"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

They were no longer given any support. Of course, there were Englishmen
who did not wish to side with the Bolsheviks. One of these was Crombie,
the British military attache in Petrograd. He was removed in an original
manner. The Red Guards simply forced their way into the British Embassy
on the 31st of August 1918 and murdered Crombie. No one there offered
any resistance.
Winston Churchill wrote a letter to the British Prime Minister, David
Lloyd George, on the 21st of February 1919. He had no objections to the
general standpoint that the Russians had to take care of themselves. David
Lloyd George officially explained the motive for not helping the White
Russians in the following way: "To send our soldiers to shoot Bolsheviks
would be the same as creating Bolshevism here at home." (Paul Johnson,
"Modern Times", Stockholm, 1987, p. 108.) He justified his co-operation
with the Bolsheviks in this way: "We have made deals with cannibals,
why not with the Bolsheviks?" Lloyd George was in favour of active
contributions to aid the Soviet government. A trade agreement between the
Soviet Union and Great Britain was signed on the 16th of March 1921.
On the 14th of February 1919, President Wilson demanded a
withdrawal of the foreign forces in Russia. The Bolsheviks were simply to
be left in peace. He explained this demand in a most peculiar manner:
"There is no use for our forces in Russia." The American President's
position is quite clear from his message, which was read at the Fourth
Extra-Ordinary Soviet Congress on March 14, 1918. He wrote, among
other things that the United States' government will do all it can to help
Russia become completely sovereign and independent in its own internal
affairs as well as recreating its important role in Europe and in the life of
our present society.
Those were not just fair words - United States of America immediately
began supporting the Bolsheviks in all imaginable ways. By 1920, the
Americans had already built two harbours in the Far East for Soviet
Russia. Forty-five thousand French soldiers (the number is probably
exaggerated) were stationed near Odessa and on the Crimean Peninsula.
The French also deserted the Whites. The Allied forces suddenly left the
theatre of war and refused to fight the Bolsheviks. At the same time, the
Frenchmen in Berezovsky near Odessa handed the first tanks over to the
Reds. The whole story must have seemed very puzzling to the Whites,
especially since the Bolsheviks, according to the French, had German
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