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To: Verginius Rufus
The US made an unsuccessful attempt to assist the White Army, the enemy of Lenin's Reds.

Another Wilsonian F-Up.

13 posted on 07/19/2018 3:37:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
According to Alfred W. Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, about 4500 American troops arrived in Archangel on the White Sea on Sept. 4, 1918, to assist the anti-Bolshevik forces. By the time they were pulled out in June 1919, they had suffered 192 deaths, including 112 killed or mortally wounded in action and 72 killed by disease--mostly by the Spanish flu. The Americans brought the flu virus to that isolated corner of Russia and an unknown number of Russians died from it--undoubtedly many thousands.

Crosby calls the counterrevolutionary regime based in Archangel "feckless."

17 posted on 07/19/2018 4:07:25 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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