Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Russia’s timeline in World War II is confusing enough, but its role in World War I was even more so. While most European countries were fighting each other, Russia had their own civil war, which lasted years and split the country into partisans, each with their own army: the Bolsheviks had the Red Army and the loose coalition of partisans opposing them had the White Army.
And as the Great War ended, American troops were still in Russia.When [President Woodrow] Wilson sent the troops to Russia in July 1918, World War I still looked dire for the Allies. With the Russian Empire no longer engaged in the continental struggle, Germany had moved dozens of divisions to France to try to strike a final blow and end the war, and the spring 1918 German offensive had advanced to within artillery…
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