Xref: utzoo alt.activism:12538 alt.desert-storm:12489 trial.talk.politics.peace:102 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!kitchel@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu From: kitchel@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Sid Kitchel) Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy,alt.desert-storm,trial.talk.politics.peace Subject: Re: The Next War Keywords: save your yellow ribbons Message-ID: <1991Mar28.090752.19666@news.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 28 Mar 91 14:07:41 GMT References: <9103270659.7238@mydog.UUCP> <9103272306.7559@mydog.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Lines: 22 gcf@mydog.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes: |->It's true what they say about you guys not reading history, |->isn't it? Between the period from 1918 to 1930 the United |->States intervened in the Soviet Union and in Latin America. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Let's not cast too many motes before we examine the beams!! The US and others put troops into Russia in 1919-20 to protect the integrity of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Russia was in chaos with the Reds and the Whites hard at it. When the foreign troops arrived the Tsar had not yet been executed. There was no stable CCCP as yet. Franklin Roosevelt's first administration was the first US government to recognize that the Bolsheviki had won the civil war. Former naval person and former historian, --Sid -- Sid Kitchel...............WARNING: allergic to smileys and hearts.... Computer Science Dept. kitchel@cs.indiana.edu Indiana University kitchel@iubacs.BITNET Bloomington, Indiana 47405-4101........................(812)855-9226