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TIL U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent American combat troops to Russia during the Russian Revolution to protect arms meant for the newly-collapsed Eastern Front, as well as to rescue 56,000 Czech soldiers allied with the Triple Entente who became stranded along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

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