Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War I. The treaty, which followed months of negotiations after the armistice on the Eastern Front in December 1917, was signed at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus)…
Under the terms of the treaty, Russia lost control of Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and its Caucasus provinces of Kars and Batum. The lands comprised 34% of the former empire’s population, 54% of its industrial land, 89% of its coalfields, and 26% of its railways. The Soviet government also confirmed the independence of Finland, which it had recognized in January 1918, and pledged to end its war with the Ukrainian People’s Republic, which the Central Powers had recognized under the prior Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (9 February 1918).
A supplementary protocol signed in August 1918 required Russia to pay Germany war reparations of six billion marks.
The treaty was annulled by the Armistice of 11 November 1918, in which Germany surrendered to the western Allied Powers.”
Comment: Germany defeated Russia in WW1. This is a fact. One cannot describe it as anything but a total Russian defeat. Russia lost to the losing side. Can you imagine that?
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