Fascist movements recruited disaffected military officers radicalized by the Russian Civil War

Evidence

General Rudolf Gajda, commander of the Czech Legion under Kolchak during the Civil War in Russia, discharged from the Czech army for plotting a military putsch in the ‘twenties, formed a fascist League for Electoral Reform which won three seats in the 1929 elections in Czechoslovakia. When the Nazis entered the country, he hoped to become their puppet ruler, but they no doubt mistrusted his nationalist past since his hopes were frustrated. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2180