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Here's what Vladimir Lenin said about the Versailles Treaty, at a conference of chairmen composed of Uyezd, Volost And Village on October 15th, 1920; the whole speech can be read in Lenin's "Collected Works" (1965) between pages 318-333. The excerpt below comes from my translation of the book "Europe is Burning - Moscow is at Work" by Robert Sturm, published in 1936, which I will link below: "The Treaty of Versailles is a treaty of bandits and robbers: when the Peace of Brest-Litovsk was imposed on us, under whose yoke we remained for so long, the whole world cried out that it was a robbery of peace. When Germany was defeated, the League of Nations, whose members had fought against Germany, cried out that it had been a war of liberation, a democratic war. Peace was forced upon Germany, but this peace was a peace of usurers and executioners, for Germany and Austria were plundered and dismembered; these countries were deprived of all means of livelihood, and their children were left to starve and die of hunger. What is the Treaty of Versailles? It is an outrageous robbery of peace that enslaved tens of millions of people, including the most civilized of them. This is not peace; rather, these are conditions dictated to a defenseless victim by robbers with knives in their hands. Germany's opponents took away all its colonies on the basis of the Treaty of Versailles, while Turkey and Persia have been made into slaves - we have thus ended up in a situation where seven-tenths of the world's population have been made slaves. These slaves are spread all over the world and are at the mercy of a small number of countries: France, England, and Japan."