https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/lenin-and-the-swiss-non-revolution/12812
When Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov arrived in Switzerland in 1914, he told the authorities he was neither an army deserter nor a coward, but a political exile. He had little difficulty gaining entry to the country.
To begin with he and his wife, Nadia Krupskaya, settled in peaceful, middle-class Bern.
As chairman of Russia’s Bolshevik party, which was at the time in a minority, Lenin tried to establish contacts with leftwing politicians in the area. However, they generally rebuffed his advances.
Bernese rejection
The Russian agitator’s radical ideas also fell on deaf ears at the clandestine Zimmerwald and Kiental conferences in Switzerland in 1915 and 1916, attended by dissidents from the European left in defiance of party orders.
When the First World War broke out in 1914, the European socialist parties all agreed to support their governments through the war.
But at the two international conferences delegates instead heard calls for peace and workers’ unity.
Lenin, one of the participants, had a different agenda. He wanted to use the “imperialist war” as a catalyst for an “armed uprising against capitalism”.
However, a majority rejected his hard line. The idealistic Lenin had a particularly hard job trying to convince the pragmatic and influential Bernese Social Democrat Robert Grimm.
Disappointed by the “Swiss social pacifists”, Lenin later referred to Grimm as “a barefaced scoundrel”.
Lenin was sent by the Germans to undermine the Russian Empire
https://fee.org/articles/how-germanys-deal-with-the-devil-backfired-and-changed-history/
Just six months after arriving in Petrograd with the help of Germany, the Russian communist Vladimir Lenin had engineered the October Revolution. The story does not end there, however.
On this date—April 16—in the fateful year of 1917, the Russian communist Vladimir Lenin arrived in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) from exile in Switzerland.
The Germans, with whom Russia had been at war since the summer of 1914, secretly arranged his return, granted him safe passage through Germany, and even gave him millions in gold. They hoped he would stir up enough trouble that Russia would withdraw from World War I.
A vaccine is supposed to inoculate a person against a virus. Injecting Russia with Lenin was tantamount to administering the virus itself. British historian Edward Crankshaw noted that Germany saw “in this obscure fanatic one more bacillus to let loose in tottering and exhausted Russia to spread infection.”
Within six months, Lenin engineered the October Revolution. His new regime made peace with Germany in March 1918.
So, the Germans got their wish for the near term, but it availed them worse than nothing. They lost the war anyway in November. The monster Lenin created would swallow half of Germany in 1945 and build the infamous Berlin Wall in 1961. The first communist state enslaved millions and bedeviled the world until its collapse in 1991.
Lenin is the same cold-blooded thug who famously wrote, “We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth[.] … We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.”
Elsewhere, Lenin declared that “The proletariat needs state power, the centralized organization of force, the organization of violence, for the purpose of crushing the resistance…and for the purpose of leading the great mass of the population…in the work of organizing a socialist economy.”
In August 1918, Lenin sent his now famous “Hanging Order” telegram. It instructed local Bolsheviks in the Penza region to deal harshly with the farmers (kulaks) who owned land there and were standing in the way of its nationalization. The British historian Robert Service discovered it in Soviet archives in the 1990s. It read as follows:
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