By 1919 the Red Army had become much better than the armies of its White opponents. The victory of the Communists in the civil war is definitely due to the simple fact of military power, reinforced by the fact that holding the central core of European Russia in the war, they could plan operations and move men more easily than their enemies the Whites, whose bases were on the border and cut off from one another.

Only after Germany agreed to the armistice did any of the Allies show any interest in internal Russian politics and Churchill was fighting the rest of the British leadership the whole time. American troops in instance had orders to simply stay in the ports and guard supplies depots. British and French troops did eventually give some material support and intelligence to White forces, but the Allied leadership was extremely divided. There certainly was no major fighting between the allied troops and Russians. Even Japan, who lost more troops than all of the other countries put together, knew that it needed U.S. support for land expansion; therefore, it made no serious effort to make permanent territory gains.

In 1920 there was still an organized White force in the Crimea, under General

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