I'm gonna need to dig through a lot of stuff for this so I don't have a citation on hand but I do remember reading that on the outbreak of the Russian Civil War and the intervention of the 14 entente powers, the imperialists wanted to carve up the former Russia empire into spheres of influence aka balkanize it to turn it into resource extraction states.
I'm gonna need to dig through a lot of stuff for this so I don't have a citation on hand but I do remember reading that on the outbreak of the Russian Civil War and the intervention of the 14 entente powers, the imperialists wanted to carve up the former Russia empire into spheres of influence aka balkanize it to turn it into resource extraction states.