- 24 Jul 2003 07:07
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Very, very interesting... of course like most things I've heard, I'll either have to see, or look up some additional sources for this information before I can quote it.
I do recall before hearing about troops from abroad being sent to Russia, specifically my Great Grandfather I believe, but I think I was told it was to 'halt' the Russian revolution, not wage war against the soviets... I suppose the difference would lay in when exactly this military action I was told about took place, before or after the revolution. Either way, I think it's fairly well established fact that the Soviet Union at it's birth was certainly no threat, and did indeed seek aid from other countries to right the political/social instabilities immedietly after the revolution.
This isn't to say that once on it's feet again Russia would have remained in friendly relations with the capitalists on it's borders... I know if I was an aspiring social state, that having people with lined pockets just a stones throw away would be hard to put up with, especially considering Russia fell into a record famine the same year the Soviet government took power. I suppose this all means that deep down inside I'm a capitalist, but that's just the deep down inside of me that's greedy and ignorant, my bigger socialist side usually beats that side of me into submission when I see some of the disparity in our world...
Gee, that was long winded... once again, nice article.