Large sums of money and considerable forces have been employed 
      by the Allies against the Bolsheviks during the year. Britain 
      has contributed the nominal value of nearly 100 millions, France 
      between 30 and 40 millions, the United States have maintained, 
      and are still maintaining, over 8 thousand troops in Siberia, 
      Japan has an army of between 30 and 40 thousand strong in Eastern 
      Siberia, which she is now in process of reinforcing. Admiral 
      Koltchak's armies, equipped mainly with British munitions, reached 
      in May a total of nearly 300,000 men. General Denikin's armies 
      aggregate at the present time about a quarter of a million combatants. 
      Besides these, there were the Finns, who could place 100,000 
      men in the field. There were also the Esthonians, the Lefts and 
      the Lithuanians completely maintaining their fronts from the 
      Baltic to Poland. Lastly, there are the powerful Polish forces, 
      and help could also have been obtained from Romania and, to a 
          lesser extent, from Serbia and Czechoslovakia.    
 
                                                            
 
 
It is a delusion to suppose that all this year we have been 
      fighting the battles of the anti-Bolshevik Russians. On the contrary, 
      they have been fighting ours; and this truth will become painfully 
      apparent from the moment that they are exterminated and the Bolshevik 
      armies are supreme over the whole vast territories of the Russian 
                            Empire. *                       
 
                                                            
 
 
*From a Memorandum written by Churchill on September 15, 1919, 
      quoted in The World Crisis The Aftermath by Winston S. Churchill, 
      Vol. IV, 1929, pp. 256, 259.