“Don’t forget Kaiser Wilhelm during WW I. His armies won some impressive early victories against the Russians. Then things kinda turned into a stalemate.”
Kaiser Wilhelm actually decisively beat the Russians in WWI. By shipping Lenin back to Russia to start the revolution.
> Kaiser Wilhelm actually decisively beat the Russians in WWI. By shipping Lenin back to Russia to start the revolution. <
Yep. Wilhelm beat Imperial Russia in the way you noted. I wonder how history would have changed if Lenin had an “accident” while in Germany.
I dunno. Maybe nothing would have changed, as the Tsar was a dunce. Maybe Stalin just would have taken power earlier.