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methods, including covert and violent action. Suddenly the intelligence services of the Soviet
Union received legions of volunteers from practically every nation in the world. All that re-
mained was to select the most competent ones, train them, finance them, and assign them to
missions in the fight against their own countries and governments.
In the 1920s Soviet intelligence suddenly became the most powerful intelligence or-
ganization in the world. ousands of Germans, Czechs, Hungarians, Americans, English,
Japanese, and French selflessly worked in the name of a bright future for all humanity. In
actuality, they worked for the interests of the Kremlin.
On June 28, 1919, the Versailles Treaty was signed, establishing peace between
Germany and the allied victors. Victors always come in large numbers. e victors, aside from
Great Britain, the United States, and France, also included Bolivia, Guatemala, Haiti, Cuba,
Ecuador, Honduras, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and many others. However,
overall the Versailles Treaty was a treaty between vanquished Germany and victorious France
and Great Britain, which had the full support of the United States of America.
e conditions dictated by the Allies at Versailles demanded from the vanquished
country virtually complete disarmament. All military drafts were abolished in Germany, the
number of armed forces fixed at 100,000, the General Staff and all academies disbanded.
e treaty forbade the creation of a new General Staff and new academies. Armed forces
could only be assembled through voluntary enlistment and used only for maintaining in-
ternal order and security. e surface naval fleet was cut drastically; the submarine fleet was
abolished completely. e majority of German fortifications were to be blown up. Germany
lost the right to have heavy artillery, tanks, submarines, and aviation (including blimps). It
was forbidden to have or to design chemical weapons, and all supplies of poisonous gas were
destroyed. e treaty also strictly forbade all import into Germany of any weaponry or war
material. Arms production in Germany fell under international control.
Germany lost 67,273 square kilometers, one-eighth of its territory, with a population
of 5,138,000 people. Germany lost all her colonies. All merchant ships with a capacity over
1,600 tons’ displacement were confiscated, as well as one-half of the merchant ships exceed-
ing 1,000 tons’ displacement, a quarter of the fishing fleet, and one-fifth of the river fleet.
Germany was also required, for the next five years, to build for the Allies merchant ships,
totaling 200,000 tons’ displacement per year. Germany was obligated to supply France with
up to 140 million tons of coal, Belgium 80 million tons, and Italy 77 million tons. Also, it
was required to transfer to the winners half of its paints and non-military chemicals and to
provide up to a quarter of the future production through 1925. e Allies received the right
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to use German ports, railroads, and waterways on very beneficial terms. On top of all this,
Germany was forced into paying astronomical amounts of retribution.
e Versailles Treaty was not only extremely unfair and degrading to Germany, it was
ineffective and did not carry any basis for a lasting peace. e Versailles Treaty only contained
the seeds of World War II. Lenin was the first to understand that World War I left a rocky
legacy. e victorious allied nations, especially France, were carried away in demanding repa-
rations from Germany. Forced into making huge payments to the victors, Germany faced a
sharp economic crisis, and the German people experienced hunger, poverty, and constant
misfortune.
Lenin was the first to understand that the Versailles Treaty was a bomb waiting to
explode under Europe. Germany would never make peace due to the unfairness of the pact;