Amidst World War One, Russia's Czar control had then failed
Germany delivered before the end by express train, V.I. Lenin
Petrograd was alive with desires: stop war! cast out the Czar!
Consequences weren't quickly realized, there'd be aggression
The Czar had become a figurehead and the two sides fought
While the Reds were communists, internationalist, anti Czar
Whites were nationalists, not liberal, always willing to fight
The world was unaware, this civil war would change Russia
As every civil war has consequences for the nation's future
The deaths from this, from the Spanish Flu, from the famine
Great in scope, losses would be realized, death the pursuer
New white leaders took over Kolchak, Deniken and Wrangel
Each found success, but then each faced abject catastrophe
Trotsky led the Red army, with a flexible stance he had won
When the Russian state and the Soviet Union reawakened
They had false starts, disasters, mistakes of consequence
When Stalin became leader, dark story grew more dark
Few were unaffected, the years served as memory
To avoid more division, the union was of steel
