I can’t say I’m very interested in the endless and uninteresting debate in your pages about who is more ethical, atheists or Christians. Like the interminable kids-in-the-ladies’-change-room battle, it has continued long past its best-before date.
However, Kenneth Kully’s arrogant dismissal of Doris Wrench Eisler’s point that a coalition of capitalist nations attempted to intervene in the Russian Revolution against the Bolsheviks requires correction (St. Albert Gazette, Your Views, Sept. 1). His assertion that “no such effort was mounted” in 1918 is simply wrong.
The 1918 military intervention in Russia after the exit of that country from the First World War by troops from Britain, France, Romania, Greece, the United States, Estonia, Italy, China, Australia, Japan and, yes, Canada, is a simple historical fact, easy to verify. We can argue about the reasons and the justification for this adventure, but not about the fact it took place, or that these countries’ forces took the anti-communist side in the civil war then taking place in Russia.
On this point at least, Doris Wrench Eisler is right. Now, can we just drop this nonsense, please?
David J. Climenhaga, St. Albert
