Veterans Day is really Armistice Day — the anniversary of the end of the First World War, a war that the great American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan called the “seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century. The four years of slaughter on the Western Front ended on Nov. 11, 1918, but fighting elsewhere continued, especially in Russia, where civil war had been raging since the Bolsheviks seized power a year earlier. The Russian Civil War wo…
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