Vladimir Lenin and Salbot (10/2011)

Vladimir Lenin and Salbot (10/2011)

“Let a thousand followers bloom” (Mao,1965)

The manipulation of potentates by politicians, police and military for intellectual “product” is a well established practice. Usually there changes die penniless and ill. One such potentate of a long forgotten Russian Colonel was Lenin the Russian Bolshevik. Ululare means to howl in Latin; Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was his proper name. Lenin’s brother Alexander was involved in the assassination plot against a reforming Tsar bringing the 16 year old to the attention of the police. His father was a school inspector. Lenin was manipulated, I believe, by police and military into the Social Democratic activity of the Leagues of Struggle. He became involved in the foundation of a party in 1898 in Ekaterinenburg. He served a period of imprisonment and was released on condition that he go into exile and attend a psychiatric clinic in Bern.

In 1901 he was hooked up to an Okhrana agent, Salbot, who provided him with money for living expensis while he was in Geneva.

Lenin’s only value to the Russian military was to provide ideas and documents which could be watered down and plagiarised by others.

In the summer of 1917 a quarter of a million Russian soldiers where killed on the Romanian front bringing the Russian military to a crisis of confidence. The provisional government was divided on whether to continue with the war. The military obviously wanted to take Russia out of the war. Lenin was re introduced to Russia as a pawn.

His use to the military having expired in the midst of economic and military crisis. With the former officers of the Tsarist army closing in on Moscow in 1919 a plot was concocted  though the medium of military agents for Lenin to be killed by Socialist Revolutionaries. Fanny Kaplan shot Lenin in the neck and was given a six year sentence, later commuted to exile.

Lenin died prematurely  in 1924 from a stroke.