Lenin

…Wat vindt Maarten van de uitspraak van Lenin?…

…Lenin had returned from Switzerland in April, transported across Germany in a sealed train arranged by the German General Staff, who had calculated quite correctly that depositing this particular man in the Russian capital would do more damage to their wartime enemy than several additional army divisions.…

…Lenin, sitting in a small rented room in Zurich, had given a public lecture in late January in which he had told an audience of Swiss socialists that he, personally, did not expect to live to see the Russian revolution.…