1919

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

Winston Churchill, 

On Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 

House of Commons, 

November 5, 1919

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, January 1918. 

Caption: Officers from the staff of Field Marshall von Hindenburg meet the delegation of Soviet Russia.

Soviet delegation with Leon Trotsky greeted by German officers at Brest-Litovsk, 8 January 1918

Bolshevik prisoners under the custody of US troops in Arkhangelsk 1918