https://www.dw.com/en/how-germany-got-the-russian-revolution-off-the-ground/a-41195312 >>The Russian Revolution has gone down in history as the victory of the workers and peasants over the czarist rulers. Few people realize the German kaiser was also involved: He gave aid to the Bolsheviks in 1917. >>The Russian communist, with his journalistic background in Germany and business success in Constantinople, wrote the script of a revolution for the Foreign Office. It was a roadmap for what actually happened just a few months later. Over 23 typed pages, Gelfand detailed how a foreign-backed coup could be successful. For him, it was a question of money, sabotage, and toppling the government. One month later the German imperial treasury approved **2 million marks** "to support revolutionary propaganda in Russia." Oh the irony, imagine that ... The last kaiser backed the bolshtards and it bit him in the ass a couple of years down the road... It's a bit like those corporations going woke, and then they get broken into...