The Bolshevik leadership believed the Kronstadt sailors were the most resolute and loyal of forces of the Red Cause.

Trotsky and the Kronstadt sailors went back on the river chasing the retreating rebel forces. Aboard the ship that had previously belonged to the murdered Royal family, now a staff ship, Larisa Reisner was exploring her new position as commissar and wife of Fedor Raskolnikov, now commander of the Baltic Fleet.

While aboard, Larisa Reisner noticed the former Czarena Alexandria had etched her name in the window, and she replaced it with her own.

A few months later, on the 11th of November 1918, the war with Germany ended.

Europe seemed to be at peace, but for Russia there was no end to death and killing. The country had exploded into massive civil war that would cause more deaths in Russia, than all the bloody years of the first world war.

The Civil War had grown into a power struggle between the Bolshevik Reds and Conservative White Generals. These men wanted a return to Imperialists rule, to life before the Revolution.

Unlike the trench war with the Germans in the West, the Civil War was fast-moving, troops covered thousands of miles on armored trains and swept across the country-side on horseback.

While the Reds struggled in the War against Germany, the Whites had the advantage. Hurriedly, the government moved the capitol from Petrograd to Moscow as the area controlled by the Bolsheviks shrank to not much more than the core of European Russia. The Whites also had the support of the newly victorious European powers. They saw Lenin's worldwide Communist mission as a clear threat to Democracy and capitalism. Britain, France, America and Japan together sent 200,000 troops to help supply the Whites and strangle any Bolshevik expansion, by keeping them busy at home.

With the collapse of Germany came intervention, or at least support for the Whites becomes a much more serious possibility. The Baltic Sea and Black Sea is open, Turkey has pulled out of the war, and for that allies can move forces into Central Russia.

Continued: Allied Forces Support the White Army in the War against the Reds, America, Britain and Japan send support for the White Army to fight the Bolshevik Red Army. The Civil War claims millions of lives, but the Allies feel it is a war they cannot win and pull out, leaving Russia in the hand of the Bolsheviks.

Previous: White Army and the Red Army of the Communists, The white army grew from rebels who defected from fighting Russian enemies, and attracted anti-Bolsheviks to its ranks. The white army takes Kazan and the Bolshevik Red Army claims its first victory, but not without a hard-fought battle.

References

Russian Revolution in Color (DVD)
The Russian Revolution and Civil War, this bloodsoaked time from the battlefields, testimonies, and colorized archives help unfold the dramatic story of the Communist rise and seizure of power in 1917.

Web http://anti-communist.net

Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Meticulously detailing Communism's crimes from Russia in 1917 to Afghanistan in 1989, the soul-destroying connections between Marxist idealism and the violence committed in the name of Communism, a damning reckoning with a cumulative toll of victims under communist rule, estimated by the authors at between 85 and 100 million victims, dwarfs even the crimes of the Nazis. Concluding, they wonder forcefully why such "class genocide" is excused more easily than the Nazis' "race genocide."

Thousand Dollar Question

Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth (tender) grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

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