Lenin boards a
train in Berne, Switzerland, en route
for Russia. He and his wife Krupskaya are part of a group of 30 Bolsheviks
travelling via Stuttgart, Stockholm, and, partly in horse-drawn sleighs,
Finland.
Because he was
travelling through Germany, the itinerary appeared vaguely treasonous. The
train itself was said to have been sealed. But Lenin and other revolutionary
emigres had tried without success to obtain passage with the help of the French
and British, who had their own reasons to keep them from reaching Petrograd.
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