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Perhaps their gratitude for food aid faded because "After the Bolshevik government withdrew from World War I, the Allied Powers openly backed the anti-communist
by a0-prw 7y ago
Perhaps their gratitude for food aid faded because "After the Bolshevik government withdrew from World War I, the Allied Powers openly backed the anti-communist White forces in Russia." (Wikipedia)
- natechols 7y agoThe food aid came later. Eventually it stopped, once the US realized that the Bolsheviks were simultaneously seizing grain from peasants to sell on the international market. (A trick they repeated in the 1930s, to pay for rapid industrialization, at the cost of ~5 million dead peasants.)