The British Wanted to Assassinate Lenin

Nearly a century after the outbreak of the Bolshevik revolution and the collapse of imperial Russia into the light had gone out information about how the British government in 1918. planned assassination of communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

As the German secret service transported Lenin from Switzerland to Russia and the money helped his revolution, they expected him to conclude a separate peace with Imperial Germany when he comes to power.

Catastrophic Peace

That would be a disaster for the British, since millions of German soldiers would go from the Russian front and switch to Western.

For the implementation of the operation was in charge British journalist and writer Robert Bruce Lockhart, who was sent on a diplomatic mission to Moscow. He connected with various spies and anarchists that planned to assassinate Lenin.

Meanwhile, the Bolshevik Russia in the Brest-Litovsk signed a separate peace with the central forces and withdrew from the war, leaving vast areas of the Russian empire under German rule. Lockartovs task now was no longer just a bust of Lenin, but to overthrow the Bolshevik government and establish a new, ‘generals’ government that would return Russia to war.

Two shots to the head

From the documents it is clearly shown that Lockart received substantial funding from the British government to oraganize various antibolshevic operations. However, he was a womanizer prone to alcohol and gambling, and most of that money went to meet his personal needs. However, it seems that something is successful spent.

According to new findings, he is connected with the assassination attempt on 30 August 1918. when Lenin was shot on by a member of radical socialist revolutionaries, Dora Fanny Kaplan. She shot Lenin with a pistol, fired two bullets into his head, but the wounds were not fatal and he recovered quickly. Fanny was immediately killed within the walls of the Kremlin.

The British later intervened militarily on the behalf of the white side in the Russian Civil War, but this did not prevent the triumph of the Communists who ruled Russia next eighty years.