You are right. But then Lenin was funded by Germany (and others) for his revolution (the aim being to disintegrate the Russian Empire, in line with the ideas of
Prometheism).
He wasn't right about Finland owing it's independence to Lenin. You should be careful about agreeing with that poster's opinion. Finland had didn't have the organs of a nation state when Lenin "granted" Finland its independence in 1917 i.e. no army, little government. He armed Finnish Communists and allowed Russian Communists to support their attempt to seize power. The Worker's Republic of Finland (or whatever it would have been called) would have part of the USSR.
Lenin was a Marxist, he believed that nation states were bourgeoise constructions, devised to divide the proletariat of the world. Any discussion of Lenin's actions and opinions of individual states has to seen through the prism of his world view i.e. there are no nations or ethnicities.
Has "granting" of independence to Finland, and other smaller states, was consist with his Marxism as he saw himself correcting the crimes of Imperialism which he, as a Marxist, saw as being an obsolete mode of thought. However, he was a revolutionary and saw himself as part of a new stage of history. He intended to initiate world wide revolution, obviously beginning with the Soviet Union's neighbours i.e. He, himself, didn't see his actions of "granting independence", while formenting revolution as contradictory, but your (and a certain poster) discussion about Lenin giving nations independence is very contradictory as Lenin intended to destroy all nations and establish a world wide Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
You, and that other poster you are conversing with, should stop making sweeping statements without understanding history better. Also, in this case you (both) should brush up on your Marxism/ Leninism.
Prometheism is a term I haven't heard, thanks for that link.
Where did you get the idea that Imperial Germany had adopted a Polish idea? Is an interesting claim you make. But, can't see why Germany didn't fund Lenin and the Bolsheviks for the far more obvious reason reason of ending fighting on the Eastern Front in WW1... Strange, strange claim you make.
As to the multiple posters on this forum claiming that the British funded the rise of the Bolsheviks
Can understand why Indians mightn't like Britain, but it's not responsible for everything that's ever happened in the world.
It is one thing to have an independence, another to keep it. Germany saved Finland three times:
1. 1918 with Baltic sea division to help crush the reds
2. 1940 when Hitler did not allow Stalin "to settle Finland problem"
In 1918, sure Germany helped. Wouldn't go so far that they saved Finland though.
As for 1940, are you claiming that Hitler influenced Stalin (somehow) to end the Winter War? Not quite sure what you are trying to say, actually...
