What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The Soviet Union, as the world's first socialist country, has been met with unanimous hostility from the capitalist countries since the day it was founded. Because its establishment was a successful practice of socialism, it was undoubtedly a huge threat to capitalist countries.
In order to strangle it in its cradle, the capitalist countries led by Britain formed a coalition and colluded with the White Russian forces in the Soviet Union to launch an invasion of the Soviet Union.
This coalition was composed of britain-led allies during World War I, with a total of fourteen countries (Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia), mainly Britain, France, the United States, and Japan, and their slogan was to punish Russia for withdrawing from the First World War (the October Revolution in Russia in World War I, the establishment of Soviet power, and the withdrawal from the war).
But their real purpose was twofold, one was to overthrow the Soviet regime, and the other was to take advantage of the war to plunder the Soviet Union.
In March 1918, the British bore the brunt of the invasion of the northern Soviet Union, and then the British, American and Japanese forces landed in Vladivostok, gathering a total of 130,000 soldiers and launching an invasion of the Soviet Union.
In addition, countries also sent exploration teams to the Soviet Union with their troops, and while fighting, they were also exploring and excavating various minerals in the Soviet Union.
At that time, the Red Army of the Soviet Union had only a few tens of thousands of men. The Allied army of 130,000 had surpassed that of the Red Army, while the army of White Russia was 400,000, and it was far more abundant in combat resources and supplies than the Red Army. The collusion of the two opposition forces at home and abroad made the newly established Soviet regime face unprecedented challenges.
Within the Red Army, in addition to the serious under-numbers, it faced a number of other serious problems. The first is the institutional problem of the army. At the beginning of the establishment of the Soviet Union, in order to fulfill the promise of ending the imperialist war, all the old armies left over from the Tsarist period were disbanded.
As a result, not only has the number of troops decayed significantly, but many outstanding officers have also left the army, resulting in a large loss of talent. The Red Army did not have an efficient system for management, which seriously affected the operational efficiency of the Red Army.
In order to solve this problem, the Soviet Union first reformed the system of the Red Army, improved the operational efficiency of the army, and at the same time, promoted a large number of operational command personnel.
In order to solve the problem of insufficient troops, the Soviet Union issued a mobilization order calling on the masses of workers and peasants, as well as former Russian soldiers, to join the Red Army and defend the country. The invasion of the Allies also prompted the Soviet people to unite and actively participate in the battlefield.
In just a few months, the Red Army of the Soviet Union expanded to more than one million, and many of them were former Russian soldiers with combat experience, and the combat effectiveness of the Red Army was greatly improved in a short period of time.
There is also a problem, that is, the Soviet Union's production is relatively backward, the army's supply is not sufficient, coupled with the rapid expansion of the army, so that supply has become a big problem.
In order to solve this problem, the Soviet Union implemented the surplus grain collection system and the wartime communist policy, and concentrated all the grain and resources in the country to support the army, so as to solve the problem of supplying the army.
The solution of these two major problems greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Red Army and gradually reversed the unfavorable situation on the battlefield. On the part of the coalition forces, after a major war, there was general war weariness in the army.
Moreover, unlike the Defense of the Red Army, many soldiers of the Coalition Army did not know what they were doing after coming to the Soviet Union, and the continuous defeat with them on the battlefield further aggravated the war weariness among the Coalition Army, and a large number of soldiers began to flee, and even defected.
In England, as The constant war waged by England places a great burden on its own people and the working class, the British proletariat launched a massive strike against the atrocities of the British government and in support of the proletarian regime in Russia, calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Russia.
Eventually, britain, under pressure at home, withdrew soviet troops. As soon as Britain left, other countries also withdrew their troops.
Only Japan has always refused to withdraw its troops.
Japan did this for its own interests in Asia, and second, it had fought a war (the Russo-Japanese War) with Tsarist Russia on Chinese territory before and won victory. Based on previous experience, Japan believes that this time it can also win. However, the fighting strength of the firm-faith Soviet Red Army was far from being comparable to that of the Army of Tsarist Russia. As a result, Japan suffered many heavy losses in the battle with the Soviet Red Army and had to choose to withdraw its troops.
The fourteen-nation coalition army came with great momentum, but it was defeated and could only leave in disgrace. At that time, China's Beiyang government also sent 3,000 soldiers to Vladivostok to prevent Russia from invading Outer Mongolia. When the coalition forces left, the Beiyang government also withdrew its troops.
After the withdrawal of foreign forces, only a scattered White Russia remained at home. Under the comprehensive encirclement and suppression of the Soviet Red Army, they were eventually wiped out.
In this war, externally, the Soviet Union drove out the imperialist forces of intervention and, internally, eliminated the reactionary White Russian forces and further consolidated Soviet power. After that, the Soviet Union gradually became stronger, and it had a very far-reaching impact on the world pattern and the fate of mankind!