Yeah, I was tired and really messed up that last comment with all that embellishing.

That said, it's not as hard to believe as you claim.

Actually, it turns out that the entire article about Kitchener is wrong. Someone apparently assumed that all anti-Tsarist rebels were Communists.

I just found the actual source for the German general who credited Russian rebels for helping them kill Kitchener.

He never actually mentioned Communists. They were just anti-Tsarist rebels.

In London, last week, a book by one V. W. Germains, entitled The Truth About Kitchener, was published. In it appears a letter by no less a person than Germany's faded star, General Erich von Ludendorff. Writing to the author, General Ludendorff first apostrophised the late Field Marshal, then proceeded:

"His mysterious death was the work neither of a German mine nor a German torpedo, but of the power which would not permit the Russian Army to recover with the help of Lord Kitchener because the destruction of Czarist Russia had been determined upon. Lord Kitchener's death was caused by his ability."

That's not an irrational concern. The 1917 Revolution was only months away, and Kitchener posed a legitimate threat since he was actually competent when it came to military strategy.

Of all the claims, Ludendorff had the least reasons to lie. Why would a German general not take all of the credit for the kill?