I’ve been wondering whether Entente could allocate its resources more efficiently and effectively during the Russian Civil War? Perhaps more funds, equipment and soldiers could be poured in to ensure the White success or on the contrary Entente should concede the White win and minimize its losses? What were the best decisions to take?
Assume an late 1918 or early 1919 POD without direct changes in Russia itself.
OTL :
Denikin and the southern White forces try to capture Moscow in the summer of 1919. They were defeated at Orel in October 1919, 400 km south of Moscow.
Polish Army advanced in April to October 1919 taking Vilnius and Minsk and taking all of Bielorus.
So the POD :
France for example, obtained in earlier 1919 from the Poles and Denikin the signature of an agreement of military cooperation against the Reds.
And France help Poland to have a better army on the eastern front by making pressures on the Dantzig port to help the transfer of the "Blue Army" and of military equipment for others polish forces.
But :
The Poles will accept only if their eastern borders were secured with parts of Lithuania, Bielorus and western Ukraine...
And it will be difficult to Dekinin to accept these borders, as some "historical russian lands" will be in foreign hands...
So, Polish offensive on Vilnius, Minsk and after it Vitbesk and Smolensk will put more pressure on the Reds.
Haller's Army or Blue Army can come to Poland before April and June 1919, because France will made the Germans to accept Polish troops to use Dantzig port...
And this Army will be not transferred to the border with Germany from the eastern front in July 1919, to face a possible German invasion. Because France made pressure on German government or they sent their own forces to secure these regions.
But a White victory in Russian Civil War without a change of mentality of the Whites leaders and the support of russian peasantry is nearly impossible.