<span> a means of rewarding the Duke of Marlborough</span>
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The Germans had sent him in a sealed car from Switzerland. They hoped that Lenin would foment further instability in Russia since Lenin's Bolsheviks were opposed to continuing the war with the Germans. ... It was, therefore, in the German interest for the Bolsheviks to come to power Russia.
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They inspired American thinkers and framers of the government of how the government should be.