[Kirkwood]

No, but I know my history and I know that this is the excuse that GERMANY used. To imply that other European nations were supportive of Germany being a powerful buffer to communist Russia (especially after what Germany did in WW I) is simply bogus.

[Alberta's Child]

Ask someone who lived in Spain during the Spanish Civil War -- in which the competing factions were supported by the Germans and the Soviets -- which side they would have preferred. Hint: it was the Soviet-backed Republicans who desecrated and pillaged churches, killed members of the Catholic clergy, etc.

[saradippity]

There were a lot of things at play. One was the financial position Germany was in because of the terms of the Versaille (sp) Treaty.

People on the continent were also more cognizant of the threat of communism. Many of them knew that the murder of the Tsar and his family was communist inspired,and brutal and horribly wrong.I believe the average European was far more informed about the ideology of Marx than Americans were.

Remember too,America was the country that was fed fabricated news from Russia that the lying Times reporter Duranty was sending back for public consumption.