Comrades soldiers of the Red Army, the capitalists of England, America, and France are waging a war against Russia.

They are taking revenge on the Soviet peasants and the Workers' Republic because she overthrew the power of the landlords

and capitalists and set an example for the peoples of the rest of the world to follow.

With money and munitions, the capitalists of England, France, and America

are helping the Russian landlords lead their armies from Siberia, the dawn, and Caucasus against the Soviets seeking to restore the power

of the Tsar of the landlords of the capitalists Vladimir Lenin.

Welcome to Russian History Retold.

Episode 185, the Russian Civil War.

The beginning.

Last time, we covered the background to the Russian Civil War.

Today we begin things in earnest.

The year was 1917 and the month is November, and the Bolsheviks have just taken

control of the Winter Palace and ousted the provisional government. While many of

the members of the government are now in Bolshevik hands. One is missing, namely Alexander Kerensky. His flight from the palace is one that movies are made from.

Likely, a tragic comedy in this case.

Kerensky knew the jig was up in Petrograd,

and his only chance to stay in power

was to leave the city and gather an army to retake it. He thought that the Bolsheviks were a minor power with little going for it.

The problem he came up to was that they had disabled all the Russian cars in the area.

Kerensky went to the American embassy for help.

They loaned him a Renault under the promise that it would be returned in a few days.

At the same time his aides had found a working pierce arrow car with the reno and its American

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