Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!matthews From: matthews@harvard.ARPA (Jim Matthews) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War Message-ID: <25@harvard.ARPA> Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 19:57:49 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.25 Posted: Tue Apr 9 19:57:49 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Apr-85 05:23:31 EST References: <314@ssc-bee.UUCP> <567@whuxl.UUCP> <921@ihuxk.UUCP> <1514@dciem.UUCP> <17@harvard.ARPA> <418@ihu1e.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 20 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. Jim Matthews corrects himself: The original *British* landing was invited by Trotsky, the American one wasn't. Sorry about the mistake. The British came while WWI was still on, and the Bolsheviks wanted to deter the Germans from waltzing up to Murmansk to capture military equipment stockpiled there. The Americans came later, but made no attempt to overthrow the Bolsheviks (source -- George Keenan). The British were the only allies to see military action against the Red Army. Jim Matthews matthews@harvard