[Extract] Under the sign of the Scorpion- the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire by Juri Lina
Lenin as a Freemason
Whether Lenin was a freemason as early as in the 1890s is not yet possible to
determine but he worked in the same way as subversive groups usually do. The
Illuminati, the Grand Orient, B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant), and other
Masonic lodges were all interested in agitating the workers towards certain
"useful" goals.
It is important to stress that Lenin and his henchmen did not work for a living.
They could still afford to travel around Europe (then relatively more expensive
than now) and live in luxury. These professional revolutionaries had only one
task - to agitate the workers. Lenin's later activity shows clearly how he
followed Adam Weishaupt's line.
Several sources reveal that Lenin became a freemason whilst abroad in 1908.
One of these sources is a thorough investigation: Nikolai Svitkov's "About
Freemasonry in Russian Exile", published in Paris in 1932. According to Svitkov,
the most important freemasons from Russia were Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin, Leon
Trotsky (Leiba Bronstein), Grigori Zinoviev (Gerson Radomyslsky), Leon Kamenev
(actually Leiba Rosen-feld), Karl Radek (Tobiach Sobelsohn), Maxim Litvinov
(Meyer Hennokh Wallakh), Yakov Sverdlov (Yankel-Aaron Solomon), L. Martov (Yuli
Zederbaum), and Maxim Gorky (Alexei Peshkov), among others.
According to the Austrian political scientist Karl Steinhauser's "EG - die
Super-UdSSR von morgen" / "The European Union - the Super Soviet Union (USSR) of
Tomorrow" (Vienna, 1992, p. 192), Lenin belonged to the Masonic lodge Art et
Travail (Art and Labour). The famous British politician Winston Churchill also
confirmed that Lenin and Trotsky belonged to the circle of the Masonic and
Illuminist conspirators. (Illustrated Sunday Herald, 8 February 1920.)
Lenin, Zinoviev, Radek and Sverdlov also belonged to B'nai B'rith. Researchers
who are specialised in the activities of B'nai B'rith, including Schwartz-Bostunich,
confirmed this infor-mation. (Viktor Ostretsov, "Freemasonry, Culture and
Russian History", Moscow, 1999, pp. 582-583.)
Lenin was a freemason of the 31st degree (Grand Inspecteur Inquisiteur Commandeur) and a member of the lodge Art et Travail in Switzerland and France. (Oleg Platonov, "Russia's Crown of Thorns: The Secret History of Freemasonry", Moscow, 2000, part II, p. 417.)
When Lenin visited the headquarters of Grand Orient on rue Cadet in Paris, he
signed the visitors' book. (Viktor Kuznetsov, "The Secret of the October Coup",
St. Petersburg, 2001, p. 42.)
Together with Trotsky, Lenin took part in the International Masonic Conference
in Copenhagen in 1910. (Franz Weissin, "Der Weg zum Sozialismus" / "The Road to
Socialism", Munich, 1930, p. 9.) The socialisation of Europe was on the agenda.
Alexander Galpern, then secretary of the Masonic Supreme Council, confirmed in
1916 that there were Bolsheviks among the freemasons. I can further mention
Nikolai Sukhanov (actually Himmer) and N. Sokolov. According to Galpern's
testimony, the freemasons also gave Lenin financial aid to his revolutionary
activity. This was certified by a known freemason, Grigori Aronson, in his
article "Freemasons in Russian Politics", published in the Novoye Russkoye Slovo
(New York, 8-12 October 1959). The historian Boris Nikolayevsky also mentioned
this in his book "The Russian Freemasons and the Revolution" (Moscow, 1990).
In 1914, two Bolsheviks, Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov and Grigori Petrovsky,
contacted the freemason Alexander Konovalov for economic aid. The latter became
a minister in the Provisional Government.
Radio Russia also spoke of Lenin's activities as a freemason on 12 August 1991.