Rather than uniting capitalist imperialism against the Communist regime, it was Germany’s surrender that saved the Soviet government. The Armistice not only spared Lenin the odium of an ever closer alliance with Ludendorff. It also took the impetus out of the intervention almost before it began. Furthermore, with the Germans on the retreat, it was now the White, anti-Bolshevik forces, not the Bolsheviks, who appeared to patriotic Russians as the lackeys of foreign power.
