Lenin in a Wig, August 1917

Looking at this face, aflame with insidious schemes, one cannot help asking: was Lenin a German spy after all, or a German agent?

That Germany financed the Russian revolution is known for a fact. What remains in question is precisely how the revolutionaries spent the German money. Second, the German archives really do hold internal documents along the lines of "On the Revolutionisation of Russia, Primarily the Baltic Provinces and Finland". Third, the matter of Lenin's arrival in Russia in a sealed railway carriage is a tangled story that remains unclear to this day.

Why did Germany need a revolution in Russia? To take her out of the war.

Besides this, particular attention is deserved by a seldom-discussed feature of German policy: the project of a worldwide Islamic revolution. Here Germany proceeded from her alliance with Turkey and from the large number of Muslims living on the territory of her adversaries, in the Russian Empire, the British Empire, and France and her possessions, while on German soil itself there were huge numbers of Muslim prisoners of war. The plan was to raise Muslim uprisings, and Germany invested large sums in this, but without success.