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TIL In April 1918, Winston Churchill nominated Theodore Roosevelt to be the Allies plenipotentiary to Moscow. The plan was for Roosevelt to make a deal where Lenin reentered the war and the Allies would "safeguard the permanent fruits of the Revolution"

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