Czechoslovak Legion in Russia and its War to Return Home

IT IS A BOHEMIAN FLAG!

You know why I love the Czechs and the Slovaks? Because they managed to dissolve their union peacefully. The Velvet Divorce is a good example for us all.

Jan Hus - good name

Who is here after the remeque?

they didn't get to sail straight home actually they had to go to the USA and cross by train then sail the Atlantic so they basically circled the whole Earth

Fun fact, a legion of italians went through a similar journey and even aided the czechoslovak legion at some point, if you guys are interested look up the "legione redenta" ;)

Czechoslovakians conquered the whole Russia. From Moscow to Harbin. Since the Mongol invasion in the 13th century has nobody been able to make it happen! Proud of my country

My god, it's CzechoslovAK, not Czechoslovakian! Sometimes you say it correctly, other times you use the -ian ending. Please be consistent.

BTW its CZECHOSLOVAK, not CZECHOSLOVAKIAN

Any movies been made about the czeck legion's journey through siberia?

Who's here from Last Train Home?

Anyone else seeing this after seeing that there is a game in development based off this called last train home?

i thing is not czech druzhina but druzina ( in czech Druřina)

Brilliant video. We always appreciate your hard work to make these videos. Love you guys. Your huge fan from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤝🇺🇸

Great video, never heard about this story!!

I love the knowledge in this video, Blessed Be.

Fun fact: Czech legions by holding back the German soldiers shortened the war by half to one year and saved thousands of lives.

So there's a game coming out about this and no one's talking about it

They're making a game about this

nice trolling by czechs lmao

Honestly the russian civil war makes more sense now.

Who is here for second round?

that was really interesting

I played vikings and I don't know what that footage was from but it definitely wasn't the game

Man... proud to be of Czech descent. What a bunch of badasses!

Fun fact: Russians were talking about Czechs like "Ratši bojovat s čertem než-li s Čechem"

An army without a country :) Shame the Communists after the coup d'etat in 48 and Soviet invasion in 68 suppresed their legacy and they are still very underappreciated in our country to this day. And don't even get me started on how the legionairs monuments and cemeteries look like in Russia today despite all the agreements that the Russians would take care of it. They still didn't get over it, they never will with their imperialistic mindset.

That actually gave me a hint about when and where my grandpa was on behalf of Austria-Hungary. He was sent to Russian front. He would have been 22 in 1916. Once in what was likely Ukraine he deserted by ducking into injured line because he shot off his finger. His one souvenir was finding an 18th century Russian copper coin in a field. Which i still have. Once he returned to Slovakia he married my grandma and went to the US where his brother already was.

please do video about Milan Rastislav Štefánik

And they went thru all that just so the soviets could "liberate" us a couple decades later and fuck up our economy for ever

Sabaton song about these badasses please.

Vive le Guard Blanche! Vive admiral Kolchak!)🇷🇺

so they were oportunists cowards and traitors !

How am I supposed to believe it when half of the time you use Polish flag to indicate Czechs?

There needs to be a movie made about this(if there already is, please inform me)

You skipped the part where germany defeated russia and acquired 1/3 of all thier land and people in the peace deal

I have gained so much respect for the Czecho-slovakians from this video. This is the funniest stuff I've heard about in a long time.

Really sad to see what Eastern Europe has become, a shell of its previous strength through divsion and unnecessary blood spilling of our own brothers

People who are upset about the Kolchak thing should realize the context. At that time Czechoslovak legion of ~60,000, which didn't have any reliable supply chain, was mostly armed with light weapons and stretched across half of Russia was facing increasingly well organized and equipped Red army of roughly 600,000. The White movement has been largely defeated at that point and the British French intervention that was promised them failed to materialize. They also had no allegiance to Kolchak, who actually overthrew the White leadership Czechoslovaks were working with. It was still controversial no doubt, but it didn't really change the course of history.

Wow an army that nearly circumnavigated the globe, impressive and underrated

An unfortunate turn of events that led the Czech Legion to arrest the leader of the Siberian Whites and turn him over to the Reds. Imagine how history would have turned out differently if Kolchak had been able to hold his ground and perhaps even defeat the Bolsheviks. With no red terror maybe there would be no rise of such reactionary fascism in central and southern Europe.

Such an epic retreat!

Mom: just a detour to get groceries
The detour:

I have a complete Czech Legion uniform to include the ultra rare Czeske Kepi and the Veterans awards in my extensive Militaria collection.

i dont remember hearing a single word about this in school. born and raised in Slovakia.

Russia should return the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, it is the historical territory of Czechoslovakia.

Still one of the greatest, funniest and stupidest stories of the great war. Absolute legends

Bad flag, you used Polish flag instead of Czech !