One of the negotiators of this treaty was a poor peasant abducted from a train station to fill out the delegation, while another described its necessity by stating that sometimes it is "necessary to sacrifice space to gain time".
One of the negotiators of this treaty was a poor peasant abducted from a train station to fill out the delegation, while another described its necessity by stating that sometimes it is "necessary to sacrifice space to gain time". Initially the Russians used delaying tactics to buy time for a potential socialist uprising in Germany or Austro-Hungary, but were eventually forced to give up half their European territories in exchange for a halt to hostilities. FTP, what was this 1918 treaty which ended the Soviet Union's involvement in WWI?
One of the negotiators of this treaty was a poor peasant abducted from a train station to fill out the delegation, while another described its necessity by stating that sometimes it is "necessary to sacrifice space to gain time".
Brest-Litovsk