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I've heard that the Bolshevik negotiators at Brest-Litovsk, having realised that they had forgotten to bring a peasant representative for the delegation, found a random peasant en route and brought him along to sit in. He then spent the time getting happily drunk. Any truth to it?

by /u/crrpit in /r/AskHistorians

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