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In the third part of the Red and the White, Russia's Civil War.

It all started this series when my commissioning editor Steve Titherington heard the Moscow-based

historian Ludmila Novikova contrasting state-sponsored violence with grassroots terror in the north

of the country and he decided it was so

interesting we should make a program about it. Why did people kill each other with

such savagery? How did it happen? Some Russians still believe that the Allied troops which intervened

after the October Revolution were the catalyst for this carnage. My producer Natalia

Golishova who comes from the Arctic Port of Arcangel or Arangask

says she feels many Russians are still divided into opposing camps.

Just have a listen and see what you think. Tchaikovsky's plaintiff hymn, God save our Russia.

Nobody knows the full human cost of the conflict which tore Russia apart after the October Revolution a century ago,

but by any calculation it was catastrophic.

An estimated 10 million died from fighting famine and disease.

I'm Lucy Ash and in part three of this BBC World Service series, The Red and the White,

we're plunged into what's gone down in history as the world's bloodiest civil war.

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