Yermolyenko himself is simpler than Kerensky.
But we are also told that Yermolyenko had mentioned not only“several Ukrainian separatists,” but Lenin
as well.
But Kerensky is silent about this name,
because his very mention of it would have compelled him to admit that Yermolyenko had no disclosures to make.
But, in spite of his being unknown, unintelligent, and low in rank, could Yermolyenko perhaps have held some high post in the German espionage system?
The name of the petty rogue whom he
brings out on the stage is not“Yarmolyenko,” but“Yermolyenko.”[3] This, at least, was the name under which he was listed by Mr. Kerensky's court investigators.
This impression is the result, however, of our seeing the German staff not as it really was, but as pictured by“Max and Moritz,” the two corporals-
the military corporal Yermolyenko and the political corporal Kerensky.