The North Russia Intervention: Allied Soldiers in the Arctic

When the Russian Civil War erupted, the Allies didn't just watch from afar. In 1918, British, American, Canadian, and French troops landed at Arkhangelsk and Murmansk, ostensibly to protect war supplies and reopen the Eastern Front against Germany. But soon after the Armistice, their mission shifted — to oust the Bolsheviks. Lucas and Luna explore the chaotic Allied intervention in North Russia: the muddled objectives, the frozen trenches, the mutinies, and the little-known battle where US and British soldiers fought the Red Army in the Arctic Circle. They discuss the roles of General Edmund Ironside, the Russian Legion, and the 339th Infantry Regiment, and how this forgotten front shaped Soviet distrust of the West.

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