"The Bolshevik Revolution," declared a leading American Jewish community paper in 1920, "was largely the product of Jewish thinking, Jewish discontent, Jewish effort to reconstruct." As an expression of its radically anti-nationalist character, the fledgling Soviet government issued a decree a few months after taking power that made . The material on this site is distributed to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving it for research and educational purposes. So did Brussels & France." On March 23, 1917 a mass meeting was held at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the abdication of Nicolas II, which meant the overthrow of Tsarist rule in Russia. All content on SarahWestall.com is creative commons & encouraged to be republished. The following day there was published on page two of the New York Times a telegram from Jacob Schiff, which had been read to this audience. One report said, for example, that British agents were seen handing out 25-rouble notes to the men at the Pavlovski Regiment just a few hours, before it mutinied against its officers and sided with the revolution. Russia was an ally of England in the First World War, which then was raging in Europe. He became the first full-time director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most important bank in the Federal Reserve System; (Antony C. Sutton, Ph. Politics Is The Entertainment Division Of The Military-Industrial Complex - Frank Zappa, When The Power Of Love Overcomes The Love Of Power, The World Will Know Peace - Jimi Hendrix. 192-93), When Thompson attended the opera, he was given the imperial box. According to Russian judicial investigator Nikolay Sokolov, the Bolsheviks were financed by a New York banker named Jacob Heinrich Schiff. Jacob Schiff was head of the New York investment firm Kuhn, Loeb and Co. The final frontiers in this process of knocking down the countrys economic resources were Russia and India. In private interviews, he said, I have been told that over 21 million rubles were spent by Lord Alfred Milner in financing the Russian Revolution The financier just mentioned was by no means alone among the British to support the Russian revolution with large financial donations. Another name specifically mentioned by de Goulevitch was that of Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador to Russia at the time. Sources outside of Russia, which were hostile to the Tsarist regime, paid for the printing of Marxist propaganda and had it delivered to the prison camps. If you wish to use copyrighted material you must request permission from the copyright owner. ___ How the USSR helped the Communists seize power in China The subsequent publication of various memoirs and documents made it clear, that this funding was provided by Lord Alfred Milner and channeled through Sir George Buchanan, who was the British Ambassador to Russia at the time.