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Question by Ducati 996R: How were the Communists in Russia stopped from taking the rest of Europe in 1920 after WW1?
After the Communist revolution in Russia when they wanted to take the rest of Europe in 1920 and Germany was too weak after WW1 why didn’t the communist Russians take the rest of Europe?
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Answer by browneyedgirl
The cold weather defeated the Russian soldiers, as used as they were to cold.
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physician says
They had first to fortify comunism inside Russia. The country was a total wreck with the civilian war, the economy collapsed and the internal situation was very bad
General Cucombre says
Well, Russia in 1920 had plenty of its own problems to deal with, including civil war and famine. Bolsheviks grip on power was not that strong yet and Lenin's government even had to let go of significant parts of the territory earlier (treaty of Brest-Litovsk).
Besides that, the communists never intended to "take" the rest of Europe. They hoped that revolutions in other countries inspired by the Russian revolution would bring communist governments to power, but that didn't happen.
NC says
In 1918, a civil war broke out in Russia (further complicated by British, American, and Japanese troops attacking different parts of the country) and lasted until 1922. At the height of the civil war, the Red Army had over five million men in arms, yet it could not spare enough people and resources for the invasion of Poland in 1921, so busy it was fighting domestically…
When the civil war ended, the government realized that it is very close to the complete inability to feed the army. A massive demobilization followed, with the total headcount dropping to about 500,000…
sdvwallingford says
You are talking about the Polish – Soviet War of 1920, when the Red Army was stopped outside Warsaw. This was the first application of what would later be stolen and called Blitzkrieg (Mikhail Tukhachevsky referred to it as Deep Operations). Another Soviet general had stated dejectedly, "If I had the Tsar's 400,000 sabers, we would be clattering up the cobblestoned streets of Paris right now!"
ole man is back says
they tried and were defeated by veterans of ww1 ,from many countries,especially Germany,because there was little for returning veterans in Germany to do.