🔥 On October 10, 1919, the Supreme Council of the Entente passed a resolution formally announcing a blockade of Soviet Russia.

In the international conspiracy of imperialist powers against the Soviet state, the economic and political blockade was a crucial complement to the policy of armed intervention and material assistance to the White Guard armies. The imperialists, under the pretext of fighting the German-Austrian coalition, imposed a blockade on Soviet Russia right after the October Revolution victory. By the end of 1918 the Soviet state was nearly entirely cut off from the rest of the world, both in terms of politics and economy.

After Germany was defeated, it was no longer feasible to maintain the blockade of Soviet Russia by claiming it was a blockade of Germany. Then, on October 10, 1919, the Supreme Council of the Entente decided to formally announce a blockade of the Soviet Republic. It mandated the prohibition of all trade, financial, passenger transportation, postal and radiotelegraph relations with the Soviet state.

The Entente sent a proposal to neutral states and Germany, suggesting immediate participation in the blockade. The note stressed that British and French warships “would redirect ships with papers issued for ports in Bolshevik Russia.”

This decision by the Entente, made at the peak of Denikin and Yudenich’s offensive, marked the culmination of the policy of economic isolation towards the Soviet state.

Thus, the Western powers attempted to pressure the Soviet government through a global boycott, but after six months, the effort was deemed unsuccessful, and the blockade was removed.


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