The Russian link is explored in this book, too. The author says the Woodrow Wilson sent monetary support to the White Russians in 1917 to aid them in the civil war there. In 1918 he used a naval blockade of Russia and sent troops in to help thwart the Russian Revolution. The mission failed and our troops left Russia in 1920. The book cited this intervention by the U.S. as "agression that fueled the Soviets during the cold war, and until its breakup, the Soviet Union continued to claim damages for the invasion."


Again, not a word of this during my U.S. History classes in high school. If our citizens only get half of the story, how can we make intelligent decisions? How arrogant and stupid we must look to the rest of the world.