history · 18 February 1918 · 107 years ago
The Central Powers, unable to break the deadlock in the peace talks at Brest-Litovsk, Russia, ordered their forces to move forward and occupy the territories that they were demanding under the peace terms. The German offensive took the Bolsheviks completely by surprise and an Anglo-French offer of military aid was readily accepted in Petrograd, Russia, even by a reluctant Lenin who realised that the renewed conflict with Germany was a major setback to the Bolshevik revolution.
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