Talk: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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The following paragraphs were for unknown reason removed by anon:
- Peace negotiations which began at Brest-Litovsk on December 22, 1917, a week after the conclusion of an armistice between Russia and the Central Powers, soon ran into trouble over the Bolsheviks' demand for "peace without annexations or indemnities" - in other words, a settlement under which Russia would give neither territory nor money to her enemies.
- Frustrated with continued German demands for cessions of territory, Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik commissar (minister) for foreign relations and head of the Russian delegation, on February 10 announced Russia's withdrawal from the negotiations and unilateral declaration of the ending of hostilities, a position summed up as "no war - no peace".
As far as I can remember and judge, also after a brief check in written sources, the paragraphs seem factual, why I consider to revert the removal.
--Ruhrjung 17:02, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Was the Brest-Litovsk border of the USSR the same as the western border of today's Russian Federation?
They look very similar but I don't think they're exactly the same.
I found a piece of vandalism and removed it. I was slightly alarmed...
PeterSP 22:45, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
