Talk:Republic of Kekistan/@comment-46.77.227.222-20190601193652/@comment-39597563-20190601212914

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The “capitalist invasion” was in fact a small intervention by the allied countries initially trying to avoid the Eastern Front of collapsing. French, British and American troops arrived in the spring of 1918 and a year later, most were already withdrawn. The Russian civil war itself lasted from the end of 1917 until 1923. Most of the “capitalist invaders” were hardly involved in any fighting – except for the Czech legion, which consisted of former Czech prisoners of war who were recruited by the tsarist regime to fight the Austro-Hungarian empire with the promise of gaining independence. Caught up in the civil war they fought their way out of Russia via Siberia – one can call these hardly “capitalist invaders”. Americans, British and French sent small contingents of a few thousand troops each. Compared with the millions fighting in both the Red and the White armies – one can’t imagine how these negligeable contingents could be responsible for starting the civil war or creating a famine which started in the spring of 1921. By the way, it was thanks to the American Relief Administration which sent food to Russia that not more people died. At least 10 million people were fed with the food help sent by American and British organisations, paid for by American taxpayer’s money. Food aid was sent to Russia until 1923. At that moment, the Soviet government was busy with selling grain to forgeing markets to invest in the industry, rather than to use the grain to feed their own people. Learn history before copying propaganda.