When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster
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In 1987 I received a telephone call from ABC News with Peter Jennings. The Soviet government was protesting an ABC miniseries called Amerika, which depicted a fictional Soviet occupation of the United States. The Soviet complaint did not concern the miniseries’ inane dialogue and wretched acting; rather, the essence of the Russian protest was, “We’ve never invaded you, but you once invaded us.” This was news to the producers of ABC News, who had never heard of the American intervention in Siberia. After doing some quick research, they contacted me because I had published an article about the subject the previous year. Unfortunately, I was unable to assist them in achieving their primary objective, the location of a surviving American veteran of the campaign, then almost seventy years in the past.[1]
Despite the brief piece that aired on ABC News soon after, most Americans remain unaware of the Siberian intervention, which still receives little or no attention in most textbooks. This is unfortunate because of the light that the intervention sheds on the survival of the Soviet regime and on subsequent Soviet-American relations and because of its pertinence to the numerous issues raised by counterinsurgency campaigns, a subject that has become crucial to the United States in recent years in the wake of the Afghanistan and Iraq interventions. One of the earliest U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere, the Siberian intervention was a harbinger of things to come.