Georges Simenon Quotes
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
Simenon, Georges. "Chez Trotsky, sur l'île de Prinkipo." Paris-Soir, 16 June 1933, p. 1.
Lenin, Uritsky, and other Bolshevik leaders were attacked in 1918. Lenin was wounded but Utrtsky died, and this triggered the attacks on the other Russian factions by the Bolsheviks known as the “Red Terror.”
Only 6 years after the Russian Revolution Lenin was already being perceived as an international provocateur and instigator of problems.
Zenzinov was often a critic of the Bolsheviks.
New York Times Russian correspondent was commenting on the prognosis for the Russian revolution:
In one of the most dramatic events in the history of Russia the President resigned his leadership post of the Communist Party.
Trotsky appeared at the Russian Foreign Ministry shortly after the October Revolution. The staff had served the Czar and the Aristocrats who were in charge of the Czar’s Ministries. To them Trotsky (and the other revolutionary leaders) were nobodies and certainly not fit to lead a Foreign Ministry. They did not quite realize that Russia and the world had changed forever.
He served as a liaison with the Russian military officers after WWII. As a result he developed friendships with some who told him much about Stalin and the Communist party of the Soviet Union.
Even when Russia was coming to grips with Stalin’s crimes against humanity, Hoxna was still an apologist for the Soviet Dictator, whose “mistakes” cost millions of lives.
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
