As Lenin seized power in Russia in October 1917, civil war erupted as counter-revolutionaries attempted to defeat Bolshevism. The Western Allies decided to intervene to aid them. It was an act of pure folly, for it enabled Lenin and his tiny minority of followers to pose as the true champions of the Russian people.
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