>>35719
Short recap.
>After the October revolution Russia is split in two and immediately kick starts the Russian civil war and the Revolutionary wave (1917-1923) through out Europe
>The Bolsheviks sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany ending the Russian front and renouncement of Russia's claims on Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania. (See how long that last)
>Now with one less (huge) enemy Germany is free to spread it's Hegemony through out the east. And press the allies to the West.
>The Allies still at war with Germany starts supporting newly born independence forces against the Baltische Landeswehr, West Russian Volunteer Army and The Red forces.
>The Allies see the Bolsheviks as a threat and seeing that they have donated a lot of munitions to the Russian state during WW1 they feared that most of it will get in Bolshevik hands.
>In the end The Allies decide to intervene in the Civil war not only to reclaim their munitions but to liberate the Czechoslovak Legion who's been trapped in the trans-Siberian railway behind enemy lines. (the Czechoslovak Legion was a volunteer group setup by the Russian state during WW1 later on when Czechoslovakia became independent (1918) the legion became a part of the Czech armed forces and fought on the side of the allies)
>The allies composed of France, Italy, the UK, USA, Japan and China and more, take Vladivostok and later parts of Siberia and Murmansk in support of the White-Russians.
>November comes and WW1 ends but pro-German forces fight on in the east until 1920
>Despite end of the great war, the intervention doesn't get reinforcements.
>The allies stand face to face against the Red army.
>Skirmishes turn into fierce and intense battles in the snow.
>Faulty equipment, set backs and the fact that people at home forgot why the allies were there in the first place hunts the allies.
>The whole thing is a mess, at one point British forces recruited former Red Finns (Murmansk Legion) who refused to fight the Bolsheviks and instead butted heads with the invading White Finns who were keen on liberating their Karelian and Ingria "kin" who fought off the White Finns but later rebelled against the Reds with White Finns support but failed to secure independence, this was called the Heimosodat or The Kinship wars.
>Getting tired of war the allies start to pull out of Russia
>By 1920 most of the allied powers have left Russia, including the Czech legion
>Japan keeps fighting until pulling out of the east in 1922
>Most of the munitions and guns the allies sent out to reclaim stay in Russia, along with some tanks.
>The Russian Whites are eventually defeated and the Soviet union is established.
Fuck.