America and Russia. Two superpowers, each a bitter rival of the other. In 1918, America invaded Russia. How'd that end?
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Notes

• Note [1] — The Americans also invaded from the east, in Vladivostok. This video, however, focuses on the front in northern Russia.

• Note [2] — The picture in the thumbnail is a picture of the aforementioned invasion of east Russia. There really aren't any great pictures of the north Russian invasion.

• Note [3] — Arkhangelsk is also sometimes written/called Archangel.

• Note [4] — The flag used for the Bolsheviks is the flag of the Soviet Union (USSR). While the Bolsheviks and the USSR were two separate entities, most of the Bolsheviks eventually joined the Soviet Union, hence the usage of the flag.

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Image credits

Signing of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk: By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R92623 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, [ Ссылка ]. Emblem of the Czechoslovak Legion: By Own work. This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file: Legionarsky odznak cepice.gif (by Gumruch)., CC BY-SA 3.0, [ Ссылка ].
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Music

1) Pictures at an Exhibition, IX: Baba Yaga and the hut on chicken's legs, by Modest Mussorgsky. Provided by Musopen, piece in the public domain.
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