The Winter Palace and the War on Drugs

Kerensky's staff could not immediately deliver vehicles to get him out of town. They had to scrounge around and procure two automobiles, one of which they jacked from the american embassy. When kerensky sped out, of petrograd he was in a car waving the American flag. He blew through check points without even bothering to slow down. Most people didn't even know kerensky had left the capital. And they spent the whole day believing the looming show down at the winter palace was going to end with his arrest.