[Jukka Juutinen]

Not even close. Simply look at a map. Even after Brest-Litovsk Russia remained by far the largest country in the world, plus that Germans did not dictate how the Russians should run their country whereas the Versailles diktat directly intervened in the internal affairs of a country. An analogue would be like two neighbours quarreling and the end result being that fellow X would dictate his neighbour Y how the latter should **ck his wife.

It is simply amazing how many people fail to see how completely alien Versailles style "peace negotiations" were to European historical tradition based on respecting an enemy.