Brest treaties and their consequences
In the message, that the Soviet government has concluded a suspension of weapons with the emperors and begins peace negotiations with them in Brest, Kucharzewski tried to enter this congress, But he got a briefing – The fate of Poland was already an internal German matter. Bolsheviks are still weak at home, threatened with counterrevolution, patiently listened to the barrack pronunciation of the gene. Hoffmanna, But they were not in a hurry with the room. Instead, a representative of boundless Ukraine, He signed Feldfebel Sevriuk eagerly with Czemin and Kiihlmann 9 February [1918 r.] treaty, tearing off the Chełmzczyna and Podlasie from Kongress. (Lviv was still owned by the patron of the emperor Charles). Because Czernin was cheating Poles with caesarean kindness, the impression was all the more terrible. Parliamentary circles in Vienna and Berlin protested, Kucharzewski and Governor-Governor Lublin Szeptycki resigned, Crowds manifested in Krakow and Lviv. Manifestation strikes broke out in Warsaw and other cities. Even the Regency Council stigmatized the lawlessness and tried to preach, that he from then on, he derives power "from the will of the nation".
In the west, even those, what they shook their heads over Polish law to some mixed areas, that the Germans want to nourish "Ukrainian wheat" through the arrangement with Russia, and then throw all the forces to Paris; So, of course, the Brest operations did not even recognize the English. But the most powerful protest against the "shameful betrayal of allies" was the breakdown of Colonel. Józef Haller with the 2nd Brigade of Legions through the front near Rarańcza; Artillery was detained by the Austrians, Many legionnaires closed in Huszt, Then in Marmaros-Sziget. Meanwhile, the independent leader sought for Polish formations triggering from the Russian discipline (Stankiewicz, Michaelisa, Żeiligowski). However, he did not find great moral strength there. However at the military congresses of Poles in 1917 r. [It was decided to create separate Polish troops in Russia, continuing to fight Germany], But the local democrats under the Lednicki sign preferred to be subject to the Regency Council than endeks. And they later found support in the borderlands, who trusted, that their regency council to a company with Germany, And with the help of Polish soldiers it will protect against the Bolshevik agrarian revolution.
General Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, A brave organizer of the 1st Corps in Belarus (near Mohylów and Bobrujska), clenched by the Germans and the Bolsheviks, instead of connecting with Haller, He recognized the power of the Regency Council over himself. Anyway, this step did not save Polish courts in Kresy, nor Dowbor himself from the infamous surrender 21 house [1918 r.], by the power of which his corps was dissolved into homes. Haller and Żymierski did not follow his example, recognizing only the command of the Polish army in Kiev.
11 house [1918 r.] Their body after the bloody battle of Kaniów, due to lack of ammunition and food, He put the weapon, And the leader went through the burning country to Moscow, From there, the Murmansk white sea as shore, to coalition units. Others downloaded there behind him, Still others to Siberia, Under the sign of the 5th Division.