What follows is four-pages extracted from Alexander Werth’s book entitled ‘Russia – The Post-War Years’ (1971) – which might well be the last book he wrote before his passing in 1969. Since 1992, Nicholas Werth – the son of Alexander Werth – has peddled the myth that his father was driven to suicide following the Soviet incursion into Czechoslovakia in 1968. Not only was this a year prior to to the death of Alexander – but the man who witnessed all the horrors of the Nazi German atrocities first-hand as he moved forward with the Soviet Red Army between 1941-1945 – discusses quite calmly and openly the issues behind the Soviet actions in Czechoslovakia in this very book.
These pages are from the Chapter Three which is entitled ‘The Cold War’. Werth is of the opinion that the Cold War began in 1917 – the year of the Russian Revolution – although he plays down the fact that the UK, US (and twelve of their allies) – joined Imperial Germany (and six of their allies) in a monumental invasion of Revolutionary Russia between 1918-1921. (Indeed, during 1918 – British and German troops fought side by side in Revolutionary Russia – both armies attempting to kill Lenin – whilst their comrades continued to ‘kill’ one another in the mud of France and Belgium). Werth also seems to be discussing different phases of this ‘international’ intervention of Revolutionary Russia – referring to the conflict as happening between 1918-1921, 1919-1920 and 1919-1921, etc. This (unexplained) demarcation demonstrates just how difficult and complex this invasion was – despite Werth referring to it as ‘half-hearted’. This ‘half-hearted’ Western invasion of Revolutionary Russia cost the lives of 10.5 million Russians (and Russian-allied) people in what was to later become the ‘Soviet Union’ (a political integration of 15 countries).
Russian Language Text:
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English Language Reference:
Alexander Werth: Russia – The Post-War Years, Taplinger, (1971), Pages 56-63
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