what is the typical and, of course, peculiar path that the malarussians of the ukrainian ssr, ukraine went through before it turned out to be the current point as we know it today. that's what we're interested in, we hope that it's interesting for you, and that's what we'll talk about today. obscene peace that made ukraine independent recalling the 1918 german project in kiev recognition in exchange for grain a vagrant government historical parallels the peace of brest-litovsk 1918 . we remember from a quote from trotsky, neither peace nor war, to dissolve the army and, according to lenin's formulation, the obscene forced peace, refusal, from which if you do not have an army a complete adventure. the

bolsheviks and the german austrian coalition signed this agreement in the first world war in march 1918, when german troops were near pskov and narva and threatened petrograd. the conditions were extremely difficult for soviet russia, it was forced to abandon the baltic states and part of belarus to withdraw troops from finland and destroy the army and navy from ukraine, the total territorial losses of russia amounted to more than 1 million square kilometers. brest peace lasted only 9 months german austrian troops were defeated on the western front by the troops of the entente, who were allies of the russian empire and the bolsheviks denounced the treaty. however, ukrainian historians more often recall the beresteyevsky world. as brest was called in ukrainian at that time, which was concluded between the germans and the ukrainian people's republic a few weeks before that very obscene peace and in

many ways allowed the germans to dictate the predatory conditions of prehistory to russia. such is the unr declared itself an independent state in part of russia in november 1917, 2 weeks after the october revolution, without recognizing the government. bolsheviks. the bourgeois ukrainian republic declared that they alone could not negotiate peace with the germans. about the exit from the first world war and sent her delegation to brest. especially. that there was no united front with the germans at that time. military secretary of the unr symon petliura announced the withdrawal of the southwestern and romanian fronts from the subordination of the russian command and their transformation into the ukrainian front with a center in kiev after that and other hostile actions of the unr, the bolsheviks supported the ukrainian republic of soviets, created in kharkov, and launched a joint attack on kiev. however

, trotsky, who at that time led the negotiations on behalf of the bolsheviks. in brest, he was forced to recognize the unr delegation as a full participant in the diplomatic meeting. the germans all this time were with the ukrainian delegation, separate negotiations in the world. their results were to become the main lever of pressure on the soviet republic when signing the treaty of brest about what the treaty of brest became for ukraine with germans in the plot of anna efimova 1918 slender line of german soldiers, boots polished to trimming, minting the paving stones of the ukrainian capital german troops enter the city sedately and without haste, because they enter at the invitation of the central rada after separate negotiations, brest lithuanian, the government of the central rada concluded this called small brest kemer on