Maj.-Gen. FULLER, 1956.

From Report of the Public Prosecutor, etc., N. S. Karinsky, 22 July 1917

. . . Vladimir Ul'ianov (Lenin), Ovsei-Gersh Arenov Apfelbaum (Zinoviev), Alexandra Mikhailovna Kolontai, Mecheslav Ulievich Kozlovskii, Ev'genia Marvikievna Sumenson, Helfand (Parvus), Yakov F�rstenberg (Kuba Ganetskii), Midshipman Ilin (Raskol'nikov), and Ensigns Semashko, Sakharov, and Roshal' are accused of having entered�in 1917, while Russian citizens . . . into an agreement to assist in the disorganization of the Russian army . . .  For this purpose . . . they organized propaganda among the civilian population and in the army . . ; also, toward the same end, to organize in Petrograd, from July 3 to 5, 1917, an armed insurrection against the existing order . . .  This was accompanied by murders and violence . . .

The Russian Provisional Government 1917
Documents, selected and edited by
Robert Paul Browder and Alexander F. Kerensky
Stanford University Press, 1961, (vol. iii), pages 1370-76.

From Decree, 13 December 1917

    Taking into consideration that Soviet authority stands on the ground of the principles of international solidarity of the proletariat and the brotherhood of the toilers of all countries, that the struggle against war and imperialism, only on an international scale, can lead to complete victory, the Soviet of People�s Commissaries considers it necessary to come forth with all aid, including financial aid, to the assistance of the left, internationalist, wing of the workers� movement, in all countries entirely regardless whether these countries are at war with Russia, or in an alliance, or whether they retain their neutrality.
    With these aims the Soviet of People�s Commissaries ordains: the assigning of two million roubles for the needs of the revolutionary internationalist movement, at the disposition of the foreign representatives of the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.

PRESIDENT OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE�S COMMISSARIES
—OULIANOFF (LENIN)
PEOPLE�S COMMISSARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
—TROTZKY.
MANAGER OF AFFAIRS OF THE SOVIET OR PEOPLES� COMMISSARIES
—BONCH-BRUEVICH.
SECRETARY OF THE SOVIET—N. GORBOUNOFF

[ This decree was published in No. 31 of the Gazette of the Temporary Worker�s and Peasants� Government, December 13, 1917, and republished in English translation in Bolshevik Propaganda, p. 1185. ]

Socialism vs. civilization, Boris L. Brasol;
with an introduction by T. N. Carver.
New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1920, page 162.

From Message from Nikolai Lenin to Workers of Great Britain, July 1920

We have . . . addressed ourselves many times to the British Government with the most formal and solemn proposal to start peace negotiations.

These proposals are still being made unintermittently by Comrade Litvinoff and Comrade Krassin and all our other representatives.

( Socialist, Chicago, 10 July 1920. )
The Social Interpretation of History by Maurice William
New York : Sotery, 1921, page 326.

From The Pomp of Power, 1922

During recent months the scission between Lenin and the Extremists has become more pronounced. Lenin�s actions seem to show that he has deserted the principles of absolute communism. In a private letter which was published in August, 1921, by La Vie Russe, the authenticity of which has not been denied, he explicitly admits the errors and the impracticability of the views he formerly held. But the failure of his theories has doubtless sapped his energy ; and it is improbable that he will have the same driving force in leading any reaction.

The famine may well have no political effect other than eliminating the Extremist opponents of Lenin and Krassin, and possibly of indirectly paving the way to the revival of relations with the outside world.

New York : George H. Doran, 1922, page 213.

From Soviet Union's Aggressions Against the World, Gen. Oleg Sarin & Col. Lev Dvoretsky, 1996

The entire history of the Soviet Union seems to be rooted in the many wars in which it fought over the seventy years of its existence. These wars or other military actions did not differ much from the actions of the tsars when they were attempting to expand the Russian empire. The only real difference is that our communist masters took the place of the tsars, with a similar ambition in mind. But the tsars, or actually anybody else, could not be compared to the Communist Party leaders in their craft, cunning cruelty, and adventurism and to their huge appetite for mischief where the export of �socialist revolution� was concerned.

They adhered to the Marxist-Leninist philosophy of a �world revolution� in favor of socialism/Communism, and were fanatically striving toward this goal. This final ambition was formulated by Vladimir Ilich Lenin even before the Communists took power in Russia. In his words, they desired "the United States of the world in the form of a state structure that we associate with Socialism."¹ After the Bolsheviks took power in 1918, Lenin made some more precise declaration on the form that political arrangements would take in the future. In his report at the Eighth Congress of the Communist Party in 1919, Lenin announced that the party was determined to create the "World Soviet Republic."²

The essence of Lenin's program was to unify all nations of the world into one super Soviet empire to include all colonies. these would be merged into one international hybrid of Communist humanity. The start this experiment, the Bolsheviks chose Russia . . .

But this was not accomplished by a single bold strike. Rather, it occurred step by step. They used deception by declaring the right of the separate nations for self-determination, but then employed force to achieve their aim. Being deceived by the Bolsheviks, many non-Russian people began in 1918 to assert their independence and announce that they would no longer be parts of Russia. Short-lived states were created such as Ukraine, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Turkestan, Tataro Bashkiria, North Caucasus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbijan. All these were suppressed and incorporated against their will into the USSR after bloodshed and travail. They were subordinated to the single Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which set up similar governing authorities in all the republics. . . .

On only one occasion did the USSR suffer from external aggression, when in 1941 it was invaded by Hitler's Nazi hordes. In all other cases the wars and other military actions were foreign, waged against foreign nations on foreign territories. And we must remember that the Soviet German war was to a great extent provoked by Stalin and his team . . .  Not only did the Soviet people suffer great privation and horrible casualties, but Stalin's expansionist policy contrived to join a great portion of Western Europe to the Soviet empire and forge solid power bases in Asia. . . .  Humanity was jeopardized in a deadly manner by this monster . . . 

The Stalin era contained the most bloody and aggressive years in Soviet history. If Lenin created a theoretical basis for Soviet expansionism, Stalin implemented it as completely as could have been desired. . . . .

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    1. V.I. Lenin, Complete Works, 3rd Edition (Moscow; USSR State Printing Office), Vol. 18, p. 232.
    2. Minutes, Eighth Congress of the Russian Communist party, p. 101.

( pages 215 - 217, notes p. 233 )

Alien wars : the Soviet Union's aggressions
against the world, 1919 to 1989 / Oleg Sarin, Lev Dvoretsky
Novato, CA : Presidio, 1996.

Mel'gunov, S. P. (Sergeĭ Petrovich), 1879-1956. Title(s) Kak bol'sheviki zakhvatili vlast'. English The Bolshevik seizure of power. Edited and abridged by Sergei G. Pushkarev, in collaboration with Boris S. Pushkarev. Translated by James S. Beaver. Publisher Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio [1972] Paging xxv, 260 p. 23 cm.

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Title(s) Bolshevik propaganda. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on the judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, third session and thereafter, pursuant to S. Res. 439 and 469. February 11, 1919, to March 10, 1919. Printed for the use of the Committee on the judiciary. Publisher Washington, Govt. print. off., 1919. Paging 1265 p. 24 cm. Notes Lee S. Overman, chairman of subcommittee.