Slavné československé legie
The Famous Czechoslovak Legion
Author(s): Jaroslav PadrnosSubject(s): Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Period(s) of Nation Building
Published by: Univerzita obrany - Centrum bezpečnostních a vojenskostrategických studií
Keywords: World War; Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; Legion, Legionnaires; the Independent Czechoslovak State; Czechoslovak National Council; Battle of Zborov; Trans-Siberian Railway; Masaryk; Beneš; Štefánik
Summary/Abstract: The Czechoslovak Legion was a revolutionary armed force formed abroad that had come into being during World War I. It is said that without this force, there would be no independent Czechoslovakia. Without a foreign political, diplomatic and military resistance of the Czechoslovak National Council, headed by Prof. Dr. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Doc. Dr. Edvard Beneš, and Brig. Gen. Milan Rastislav Štefánik, there would be no Czechoslovak Legion. Even in the hard times, the large majority of legionnaires were always true to the Czech and the Slovak nation during World War II, and after the war. But after the February 1948, those nations, officially represented by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, were not true to them.
Journal: Vojenské rozhledy
- Issue Year: 23/2014
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 152-169
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Czech