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• Stanje Polovno

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An undercover RAF squadron prepares to bomb Moscow from a makeshift landing ground in the Steppes two hundred miles from the Russian capital ...Two British regiments land at Vladivostok ... The Japanese invade Siberia with 70,000 troops ... American infantrymen fight the Bolsheviks in a bitter winter war south of Archangel ... British spies in Moscow plot the overthrow of the Russian government ... Thriller fiction? No. These events actually happened in a little known and much misunderstood war conducted at the beginning of the 20th century. The Allied intervention began in 1918 as a desperate attempt to maintain the Eastern Front against the Germans after Russia`s decision to withdraw from the Great War. But by 1920 it had developed into a haphazard and often chaotic offensive against Bolshevism itself and set the pattern for East-West relations which persists with all its dangers today - long after British troops landed at Murmansk to protect the Soviet government of the town from the Germans and invading White Finns.