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generals were confirmed in
the heroic resistance of the Russian-Romanian armies in the bloody days of July and August 1917, in the battles of Marasti, Marasesti, Oituz, which saved the Romanian state
Command, organized the coup on 25 October/7 November 1918, took over the leadership of the former Russian empire and offered its financiers the separate peace they wanted in order to be able to send their
as economic loans in the decades before the war and during the war; only France had lended Russia 14 billion francs in gold, whereas 3.10 francs equaled one gram of gold. In addition, the Bolshevik
from a devastating exile. The outbreak of the bourgeois- democratic revolution in Russia in March 1917, which allowed the spreading of the Bolshevik or Maximalist propaganda as it was called then, seriously affected the Russian army's fighting force and saved the Central Empires from a serious defeat on the Romanian territory.
Things worsened even more when the Lenin-led Bolshevik party, which had been trasferred from Switzerland to Russia under the auspices of the German Army High
troops from the east front
on the west to win the much- dreamed victory. This was the second factor that allowed the achievement of Greater Romania.
Soviet Russia left the negotiation table for the future peace not only because it offered the Central Powers
a separate peace plus commodity supply agreements (conventions of August 1918), but especially because the Bolshevik leaders announced urbi et orbi that they would
not pay any money from the billions of francs received
leaders published all the secret treaties concluded by the former Russian empire leaders with the Western powers to demonstrate the imperialist character of the policy that had been practiced until then.
The disappearance of the Russian Empire enabled, on the one hand, the oppressed nations on its territory to proclaim autonomy and later independence. Among them was the Romanian nation
of Bessarabia, the province annexed by the force of Russia's arms during the Napoleonic Wars in May 1812. On the other
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