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They failed to see that the Romanovs once dead were far more useful to their enemies as martyrs.

Many European leaders believed that Bolshevism was a greater danger to Europe than German militarism.

Siberian Cossacks were reactionary and proud of it. They despised civilians and above all Jews.

Some 30,000 to 40,000 Chinese served in Bolshevik ranks during the Civil War, yet it could have been double that number.

Since the Chinese had suffered ill treatment and appalling conditions at the hands of the Tsarist military authorities, the Bolsheviks spotted an opportunity to recruit them.

When their company's fortunes turn uncertain, tech leaders panic. Being techies, they have a technical name for this panic: they call it pivoting.

"Neither war nor peace."

Lenin had long been conscious of the fact that the Bolsheviks only chance of seizing power across Russian land mass and retaining it would be to achieve tabula rasa through violence, so there could be no return to the past.

"War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals." His dehumanization of them as lice, fleas, vermin, and parasites was tantamount to a call for class genocide.

The advantage of wearing leather was that unlike wool, it resisted the infestation of typhus- bearing lice.

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During the 1812 Patriotic War against Napoleon, the Don Cossacks alone provided 26 regiments of calvary amounting to nearly 50,000 sabres.

The Bolsheviks were numerically miniscule beside the Socialist Revolutionaries.