Why you might ask have I talked here and there about the prospect of partitioning Russia after the Russian Revolution and WWI? It sounds to almost all Americans like it would have been a crazy idea. We thought Russia, especially Bolshevik Russia rather than Czarist Russia, was great.
Everyone in Europe had known for a couple of hundred years by then the threat Russia had posed and would pose to the West.
Only states like the US were innocent of such insights. They thought it was great that their new friend Lenin was threatening to eliminate all the detested Western Imperialist empires once and for all!
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