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8 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH

CO M M UNISM V E R S U S NAT IONA L SO C I A LISM

As documented in Rule by Secrecy, the same financial powers that built
the United States into the world’s foremost superpower also created com-
munism. After an aborted revolution in 1905, thousands of Rus sian ac-
tivists had been exiled, including the revolutionaries Leon Trotsky and
Vladimir Lenin. After years of attempts at reform, the czar was forced to
abdicate on March 15, 1917, following riots in Saint-Petersburg believed
by many to have been instigated by British agents.
In January 1917, Leon Trotsky, a fervent follower of Karl Marx, was
living rent-free on Standard Oil property in Bayonne, New Jersey. He
worked in New York City as a reporter for The New World, a communist
newspaper. Trotsky had escaped Rus sia in 1905 and fled to France, from
where he was expelled for his revolutionary behavior. “He soon discovered
that there were wealthy Wall Street bankers who were willing to finance a
revolution in Rus sia,” wrote journalist William T. Still.
One of these bankers was Jacob Schiff, whose family had lived with the
Rothschild family in Frankfurt, Germany. According to the New York
Journal- American, “[I]t is estimated by Jacob’s grandson, John Schiff , that
the old man sank about $20 million for the final triumph of Bolshevism in
Rus sia.” Schiff, a Rocke feller banker, had financed the Japanese in the
1904–05 Russo-Japanese War for control of Manchuria, and had sent his
emissary George Kennan to Rus sia to promote revolution against the czar.
Another was Senator Elihu Root, attorney for Federal Reserve
cofound er Paul Warburg’s Kuhn, Loeb & Company. Root, an honorary
president of the secretive Council on Foreign Relations and a former U.S.
secretary of state, who moved smoothly between government positions
and his law practice in New York City, contributed yet another $20 mil-
lion, according to the congressional record of September 2, 1919.
Schiff and Root were not alone. Arsene de Goulevitch, who was present
during the early days of the Bolsheviks, later wrote, “In private interviews,
I have been told that over 21 million rubles were spent by Lord [Alfred]
Milner in financing the Rus sian Revolution.” Milner, a German-born
British statesman, was the primary force behind Cecil Rhodes’s Round
Tables, a pre deces sor of the Council on Foreign Relations. Th e American