The last 200 years of immigration to the United States
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not really that surprising when you consider lenin was trying to overthrow the Czar at the time (and later succeeded). Anyone not onboard with the plan, or who just wanted to avoid the conflict probably Noped the fuck outta there. I don't doubt other nations saw massive numbers of Russia immigrants at the same time...
That's a good point, I didn't think about that. There would have been a flood of refugees from mass starvation as well.
War is an ugly thing that should be avoided whenever (reasonably) possible...
War against the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Communists, and Socialists is always an abject moral good. The issue is whether the cost of that moral good outweighs the benefits to your own people to wage that war.
more or less my point. avoid war where it the cost is less than the harm to your own people the war would cost. in the case of the white army, fighting off the communists would have been far cheaper (had they won) than letting them suffer under the boot of the communists or be displaced from their homeland. I'm not saying the Czarist regime didn't have it's flaws. It absolutely did, but Lenin and his fellows were far worse, and even if they had broke even, the severe disruption to people's lives would have been devastating in and of itself.