Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution
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The First World War - The Greatest War in History, Part I
In the early part of 19 18 president woodro wilson thought that they might be able to create some form of peace in russia. He suggested ference in the islands of principo in the sea of mamora, close to constantinople. But the whites were so furious at the reds and what had happened, of the murders of the aristocracy, the destruction and everything like that, that they refused to sit down with the reds. And this was always the problem. They could not make up their own minds. Now you gan, this is where one starts to have the first proxy war of the twentieth century. The british landed only a couple of er
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