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MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · March 3

THE DAY IN HISTORY · MARCH 3

March 3 in history

1918 — Brest-Litovsk

3 Mar 1918 — Trotsky’s “no war, no peace” fails; Germany simply advances until Lenin accepts everything: Russia signs away Poland, the Baltics, Finland and Ukraine — a third of its people, half its industry. The east is won. Now watch what Germany does with it.

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