CannCon and Ashe in America press into Chapter 14 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, and the story gets darker fast. This week covers the actual coup that brought the Bolshevik minority to power in Russia, the New York financiers hiding behind Red Cross credentials, and the gap between the official humanitarian story and what really happened. The hosts unpack the two separate revolutions of 1917, why Lenin and Trotsky were not even in Russia when the first one occurred, and how a well funded minority faction ended up controlling an entire nation almost overnight. They also open the door into a side trip through World War II and the financing of both sides of that conflict, though the chapter is not finished this week. Expect uncomfortable parallels to modern events and plenty of genuine disbelief from the hosts.
