Even if the majority was blind and underestimated this red mentation which was from the beginning against history, some people realized that it was important to resist. It was a resistance of consciousness. But it was difficult to convince the others. This new reality was beyond their imagination. In the beginning they used only their economic warfare against the Bolsheviks. They thought that it would be sufficient but it was an error, a big one at the strategic level. Even the help in the Russian Civil War was not efficient. Because all the time they thought that it was only a local approach which concerned only Russia. They understood their error only after the full control of Russia by the Bolsheviks and the partial control of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and of course Ukraine. At this point it’s interesting to see the analogies with the current situation… At that moment only Winston Churchill and perhaps Woodrow Wilson were really able to understand the situation and to see the next steps even if at that time, the Soviet Union wasn’t created. But all the signs were already there. The chessboard was ready before the game of war.
So lets begin from the start.
At that time we are before 1922 so there is no official existence of the Soviet Union and we have to find some signs of what is going to happen at the end of the process, maybe a strategy. The first error was to see this problem as a local one. A local approach which is in fact restricted to the area of Russia. The red mentation of Bolsheviks was that Russia was only a starting point. In fact it’s only due to some mistakes that they consider after those that they should be restricted in Russia. So the area of Russia is rather different from the Soviet area. It’s important to see that because in fact it was bigger. So to resist they tried to make a robust core and avoid problems at the edges of Russia. But at the same time they tried to have the control of many Soviets, so called Soviets, at the end of the process. So for example the three in Caucasus and of course Ukraine. It’s interesting to see that even if at that time they had the partial control of these areas, they declared in 1922 that in reality all theses regions belonged to the Soviet Union. It was the same for the Baltic countries and a part of course of Finland. So the ‘chessboard was ready before the game of war ‘ is only a sentence to explain that before any chess game we have to put the pieces and the pawns on the chessboard. It’s already something which is aggressive, in fact. It’s just a little bit more than natural. Natural for chessboard is to be empty. When you put the pieces and the pawns there is no more neutrality. You have whites and black, you have a field. You have to chose. But the way you put the pieces and the pawns is not relevant because it’s always the same. Remember that in shogi you put them in a quite different way and you have in fact a sequence so you know also the level of your opponent. In this framework we can see that Soviets were playing the game of war before the starting point of the chess game. So it’s rather strange because they started before and they wanted already at that time some targets for the future but it was before the creation. This is the strange point of this fact.