On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > Certainly, the Russians have always been paranoid. The Brits, > however, gave the Communists the excuse they needed to convince the > Russian people that they had to sacrifice their liberty and economic > welfare to avoid being taken over by colonialist powers of the West.
This is laughably inaccurate. The excuse the Bolsheviks used was the attempt to grant massive amounts of Russian lands to the German and Ottoman Empires in the first proposed peace treaty ending the war on the eastern front in WW1, this predates the Allied Intervention. The Bolsheviks won because the Whites couldn't agree on anything and the majority of the Allied Intervention forces (the Imperial Japanese Army, which sent 70,000 troops, the majority of the forces) was uninterested in anything outside of Siberia and frankly, the Bolsheviks had a stranglehold on the core of Russia right from the start of the Civil War. Being taken over by the Colonial Powers was never a significant factor in the Civil War outside of Siberia (and there it was Japan, not the European Powers, that was the threat) > > "If the British and their allies had been successful in aiding the > Whites it likely would have saved millions of lives over the last 90 > years." > > That is exactly the type of excuse Britain has given for their > colonial excesses all over the globe for many centuries, causing much > more suffering than they purport to prevent. > > Dan > It's also accurate. The Ukrainian Famines of the 1930's were entirely a creation of the Soviets and would otherwise have been avoided, saving millions of lives right there. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
