Lenin and Trotsky, for their part, had welcomed the Entente’s military landing on Russian soil as a counter to Germany. Stalin, at a Council of People’s Commissars meeting on April 2, 1918, with the Germans about to capture Kharkov, proposed shifting policy to seek an anti-German military coalition with the Ukrainian Central Rada, which the Bolsheviks had overthrown just two months before, and which Germany had restored one month before.241
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