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To: rxh4n1; marcusmaximus; Paul R.; Bruce Campbells Chin; PIF; familyop; MercyFlush; tet68; BeauBo; ...
The Great Powers had no say in what was happening in the new Soviet Union. Blaming the Russians alone for Soviet action is mendacious and distorting history. Bolshevism was an international movement that suppressed al the national movement they couldn’t exploit. In fact, Russian nationalism was suppressed harder than the others.

The Allies actively intervened in the Russian Revolution November 7, 1917 to May 20, 1925. That's 7 years, 4 months, 1 week and 1 day. It's well known: Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. One of the reasons that intervention was not more successful was that Polish Field Marshal Josef Piłsudski declined to support the White Russians, thinking the Bolsheviks would prove weaker. The Allies by the Versailles treaties determined Poland's borders, and declined to support a restoration of the boundaries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Depriving the Bolsheviks of the food supply and lands of Ukraine and Belarus would have greatly hindered their movement, but it was the Allies who let them keep those lands.

Russia was the largest state of the old Soviet Union, and Russians were its largest ethnic group. From those facts they were the group most responsible for Soviet conduct domestically and its foreign policy, even if other ethnic groups participated or its leaders came from smaller ethnic groups. The Russians who did nothing to stop the communists should be judged much the same as the "good Germans" who acquiesced to Hitler's wars and crimes against humanity. That argument is neither mendacious nor distorting history.
103 posted on 05/02/2025 10:16:24 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

You know your history.


106 posted on 05/02/2025 12:37:21 PM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: Dr. Franklin

“The Allies actively intervened in the Russian Revolution November 7, 1917 to May 20, 1925”

Don’t exaggerate. 1918-1919 in the west and until 1922 in the Far East. This had little effect on the eventual outcome and where the borders finally settled.

Did you copy and paste most of this? Looks like it. Another fraudster from the Ukraine.


112 posted on 05/02/2025 5:13:08 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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