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From: greg@harvard.UUCP (Greg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The peaceful Americans (in the Russian civil war)
Message-ID: <798@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 13:01:02 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 13:01:02 1986
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In article <429@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> michael@ucbiris.UUCP (Tom Slone [(415)486-5954]) writes:
>Let us not forget that during this time frame, the U.S. invaded Russia during
>its civil war (and it wasn't on the Soviet side either).

No, let us forget this, because it is false.  It is was a myth the last two
times it came up in net.politics, and it is still a myth.  The US sent 8,000
troops to Siberia during the Russian civil war.  They did not fight a single
battle.  They were sent to help keep the Japanese troops in Siberia in check.
The Japanese, by the way, sent 72,000 troops to Siberia.  The Red Army had
already enlisted several hundred thousand men, about 100,000 of which were
engaged in the South with White armies numbering in the tens of thousands.
Most of the rest of the Red Army was fighting White armies in Eastern Russia,
which also numbered about 100,000 men, and included 40,000 Czechs.
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