AMERICAN PROBLEMS by WILLIAM E.BORAH 1924

RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA 193
policy, without conscience or common sense
behind it.
and of Wrangel and of
After the policy with reference to the blockade
came the organization of invasion of Russia
by outside powers. The forces of Kolchak
Denikin were munitioned
and financed by outside powers, by those
who had been associated with Russia or with
whom Russia had been associated only a short
time before. These men represented, in the
estimation of the Russian people, the old
regime. The peasantry, the masses of Russia,
looked upon Kolchak and Wrangel as representatives
of the old Czar rule, and that their
admission to power or the placing of them in
power would be but another way of calling
back the old rule. So they failed in their purpose;
but while they failed to obtain control of
affairs in Russia the invasion succeeded in adding
demoralization to the Russian situation and
greater and deeper misery to the Russian people.
Wide spaces of territory were laid waste.
War was again pushed upon a people who had
been in war for years, and it would be difficult
to calculate the great evil brought to the Russian
people by reason of those invasions or attacks
munitioned and supplied by outside powers.