Ludendorff had his limits. ‘A military alliance and a fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Bolsheviks, I consider out of the question for our Army.’34 German intervention must go hand in hand with a political reorganization of Russia. This would start with the German occupation of Petrograd and Kronstadt. Given the prevailing anarchy in Russia, Ludendorff thought that six divisions would be enough to give military backing to a new, popular Russian regime.
