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Old 05-15-2012, 02:40 AM
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Here's a list of the anti-Bolshevik foreign forces that intervened in the Russian Civil War. The WW1 Allies were concerned about a possible Russo-German alliance so they had more than one item on their agenda: -
Czechoslovakia
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
India
France
Japan
Poland
United States
Estonia
Romania
Serbia
Italy
Greece
China

Other anti-Bolshevik forces were supplied by independence movements from various groups/newly formed states. They included the following: -
Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Ukraine
Don
Kuban
Georgia
Armenia

And a list of the pro-Boshevik foreign forces: -
Far Eastern Republic
Latvian SSR
Ukrainian SSR
Commune of Estonia
Mongolian communists

The German Empire created several buffer states to protect itself from the situation but the Red Army was very concerned with making peace with the Central Powers to prevent any such problems. The Central Powers certainly kept an eye on things, possibly with diplomats, intelligence agents and military liaison staff.
Central Powers and allies included the following: -
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Baltic German volunteers
Freikorps
Azerbaijan

There was also a group called the Greens AKA the Green Armies. They were armed Ukrainian peasants who fought against all governments to protect their own communities against the normal looting, pillaging, pressganging that occurred in those times. They were sympathetic towards the Red Army before 1919 but became sympathetic towards the White Army after 1919.

Another Ukrainian movement was the anarchist political and military group known as the the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine AKA the Anarchist Black Army.

With such a number of nationalities and causes, it would certainly make for an interesting Twilight: 2000 campaign and during the period 1920 to 1924, the Fedorov Avtomat was in production - arguably the first assault rifle to be adopted for service - for those PCs who want some "cool guns". There was also the use of chemical weapons, armoured trains, tanks and armoured cars and there's no reason why a campaign couldn't have zeppelins and dirigibles.
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