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 and the Red Guards, but were unsuccessful because of the intervention of Austro-German troops, who were invited to invade the country in order to strike at the Revolution. The attitude of the Bolsheviki toward Finland and the Ukraine was to grant them their independence, trusting to the natural affinity of proletarian governments to unite; and then did all in their power to produce the victory of the proletarian revolution in Finland and the Ukraine.