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Simplifying language

1. Replace a difficult title

- Freedom fighters

- People who fought for freedom and civil rights

2. Put the main idea at the start of the text of each paragraph

- The leading fauve artist was Henry Matisse

- Henry Matisse was the leading Fauve artist

- Aware that Russian forces were too weak to prevent Germany taking whatever territory it wanted, Lenin accepted the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918

- Lenin accepted the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 because he was aware that Russian forces were too weak to prevent Germany taking whatever territory it wanted