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From: anich@puff.UUCP (Steve Anich)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The peaceful Americans (in the Russian civil war)
Message-ID: <729@puff.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 02:42:18 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 02:42:18 1986
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In article <798@harvard.UUCP>, greg@harvard.UUCP (Greg) writes:
>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.

  Where are you coming from? The force sent in by Pres. Wilson had 100 some
  causalties from clashes with red forces. The governments of several 
  western nations (UK ,France and I think some others) sent small forces
  to Russia. Nothing was really acclompished by them (except allowing 
  soviet propagandist to show how the evil impiralistic Americans
  only want the destruction of the peace-loving Soviet Union (sounds like
  I'm from Berkley).

			steve anich