Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> (...) Allied (i.e. American and British) forces
> intervened in Russia during 1919, but it's hard to call that an
> invasion (despite a lot of propaganda by the Communists on that topic)
> since they were acting at the request of, and on behalf of, the White
> Russians, who were at least marginally the legitimate government of
> Russia, to the extent that Russia had a legitimate government at the
> time. (...)
>
Sorry, Gautam, but this is "doublespeak" :-)
If they did invade Russia to restore the Czarist monarchy, then
I agree that it might be there "at the request of the legitimate
g*vernment of Russia". But the "White Russians" had the
same legitimacy of the Bolsheviks, i.e., none at all.
It would be similar to France invading the South of the USA
to restore the CSA after the North had re-conquered it :-P
Alberto Monteiro
