When this was publicized, for the first time, the national recall was successfully exercised and a Freedmen's Party and their northern affiliate, along with a number of backbenchers in rival parties, found themselves in power with a mandate to secure a peace.
Can we appreciate the irony of the SPD leading an actual government of national defense in an actually-existential war for German kultur and civilization in the face of Tsarist despotism? As opposed to OTL's fake ones?