The Treaty of Breslitovsk Was a Necessary Treaty

The treaty of breslitovsk probably saved the soviet government, but it did so at an almost unfathomable cost. Right left and centre all howle upon reading the terms of one of the most pathetically abject capitulations in the history of modern diplomacy. It infuriated patriots and nationalists as it surrendered a gob smacking amount of wealth, land and people to the germans. The treaty also granted german national special economic exemptions inside of russia,. leaving german own property exempt from any nationalization efforts on the part of theSoviet government. But for lenin, however ignoble the treaty, however pathetic the treaty, it was a