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A Japanese lithograph depicting the capture of
Blagoveshchensk
,
Siberia
, by the
Imperial Japanese Army
during the
Siberian Intervention
, part of a
larger effort by the western powers and Japan
to support
White Russian
forces against the
Bolshevik
Red Army
during the
Russian Civil War
. The Allied invasion took place in
August 1918
, and Japanese troops remained in Russia until
October 1922
.
Image: Shobido & Co.; Restoration:
Adam Cuerden
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