Rene-setä 🇫🇮🇺🇦

Ranskalaisen ja eurooppalaisen kulttuurin ystävä, yhteiskunta-asiat, sivistysporvari, Palest./Israel, turpo (en ole ex-suurlähettiläs, kaima)

[Rene-setä 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @ReneSeta]

https://t.co/nFRnuliqFi

[Rene-setä 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @ReneSeta]

@Katerinaabu

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The "ghost army" of the Trans-Siberian Railway - Czechoslovak Legion, an autonomous force of roughly 50,000 to 60,000 Czech and Slovak soldiers who were "an army without a country" during and after the Russian Revolution of 1917...

Formed originally between 1915-17, the Legion consisted of Czech and Slovak patriots and former prisoners of war from the Austro-Hungarian army who defected or volunteered to fight alongside Tsarist Russia against the Central Powers. They hoped that fighting for the Allies would help win independence and statehood for a free Czechoslovakia when World War I ended.

. . .

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 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in March 1918, Russia exited the war. And suddenly, the Legion found itself marooned, deep in the heart of Russia, surrounded by Reds, Whites, warlords, and wolves. They decided on a massive, desperate trek eastward—some 9,000 to 10,000 kilometers across the frozen expanse of Siberia—to reach the Pacific port of Vladivostok and sail home to Europe.

After clashes erupted with Bolshevik forces (sparked by incidents like Chelyabinsk affair), Legion revolted. Their solution was mad and magnificent. Armed and organized, they hijacked trains, captured armor, and seized control of virtually the entire Trans-Siberian Railway from the Ural Mountains to Vladivostok 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 East.

For a brief period in 1918, this "ghost army" controlled major Siberian cities and functioned as a dominant military power across a massive swath of Russia.

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 the surviving legionnaires finally made it back to Europe to help establish the newly born nation of Czechoslovakia.

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.

#archaeohistories

[Rene-setä 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @ReneSeta]

Sanna Marin ansiosta rahvas oli sitä mieltä, että Demarit ovat parhaat taloudenhoitajat.

[Iltalehti @iltalehti_fi]

Sanna Marin tienasi yksin enemmän kuin kuusi hänen edeltäjäänsä yhteensä. 💶 https://t.co/k0ce021233

[Iltalehti @iltalehti_fi]

Sanna Marin tienasi yksin enemmän kuin kuusi hänen edeltäjäänsä yhteensä. 💶 https://t.co/k0ce021233

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

🇪🇺🇩🇰 Former NATO Secretary General Rasmussen: Stop begging for a seat at the criminal table. Deploy the European coalition of volunteers to western Ukraine now to protect civilians. Establish the "International Air Protection Zone" to send a message to Moscow and Washington

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Donald Trump's diesel deal with Russia has effectively collapsed, with none of the tankers carrying diesel reaching the US because of the political and legal risks involved. Russian commentators say it's a sign that deals with Trump are worthless. ⬇️
https://t.co/4LT3KFERW3

[Korovyev @Lucius_J_Brutus]

1/4
Виктор Суворов: "Для России это последняя война. Это конец. Нынешняя война станет для России последней. Распад страны уже начался, и это продолжение того же исторического процесса, который похоронил Варшавский договор и Советский Союз.
Россия сама приблизила свой конец:

[Iltalehti politiikka @ilpolitiikka]

SDP:n eduskuntaryhmä repesi taas rajalakiasiassa. Poikkeuslupaa pyytäneet eivät innostuneet kommentoimaan asiaa Iltalehdelle.

Linkki alla!

[Viktor Rantala 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇺🇦 :NATO: 🇪🇺 @ViktorRantala]

Luen Porvalin uusinta ja siinä on erikoinen tieto G. Alafuzoffin sukuhistoriasta.

Eli, Fuzzen setä Nikolai Pauloaho (Pauloff, Alafouzof) palveli jatkosodassa sotilasvastatiedustelussa, mutta loikkasi kesällä 1944 Neuvostoliittoon. Väitetysti olisi toiminut myös NL:n vakoojana.
>

[Rene-setä 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @ReneSeta]

@DimitriQvintus

[Pauli Kiuru @KiuruPauli]

Suurituloisin kymmenys suomalaisista kotitalouksista maksaa 35 % kaikista kotitalouksien veroista ja maksuista.

Kaksi ylintä kymmenystä maksaa yli puolet (52 %).

Suomessa ylimpään kymmenykseen kokoaikaisista palkansaajista kuuluu 6 119 euron kuukausiansioilla.

[Rene-setä 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @ReneSeta]

@Petri2020 @HagelinHeidi @STTuutiset ”Ei juma!”

[Petri Korhonen @Petri2020]

Ehdotukseni @STTuutiset pelastamiseksi: perustakaa uutis- ja kuvatoimiston jatkeeksi turkistarha.
Kukaan hallituksesta ei tule sanomaan "aika ajoi alan ohi" tai "ei ole valtion tehtävä tukea tällaista".

[Fria Ukraina @FriaUkraina]

God morgon. Tidigt i morse körde en överste i det ryska flygvapnet ut på motorvägen i södra Petersburg när en bomb detonerade. Översten som troligen var bombflygspilot och styrman i den ryska 6:e luftarmén och som deltagit i bombning av barnsjukhuset Ochmatdyt och andra civila mål i Ukraina likviderades på fläcken av explosionen från bomben som antagligen var fäst undertill på bilen.

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Mohammed bin Salman ha amenazado con llevar los precios del petróleo a niveles cercanos a cero —aumentando la producción a su máxima capacidad— a menos que Rusia deje de enviar a Irán armas que terminan en manos de los hutíes.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Russian warbloggers are reacting with shock to the news of the loss of three aircraft and their crews during the Ukrainian drone attack on Ust-Luga on Tuesday. Some are hinting that the Russian IFF system failed or was somehow deliberately disabled. ⬇️

[Iltalehti politiikka @ilpolitiikka]

Sopeutumisrahaa koko viime vuoden nostaneet Lenita Toivakka (kok) ja Anu Vehviläinen (kesk) tienasivat yli 100 000 euroa. https://t.co/VCNOgKMNv7

[Tuula Malin @TuulaMalin]

Kremliä lähellä olevat patriootit ovat puhuneet koko Putinin kauden Suomen itsenäisyydestä lahjana, joka otettaisiin tarpeen tullen pois. Heidän ajattelussaan Suomi kuuluu Venäjälle ja suomalaiset ovat venäläisiä. Kipeä totuus ei kadonnut piilottamalla, vaikka moni näin toivoi.

[RED2-1 @Red_2_1]

Nyt se on virallista. Suomalainen virkamieslähde vahvistaa, että venäjän Itämeren laivaston alusta vastaan on isketty Pietarin alueelle kohdistuneiden iskujen yhteydessä. Tämä kertoo siitä, että 🇺🇦:lla on kykyä maalittaa myös liikkuvia kohteita

https://t.co/vgYYhknDzd