Even the stab-in-the-back legend might lose its unique heinousness through such an admission, since it was the Russian troops, if anyone, who had been stabbed in the back by a foreign-propaganda-induced revolution on their home front. (The destruction of Russian fighting morale paved the way for the revolution carried out by Lenin, who was sped into Russia by the German military high command, and the subsequent acceptance of the punitive peace treaty dictated at Brest-Litovsk.) The postwar German propaganda debate hinged on how Germany, having opened the Pandora’s box of propaganda in the war
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