密歇根新闻广播 纪念停战日一百周年

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November 11th is Veterans Day.

The national holiday was formerly¹ known as Armistice² Day, and this year marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the very bloody³ stalemate of World War I.

But for one group of American soldiers, known as the Michigan Polar Bears, the fighting did not cease.

Mike Grobbel is the grandson of Corporal Clement⁴ Grobbel, one of the Polar Bears soldiers. He's also the President of the Polar Bear Memorial Association. Eric Perkins is the Michigan History Center's military history expert. They joined Stateside to talk about how the regiment⁵ wound up fighting the Bolsheviks during the bloody chaos⁶ of the Russian Revolution, months after the end of WWI.

Most of the members of the Polar Bears were Michiganders, and Grobbel says these men endured harsh conditions in Northern Russia, near the White Sea port of Arkhangelsk.

"Temperatures got to 50 below zero. Men on sentry⁷ at night would be startled. They thought they'd hear a gunshot, but it was actually tree limbs freezing and breaking off," he said.

Listen above to hear Perkins explain why President Wilson sent American troops to Russia, and why that plan did not work out as he had hoped.

This segment is produced in partnership⁸ with the Michigan History Center.