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Tango01

22 Jun 2025 5:12 p.m. PST

"The Bolshevik government's delays in the Brest-Litovsk negotiations led to a natural reaction from Germany. On January 27-28 (February 9-10), the German side conducted negotiations in an ultimatum tone, but did not present an official ultimatum. As soon as Berlin learned of the signing of the peace agreement with the Central Rada, Kaiser Wilhelm II categorically demanded that the Soviet delegation be immediately presented with an ultimatum to accept the German peace terms with the renunciation of the Baltic regions up to the Narva-Pskov-Dvinsk line. That is, the Soviet government was required to cede the unoccupied parts of Estonia and Latvia. Kühlmann (Richard von Kühlmann – head of the German delegation at the negotiations on the conclusion of peace treaties with Russia and Ukraine) presented the Soviet delegation with a categorical demand to immediately sign peace on German terms. The pretext for this ultimatum was Trotsky's appeal to German soldiers intercepted in Berlin, calling on them to "kill the emperor and generals and fraternize with the Soviet troops." The Soviet delegation still had the opportunity to drag out the negotiations, but Trotsky rejected the German peace terms on January 28, putting forward the slogan "Neither peace nor war: we will not sign peace, we will end the war, and we will demobilize the army." This position of Trotsky gave Germany and Austria-Hungary complete freedom of action. In response, Kühlmann declared that Russia's failure to sign the peace treaty automatically entailed the end of the armistice. After this statement, the Soviet delegation demonstratively left the negotiations…"
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