Lex Anteinternet: The Central Powers Launch Operation Faustschlag (Fast Punch). The last Central Powers Offensive of World War One.

Sunday, February 18, 2018

The Central Powers Launch Operation Faustschlag (Fast Punch). The last Central Powers Offensive of World War One.

Austro Hungarian troops on the offensive.

The Central Powers, having determined that Trotsky's "neither war nor peace" was, in fact, war from their prospective, launched Operation Faustschlag on this Monday of 1918. The Offensive captured massive amounts of former Imperial Russian territory but it also tied up resources and a combined 16 divisions sorely needed elsewhere.

German troops in Kiev. . .where their presence was considerably better behaved than it would be 23 years later.

The offensive did succeed in taking Russia out of the war in short order.

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