Siberian Red

Kolchak was convicted of atrocities, the ‘Supreme Ruler of All Russia’ was shot against a brick wall in Irkutsk.
    Although Kolchak’s army was not the only force brought to bear against the Bolsheviks, its defeat and the execution of its leader spelled the end for any hopes of Allied intervention in the conflict. Leaving behind hundreds of dead, soldiers of the US Siberian Expeditionary Force (AEFS) departed in April of 1920. Japanese troops sent to help the Allied cause were the last to leave, in 1922. Their reputation for atrocities not only against Bolsheviks but also against civilians and even their own allies would soon be dwarfed by their actions against the Chinese in the 1930s and 40s.
    By the time the last Legionnaires left Vladivostok on September 2nd, 1920, more than 35,000 Czechoslovakians had been evacuated from Russia. Although they had played a pivotal and heroic role in establishing their country, freedom for the Czechoslovakians would be short-lived and sporadic.
    Eighteen years later, Germany invaded.
    Another eighteen would pass before their one-time ally, Russia, sent its tanks across the border.
    Unlike the beautifully maintained cemeteries of Great War dead in France, Belgium and the Dardanelles, the dead of the Siberian Campaign lie mostly in unmarked graves and all trace of their battles, except for a few bullet holes on the walls of Vladivostok station, is lost forever in the wilderness.

  By the Same Author
    Eye of the Red Tsar
The Red Coffin

About the Author
     
    Sam Eastland lives in the US and the UK. He is the grandson of a London police detective.

First published in 2012
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