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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (John)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: The myth of Allied invasion of Russia after the revolution
Message-ID: <531@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 16:43:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: talcott.531
Posted: Wed Oct 16 16:43:23 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 21:26:13 EDT
Organization: Harvard
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Keywords: France, England, US, Japan, White, Red

Recently there has been statements on the net to the effect that the Soviet
Union's paranoia of the West and the US is understandable, because the US
and other Western countries have invaded the Soviet Union (the main example
is the Russian civil war) while they have never invaded the West.

Well, this is a myth. During the Russian Civil War, we sent 8,000 troops to
northern Russia.  We never fought a single battle.  The French sent 15,000.
They never fought a single battle either.  The British also sent about 15,000,
and they fought *one* battle, with light casualties.  On the other hand, the
Japanese sent 72,000 troops, the Czechs had 40,000 leftovers from WWI, and the
total strength of the Red Army was in the hundreds of thousands.

Military history is not the reason for Soviet paranoia of the West.  The 
reason is ideology.  By their religion, we are the devil, the "bad guys".  It
is as impossible for them to trust us as it is for any Christian to trust
Satan himself.
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