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Editor says, what if the British Secret Service overthrew the Bolsheviks? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the August 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1918, on this day a prominent member of the Bolshevik Central Committee the Georgian "man of steel" Joseph Vissarionovich Jughashvili (pictured) was assassinated by British agent Oswald Rayner and the same members of the British Secret Intelligence Service that murdered Grigory Rasputin thirteen months before.
Stalin AssassinatedBoth strikes had been called by service head Mansfield Cumming (better known to co-workers as "C") to keep Russian Forces engaged in the Great War.
During 1916, the Tsar had been acting as Commander-in-Chief. Away from the Russian Capital, British Government feared that in his absence Rasputin would appeal to the Tsarina's German ancestry to call a truce. Thirteen months later, the Tsar had abdicated and the Bolsheviks had negotiated such a truce, leading to the prospect of the Western Allies facing the full brunt of the German Armies. By 1918, the resumption of hostilities required the displacement of the Bolsheviks in favour of the Socialist Revolutions. Even before Stalin was dead, advanced plans to assassinate both Lenin and Trotskey were being organized by Rayner.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Generals Source: Wikipedia Labels: Stalin, Rasputin, Britain, Russia, World War 1. Editor says, in this article we repurpose content from the Daily Mail and io9 which claims - The British Secret Intelligence Service did not stop with Rasputin. Cummings ordered an agent to kill future Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in 1918. Joseph Stalin desired to make peace with Germany, once again creating a problem for Great Britain. Cummings fired the agent for refusing the assignment.
~ As far as I know, Rasputin was murdered by four young Russian aristocrats who bragged about it later, when they were in exile following the revolution. Anyway, if Stalin had been killed, I would think that Lenin and Trotsky would have become very, very careful.
~ Stalin wasn't that high-ranking and didn't have that big a role in the original Revolution; later on, he rewrote a lot of things to make himself look a lot bigger than he was. Taking out Lenin and Trotsky, if they were identified as dangerous, would have a much greater impact.
~ Was just reading about supposed British Intelligence actions in Russia going all the way back to Catherine the Great's time. But would anybody have been able to stand against Hitler's onslaught as toughly as Stalin?
~ If only we had bumped the bastards off!
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