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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (34276)	4/10/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

Don't you find the notion of a cabal of international bankers financing a communist revolution to be a little over the top? What conceivable motive could they have? Bankers like to make money, and they devote their resources to projects which will make them money. How would they make money out of a communized Russia? What you and Emile seem incapable of acknowledging is that when a regime which cannot govern insists on maintaining state power by force, revolution will always follow. The fundamental cause of the Russian revolution (jbe, correct me) was the decrepitude and ineptitude of the Czarist regime, not some religious of financial conspiracy. If there were no communist ideology, it would have been something else. If "the international bankers" decide that they (and we, as investors) will profit best from a free-trading world where countries resolve their differences through negotiation rather than war, and if they actually manage to achieve this goal, why should we fight against it?

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (34276)	4/10/1999 7:03:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

....it's (as it always has been) the international bankers who control it all. Look at the human suffering caused by the same cabal when they instigated and financed the Russian Revolution. Why, oh, why do people who advance the most off-the-wall historical interpretations do it in such a categorical fashion?? No "I thinks"; no "perhapses"; not even a "probably". Just -- "they instigated and financed the Russian Revolution." Flat out. Fact. No dispute. My, oh my. With a lifetime in the field, a PhD in Russian History, a doctoral dissertation on the pre-revolution, and only now have I learned the true cause of the revolution. Tsk, tsk, tsk... jbe