Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Was Lenin our SOB?
Russia Insight features the opening of a private archive, the letters of Admiral Kolchak. He began as an oceanographer, then enlisted in the Navy to help fight the Japs in 1904. He quickly became an Admiral.
When Germany and Japan and USA worked together in 1918 to break up Russia, (while we were still NOMINALLY fighting against Germany) Kolchak stayed with the Tsarist side, stayed with real Russia.
We were mainly working in Siberia, and Kolchak was also fighting there. Our side, the Axis side, captured Kolchak and turned him over to the Bolsheviks.
This casts the War Of Intervention in a new light. From available sources our goals were unclear, and perhaps we weren't entirely sure what we were doing. It appeared that we were trying to favor the Mensheviks.
The clip is equally unclear, leaving doubt whether Kolchak's capture was opportunistic or strategic. If it was strategic, it would certainly fit the usual pattern. When we start a revolution, our favored rebel usually wins. Castro and Khomeini were ours, funded and assisted by CIA. Both broke loose and opposed us, earning our undying enmity. If Lenin was ours, he would add to this correlation.
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