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Editor says, what if Lenin had never made it to the Finland Station? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 1917, on this day Lenin's sealed train Locomotive Hk1 #293 was intercepted by a unit of the Czech Legion evacuating northwards to the Baltic Ports via Finlyandsky Rail.
White Knights intercept Bolshevik Virus
By Ed, Jackie Speel and Scott PalterFormed in August 1914 by orders of the Russian General Staff, the Czech Company (as it was originally known) was intended to be a small intelligence-gathering unit that recruited Czechs and Slovaks who had settled in Russia before the war. However, the capture by the Russian army of an estimated 250,000 Czech and Slovak soldiers from the Austro-Hungarian army created a manpower pool that Czech émigré politicians wanted to use as the nucleus of a future Czechoslovak army.
But by 1917 the front was deteriorating fast and some rogue units were keener to build that future Czechoslovak army now rather than remained trapped in Russia. In short, they wanted to go home by evacuating north before the Baltic ports could be seized by the advancing German forces.
As fate would have it, the unit that intercepted Locomotive Hk1 #293 was a cadre of the original intelligence specialists, and being high on alert for agent provacateurs, their suspicions were immediately raised. An extensive search of the train revealed a sealed carriage which contained a political scientist whose long journey from Geneva could only have been permitted and funded by the Imperial German Government. Just like Trotsky's arrest by British immigration officers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, it was the huge sums of cash that betrayed the ultimate purpose of their mission - wrecking funds to undermine and sabotage the Policy of the Provisional Government to continue Russian participation in the Great War. Both the British and Czech officers were single-minded in purpose, and would not allow the agent provateurs to proceed in their journey. But the Czechs were on a fast schedule and so they executed him by the railroad sidings.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Tyrants Source: Wikipedia Labels: Lenin, Czech Legion, Russian Revolution, Bolshevik, White Forces. Editor says, in reality the Czech Legion evacuated south-easterly six to twelve months later, and during that time they controlled the Trans-siberian railway. In preparing this post we have repurposed significant amounts of content from War and Game and Wikipedia.
~ This is Lenin's "sealed train," I take it? Yessir I will change the post to make that point clearer, thanks :-) W/o Lenin, the Russian revolution would be unimaginably different---Kerensky, I fear, was toast any way you cut it, but one of the other "White" (i.e.non-bolshevik) generals would probably have managed to sieze power, and the ensuing regime would be more like Franco's Spain than the USSR.
~ And in the 1930s, Russia would have joined the Axis (which would not then be called the "Anti-Comintern Pact").
It might be objected that without a Soviet Russia there would have been no Third Reich, because there'd have been no "Red meance" for Hitler to exploit==but not so. As long as a single Communist (or Jew) remained alive, the Nazis coul;d have played on that, and would have, ranting incessantly that where there was one, there was likely another, and another--a whole nest of enemies.
A nineteen-thirties in which Russia was a fascist state (and make no mistake, had just about any of the White generals taken power, that's where it would have gone) would have been even worse for the world at large than our own. Certainly it wouldn't have been for Russian Jews: the Whites grew infamous during the Russian Civil War for wiping out whole villages of Jews because they suspected the people of harboring communists--and often, just because they were Jews.
~ Stalin could well turn his coat, and there were White leaders who would have been worse than he was. Anti-communist platforms in Germany and the West are probably weakened greatly with people like this as an example and no exant Red Terror save in the minds of ranting loons.
~ No Soviet Russia also means nowhere for the youthful Mao to tour and be inspired. What would that make of the Chinese Civil War?
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