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Jan 22ยทedited Jan 22Liked by Craig Nelsen

There was brief mention of British troops leaving Archangel in early 1920 and a Bolshevik retaliation against the collaborating White Russians following. The extent of Allied intervention in various parts of Russia is another practically unknown chapter of WW1. At Churchill's urging what started out as a continuation of war vs Germany (and German occupied Russia) turned into an attempt to overthrow the Bolsheviks in collaboration w/ the White Russian forces. The outcome was debacle, defeat and evacuation. Only Japan in the east made any substantial headway w/ their own large force occupying the USSR's Far East territory.

Churchill's bitter rebuke to his divided Parliament "I think the day will come when it will be recognized without doubt, not only on one side of the House, but throughout the civilized world, that the strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race."

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Here is a message sent to British Foreign Minister Lord Balfour about a year after he issued the Balfour Declaration from a British subject in Russia:

Sir M. Findlay to Mr. Balfour.โ€” (Received September 18.)

(Telegraphic.)

Christiania, September 17, 1918.

FOLLOWING is report by Netherlands Minister at Petrograd, the 6th September, received here to-day, on the situation in Russia, in particular as affecting British subjects and British interests under Minister's protection:โ€”

...[He describes the horrible conditions, murders and so on and ends with...]

"The foregoing report will indicate the extremely critical nature of the present situation. The danger is now so great that I feel it my duty to call the attention of the British and all other Governments to the fact that if an end is not put to Bolshevism in Russia at once the civilisation of the whole world will be threatened. This is not an exaggeration, but a sober matter of fact; and the most unusual action of German and Austrian consuls-general, before referred to, in joining in protest of neutral legations appears to indicate that the danger is also being realised in German and Austrian quarters. I consider that the immediate suppression of Bolshevism is the greatest issue now before the world, not even excluding the war which is still raging, and unless, as above stated, Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately, it is bound to spread in one form or another over Europe and the whole world, as it is organised and worked by Jews who have no nationality, and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things. The only manner in which this danger could be averted would be collective action on the part of all Powers."

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I think there was another manner to solve the problem of international, revolutionary Bolshevism other than the West uniting to destroy it, tho the latter would have been far, far preferable. Unfortunately Churchill himself was party to it. That was Zionism. Give the yids their own country and they'll stop trying to destroy the existing order of things. Short-sighted thinking at best. It just gave them a base for their criminality to continue and spread as the great German Chancellor predicted.

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