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Were the fuck did you get your lessons on world history, idiot?
Here dolt, a History Lesson for you:
Yes, there was a Russian Civil War following World War I in which the allied powers tried to overthrow a Communist (Bolshevik) government but failed.
Britain, France, he USA, many European powers and even Canada had soliders in there trying to overthrow the Bolsheviks approximately 100 years ago or during your Great Grandfather's time:
they came close, had the Bolsheviks surrounded, but failed.
Hence the map of this struggle/war:
Point being, the allies actually did try to stop the emergence of communism in Russia.
Like Germany 20 years later, the allied invasion failed.
Given this reality, do you really think the allies could have overrun the Russians after World War II?
Especially when they were several times more powerful, united and their army was much larger, perhaps the strongest in the World after World War II?
My familiarity with the Bolshevik Revolution ends with the assassination of the Tsar and his family.
While I agree that it qualifies as an intervention, its extremely half assed and mostly a reaction to Germany.
Churchill sums it up as follows:
Winston Churchill, who had been the most prominent supporter of a campaign to remove the Bolsheviks from power, long lamented the Allies' failure to crush the Soviet state in its infancy. This was especially the case during the breakdown of western-Soviet relations in the aftermath of and the start of the . In 1949, Churchill stated to the British parliament:
In a further speech at the , in June 1954, Churchill lamented:“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.”
“If I had been properly supported in 1919, I think we might have strangled Bolshevism in its cradle, but everybody turned up their hands and said, ‘How shocking!’”
It seems this was about as effective as the Bay of Pigs.