Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The Great War" channel.

@Dragoot That isn't any "long story short." And I doubt that very many private soldiers knew the difference between a Dardanelle and a Constantine or a Constitution. Some of them probably thought it was a machine that made bread. As Chris pointed out in his question, half or perhaps more of the people fighting after the collapse of the Tsarist government in Moscow were fighting for the Whites, or for a variety of local warlords. I don't think you are likely to think of as any of them "the right cause." Again, maybe they thought a Kolchak was a machine for making loaves of bread.
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Princess Elizabeth, heiress to the throne of Austria-Hungary was still alive and well, a friendly and competent beer-swillling journalist in Tokyo when I met her in the 1970s. Now, if somebody can just find that furshlugginer throne...
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On Russia as backwater or not, a bit of trivia: in 1905, the largest building in the world was the Singer Sewing machine factory in Siberia, built by a Harvard engineer and Paris boulevardier named Dixon, the father of my friend John Dixon, of Xerox and Washington DC fame.
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Why does this otherwise fine documentary and commentary have all that ridiculous, pompous, echoing "music" playing all the time? It's really shoddy, annoying, noise.
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