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The Red Army soldiers knew their positions were what Lenin said they were
紅軍戰士知道，列寧說什么就是他們的立場
and they did as their supreme military commander, Lev Trotsky, ordered them.
他們的最高軍事指揮官列夫·托洛茨基命令他們做什么，他們就做什么
In Summer, 1918, Trotsky conscripted all men between 18 and 40 and pressed ex-Tsarist officers into service as military specialists.
1918年夏，托洛茨基征召所有18至40歲的男性入伍，并強迫前沙皇軍官擔任軍事專家的職位
Because Trotsky himself had no military experience the actual fighting was directed by his lieutenants.
因為托洛茨基他自己并沒有任何軍事經驗，在實際打仗中都是由他的中尉進行指揮
But nobody questioned that Trotsky was the key to the Red Army's ultimate success.
但是從沒有人質疑過托洛茨基是紅軍最終取得勝利的關鍵所在
By the end of the civil wars Trotsky's Red Army was 5 million men strong.
在內戰尾聲的時候，托洛茨基的紅軍已經強大到有500萬人
The precise details of these uncivilized wars don't concern us here.
這些野蠻戰爭的詳細細節在這里我們不需過多關注
They are more important for their magnitude and for their savagery.
它們的規模大小和野蠻程度是更為重要的方面
Both Reds and Whites were alike, were routinely guilty of terrible atrocities.
紅軍和白軍十分相像，都不時地犯下可怕的暴行
Sometimes a city of a location changed hands several times during the wars and suffered accordingly.
有時候同一座城市在戰爭期間在雙方之間數次轉手備受蹂躪
For example, Kiev, cradle of the Rus civilization, had been a part of the Russian empire since the 1654 treaty of Pereyaslav.
舉例來說，基輔，俄羅斯文明的搖籃，自1654年《佩列亞斯拉夫和約》以來就是俄羅斯帝國的一部分
After the February revolution Ukraine became one of the German buffer states.
二月革命后，烏克蘭變成了德國的一個緩沖國
After the Bolshevik revolution the Ukrainians happily established their own national republic.
在布爾什維克革命之后，烏克蘭人高興地成立了自己民族的共和國
