One take about the October Revolution I remember reading from conservatives is that it was not organic and was a scheme by the German Empire to get Russia out of WWI and place Lenin in charge. Now of course, this, apart from sounding extremely dumb, ignores the October Revolution being the culmination of the failures and suppression of Communists by the Provisional Government of the February Revolution, but I want to ask, has anyone come across this take before?
AFAIK they didn’t even recognize the Lenin’s importance. They just were like “oh there are all those various leftist Russians in Switzerland and there was an amnesty after February revolution, we’ll let them pass and maybe they’ll do something to stop the war”.
It was Lenin who requested it, they put him on a special sealed train and then he took a ferry and futher transport through Sweden and Finland, with 31 other revolutionaries, there’s a movie in it somewhere.