[cynicom]

In 1919 we had thousands of troops in Russia, the Japanese were there with many more and were urging us to join with the White Russians in a bid to destroy communism. Wilson lost his nerve and withdrew the troops.

[Paleo Conservative]

In 1919 we had thousands of troops in Russia, the Japanese were there with many more and were urging us to join with the White Russians in a bid to destroy communism. Wilson lost his nerve and withdrew the troops..

But the allied military commanders sent ther were rather naive about communists. Read Max Boot's book The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. It has a whole chapter about that intervention. One US general involved in it said the White Russians were committing more atrocities than the Reds.