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 Rh Great Britain and America. This also is a war from which the Bolshevists hoped to gain:

The pro-German tendency of the propaganda is always in evidence. The Bolshevists are particularly friendly to the Germans in the attack on the Versailles Treaty. We may see an illustration of this in a speech of Lenin's early in 1920:

This friendliness to the German junkers is also seen in a statement of Trotzky when he was at the Polish front:

It is said that the Russian communists were the serfs of the Prussian junkers, but that must not weigh with us. It must not be forgotten that organized Germany constitutes a danger to world imperialism, and nothing must oppose an understanding with Germany for the destruction of the imperialist governments of Europe.