Britain, the United States,

Russia, Germany and France met in Sweden in the summer of 1917.

They agreed for Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to deposit 50 million dollars in a

Swedish bank for the account of Lenin and Trotsky, according to Oleg

Platonov.

Moreover, John P. Morgan's lawyer Elihu Root paid to the "revo-

lutionaries" a further 20 million dollars via a war fund. This money

came from Jacob Schiff, as confirmed by the American Congressional

documents of 2 September 1919.

An alleged "Red Cross delegation" travelled to Russia in August

1917 with the intention of discussing with the bolshevik leaders the

final details of a red assumption of power. Of the members of this

delegation, seven were doctors, the others bankers from New York,

among them John P. Morgan and Jacob Schiff. The delegation was

headed by William B. Thomson, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank

of New York, who handed over to the bolsheviks at least one million

dollars ( The Washington Post, 2 February 1918). The bankers were

hiding behind this delegation their real intent, which included

handing over large sums of money to the bolsheviks (Antony Sutton,

"Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution", Morley, 1981, p. 83).

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The International Masonic Congress held at Hotel du Grand Orient

de France in Paris on 28-30 June 1917, emphasized that Russia

constituted an obstacle to the masonic world government. This gave the Grand Orient licence to destroy Russia with the help of commu-

nism.

After the bolshevik assumption of power it became vital to bar

criticism against the red bandits. Colonel Edward Mandel House, in-

fluential presidential adviser and high-ranking freemason, sent a

cable to President Wilson on 28 November 1917, urging him to down-

play any criticism of the bolsheviks: "It is of vital importance that

this kind of criticism is silenced." The telegram was classified as

secret and remained so for the next six years.

Deliveries of arms to the enemies of the bolsheviks (the White

Guards) were stopped, as engineered by the arms dealer Basil Zaha-

roff.

In April 1919, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office

published a white book on Soviet Russia, which stated that the

bolshevik seizure of power had been organized and financed by inter-

national bankers. It was pointed out that Chinese criminals were

imported to co-operate with the chekists in terrorizing the Russian

people. The white book was hastily withdrawn and replaced with a

shortened version lacking this sensitive information (Dr Kitty Little,

"Subversive Infiltrators into Westminster and Whitehall: Promotion of

a Federal Europe", Jamai, 1995, p. 4).

Lenin was a freemason of the 31 st degree (Grand Inspecteur Inqui-

siteur Commandeur) and a member of the French lodge Art et Travail

(Oleg Platonov, "Russia's Crown of Thorns: The Secret History of Freemasonry 1731-1996", Moscow, 2000, Volume 2, p. 417).

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