Cossack Host in North America

What if the U.S., in anti-communist solidarity, supported the mass resettlement of anti-Bolshevik peoples into the less populated states? So we get Cossacks riding around the Great Plains and Montana.

Maybe we're claiming that we're training them to retake Soviet Union, but like the Nationalist Chinese in Taiwan, it doesn't happen so smoothly.
 
Firstly this goes waaaay beyond the USA’s OTL actions in this regard, so the Soviets are going to go absolutely apes hit and retaliate in some manner. Also the USA’s European allies are going to back-away very slowly from the apparently insane administration in Washington.

Another problem is, the Cossacks are easy to admire form afar, or in the movies as some sort of noble savages or latter-day warrior race. In reality they really weren’t nice people. There are very good reasons why the pre-revolution Cossacks were feared and hated by most non-Cossacks. The local population in Montana are also going to be hugely pissed-off by the depredations of the new ‘’Arcadian Host’’.

Also Cossack biker-gangs anyone?;)
 
Another problem is, the Cossacks are easy to admire form afar, or in the movies as some sort of noble savages or latter-day warrior race. In reality they really weren’t nice people. There are very good reasons why the pre-revolution Cossacks were feared and hated by most non-Cossacks. The local population in Montana are also going to be hugely pissed-off by the depredations of the new ‘’Arcadian Host’’.

I resent that! :mad: :D

We really WERE noble savages, true true true.

Well, actually. 19th c. Cossackry didn't exactly maraud around Eurasia, and the number one reason for resenting them was that they owned lots and lots of land, and were the typical conservative, xenophobic landowning types with dubious privileges, such as having the freedom to buy your own weapons from your meager earnings and then the freedom to say YES in a decision to go to war just about whenever the country decides to. The people who rented from them and the people undergoing the pogroms naturally didn't agree with the nobility of the savages.

Further, Cossacks were almost as badly stratified as the rest of Russian society. I don't think any White-Emigre Cossack project would get anywhere much beyond publishing a newspaper and parading in uniform on certain holidays.
 
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