The young, fervent communist Russia, struggling with both internal and external resistance, looked east for a fertile source of converts and expansion. Whilst Mongolia became the second country to embrace communism the prize would have been India, but claims from competing Muslim, Chinese, White Russian and local warlords ensured years of horrific bloodshed, deprivation and devastation. Sadly attitudes to the evident cheapness of human life and the willingness to destroy reverberate down to the present.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 105 Summer 2022 ) |
