r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 21h ago

Soft Paywall JD Vance Mocked for Embarrassing WWII History Mistake

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-mocked-for-embarrassing-wwii-history-mistake/
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u/11Kram 18h ago

It wasn’t a surrender, it was an armistice. However the Allies treated it as a surrender and then went on to blame Germany for the war. It has long been accepted that Germany was in fact largely responsible. Also four -not two- empires collapsed: German, Russian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian.

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u/TheGoldenDog 16h ago

No, it was a surrender in the form of an armistice. Regarding your other points, the Russian Empire had collapsed a year earlier, and the German Empire didn't collapse - that's a big reason why it bore so much of the burden post-war, it was the only one of the belligerents still standing in something like the form it started the war in.