@irie @p @Nimbius666 The higher I scroll this thread, the dumber it gets, lol. Well, congratulations, you have discovered one of the 9000⁹⁰⁰⁰ antisoviet books, of which I’ve seen so many, that at some point thrown off the bulk (since it’s just a cack-handed copypaste) and started to collect only the oldest and most hilarious examples.
 In regard to this particular piece of mindretch I can say two things:
 1) The Bund couldn’t be the founders of the Bolshevik party, because they were a separate fucking thing from RSDRP (Russian social democrat party), the part of which (until 1918) the Bolsheviks were. Basically, there was not even any official “Bolshevik party”, because before the revolution they were a part of RSDRP (the common social democratic party), and after the revolution there was only the All-Russian Communist party, which had in parentheses – “of Bolsheviks”. Where “Bolsheviks” was written with a low letter, because it was a term for the people comprising a fraction inside RSDRP, and not a party name per se or of any society. “Bolsheviks” is spelled with a capital letter in English because it’s, duh, English. So, there was RSDRP, and it had two wings: more leaning to bourgeoisie, the left, and the foreign capital, and the wing more insisting on the “power to the people” side. The former were mensheviks, the latter were bolsheviks. Members of Bund (tens of thousands) decided to join MENSHEVIK side of RSDRP. And now the tricky bit, which the author of the drivel you posted clearly didn’t know: in 1903, on the II Congress of RSDRP, there happened the split on mensheviks and bolsheviks. And after the split each side in the published materials claimed to be the one, the only true RSDRP. So, if one doesn’t read carefully, without looking which side of RSDRP claimed something between 1903 and 1918, one may get the wrong impression of events.
 It is indeed, truth, that some influential mensheviks later joined the bolsheviks, like Trotsky, under whose command was the army, but there hardly were many others who were tolerated for their influence. And tolerated for the time being.
 2) First of all, like Wikipedia tells us, there were “tens of thousands” of Bund members. While at the time of October revolution there was 200 000 – 240 000 in bolshevik ranks (according to Molotov, whose party id card was number 5). How they can “spearhead” something this way is not clear. Secondly, the former mensheviks were always a pain in the ass for both Lenin and Stalin, so they were pressed out more and more for every non-Communist step they would take. I can get you a short list of bodies of executive power in SU since 1917, on 35 pages, you can check it for Bund members, if you wish.
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