Lenin-Milne telegram

The Lenin-Milne telegram was a fake telegram created by British secret intelligence to purposefully make the German Empire purposefully underestimate the Red Russian military capability. The British had realised the inevitability of the war and saw a quicker victory if the western front was still open, the Germans intercepted the message during the negotiations of The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on the 15th of February 1918 and decided on a continued invasion of Russia.