Editor says, what if Lenin had been exposed as a German Spy prior to the truce being agreed in the Central Executive Committee? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).

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Editor says, please note that to explore this controversial issue, extensive amounts of content have been repurposed from the source article. In OTL, the phrase "Neither Peace nor War" was coined later at Brest Litovsk; and the charge "destructive to.." was allegedly planted in the Petrogradskoe Ekho by the Left Socialist Revolutionaries.

Comment by Jeff Mayers on Facebook: Hmmm...I would think that the past century of Russian and world history would have been changed since if the Bolsheviks never gained power then there probably would have been a second world war, but very different that what actually occured, there also may not have been a cold war and everything that came out of that...

Eric Oppen commented on 2009-11-14 06:46:24 ~ I'd think that once the rest of the world's war had quieted down, someone or other would take Russia in hand...

Scott Palter commented on 2009-11-14 08:11:26 ~ I don't see it. It does solve either the land question or the fact that the army did not want to fight. It also ignored German reactions.

Eric Lipps commented on 2009-11-14 15:48:29 ~ Only a token effort was actually made by Western powers to "take Russia in hand" in OTL--though the abortive 1918 intervention, intended to overthrow the Bolsheviks in favor of a government willing to rejoin the fight against Germany, was enough to help the Bolsheviks fuel anti-Western paranoia among Russians. And once the war had ended altogether, the nations involved had lost their taste for foreign adventures, at least for a time. Moreover, I suspect that if the Left Socialists had defeated and destroyed the Bolsheviks, they in turn would have been identified as the political Antichrist by Western conservatives and would have been treated just as the Bolsheviks were. Even today, in the U.S. and elsewhere, one finds people who argue that political liberals are the same as socialists, who in turn are the same as Communists--so it wouldn't be much of a stretch for the LR's to have been demonized if they had prevailed. One critical difference in this timeline, though, stems from the possibility that the LR's might not have executed the Romanovs. If instead they'd simply exiled them, as the Germans did the Kaiser after World War I in our history, anti-LR's might have coalesced around the banished royals and perhaps even plotted to restore them to power--and if the LR regime ever fell, the descendants of Tsar Nicholas might indeed have regaained their throne, though perhaps only on a figureehead basis.