[Verdelet]

Russia lost WWI?? Where did you get that sh*t from?
Russia was part of the allied group with France and Britain. They won but heavy losses, poor economic situation and the work of revolutionaries led to the fall of the Tsardom.
The rest of your post is BS also. Get your facts straight boyo.

[jmacusa]

Um, Russia took itself out of the war in 1917 and undertook a communist revolution and said “To Hell with capitalist wars of expropriation!’’ and made a peace deal with Germany. The peace deal was the reason Lenin was allowed back into Russia.

[NorseViking]

If you want to refute my points you are welcome but, please, be factual.
Just to say BS is not enough, especially when we are talking about propaganda.
Russia was out of war early, because Lenin was a German spy. That was the entire point of the Communist revolution and why the German intelligence paid for it.
Lenin surrendered on the Eastern front as part of the deal and gave up on Western parts of Russian Empire.
Germany later planned to gobble it for itself but the Western allies prevailed.
Poland, being itself a part of these released Russian territories, decided to improve its standing by establishing the Empire of its own. They acted like opportunists exploiting the vaccum of power and turmoil.
Bolsheviks managed to get back most of it in a couple years and that is largely because the treatment of the locals by the Polish was dismal.
In fact in 1939 Stalin took back the rest of the lands annexed by Poland at the end of WWII.
It was somewhat pitiful for modern Ukraine because exactly these territories made it into a Third World country nowadays.

[Cronos]

in 1917 there were two revolutions in Russia - the first overthrew the Tsar and kept the war running.

Then the Soviets came and said they'd sue for peace. And they did