1917. Key to the “Russian” Revolution. Николай Стариков

In fact, it was the revolutionary explosion that destroyed both the Russian and the German Empires…

      It wasn't Germany that orchestrated the February Revolution. Why am I so sure? Because by now NONE OF THE HISTORIANS has ever blamed the Germans. The German agents took advantage of the revolt, indeed. If a crowd of drunken soldiers is passing by, why not aim it at counter-intelligence? Why not direct them to kill – not only officers, like in Kronshtadt, but certain people from a special list? And still, it is a smart use of the circumstances shaped up by somebody else…

      Everybody blames the German General Staff for orchestrating the October, but no one blames it for the February. And this is weird. The first part of the revolutionary demolition of Russia in 1917 is kind of "ownerless." It happened on its own. Whereas the Germans are believed to have prepared the October. The problem is that both the February and the October Revolutions are links of the same chain, steps of the same stairs. These are two parts of one plan. And if you, dear reader, think this matter is disputable now, when you've just started to read this book, you will have no doubts in that regard after we're done.

      And if the orchestrator is the same, and the February Revolution wasn't prepared by the Germans, then who is responsible for our revolution?

      …February 1917 brought strange and mysterious events. There were no orchestrators, no reasons, but there were consequences disastrous for Russia. No one knew about them then, they weren't that obvious. Who of the happy protesters flushed with the wind of changes in February 1917 could have imagined that in six months the powerful Russian Army would become a herd of looters and deserters, that soldiers would be killing their officers, and that in eight months a group of fanatics would seize the power? Not even in their nightmares they imagined the Civil War, typhus, famine, their native country absolutely ruined, and millions of people dead.

      And yet, "unexplainable" events in the Russian Empire began long before February 1917 and haven't stopped by now. Like a venomous snake, they crawled since the first Russian Revolution over the body of World War 1. They impregnated the February and the October Revolutions to the core. After that, weird and curious coincidences faded away and came back only in 1985 to add plentiful decoration to the quiet and dull life in the Soviet Union. And right after that, the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

      So, who orchestrated it all? Who does Russia owe for incomprehensible sufferings of its sons and daughters? To answer this question we have to go back in time that passes by so fast. We need to get back to the start of the Russo-Japanese War. And we'll clearly see that the chaos and anarchy that were to start in Russia had been accurately planned. Those who truly believe that the first and the next Russian revolutions happened on their own should pay attention to one little-known fact. On January 27, 1904, some Philipp Voronov came to the State Bank of St. Petersburg, where he had an account, and explained that he had received a note with a hysterical warning, "Save your money!" Such letters (both handwritten and hectographed) suddenly appeared all over the Russian Empire and filled the country promptly. The authors of the note threatened, "The ministers need money to fight Japan. They take our money from the banks and give us our revenue."

      This economic diversion was started in advance. And mind you that those notes appeared in Russian cities right on the first day (!) of the Russo-Japanese War. It means that whoever intended to undermine the financial stability of Russia needed to know when the Japanese were going to "suddenly" attack our fleet in Port Arthur. And the letters had to be printed and sent out all over the country, it was necessary to plan how they were going to be distributed and passed to the paper boys. In short, a serious and extensive work had to be done…

      The notes weren't published in vain – in many places the situation quickly became critical, and funds started to outflow from the banks. The panic was especially strong in the provinces of Warsaw, Baltics, Minsk, Vilnius, and Grodno. However, calm and balanced state politics helped to overcome the challenge. Whoever wished it were returned their deposits, and all top Russian newspapers published announcements that the banks undertook to further observe their obligations to their depositors. Similar announcements were posted in the banks and in public places. And the panic settled down. Today the story of the panic among the depositors in 1904 is told in Sberbank of Russia to draw attention to the challenging and hard times this grand company has faced through its 160 years of existence. The matter of who orchestrated these difficulties is not raised or studied anymore. No one draws parallels between the similar actions and further feeding of the revolution machine.

      So, who was trying to cause economic collapse in Russia? At first, one would think of blaming Japan. And there is no doubt that the Japanese secret services had their hand in it. Yet, they were definitely unable to cause havoc that major, not least because they didn't have that distributed agent network in Russia. At that time the Japanese secret services only started to communicate with the Russian revolutionaries. Moreover, a sudden activity of the Japanese in searching contacts with the subversives could have alerted the Russian counter-intelligence and warned the tsarist government about the upcoming war. If one such note had got to the wrong hands, the entire Russo-Japan War could have gone differently.

      It means someone helped the Japanese. Only someone with the distributed network of agents all over the country could have planned and made it all. And they weren't the revolutionaries because all radical parties swarmed with police spies, and thus, the date of the attack by Japan would have instantly been reported to the tsarist secret police that would have passed it to the army and fleet executives. Such data leak shouldn't have been afforded. Thus, whoever sent notices all over the Russian cities had to have iron discipline and remain in Russia.

      Who was it that so accurately and consistently orchestrated the attempt to destabilize the inside life of our country? Who helped the Japanese to find paper boys to distribute the anonymous notes, who started to stir the pot by these yet pacific means?

      And there is one more really newsworthy event behind the rapid development of World War 1. It seemed so minor and humble against the catastrophe that no one seemed to pay attention to that, albeit someone should have! Like a small fragment of a large mirror, this event reflected the coming Russian Revolution. Its scenario and driving force showed their worth right before the global conflict, in June 1914. Literally a week before the global conflict there had been a series of strikes in the capital of the Russian Empire. The country, tortured with the first Russian coup, wasn't likely to be surprised with industrial strikes. The police and the tsarist secret police were accustomed to subversive activities of the revolutionaries. However, these strikes were unusual. They were even described in a lot of memoirs. The main specialty of these mayhems and strikes were weirdness and mysteriousness. They started for no apparent cause, kind of "incidentally," and they stopped as suddenly.

      Tatiana Botkina, the daughter of the Tsar's doctor who was shot with his crown-bearing patients in Yekaterinburg, recalls those odd strikes, "The workers withheld their labor, thronged the streets, broke trams and lampposts, killed policemen. No one saw the reason for that turmoil. Whoever got caught was thoroughly interrogated about why they had started it all.

      'We don't know, they gave us tryoshnitsy (three ruble notes) and told us to give a good working over trams and policemen, and so we did,' they would say."[11]

      Mikhail Rodzianko, the chairman of the State Duma, in his writing "State Duma and the February Revolution in 1917," paid much attention to these events, too. "In 1914, right before the war, Petrograd was full of revolutionary incidents. Happening among the working people of Petrograd, these incidents were often quelled by the armed forces. There were demonstrations, meetings, tramway cars were keeled over, telegraph and telephone poles were kicked down, and barricades were built."[12] Rodzianko also indicated the time when the mayhem started, "It started when Russia was paid a visit by Poincare, the president of the French Republic."[13]

      For your reference, President Raymond Poincare came to Russia on 20 (7) July, 1914. It was right when the upcoming global conflict was getting started. It was eleven days before the war!

      "Last sounds of street fighting accompanied the French president as he put a wreath on the tomb of Alexander III," Leon Trotsky wrote in his "History of the Russian Revolution."

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Melnik-Botkina T. Memories of the Tsar Family. M.: Zakharov, 2004. P. 27.

12

Rodzianko M. State Duma and the February Revolution in 1917; http://lib.web-malina.com/getbook.php?bid=3939&page=6

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Rodzianko M. State Duma and the February Revolution in 1917; http://lib.web-malina.com/getbook.php?bid=3939&page=6