Th main point I was trying the make is that there were British and Allies armed forces fighting the Red Army in 1919 in modern day Russia. According to Wikipedia a solder from Ormesby was killed in North Russia in September 1919 and probably the last fighting casualty of WW1 for British forces (see below). His name should be on the war memorial in the graveyard at St Cuthbert's Church. This is a spooky as my grandad lived in Ormesby in the 1930s and he wrote about been asked to go to Russia, he didn't go in the end, possibly because of his significant war wounds. Maybe the dead guy was known to him.
I would dispute the fact in the article that they Allies were
not invaders. If they were there just to encourage the Bolsheviks to keep fighting Germans as the writer suggests, the British forces would have gone home in November 1918, when the Germans did.
The biggest Western invasion by a mile was of course 1941, mainly Germans, but many other countries were keen to send divisions such as the Spanish Blue Division, Italian 8th Army (destroyed at Stalingrad). The Romanians had approximately 152,000 troops at Stalingrad and the Hungarians had over 147,000 casualties there too. Hence the fear in Russia by all its leaders since of an attack from its exposed Western border along hard to defend flat plains, in the words of Tim Marshall. It doesn't give a Putin an excuse to invade Ukraine as he had done, but explains to some extent why he wants a buffer area and why many Russians still fear a Western style alliance such as NATO.
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