Professor Antony Sutton, who taught economics at California State University, and was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
In this talk, Prof. Sutton goes into his impeccable research on how a close-knit group of Western financiers and industrialists (centered around Morgan and Rockefeller in the US, and around Milner and the City financiers, in the UK) created and sustained Soviet Russia.

Eglman, that's really interesting. I had no idea the rot went back quite that far.

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Eglman, that's really interesting. I had no idea the rot went back quite that far.

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Here is the pdf of Sutton's book if you are interested

http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/SUTTONbolch.pdf

Here is some further information on this subject from the book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin.

Excerpts: Who financed Lenin and Trotsky?

http://www.wildboar.net/multilingual/eas...andtrotsky.html

Mr Griffin obviously bases some of his comments on the work of Prof Sutton and includes the contribution to the Revolution from the head of the New York investment firm Kuhn, Loeb and Company, Jacob Schiff, of $20,000,000, a figure I recall reading about many years ago.

That whole period (say about 1900-1925) is murky and purposefully obscured. But we do know enough to ask ourselves: what is really going on?