Re:The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Fa...
by HumanDrivenDev on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:47PM
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1. The famine occurred tens of thousands of kilometers from where US forces landed.
2. Fascism did not exist in 1917. The whites were extremely diverse, ranging from royalists to outright socialists.
3. The United States role in starting the Russian Civil war was minimal at beast. The main catalyst was the Bolshevik party seizing power a few months after losing the Russian Constituent Assembly election.
4. The Russian civil war likely had less deaths than the Chinese Civil War, and unquestionably less deaths than the Taiping Rebellion.
2. Fascism did not exist in 1917. The whites were extremely diverse, ranging from royalists to outright socialists.
3. The United States role in starting the Russian Civil war was minimal at beast. The main catalyst was the Bolshevik party seizing power a few months after losing the Russian Constituent Assembly election.
4. The Russian civil war likely had less deaths than the Chinese Civil War, and unquestionably less deaths than the Taiping Rebellion.