The Franco-British Plot to Dismember Russia

 In failing to crush the Russian revolution, Britain and France not only lost a historic opportunity to “strangle Bolshevism in its cradle,” in Winston Churchill’s pestilential phrase. London and Paris had planned to carve up the Soviet Union’s vast resources, while neutralising any prospect of Moscow emerging as a major international anti-capitalist agitator. The failure of invading powers to learn lessons from the debacle, and Russia’s visceral modern day memories of the mass invasion, in no small part account for where we are today.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-146006520  

https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/the-franco-british-plot-to-dismember 

This is worth reading.