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Maybe not an attempt at annexation, but Winston Churchill made speeches late in life bemoaning the effort’s failure to ‘strangle bolshevism in its cradle.’ Tel
by dayofthedaleks 5y ago
Maybe not an attempt at annexation, but Winston Churchill made speeches late in life bemoaning the effort’s failure to ‘strangle bolshevism in its cradle.’
Tell me where things would have stopped if the Whites, Allies, and Czechoslovak Legion had gained the upper hand.
- wolverine876 5y ago> Tell me where things would have stopped if the Whites, Allies, and Czechoslovak Legion had gained the upper hand. In no way would it involve the UK or US controlling any part of Russia. Also, the Whites were Russian. The Bolsheviks had no claim on representing Russia any more than the Whites did.
- arethuza 5y agoGiven that UK's habits at the time I'm pretty certain we'd have found some excuse to hold onto a chunk of Russia in those circumstances.
- tlear 5y agoWhites would have reestablished empire and put whatever Romanov bolsheviks did not murder on the throne? Stalin would be dead.. Beria, Ezhov and co too. :) It would be an amazing thing if bolsheviks could be strangled in the cradle. I think only Poles had a chance if they waged their offensive through Ukraine better, western powers had no real say in any of it after the ww1 bloodletting nobody was going to go invade Russia.
- ashtonkem 5y agoThe Bolsheviks were completely correct in being paranoid about western attitudes and intentions towards them. But that’s a far cry from “the UK is going to seize Moscow”