the "newly crowned" Soviet power…
Jacques Sadoul was such a prominent figure that he was also mentioned in the memoirs of Lev Trotsky. "Captain Sadoul came to me immediately after the October overthrow to get information. As far as I remember, with the consent of the French diplomatic and military missions in Russia,"[34] the future founder of the Red Army would write in his memoirs. Only the person who knew where and who to go to could come to the chieftains immediately after the overthrow. It means that Jacques Sadoul had contacts with Bolsheviks before the October. That's true – he arrived in Russia in September 1917, i.e., right before Lenin and Trotsky got some real political power in Russia. Jacques Sadoul arrived to meet them. The facts of his biography incontrovertibly prove this version. In March 1919, the former captain of the French Army comes to Russia to participate in the 1st Congress of the Comintern[35] – the organization established to blow the revolutionary fire all over the world. The French Themis reacted quickly and adequately: the same year Jacques Sadoul was sentenced in absentia to death for the treachery of the state, for the communist propaganda among the French sailors, for desertion and for the contacts with the enemy.[36] This is quite understandable. The further development of the events might surprise you. In the end of 1924, Sadoul unexpectedly returns to France. He is arrested and handed over to the Military authorities, his death sentence had been waiting for him in his motherland since 1919. It should seem that the story was coming to its end and that the French Communist Party would have a "ready made" martyr and a hero for its pantheon. But in March 1925, the military court in Orleans unexpectedly releases Jacques Sadoul from charge of desertion. The charges on all the other points against the brave captain are considered to be groundless.[37] The case is dismissed, and Sadoul goes at large. What is this? Yet another "miracle"? No, just a normal situation, which concerns the performance of the most important task at the state level. Only few people are aware of Jacques Sadoul's mission, for everyone else, including the French justice, he is a traitor, who is ripe for the gallows. No contacts with Bolsheviks are needed in 1924 – the USSR has got stronger and can exist without any active support from the "allies." Let's remember that Lenin, the main "contactee" of the French spy, dies in January 1924, and we fully understand, why Captain Sadoul returns to France exactly that year. He goes home, not being apprehensive for his life. At the right moment, the intelligence services will appear from behind-the-scenes. They will stand up for their agent, who has honourably performed his task. And French Themis, looking blank, sets aside the death sentence for the hero of the behind-the-scenes front… In addition to the unofficial diplomatic channels, used to make the contacts with the new revolutionary power and to support it, some other means, functioning under "cover" of the intelligence services, are also used: the press and public activities. For example – the Red Cross mission.
The soft-hearted citizens of the USA help those in need with food, clothing and medication. But this is only a "smoke screen" used to solve much more important tasks conveniently. Exactly on the eve of the October Revolution, the Red Cross mission was giving money to Bolsheviks. Naturally, to be used for the "humanitarian" purposes. In December 1917, these noble Messers handed over to Lenin one million US dollars. Of course, to fight havoc and famine. While nobody has ever given to the White Guard a kopeck either to help the starving people or to restore something. That's why a miracle took place in the citadel of the new revolutionary power: the storm of the universal Bolshevik nationalization didn't touch the Americans. The Petrograd branch of the National City Bank, where the Red Cross mission had its accounts, was the only bank, which had not been subjected to the nationalization in accordance with the respective Decree…[38]
The unofficial emissaries of the British, French and American governments helped Bolsheviks to keep the power, at the same time trying to drag the situation, when the Russian soldiers would be dying for the interests of their Entente "allies" as much as possible. The Bolsheviks used to talk a lot about the working people's interests. It's allegedly for this reason that they have taken the power. And the first step in the working people's interests should be to conclude a Peace Treaty with Germany. But it was not in the interests of the working people and peasants in Russia that they were going to conclude it…
March 1918 is the month when the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed. The bloody threads of the Russian strife are so tangled with each other that it's almost impossible to untwine them. If we understand who forced Lenin to conduct the negotiations with the German command in such a strange manner, it will become absolutely clear for us who wanted the representatives of the tsar dynasty to die.
Our way goes in the direction of Brest-Litovsk…
The most difficult thing was not to hurry. To do what he had conceived long ago and what he had decided. To do it in a dignified manner and without haste. To become a part of history in a solid and firm way. Because it was without any doubt a moment in history, which had never been documented before. Nobody has done this before, nobody before him has ever conceived and tried to solve so many questions that impressively and simultaneously without having suggested any decision at all!
Trotsky glanced at those who were present, sighed deeply and started to read up. He was eager to say all of it at once, not giving anybody time to come to their senses. He started quite successfully, having found the right mode and feeling instinctively that he had chosen the right form. He told about soldier-plowmen who had to return to their fields, about soldier-workers and their workshops waiting for them. Then, not having taken a breath, he went over to the main issue:
– In the name of the Sovnarkom, the government of the RSFSR hereby brings to the attention of the governments of the "allied" and neutral countries fighting with us that Russia by waiving the subscription of the annexationist agreement, for its own part, declares belligerency with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria ended.
That was a bomb! The diplomats are taught to maintain composure from the very beginning of mastering this very arduous profession. Then they polish the required skills in the numerous wars of words, thus reaching a total control of their facial expression. Here in Brest the best of the best diplomats were present.
– The Russian troops on all the fronts at the same time are given an order about the total demobilization, – Trotsky gasped and looked at the leaders of the German and Austrian delegations. Richard von Kuhlmann stared at him blankly and one could almost read on his soigne face the request to repeat all that had been said. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary Ottokar von Czernin lost self-control for a moment and started to pull his collar.
That's it – the bomb has exploded. Let them sort out the intricacies of the current situation and rack their brains over it.
Our task now is to drag it out to the utterance and not to sign any treaty. To arrange a real political demonstration and to put all the responsibility on the Germans.
We stop the war, demobilize the army, but don't sign any peace treaty – this is the key to success. Nobody has ever done it this way. On the other hand, nobody has ever needed to calm down the population of their own country, to arouse the workers in Germany and Austria, to drag out the signing of the treaty with the Germans and to show their manageability and agreeableness to the OTHER side.
This invention was really ingenious. The Germans would lose anyway. Lenin got it at once.
– That would be the best, – he said, looking thoughtfully sidewards, – if General Hofmann was unable to move his troops against us.
– Then we would win a giant victory with immense consequences, – Trotsky was developing his idea, – If Hohenzollern is able to inflict a blow against us, we will manage to capitulate early enough.
– This is interesting, devilishly interesting,
Trotsky L. The French Imperialism and Soviet Russia During Brest. (http://www.comintern-online.com/trot1658.htm)
The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international communist organization that advocated world communism.
Trotsky L. The French Imperialism and Soviet Russia During Brest. (http://www.comintern-online.com/trot1658.htm)
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