>The Russian Famine Relief Act of 1921 was formed by the United States Congress on February 24, 1919, with a budget of 100 million dollars ($1,757,000,000 in 2025). Its budget was boosted by private donations, which resulted in another 100 million dollars. In the immediate aftermath of the war, the program delivered more than four million tons of relief supplies to 23 war-torn European countries. Between 1919 and 1921, Arthur Cuming Ringland was chief of mission in Europe.[1] ARA ended its operations outside Russia in 1922; it operated in Russia until 1923.>Under Herbert Hoover, very large scale food relief was distributed to Europe after the war through the American Relief Administration. In 1921, to ease the devastating famine in the Russian SFSR the ARA's director in Europe, Walter Lyman Brown, began negotiating with the Russian People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinov, in Riga, Latvia (at that time not yet annexed by the USSR). An agreement was reached on August 21, 1921, and an additional implementation agreement was signed by Brown and People's Commissar for Foreign Trade Leonid Krasin on December 30, 1921. The U.S. Congress appropriated $20,000,000 for relief under the Russian Famine Relief Act of late 1921. Hoover strongly detested Bolshevism, and felt the American aid would demonstrate the superiority of Western capitalism and thus help contain the spread of communism.[2][3]>The ARA's operations in Russia were shut down on June 15, 1923, after it was discovered that Russia under Lenin had renewed the export of grain.[6] The act is estimated to have saved the lives of as many as 10 million Russians from certain death.
>>17435786Yet modern Marxists like to LARP as though the Western Powers conspired to destroy the Soviets and that’s why Russians lives were so shit
>>17435786God I hate women, but some of them are so cute.Post sauce nigger, plizOr else...
>>17435786Gib sauce already
>>17437028>>17437146Please discuss the Russian Famine Relief Act of 1921
>>17436420Western powers literally invaded Russia during the civil war in an effort to kill socialism.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War
>>17437600They occupied a few coastal cities in the chaos and withdrew as soon as it was clear the Bolsheviks had won.>The Soviets defeated all of the Western Powers invading them!Is a pure fantasy read your own link, the highest casualties were the fucking Czechoslovak Legion, which didn’t even want to be there they just got stuck. There wasn’t a single battle fought between Britain/France/The US/Japan and the Soviets during that “invasion”What’s more the British and Americans actively pressured the Japanese to withdraw from their occupied Siberian territory and hand it over to the Soviets when they easily could have and would have just annexed it.
>>17437621>There wasn’t a single battle fought between Britain/France/The US/Japan and the Soviets during that “invasion”That's a blatant lie.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tulgas>What’s more the British and Americans actively pressured the Japanese to withdraw from their occupied Siberian territory and hand it over to the Soviets when they easily could have and would have just annexed it.The Japanese would have been crushed by the more experienced Soviet men.
>>17435786he's not feminine (or she's waaay too masculine to be attractive), and that attempt at makeup isn't helping
>>17437586>Please discuss the Russian Famine Relief Act of 1921Sorry but I don't know nothing about the topic, I specialise in 16 and 17 century Europe. Now gib sauce pliz, I'm in love>>17437663She's very much feminine, you're wrong mister
>>17435786Childhood is hating Herbert Hoover for the Great DepressionAdulthood is hating Herbert Hoover for saving the Zigger Union instead of letting it collapse from starvation and saving the rest of the planet from another 60 years of Bolshevik subversion and chimpouts.
>>17437638>The Japanese would have been crushed by the more experienced Soviet menlel, yes I’m sure the Soviets that got assraped by fucking Poland would be able to drive the Japanese out of Siberia with their one railway
>>17438235The Soviets didn't get raped in Poland. That war was started by Poland and they failed to accomplish their objectives and the war ended with more dead Poles than dead Soviets. And that was with Poles having plenty of experienced fighters from ww1.
>>17438246>That war was started by Poland and they failed to accomplish their objectives and the war ended with more dead Poles than dead SovietsThe US actually won the Vietnam War ass take>And that was with Poles having plenty of experienced fighters from ww1As opposed to the Russians who were neutral during WWI?And what was the attack on Warsaw? Just a super clever feint to make the Poles think they were trying to conquer them?
>>17438260>The US actually won the Vietnam War ass takeNo, my opinion has always been that they lost it, but they didn't get "assraped" in Vietnam either.>As opposed to the Russians who were neutral during WWI?No, the Russians also had plenty of veterans... which is exactly why I said they would have crushed Japan, who did nothing in ww1.>And what was the attack on Warsaw? Just a super clever feint to make the Poles think they were trying to conquer them?I don't deny that they tried to conquer Poland. It doesn't change anything to the fact that it was Poland who started the war in the first place, and Poland only managed to survive, not to meet its own objectives.>Polish military forces had thus set out to expand far in the eastern direction. As Piłsudski imagined,>"Closed within the boundaries of the 16th century, cut off from the Black Sea and Baltic Sea, deprived of land and mineral wealth of the South and South-east, Russia could easily move into the status of second-grade power. Poland, as the largest and strongest of the new states, could easily establish a sphere of influence stretching from Finland to the Caucasus".[49]
>>17438264If a Great Power invades and gets heavily pushed back by a state that flat out didn’t exist until one year ago, then yes that qualifies as a humiliation.And as for Japan, Russia already lost to Japan while fresh less than 20 years ago. The exhausted and depleted Russia of 1920 would be forced to send troops to rural Siberia on their one railroad to fight fresh Japanese troops right next to home, it would have been a slaughter. There’s a reason the Entente were much more concerned about Japan having the region than the Soviets.
>>17438273>If a Great Power invades and gets heavily pushed back by a state that flat out didn’t exist until one year ago, then yes that qualifies as a humiliation.Soviet Russia came into existence not even one year before Poland did, and they were still busy fighting a civil war for the entire time that the Polish-Soviet war was going on. I don't call that a humiliation, and it objectively wasn't "assrape", like you originally claimed.>And as for Japan, Russia already lost to Japan while fresh less than 20 years ago.Yeah, in a different era with a different kind of warfare. The next time that they fought against each other in the 30s, the Japanese got crushed and redirected their entire war effort south against the English and Americans.>The exhausted and depleted Russia of 1920 would be forced to send troops to rural Siberia on their one railroad to fight fresh Japanese troops right next to homeMore like the experienced Soviet veterans would have been fighting green Japanese recruits with no knowledge of how war was waged at that time.
>>174382462/3rds of the red army sent to that front was encircled or had to be interned in east Prussia. The scale of a military disaster we're talking about here is enormous.
>>17438292>Soviet Russia came into existence not even one year before Poland didDisingenuous, the Soviet Union was an extension of the Russian Empire in all but name and inherited much of its civil structure and military. Poland had to rebuild from the ground up in a vacuum from three great powers who had all suppressed Polish institutions and independence for over a hundred years.>Yeah, in a different era with a different kind of warfare. The next time that they fought against each other in the 30s, the Japanese got crushed and redirected their entire war effort south against the English and Americans.“A major war fought 20 years prior doesn’t matter at all because it’s a different era, but also a minor inconclusive skirmish 10 years later is definitive because it just is!” Embarrassing>More like the experienced Soviet veterans would have been fighting green Japanese recruits with no knowledge of how war was waged at that time.Real life is not your Paradox game, experience doesn’t just stack. The British had to abandon attempting to enforce the Treaty of Sevres on Turkey because their troops were exhausted and mutinying at the prospect of another theatre. Those Russian troops who had just been through WWI, the Civil War, and the Soviet-Polish war would not have been happy about fighting Japan now over Siberian territory they had never heard of.
>>17438297If it really had been so disastrous, the Poles would have gone further into Russia. They're an extremely vindictive and bloodthirsty people.>>17438298>Disingenuous, the Soviet Union was an extension of the Russian Empire in all but name and inherited much of its civil structure and military.Civil structure, sure, but that's also true for Poland. They didn't really inherit a military any more than Poland did.>“A major war fought 20 years prior doesn’t matter at all because it’s a different era, but also a minor inconclusive skirmish 10 years later is definitive because it just is!” EmbarrassingWe're talking about a war where people were still charging in formation like in the 19th century. It really is irrelevant, and the skirmishes of the 30s were a lot more similar to how war was waged in the 20s.>The British had to abandon attempting to enforce the Treaty of Sevres on Turkey because their troops were exhausted and mutinying at the prospect of another theatre. Sure, but that was an invasion of another country. Do you think the British would have refused to fight if Britain was being invaded by some yellow horde?
