Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihu1e.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihu1e!tan From: tan@ihu1e.UUCP (exit) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War Message-ID: <418@ihu1e.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 18:50:55 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1e.418 Posted: Mon Apr 8 18:50:55 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Apr-85 20:11:12 EST References: <314@ssc-bee.UUCP> <567@whuxl.UUCP> <921@ihuxk.UUCP> <1514@dciem.UUCP> <17@harvard.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18 Jim Mathews states: > The original contingent of American and British > troops landed in Murmansk at the request of Leon Trotsky, the military > head of the Bolshevik regime. Trotsky was afraid of the Germans marching > north to take the military stores there, as were the Allies. I have done a lot of reading about the Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil war, and this is the first time I have heard anyone make this claim. Everything I have read indicates the troops were sent there to help fight the Bolsheviks. Can anyone produce any evidence to support Mathews' statement? Even paranoids have real enemies: Bill Tanenbaum Please forgive the lack of a signature at the beginning. I haven't posted to the net from this machine before, and neglected to set up a signature file.