In 1917

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany chartered a train in Zurich and gave it permission to pass through Germany en route to Petrograd

The chief occupant was Vladimir Lenin, who had been living in exile for a decade https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1274416730106761216
Lenin had established himself as a violent and criminal radical long before then

Russia had exiled him to Siberia in 1897

When he was released three years later, he fled for another five years until the political climate was safer for him
Upon his return to Russian in 1905 he decided to further fund his ambitions via armed robbery, and was forced to flee again by 1907

His desire to see a violent end to the Tsar was well-established
At the outset of WW1, he was living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Even though they were at war with Russia, they only held Lenin prisoner briefly, because they knew hew was so virulently opposed to the government

Still, Lenin fled to Switzerland
This was a pattern of Lenin's revolutionary career

Most of the time, he let others do the dirty work

As the kids like to say

He'd dip as soon as it got too hot

Were he a modern leftist

He'd be a gleeful keyboard warrior today
But by 1917, the war was looking grim for Germany and her allies

So, the Kaiser turned Lenin loose on Russia

And Lenin was all too glad to comply

The Tsar had already abdicated

He was eager to take charge of the Bolsheviks now that his enemy was essentially defeated
By July of 1918, Lenin's Bolsheviks had butchered Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and their five children

A blip on the radar relative to the hurricane of death that would befall Russia and much of Eastern Europe under Soviet occupation for the next seventy years
Yet here we are

Not yet 30 years from the fall of the Berlin Wall

And Germans are putting up statues of Vladimir Lenin

And applauding as if he were a hero
Even before the rise of Communism

Germans had enough sense to regard Lenin as dangerous

And used him only as a weapon to undermine an enemy

Germans today have forgotten this

Why?
The Communists have always been subversive

They infiltrate academic institutions

And revise history

They overtake the media

And spread disinformation

“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”

- Vladimir Lenin
Senator Joe McCarthy is regarded as an historical pariah today

What if he was right

And the deconstruction of his reputation is yet another Communist disinformation campaign

It would certainly fit the mold

Today we're taught that he was on the wrong side of history

Was he?
What if Communist infiltration of government, media, and educational institutions actually was happening as far back as 1950, when McCarthy began to sound the alarm?

That's 70 years

Plenty of time to indoctrinate the Boomers, GenX, and Millenials
Now we have this picture of Lenin's statue going up in what was once West Germany

Can you imagine seeing this in 1970?

Even 1990?

Absurd.

Yet here we are.

Pretending that none of this history ever happened.
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