11 am, 11/11/18. The guns fell silent.
A happy Armistice Day to you all.
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I keep remembering that French general who, at the Peace Treaty at Versailles, said:
'this is not a peace. It is a 20 year cease fire'.
I keep thinking of that French general, who at 1919 at the Peace Treaty of Versailles, said:
'this is not a peace. It is a 20 year cease fire'
"Guns fell silent" is a bit of an exaggeration.
On November 11, 1918, Allied forces continued to fight in Northern Russia. On that very day, a desperate battle raged at Toulgas. Fighting continued until the next spring, and Allied troops didn't leave Russia until September 1919.
Grumpy -
The War on the Eastern Front ended many months before November 1918, when the Germans and the new Soviet government signed a peace agreement
The episode you are describing was actually an anti-Soviet invasion by the Americans - and might more properly be considered a forerunner of the Russian Civil War - or even of the Cold War. In what way can one consider it to be part of the war against Germany?