AHC: Explain this map

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Explain this map
 
France and the West have better luck on the Western Front, Austria-Hungary collapses and Russia and Germany stalemate into a truce
 
France and the West have better luck on the Western Front, Austria-Hungary collapses and Russia and Germany stalemate into a truce

Define better luck. Also, this map seems to indicate German victory on the Eastern front, albeit not a total victory as IOTL.
 
This is an interesting map. On the one hand, the Russians over-performed, but the fact that Poland exists as an indy state, means the Russians were so exhausted by the war they wanted a buffer state between them and the Germans despite the danger such a thing would pose for them. Also, the Austrians somehow salvaged a rump state that could have gone much more downhill and I have no idea what is happening with Hungary in this world. The Russians did not want a buffer state with them as they did with the Germans, which is open to interpretation. How the Russian controlled straits are supposed to function though? Did the British fall asleep at the wheel? Free Russian access to the Med is something that would have made Churchill bang his head against the desk, not to mention others.
 
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