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Following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Russian Empire lost a swath of territory from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, comprising much of modern Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. What happened to those territories upon being lost? How did they end up in the USSR so quickly?

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Following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Russian Empire lost a swath of territory from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, comprising much of modern Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. What happened to those territories upon being lost? How did they end up in the USSR so quickly?	3