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Can someone please explain to me like I'm five how Britain and France weren't the good guys in WW1? (hexbear.net)

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I try reading about the Secret Treaties in Wikipedia, but it's not super conclusive.

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[–] blight@hexbear.net 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

looking for good guys in WW1 is probably not going to end well

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

looking for good guys in WW1 is probably not going to end well

The Red Army fighting the invasion by the Entente who wanted the Whites back in power so Russia would return to the war. That's technically not in WWI but it was both contemporaneous to it, related to it, and involved powers currently fighting in it.