"Vzhůru hlavy, drazí kamarádi. Vzhůru volá rodná zem! V boj se za ni všichni dáme rádi, a když třeba proti všem!"

My Czech Great grandparents came over to U.S. in 1911. My great grandfather served in Vladivostok with the US Army with the White Russians he could speak Czech fluently. Later my Grandfather and his brother fought in the Abraham Lincoln brigade during the Spanish civil war. Grandfather came back, his brother did not. Executed by the blackshirts during the Ebro. Czechs are an amazing people. Glad to be counted among them. Combat medic US Army Veteran.

This british historian "forgets" about the munich conference in 1938 where both great britain and france sold in fact czechoslovakia to Hitler by letting him take the czechoslovakia fortified borders with german minority (sudetenland) in the first step and just a month later the rest of Czech and moravia territory. So i wonder on what basis he claims that france counted on that czechoslovakia would fight the Wehrmacht troops :(

Hi 👋, Czech here :-) I felt, like left out several either important or quite interesting parts (although I think he is quite good historian and narrator as I watched him before). Also much more maps would be appreciated to get the right idea and scale of things. For starter: about the CIVILIANS as you was pondering about. My Great-Grandfather was one of the civilians tagging along the Czechoslovak legions across Siberia. He also was originally a soldier in-voluntarily fighting for Austria-Hungary (axis powers), detained by the Russians. And he was (by his accounts, his words: enslaved) later enslaved by them. I don’t have details about how he was liberated exactly, but was able to go with the legion home… That said he opted for not fighting (so he was not officially part of the legion, not a soldier) and was functioning as a butcher in one of the conquered railway stations - providing provisions for the legions. So while “civilian” he was part of logistical tail for the legion. Part TWO: the narrator missed quite un-forgivably big part of politics and political background and context - so without it, it makes less sense. Before the war -> There already was big sentiment in our nation to GET INDEPENDENCE and national rebirth. So 1st -> people DIDN’T want to fight FOR Austria and on the contrary they were quite keen and easy to persuade to FIGHT AGAINST AUSTRIA and Germans. (The way he described the recruiting process looked too much arbitrary). That made them much more MOTIVATED than other fighting forces around them -> So the Zborov battle and so -> successes along the transibirian railway. Moreover as he said they were in possession of post systems (and telephone systems) - > they importantly were inCONTACT with outside world. Including future would be FIRST CZECHOSLOVAKIA PRESIDENT Tomas Garigue Masaryk (TGM) and they promised to serve only for Czechoslovakia at that point. (And TGM took care for international support for Czechoslovakia in USA, UK and France and support for the legions in particular including USA help in Vladivostok) Moreover USA considered the actions of Czechoslovak legions of outmost importance at that time and in tuen that helped to actually persuade allies to give that support for Czechoslovakia to be born. So the Czechoslovak legions WERE heroes to Czechs in that sense. (One point he was missing or made unnecessary confusing- in medieval times, while identity was patchy - Czechs had proud and strong Kingdom of their own - the Bohemia for seven centuries… and the subjugation by Austria was felt as unbearable by Czechs in 1910’s) Part THREE. There are not much Cities in Siberia, but…. BUT(!)… Those cities that exist Siberia can get quite big and almost all of the big ones are on that that frigging Tran-Siberian railway! (So there was a lot of fighting) The map would be quite helpful. They had to conquer the railway (including several branches) and have it under control (including surrounding land) as long as the rest of legion was moving along (tens of thousands of people). So for a while they had complete control of all of it, including those big (but isolated) Siberian cities. In turn that meant they had the only lifeline connecting West Russia with East Russia and REDs couldn’t support each other over long distance . The fourth: The INTERESTING 😊 -> One of the most interesting and most daredevil was the fight over the big Baikal lake. Where the Czechoslovak forces did capture lake’s flotilla and made sneak attack with that to circumvent blockade. That was when there was one of the most insurmountable obstacles along the railroad. They solved it In quite a James Bond way. Chapter of it’s own. In Summary - he did good job in bringing the topic of our legions 😊, the biggest omission from my perspective though was, he didn’t elucidate properly the source of motivation for those soldiers. And source of motivation (deep rooted desire for liberated independent Czech state) was what made them such daredevils… and that they were having constant backing from Czech politicians who created backing from allied forces. Have a nice day 😊

The entire history of our country in 20th century is... let's say complicated. At the start of 1918 we were still technically a monarchy, then democratic republic, then nazi puppet state, then again democracy for like 3 years, then communist satelite state of USSR, then democracy again just to "divorce" with slovakia in 93... That's just 75 years! And we actually lost some land after WW2, there's actually a great joke about this: "A man could be born in Austria Hungary, go to school in czechoslovakia, get married in nazi germany, work in the USSR and retire in Ukraine all without stepping foot out of Mukachevo (small city in todays western ukraine)

You're right in thinking that Centigrade/Celsius and Fahrenheit are different scales but they meet and cross over at -40. That is that while -39C is warmer than -39F, -41C is colder than -41F

@SoGal_YT

Жыл бұрын

Ah, I couldn't remember at what temp the crossover happened. Makes sense why he wrote it that way then.

Hello! A Czech person here. Although I'm 4 months late I'd like to say some important stuff about the czech legions and it's battles (keep in mind the numbers of casualties may be fabricated and totally fake, but still an impressive effort) Battle of Lipjag - Around 1600 Czechs vs 4000 Red Russians /// Casualties were 30 dead and 89 wounded Czech,,, 1500 dead, 2000 taken prisoners and 300 drowned Red Russians Battle of Irkutsk - Around 1000 Czech and Whites forces vs 5000 Red Russians /// Casualties for the czechs were around 4 dead and 30 wound (for the whites around 300 dead and wounded men) ,,, for the Reds it was 700 dead and 2500 taken prisoners Also the only Naval battle in Czechoslovak and Czech history happened on Lake Bajkal, where 2 cruise ships destroyed 1 Reds cruise ship, seized and raized the harbor and destroyed 1 armored train,,, The Czechs lost only 19 men. The video doesn't go into these impressive details (I have not listed every battle here as that would make this comment 6 times longer) and it's kind of a shame. But otherwise I loved your reaction and you deserve a little like and subscribe from this one Czech. Keep your head up and I believe you will get this channel and yourself far in life

There are several inconsistencies in the video/s. Firstly, the predecessor of the Czechoslovak legions was the "Česká družina" which was made up of Czechoslovaks living in Russia but the Czechoslovak legions were already then composed mostly of Czechoslovak prisoners of war and deserters so thats why nobody trusted them at first. Then, and this is my personal attitude, I think that many did not want to fight because they liked fighting and the army but because they wanted a free independent country where they could live. As proof, just look at the banners that were shown in the video, where they took coats of arms from Czech history as their own and named their battalions after historical Czech leaders etc. The thing that was mentioned once at the beginning but then not again is that when they finally got to Vladivostok, they had to wait severeal more weeks for ships to take them to the US where a few legionnaires stayed and settled. Others still had to travel to Europe and finally to their homeland.

"I love" how the dude glances over the WW2 stuff with.. "Britain and France were worried that they wouldnt be able to defend itself and when WW2 happened that proved to be the case". Literally ommiuting the whole MUNICH BETRAYAL stuff, where France and UK basically forced Czechoslovakia to give its border-region to Nazi Germany or else they would stand alone against the Nazis, without help and be marked the "disruptor of peace". lmfao.. And when NAzi Germany ended up invading Czechoslovakia soon after "Europe won peace" by surrendering Czechoslovak borders, karma struck back when the German Warmachine got insane boost in weapons manufacturing and Czech weapons that could have been used fighting the Germans.. Ended up being used by the Germans, in the invasion of France and Poland..It was estimated that the number of weapons and tech captured was enough to rearm 40% of German Army at the time. Basically France and UK supported Czechoslovakia in WW1 and stabbed it in the back in WW2.

Siberia is not just frozen wasteland. It is indeed very sparcely populated for its size, but that doesn't mean that nobody lives there. Between the Steppe in the South and in the Tundra (frozen wasteland) in the north there are enormous forested areas, the so called Taiga. Through this zone goes the Transsiberian Railway and along its route there are actually a number of quite big cities like Ekaterinburg, Omsk, Nowosibirsk, Irkutsk or Chita, before you finally reach the Pacific at Vladivostok. During the russian civil war, there was quite a lot of fighting between the reds and the whites there. For example, Tsar Nicolas II. and his family were held in Ekaterinburg and murdered by the Bolsheviks when the Whites were about to conquer the city.

@ssoubatch

Жыл бұрын

Tsar and his family was executed by a decision of local government of Ekaterinburg led by Left Socialist Revolutionaries - political party allied to the Bolsheviks in 1917-18. Bolsheviks government in Moscow was not so happy about this because they actually wanted to have a public trial over the emperor family similar to the case of French revolution.

Thanks for reading my comment at the start of the video. I'll definitely try my best to join your Patreon livestream this weekend

I recall from 'The Great War' channel that there was a Belgian Armoured Car Division that also took the same route east (and for the same reasons) as the Czech Legion. Only a few hundred men but may have inspired the Czechs.

@zlatoslav_

11 ай бұрын

Their transfer took place at the same time. I wouldn't want to guess who inspired who. I couldn't find any specific historical connection through Google or GPT. Just an assurance that they must have known about each other. Anyway, thanks for the enriching point.

I cannot tell you enough how delightful it is, to see a video of yours pop up in my subscription!

Hi @SoGal. I am so glad to have foundbthis video. I heard aboutv the Czech Legion when I was a child when we found out that my great grandfather was one of them! My grandfather, his son, went on in WW2 to first fight against the Soviets in Poland, then with the Soviets in 1941 when the Nazis invaded and fought in nearly every major battle until Czechoslovakia was liberated in 1945. Czechs have been continually underestimated in history.

Some of the trains the Legion captured had cargo. Like Sugar for example. Going East trough often starving Russia a kilogram of sugar could buy anything from a night with a beautiful Russian woman to ammo, clothes or other supplies.

@hirepgym6913

13 күн бұрын

The main train they kept the gold wagons on started off as theworlds biggest tank it wastoo heavy so converted to a train it was poweredby two petrol engines.

There will be a PC game about the Czechoslovak legion, it will be called Last Train Home and should be released this year.

Keep it up, nice and interesting contents!

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

another great reaction! i love the variety of topics lindybeige talks about it could be ancient rome one week then seige ladders the next

It would make a seriously good mini series ......

Very interesting,something about the WW1 period of history I had not heard of in Britain.

A Czech game studio just released a demo for a game (Coming out fully in like a month) about this specific topic: The Last Train Home

Lindybeige can talk about anything and make it interesting. Change my mind! 😁

Yay, have been looking forward to this. Was going to say last time despite my fascination and knowing the story, it was tricky to follow - or rather I noticed he was making a lot of assumptions about what people already knew, he didn’t really mark when the Civil War started so it made it seem like he was still talking about the First World War for a fair bit of the last videos for example. It is a very complicated subject though as a whole, but the whole Civil War is fascinating - with all of the various groups within the major factions it does get a bit People’s Judaean Front vs People’s Front of Judaea, which is exactly the sort of thing Monty Python were parodying with that The Civil War was sort of part of the Revolution and followed it, so it was the attempt by the Bolsheviks and their allies to secure power and their opponents’ attempt to kick them out Sadly I won’t be able to join the Goes Wrong Livestream, but I hope you can watch the Goes Wrong Show Spirit of Christmas and the Nativity Goes Wrong too at some point - and the other 10 episodes of the Goes Wrong Show

@SoGal_YT

Жыл бұрын

I'll probably post the streams on KZread later if copyright allows.

Lindybeige has so many great vids, long but super informative and the one where he talks about why he won't wear a baseball cap is just plain fun and also good to see you back

Thanks for including my comment, I have no idea why KZread cut the ending off like that rather than showing the 'see more' button.

The ships were going to USA, and then they used the railway connecting east and west coasts. Some ships also traveled directly to europe, through Suez channel in Egypt. The movement through USA made them famous to general populace, and the relatively strong czech minority, including the czech mayor of Chicago, were lobying for creation of independent czech state to the goverment. These minorities were not the troublesome one, generaly following laws and building up the america, willingly blending to american society, so there was no reason to oppose this movement in home politics. USA´s late involvement in the war gave them a very strong position at the negotiating table, so other Allies agreed to creating Czechoslovakia. They also had good experience of other czech units, which were made part of foreign legions, fighting in every front, but France and Britain had no interest in creating new country at first. Czechoslovakia was even paying war reparations, as a part of former Austria-Hungary. And it was not really a problem, the country flourished like never before. It was world´s 3rd largest weapons exporter. Iranian king used czech tanks. 26 countries adopted czech machinegun. China stole the manufacturing method, and it became their AK-47 like legend, freeing them from Japanesse. Czechoslovak army was the first fully motorized one, not relying on horses for carrying supplies (nazi propaganda was hiding horses, so we do not have many videos lately, it was very cruel and would be a bad image for the regime). Czechoslovakia produced it´s own fighter jets, artillery, rifles and the T-38 tanks were adopted by germans after annexation. They were used for the blitzkrieg against France, for their reliability and terrain passing-through ability.

@tomaspisecky4835

4 ай бұрын

With tanks you mean LT38 (Light Tank model/year38) later known as Panzer and used by Germany through whole ww2 (actually the most widely used tank, as jetted etc. were it’s later derivatives) for British vz28 light machine gun chambered in British.308 was in licence of BRno arms factory manufactured in licence in ENfield for British army (hence BREN), the most used light machine gun world wide. Before WW2 Czechoslovakia was G7 country, during WW2 many fighter aces in BoB (Josef Frantisek - one of highest scoring pilots of BoB, the Spitfire in Duxford museum has his livery; Alois Vasatko, Josef Faith, Karel Kuttlewasher - commander British Night Fighter squadron, ace and best British night fighter later pilot of BA Czechoslovak fighter/bomber squadrons have memorial on Thames embankment by Westminster bridge, Tobruk, Siege of Dunkirk. After WW2 Czechoslovak airplanes (Avia S199 and spitfires) guns and ammunition were instrumental for Israel’s defence (Israel was at time under embargo by east and west) quite story as well (especially smuggling through Bulgaria and the Israeli pilots daring shuttle flight via Yugoslavia and mediaterran sea. Pre-communist Czechoslovakia was quite power, also good to mention couple other world influencing Czechs - Maria Korbel (Madeleine Albright) and her father (former CS ambassador in Yugoslavia, professor on US university, Condoleza Rice was his student), professor Vechterle - inventor of contact lenses. Semtex plastic explosives, Scorpion submachine gun and many more stuff influencing world events and humanity as whole. (Btw there is reason why even during communism one of Prague main train station carries Woodrow Wilson’s name) Husits and their thirty year war, the only country which defended itself against Mongol horde (they raided everyone around but beaten by Czechs and never stepped into Bohemia as were fought off several times and then didn’t dare)…

Hello SoGal and Roger. The British were in Archangel. The Japanese and Americans were in the far east where the legion headed. The US policy at the end of WW1 was for self determination in nation states, so this made sense to head for the US. It is worth noting though that US political opinion was not united. I assume he left the story of what went on in the east for another video. If not there are KZread videos about this time and what went on with the US and Japanese occupation. There are also videos on the settlement of boundaries going on at talks in Paris. The resulting treaties caused problems as much as solving them as lines were drawn on maps that left people either side of new borders, thinking back to the mixed communities described pre WW1 in part 1. The November 11 1918 end was no final date for fighting except on the western front.

@SC0RCH3er

22 күн бұрын

The reason why Archangelsk was not an option was mainly because of the bulk of Reds were in central Russia around Moscow which you really can´t avoid going from south to north, they would have to cross one of the hotest red-white frontline, take at least part of Moscow, move all the people north and then get over another frontline to get to the British. And then hope Archangelsk would not be frozen when they needed to get out. Siberia was way less engaged in the civil war at that point, had way smaller fighiting and way more disorganized forces. The difference between choices would be either get really involved into the civil war or just get through Siberia. Keep in mind the original plan was to involve the legion on the western front against Germans/Austrians so there was much less incentive to waste the fighting potential against Reds.

From Czech lands being a part of Austro-Hungary, to the creation of Czechoslovia in 1918, to annexation by the Third Reich in 1939, to a limbo in leadership in 1945-1948, to Czechoslovakia becoming a part of the Soviet Blok until 1989, to finally the creation of the Czech Republic in 1993, I think it's safe to say that my homeland has had a rather interesting century.

Don't forget Lindybeige made another video about the Live Action Roleplay he took part of reenacting the march of the Czech legions.

SORRY MISSED THE VIDEO AS I WAS ADORING YOUR BEAUTY🤤😍

Archangel or Arkhangelsk was a port (I t’s where the Allies landed and occupied when they got involved in the Civil War) rather than trying to go through the fighting to the west of them in Russia It was more the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary) that were trying to disarm them previously rather that the Whites per se, as they ostensibly are included as part of the wider White faction - although they came into conflict with some of them later on

This sounds very much like the ancient Greek story of 'Anabasis', which tells of the story of a band of Greek mercenaries who fought for a rebel nobleman in Persia in 401BC. After his defeat they had to fight their way through Persia to the Black Sea attacked all the way by the Persian Kings forces. Perhaps a video on that is around somewhere.

@JKOT05

11 ай бұрын

That how it is called - Siberian Anabasis

@petrskupa6292

11 ай бұрын

That’s quite fitting parallel. I did know about both endeavors, never yet I did put them alongside each other. The commentary before me mentioned “Siberian anabases” … never before I thought about it though. Good point

-40 degrees is the point at which the linear scales of Centigrade (or Celsius) and Fahrenheit meet...

-40 Fahrenheit is the same temperature as -40 Celsius, it's the only temperature these two scales align

Minus forty is the same temperature on both scales

Arkangel is a major port in the north of Russia, at the mouth of the Dvina river, who permit the access into the White Sea, and then up to the north to the Barents Sea and into the Northern Atlantic... sorrunding all the Scandinavian peninsula (Finland, Sweden and Norway)...

Those civilians where mostly, wifes of soldiers, medical personel. Btw czechoslovaks owned also lots of mines, mostly coal mines, because locomotives, iron, copper and also one gold mine, and local civilians likes them because the Czechoslovakians streamlined the mines and paid very well compared to the local authorities, they also sold the surplus from the mines so that the legionnaires could have a salary and trade with civilians.

Another good video.I believe the comment you highlighted about Eastern European history is a reference to what is going on now with to regard Ukraine-Russia. A successful journey to Archangel would’ve hopefully resulted in the Czech Legions being able to board boats to Western Europe via the North Cape and Atlantic, a much shorter distance than travelling to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast of Russia. On arrival In Vladivostok about half of the Czech Legions (36,000 people) sailed to the US and about a quarter (17,000) sailed to the UK.

If I’m remembering right the chaos in Eastern Europe at the time is less WW1 itself and more the aftermath of WW1 basically when the war ended in the east there were like 8 new countries and basically all of them disagreed on all of the borders (to say nothing of the reds who fought basically everyone as well because of course they did)

Centigrade and Fahrenheit are different but by chance -40 is the same temperature in both scales. This is due to conversion between both being F=9C/5+32. When C=-40 then (9*-40)/5 = -72 and -72+32=-40

Glad to see you back here! K&G have a pretty intresting overview of it. However caution with this channel, it showed a lot of bias.

William is a common name in the British royal family. Prince Harry's actual name is Henry, not Harold, but you get the idea. It's one of the little quirks of the system that -40C and -40F are the same.

@SoGal_YT

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know his name was Henry.

This whole series of events started near the tail end of world war one. WW1 'ended' on the eastern front with an arsmtice some time before the Western front wound down (both Russia and Austria were pretty shattered and Russia was collapsing into civil war), but you can tell WW1 hasn't ended yet because the 'central powers' are still a relevant faction. The Russian civil war contined for quite a while after WW1 ended, mind you.

-40 Celcius and -40 Fahrenhiet are the same degree of cold

The "William" of 1066 was Duke William the Bastard of Normandy... known as "William the Conquerer" after he, well, conquered England. "Harold" was King Harold II Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The name "William" did become a recurring, if lesser used, name of English monarchs. William the Conquerer had a son who followed him on the throne named William Rufus, or William the Red. After Rufus' death in 1100 (a, ehm, "hunting accident"), it took more than half a millenium for another William to ascend to the throne. In 1688, the British threw out their catholic king James II and installed his (protestant) daugher Mary and her dutch (and VERY protestant) husband William of Orange as rulers. He was crowned king as William III, after a bit of debate. King William IV was one of the many sons of King George III (who has a bit of a bad reputation in the USA). He was only the third son, had had a naval career of renown, and did not expect to become king in his old age. But as neither of his older brothers had legitimate sons (just as William had none), he took the throne at age 64. He was followed by his neice, who became the famous Queen Victoria. If the current Prince William follows the example of his father and does not take a different name, he'll be King William V someday. His brother Harry's real name is Henry... also a name with a long tradition in english royalty. The first English king named Henry was another son of William the Conquerer, and though he had an older brother, he took the chance of being present when his brother died (a hunting accident, you remember? Honi soit qui mal y pense.) Last king to bear that name was Henry VIII, he of the many wives... though there are the Jacobite supporters (the followers of the deposed James II mentioned above), who still call James' grandson Henry as legitimate king Henry IX. Henry though was a clergyman, a cardinal even, and in contrast to his father and older brother, never tried to do anything about that claim. Interestingly, the current Jacobite "successor" would again be a German... Franz, Duke of Bavaria. There'a nice and interesting video from "Useful Charts", who does all sort of these lines, about that: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aI2buJRvnNDLps4.html

@andrewclayton4181

Жыл бұрын

The French call him Guillaume, and Henry is pronounced 'onree. Harold was actually half Danish, on his father's side. His mother was anglo-saxon. The Danes had settled in Britain since the viking incursions. Canute, Harold Harefoot, and Hardicanute ruling the country from. 1016 to 1042.

@Groffili

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewclayton4181 I think Harold's ancestry was exactly the opposite of what you said. His mother Gytha was a high ranking danish noblewoman, his father Godwin most likely the son of a lesser Anglo-Saxon noble from Sussex. But, yes, familiy connections in both directions were not uncommon.

Quite the pals they were. But i have to bring up, when you say "Czech" legion, you are forgetting one whole nation. It was CzechoSLOVAKIA after all. It happens all the time. A small mistake but may get Slovaks a bit upset.

Yes Lindybeige! As you are interested in English history, please react to his Pounds, Shillings & Pence video. Entertaining and you'll learn a lot.

Hi, Sarah, interesting video, it was a nice thought that William and Harry were named after Harold Godwinson and William the Bastard (also known as Harold II and William I) of Battle of Hastings fame, but I think it isn't true, Harry's full name is Henry not Harold. Also Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings and William took over the throne and became king so probably not a good thing after which to name your sons. Oversimplified has a very good video on the Battle of Hastings which is worth a look.

@ssoubatch

Жыл бұрын

Since he was a French speaking and founded a glorious dynasty, he was rather Guillaume le Conquérant than William the Bastard 🙂

It was a would war that means every continant and country was involved at some point .

My greatgrandfather was in this legion. Unfortunately I never met him. He came via Vladivostok, Japan and Canada and came back in 1920 (2 years after the end of WWI). I know from my father that my ggfather and his folks got an extra pair of underwear before going to the first battle (can you guess why?). Also, he was actually pro-red because he witnessed terrible poverty in Russia and he was hoping (like many others that time) that the Bolsheviks will make it better. Thank you for your video :)

@petrskupa6292

11 ай бұрын

Interesting. My ggfather was also part of the team legion. But contrary to yours he came back from Russia with incredible hatred towards communism in advance, before anyone here knew what communism even is. Based on the atrocities and chaos they brought there. Interesting difference.

The Russian Civil War started following the second revolution in 1917 and lasted until the early 1920s, so the 1st World War was on when these events started, Russia left the war in early 1918 giving up large chunks of territory in exchange for peace and then Germany surrendered in November 1918 bringing the fighting on the western front to an end as well, so by the time this finished the war was over.

Indy Neidell has some great videos about the mess between the World wars on The Great war channel, contraty to the common believe it was not a peacefull time, worth a look?

Hi SoGal, nice to see your videos again... yes, the russian revolution took place mostly bloodlessly, because the tsar resigned his crown and a republic was formed, with the Mensheviks (socialists) in power, but right after, the Bolsheviks (communists) made their move (in fact a revolution against the revolution) and the civil war began....

@ssoubatch

Жыл бұрын

There were several different periods of the Provisional Government with very different parties and factions involved. The Mensheviks were playing somewhat significant role only at the later stages. In the beginning the PG was mainly formed by the Constitutional Democrats, not socialists.

There was no "vote" to move to the East. It was an agreement between the Reds and the French government, to which the Czechoslovak Legion was officially subordinated. Evacuation via Arkhangelsk by sea was too risky because of German submarines in the North Sea. After the agreement with the Reds, Legion began moving along the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Vladivostok. Meanwhile, of course, the Germans did not really like the idea of the Legion joining the French army on the Western Front. Therefore, after the peace treaty between the Reds and Germany, Germans demanded the Legion to be disarmed. By that time France was officially supporting the Whites, especially being not very happy about the peace between the Reds and the Germans. This led to the uprising of the Legion, which by that time had been distributed in several cities along the Trans-Siberian railroad. As a result, the Legion and the Whites became allies. The Legion took control over those cities and its troops are actually responsible for a lot of terror there.

I think he meant 130 miles all tunnels combined, one tunnel 130 miles long sounds impossible to me, especially in early 20th century Russia. 😀 Russians still believe that we stole their gold and built succesful first republic Czechoslovakia thank to that gold, but most of historians believe that gold ended on bottom of lake Baikal or that part of story is just very exaggerated and there was no such amount of gold as some people say.

-40 F and -40 C are the same it's the same with 0 M/P/H and 0 Km/P/H

I dont understand why are Czechs not neutral state. They been in last 100 years betrayed by all sides - 1938 (Munich) by West to Hitler, 1945 (Yalta) - by West to Stalin, 1968 - occupied by Soviets. Between WWs Czechoslovakia was in 10 most developed and richest countries in the world, in 1930s number one or third at worst arms industry in the world (for example 2 of 4 oldest car manufacturers are Czech). Czech Legions Anabasis is so interesting, this video was so chaotic and too little information in it. The battles they fought almost every one is for single hour video. For example Battle for Baikal Lake where Czech sink whole Baikal fleet with cannons drawn on rafts behind fishermans boats etc. Nobody before or after them except Genghis Khan never control so large part of Russia. Some theories say Tsar family was executed because Czechs been nearby with possibility rescue them so bolsheviks was so afraid to order to kill them. You mention Siberia was empty but you dont understand Czech Legions been enemy number one for all sides because of their power and neutrality they been literally hunted all the way so you will nowhere find anything about captured ones usually they was executed.

@Mirinovic

10 ай бұрын

Sir during Prague spring Brežněv was leader of Soviet Union not Stalin 🙂

@stasektarkowsky7683

10 ай бұрын

@@Mirinovic I dont understand what do you mean, I mentioned Stalin as a leader of SSSR in Yalta 1945, Prague spring was in 1968 and I didnt mentioned any leader on that point. Read before comment.

@Mirinovic

10 ай бұрын

You talking that Czechoslovakia was beteryd by USSr but in that time Brežnev was in charge

@stasektarkowsky7683

10 ай бұрын

@@Mirinovic OK one more time point by point: I wrote "They been in last 100 years betrayed by all sides - 1938 (Munich) by West to Hitler, 1945 (Yalta) - by West to Stalin, 1968 - occupied by Soviets". Nowhere is writen "betrayed by USSr by Stalin" I wrote 1) 1945 betrayed by West and throw to Stalin - Stalin was leader at that time, 2) 1968 occupied by Soviets - I didnt mentioned any leader on that point especially not Stalin as you try wrongly correct me - at this point you are only right Brežnev was in charge in 1968 but by your comment it look like you think Brežnev was in charge in 1945 but Prague spring was in 1968. So again: what is your point?

@jiribarnas7337

10 ай бұрын

Are you asking why we Czechs are not neutral? I am afraid that the answer is more complicated and many Czechs ask the same question.

Could you also react to the 1848 year of revolutions video by epic history tv.

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You should definitely react to more lindybeige videos. I love his channel

They didnt vote to go to Vladivostock itswhere the British and French ships that were promissed to get them out was they were need originally meant to go to France and join the other Czecks they wereall part of the French Foriegn Legion

@hirepgym6913

12 күн бұрын

All the nations apart from Japan withdrew from Vladivostock to the north Archangel and Murmansk had been abandoned and the sea wasfrozen. Kolchak theystuck down a hole in the ice on a river i know athletes from Omsk and Perm

@hirepgym6913

12 күн бұрын

Czeck Legion foragers were only one day away from rescuing the Romanovs i still have some things of Anastasia's they had smugled some wealth out to England which is probeblly why no one excepted them .

Lindy has been a university lecturer. You can see why. Apart from knowing a lot of stuff, he is able to deliver it in an entertaining style. You saw on the map where Archangel is. It's on the coast near northern Norway. I think it's ice free all year, so it's a rare access point for Russia. During WW2 it was where the allied Arctic convoys went to deliver aid to the soviets. The Czech legions were considering going there to be shipped out, but decided against it. Maybe they couldn't guarantee sufficient ships, or the journey was too hazardous. Lindy didn't say. Near the end a date of Jan 1919 was mentioned. WW1 had finished in 1918 .but the whole escape thing took a couple of years to execute. Good video though. Apart from Lindybeige, who has done a lot of stuff, covering medieval as well as more modern history, there is a chap called Mark Felton who specialises in WW2 and finds interesting details that have been missed by the history books. One I watched involved the Italians fighting the Japanese. Two axis countries coming to blows. He is worth exploring to give a colourful tint to your WW2 knowledge.

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@SoGal_YT

Жыл бұрын

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Like part one this went way over my head, Sorry, but when it comes to history Al Murray is more in my league.

Czechoslovakia wass not part of Axis!

Those civilians who accompanied the Czech legionnaires were most likely family members of the founding members of the Czechoslovak Legion. We know from the beginning of the story that the legion was founded by Czechs and Slovaks who lived and worked in Russia. And of course it is possible that the legionnaires were joined by civilians who hoped that in this way they would be able to escape the chaos and violence of the Russian civil war.

Shame on you, part 2.