The Allies even landed a massive multinational force in the Far East to help cover their escape. The determination of the Czechoslovak Legion captured the imagination of the world. With nowhere to run, the small army fought its way across 9,000 kilometres of Siberian wilderness towards the Pacific port city of Vladivostok… and hopefully freedom.Īlong the way, the legion would challenge the authority of Russia’s communist regime, take control of a land corridor thousands of miles long, come within mere hours of rescuing the Czar and the royal family from murder at the hands of the Bolsheviks, and literally make off with a king’s ransom. By taking up arms in the name of the Russian Tsar, the volunteers hoped that after the war the great powers would reward them with statehood.īut when in 1917, the Bolsheviks rose to power following the collapse of Russia’s Romanov dynasty and then made a separate peace with the Central Powers, the Czechoslovak Legion suddenly found itself trapped deep inside an unwelcoming country.
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The 60,000-man unit, raised between 19, was made up of Czech and Slovak patriots keen to free their ancestral homeland from Austrian rule. RUSSIA’S CZECHOSLOVAK LEGION of World War One was an army without a country.
“While the exploits of this travelling army are legendary in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia to this day, elsewhere, its deeds have become little more than a footnote to the larger First World War and Russian Revolution.”
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