Greetings from Russia! A hand-painted postcard of a village scene with a message dated July 9, 1917, and field postmarked two days later.
Gruss aus RusslandGreetings from Russia
"The war resumed, with fifty-two German divisions crossing the November ceasefire line, occupying Dvinsk in the north and Lutsk in the south, and moving eastward along the Russian main-line railways. Lenin realised that the Bolsheviks must give in to whatever was asked of them. 'It's not a question of Dvinsk,' he told Trotsky, 'but of revolution. Delay is impossible. We must sign at once. This beast springs quickly.' On January 19, Hoffman received a telegram, signed by Lenin and Trotsky, accepting the conditions of peace that had been offered at Brest-Litovsk. But Hoffmann was in no hurry now to accept it."
Leon Trotsky, head of the Russian delegation to the Brest-Litovsk peace conference with the Central Powers, left the negotiations on February 10, 1918 saying Russia would not sign a peace treaty, but would withdraw from the war. In the following days Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin debated whether the Germans would accept this situation or resume hostilities. On the 16th General Hoffmann, military head of the German delegation, delivered his response: the armistice was ended. Two days later the Germans resumed the war, violating the terms of the armistice which called for a seven-day notice of termination, and advancing against little to no resistance.
King's Complete History of the World War by W.C. King, page 398, copyright © 1922, by W.C. King, publisher: The History Associates, publication date: 1922
1918-02-19, 1918, February, 1917 Greetings from Russia
