At the German Armistice, small-scale Allied intervention in Russia
(designed to thwart the Germans, save the Czechs, and overthrow the
Bolsheviks) had completely failed. But the presence of Allied
troops had enabled some White groups to come together, while Allied
finance had kept others alive. Now the Great War was over. Were
Allied troops to be withdrawn - or reinforced? All would be decided
at the coming Peace Conference. But before it even met, Britain had
already decided to supply the Whites in South Russia and Siberia,
while France had actually launched a military invasion in the
Odessa region. The Peace Conference never properly addressed the
Russian problem. After President Wilson's final effort to make
peace with Moscow had failed, and the Whites had started an advance
in Siberia, and French troops, in open mutiny, had abandoned
Odessa, the British were left to carry on single-handed. On the
main South Russian, Siberian and Baltic fronts, Churchill and Lloyd
George now turned the White forces into expendable British pawns in
a temporary forward holding operation, designed to contain the
Bolshevik inferno within Russia, and burn it out there, and thus
give a prostrate Europe time to recover. This medium British
intervention (which the Peace Conference had already been carefully
warned was doomed to failure) was thus to prolong the Russian civil
war, and cause a further 14 million Russian deaths - due not to the
hap-hazard fighting, but to starvation, cholera and typhus, in turn
due to the ever-growing dislocation within Russia, and its further
ruin. Thus were sown the seeds of the Cold War.
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