Excerpt from How About Russia?: The Truth Revealed

The Very first thing to start with in considering Anglo Soviet relations is the fact that the Russian workers have never had any more bitter, implacable and ruthless enemy than the class who rule Great Britain. Once you ignore this fact, and begin listening to the wishful thinkers persuading the Rus'sians that Hitler is the biggest menace they have to face, you enter the road of wrong conclusions and painful surprises which the Press and the politicians have followed for so long.

British bankers and politicians first began to back the Russian landlords and capitalists, whose spokesman was Tsar Nicholas II, in 1904, hoping thereby to secure Russian support in the coming war with Germany. When the Russian people rose, in the first great Revolution of 1905, it was the City of London which floated a loan here and in Paris of and thereby saved the tottering Tsardom. The Russian people have never forgotten that, nor' yet the fact that British capitalists who invested money in Russia were among the most ruthless in their treatment of strikers against the frightful factory conditions which then existed. They have not forgotten that, when the corrupt Russian Tsarist Government dragged Russia into the war with Germany three days before Britain ventured to declare war, only a tithe of the arms which the huge Russian forces required from abroad for such a war ever came. In consequence of the flower of. Russia's manhood perished between 1914 and the beginning of 1917 four times as many as Britain lost, twice as many as France lost. Then in 1917, when the second Russian Revolution took place, and a Government of pro-ally Liberals and Labour men was in power under Kerensky, it was the British Government which was most instrumental i the Russian army into a hopeless and bloody final against the German Army, which had ten guns an machine guns to the Russians' one.

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