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Discount_gentleman t1_j39xugg wrote

"Got caught up in" is kinda odd language. They were sent there as part of the war.

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auerz t1_j3bgjhy wrote

USA: "oh silly me, always forgetting my troops in strategic locations in foreign civil wars"

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VoiceOfTheSoil40 t1_j3a82i8 wrote

Exactly. They were sent there to influence the war.

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Kered13 t1_j3aeaky wrote

They were primarily sent to recover Allied supplies that had been sent to Russia before it withdrew from the war and to aid the Czechoslovak Legion, who were trying to escape Russia (which is an amazing story of it's own).

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