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Czech yourself out before you czech out me :)

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@London_W4 In light of this, the ultimate audacity is how contemporaries are convinced they're in aby way better than their forefathers.

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@Clint_Davey1 Yeah, have You heard the song? It's a banger. 😇
https://t.co/Asx3FGoXG4

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@DenikSport Každej ví, že tam nakonec patří něco jiného, než "Jurásek kurva je".

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@Clint_Davey1 Like Switzerland.

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@BrautBrunesACS Jaký furt pokud. Času probrat se měl Rosa dost. Je čas.

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@Clint_Davey1

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@infotbal Já teda nejsem žádnej fanda Infantina, ale...,čím teda fotbal v Evropě je, když ne zbožím v zábavním průmyslu? 😅
Proč z Evropy, jejíž nejlepší kluby vlastní přesně to arabští a američtí vlastníci, kteří by si ta MS práva koupili, musí zaznít zase taková virtue signalling sračka?

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

When the Great War broke out in 1914, thousands of Czech and Slovak men living under Austro-Hungarian rule volunteered to fight against their empire. They believed that by siding with the Allies, they might one day win independence for a free Czechoslovakia—a place that didn’t yet exist on any map. So they deserted, defected, and enlisted—first with Russia, then France, then Italy—wherever there was a trench to dig against Vienna and Berlin.

But nowhere did they leave a stranger footprint than in the east.

By 1917, some 60,000 men of the Czechoslovak Legion were scattered across Russia, fighting alongside the crumbling Tsarist army. Then the Bolshevik Revolution hit like a sledgehammer.

The Eastern Front collapsed. Lenin signed a separate peace with Germany. And suddenly, the Legion found itself marooned—deep in the heart of Russia, surrounded by Reds, Whites, warlords, and wolves.

Their solution was mad and magnificent.

They hijacked trains and began an epic trek east—yes, east—across the frozen spine of Siberia, toward Vladivostok. Seven thousand miles of rail, sabotage, ambush, and political chaos lay between them and a ship home. They seized control of long stretches of the Trans-Siberian Railway, turning it into their own armed corridor. At one point, the Legion controlled large swaths of the Russia Far East.

Anecdotes from the journey verge on the mythic. In one station town, a Czech unit decorated their armored train with garlands and painted it like a carnival float before launching a surprise assault. Another platoon reportedly brewed beer in an abandoned monastery.

Discipline was severe, but morale was bizarrely high. They were men with no country, riding through a civil war with their dream of a future country in their hearts.

By 1920, after two years of fighting, bartering, and challenging Soviet control in eastern Russia, most of the Legion finally reached Vladivostok. The Allies evacuated them by sea—some through Japan, others through Canada and the United States. Only then did they make their way back to Europe.

But they had done more than survive. As they fought and bled thousands of miles from home, political leaders in exile used the Legion’s valor as proof that the Czech and Slovak peoples deserved a state of their own. Their courage became currency in the diplomatic salons of Paris and London. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire finally shattered in 1918, their sacrifice helped convince the victors to carve a new republic from the ruins. A couple of months later, Czechoslovakia was born.

The Legion, ragged and bearded, returned as heroes to a country that hadn’t existed before they left—not just veterans of the Great War, but survivors of a ghost war thousands of miles from home. They had circled the globe to give their homeland a name, a flag, and a future.

They left Prague as dreamers.
They returned as legends.

#archaeohistories

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@durcak_michael @jakubdvo Tahle eventualita je na tom to zdaleka nejhorší.

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@Bigvadrouiller1 Try this to show the extent of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in 1402

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@crsanchezx Always use Saint George's Cross for England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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@SandyofCthulhu I respect that. Yet, through benignity alone, you cannot build an Empire on which the sun never sets, bringing light to a thousand dark places. Not even the Spanish or French compare; perhaps only Rome. With no disrespect, you can't do that without cleaning your backyard.

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@SandyofCthulhu Ouuu..., Culloden? I have obviously nothing bad to say about Scots, but the United Kingdom has genuinely been a tremendous power of good in the world, up until last few decades arguably. Hard to say if England could have managed it by herself.

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@Alienorexium @milan_simonik Ano, a bylo to umožněno vítězstvím internacionální levice ve světové válce.

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@czljp @milan_simonik Vím na co narážíte a souhlasím s tím, že byl německý režim v jistém smyslu levicový.
Válku ale vyhrála čistá internacionální komunistická levice.

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@WarMonitor3 England must prevail 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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@ZdenekFolprecht Jo, Maročani vždycky uměli chytat černochy.

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@JoelTheDane Denmark was fully occupied by Germany from 1943 to 1945 with Werner Best acting as protector.
If I wanted to be funny, I’d apply Your statement to Czechia. Just 400 years of personal union under Habsburgs and then some 6 years of formally independent protectorate during WWII.

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@MALEJaVELKEJ 🚘