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July 3, 2022
Ukraine Open Thread 2022-102

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That the west would support the Nazis to defeat the Soviets is rather wishful thinking on the part of the Trotskyists, here, because wouldn’t it be just perfect if it could be the communists versus the world!?!?!?
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jul 4 2022 17:54 utc | 383
Copypaste from the “belligerents box” in here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War
Russian Republic[b]
(1917–18)
White Guards:
Russian State
(1918–20)
South Russia
(1918–19; Mar–Apr,
Apr–Nov 1920)
Eastern Okraina
(1920)
Priamurye Govt.
(after 1921)
Local forces:
Supported by:
Alash Orda
(1917–18)
Flag of Bogd Khaanate Mongolia.svg Mongolia
(1921)
Persia
(1919–20)
Nationalists:
Poland
(1918–21)
Finland
(1917–20)
Ukraine
(1917–18; 1918–20)
Estonia
(1918–20)
Latvia
(1918–20)
Lithuania
(1918–20)
Also:
Supported by:
Sweden[c]
(1918)
Hungary[d]
(1919–20)
Afghanistan[e]
(until 1922)
Anti-Bolshevik Left:
Left SRs[f]
(1917–21)
Green Army[g]
(1918–21)
Makhnovia[h]
(1918–21)
Kronstadt
(1921)
Entente Powers:
Japan[i]
(1918–22)
United Kingdom
(1918–20)
United States
(1918–20)
France
(1918–20)
Also:
Czechoslovakia
(1918–20)
Greece
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
(Kingdom of Serbia 1918)
Romania
Italy
China
Canada
(1918–19)
Australia
(1918–19)
India
South Africa
Central Powers:
Germany
(1917–18; Weimar Republic 1919)
Austria-Hungary
(1917–18)
Ottoman Empire
(1917–18; Turkey 1920–21)
Freikorps
(1918–19)
Collaborators:
Kingdom of Poland
(1917–18)
Kingdom of Finland
(1918)
Kingdom of Lithuania
(1918)
Belarus
(1918–19)
Ukrainian State
(1918)
Georgia
(1918)
Landeswehr
(1918–20)
Bermontians
(1918–20)[j]

Posted by: Arganthonios | Jul 6 2022 9:57 utc | 401