The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-02-09
LEVINE ADMITS
TAKING MONEY
FROM GERMANS

ROME, Italy, Feb. SIN the course
of long article in the Giornale dItalia
on the BOlshevist government in Petro-
grad, M. Perwaukhine gives a detailed
and analytical account of Lenine's
career and character. Lenine. or to
give his real name, Ulianov, is the son
of priest of the Greek church and
was brought up in Moscow While he
was still a student at the university
he began, together with his eldest
brother, to spread Socialist propagan-
da among the workmen Both the
youths were arrested but while Le-
nine got off scot free, his brother was
eXiled to Siberia and perished at the
hands of his guards during an at
tempted escape on the way there.
From that time, the young UIfanov, or
Lenine, devoted himself entirely to
propaganda of the most extreme type.
He had among his friends the nick
name of PugaCew, in allusiOn to a fer
Ocious rebel of the time Of Catherine
II, whose career was devoted to a
savage attack against the state, So
ciety or order in any shape or form.
Lenine-UlianOv, NJ. Perwoukhine de
clares, is a second edition of this
famous rebel
The danger of Lenines propaganda
was early detected by the Socialist,
George Piechanow, a follower of Marx,
who accused Lenine of being not 4
Socialist, but an anarchist However,
Lenine attained a considerable degree
Of success among the Petrograd work
men, especially among those of the big
metal works, the "Putelow" and the
"ObuchoW." The operatives in these
works have remained faithful to his
teaching during the intermediate 20
odd years, and when the revolution
broke out, they at once gave their un-
conditional support to the anarchist
movement During recent years, Len
inc, in order to avoid the prosecutions
of the Russian political policy, went
to live abroad, and spent most of his
time in Switzerland, where he was the
official representative of the Russian
Socialist democratic party in the inter
nationalist organization When war
broke out, Lenine summoned another
extremist to his side from Italy, the
revolutionary Socialist, Victor Cernow
and with the help of the International
list Swiss-German, Platton, Munzen-
berg. Grimm, Greulich and others.
they both got into touch with the
governments of the central empires,
and it was from these governments
that they received the most enthusias-
tic support, financial and otherwise,
for carrying on revolutionary propa-
ganda among the Russian soldiers in
the prison camps, and in Russia itself
This went on actually until the com
ing of the Russia revolution in March
Then, with the help of PlattOn. Grimm
Greulich, and his other Swiss friends
Lenine formed the first detachment
of the Russian refugees, almost all of
them extremists, 'the red advanced
guard" who, travelling by way of Ger
many, entered Petrograd in triumph
and from the first day of their arrival
began their ill-fated propaganda
among the Petrograd workmen, try
ing to make them rise against the
provisional government. Lenine has
one simple fixed idea: "The time has
come for a World wide social revolu-
ton; it will come about if the signal
for it is given, and in little while
the whole world will be in the power
of the prOletariat and humanity will
live happily ever after" In pursuit of
this idea, Lenine openly affirms that
all means are permissible so long as
they serve to bring about the final OBJ
ject
Lenine did not deny the accusations
brought against him by genuine So
cialists and by the whole Prussian
bourgeois press that in order to rouse
the rabble he accepted money from
Germany, but on several occasions he
published extremely violent articles in
which he said "for me and my friends
it is a matter of complete indifference
where the money comes from. Capital
belongs to the guilty burgeoisie who
are robbing the workers. Therefore
the worker has a sacred right to take
this money, wherever he finds it and
to use it against the bourgeoisie.''