"This is laughably inaccurate." Thanks for respecting the opinions of others.
I was an international relations major in college, with a minor in Soviet Studies. I researched and studied the intervention and its aftermath in some detail, including sources in Russian I obtained from archive in Germany and Russia. There were numerous examples where the "hard-liners" used the intervention, and the fact that it was orchestrated by Britain with participation of American troops, as evidence that the West was plotting to overthrow the Soviet government and impose their own regime upon Russia. I am no fan of communism; my great-grandparents suffered under the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia after WW II. The Soviets were brutal butchers. That being said, the British intervention in Russia was an ill-conceived exercise in cultural arrogance that was doomed from the start and and helped solidify Bolshevik control of Russia. Many who initially saw the Civil War as a battle between two views of Russia's future were convinced by the intervention that it was really a struggle to keep foreign powers from dominating their future. The intervention thus was counter-productive and drove many moderates to the side of the Reds. Dan -- 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.
