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1.WHY DON'T WE ASK PRAGUE FOR COMPENSATION FOR LOOTING IN SIBERIA?

Saturday, April 24, 2021, 07:44 In the quote

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   2.The provocative escapade of the Czech authorities, who made an absurd accusation against Russia of involvement in the explosion of military warehouses in Vrzbits in 2014, cannot but cause outrage As well as another recent provocation - the demolition of the monument to Marshal Konev in Prague, when on May 9 on the empty pedestal cynically installed a two-meter toilet from foam. However, all these are "flowers" compared to what Czechoslovak legionnaires did in Siberia after the October Revolution of 1917.

    3.As you know, the Czechs did not win their independent state in the fight, but received it after the collapse of Austria-Hungary as a result of its defeat in the First World War. But even before its end in Russia there was a Czechoslovak corps, consisting of czechs and Slovaks who had fled to our side or were captured, the number of which by February 1917 had grown to 50,000. In Paris, in 1916, the head of the branch of the Czechoslovak National Council was created, which was almost entirely controlled by France and Britain. After the signing of the Brest Peace Corps, the corps announced that it was leaving Russia and going through Vladivostok and the United States to France to fight with Germany on the Western Front.

    4.When in May 1918 63 echelons of the Czechoslovak Corps, moving along the Trans-Siberian Railway, stretched from Penza to Vladivostok, Britain and France decided to take advantage of the situation to help the Czechs to overthrow the Soviet power and return Russia to its side. The Red Guards tried to disarm the Czechs, but it failed. Legionnaires, who at that time were the only major organized military force in Siberia, overthrew Soviet power in many major cities.

    5.On 8 June, the first anti-Soviet government, the Constituent Assembly (Komuch) Committee, was declared in Samara, and on 30 June, the Provisional Siberian Government in Omsk was declared. On August 7, troops of the so-called Komuch People's Army under the command of Vladimir Kappelai took part of the Czechoslovak Corps. Russia's gold reserve evacuated from the capital was seized there.

   6.As you know, in 1914 (before the outbreak of World War I) Russia's gold reserves were the largest in the world and amounted to 1,311 tons of gold. The valuables were taken by train to Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod. The Bolsheviks then wanted to evacuate the gold from Kazan, but the swiftness of Kappel's attack mixed the plans of the Soviet leadership.

    7.Colonel Kappel reported in a telegram: "Trophies are not countable, Russia's gold reserve of 650 million is captured... ».

   8.Captured in Kazan part of the gold and silver reserves of the Russian Empire in the amount of more than five hundred tons of gold and at least 750 boxes of silver on steamships under guard sent to Samara. At the end of November 1918, the gold reserve of the Russian Empire was moved to Omsk and placed at the disposal of the government of Admiral Kolchak.

   9.But when on December 27, 1919, the staff train and a train with gold arrived at the Nizhneudinsk station, the representatives of the Entente forced Kolchak to sign an order to renounce the rights of the Supreme Ruler of Russia and transfer the echelon with a gold reserve under the control of the Czechoslovak Corps. On January 15, 1920, the Czech command extradited Kolchak to the Eser Political Center. A few days later, the Esers handed over the admiral to the Bolsheviks, who executed him. Some of the gold of The Czechoslovakia was returned to the Soviet authorities in exchange for guarantees of the unhindered evacuation of the corps from Russia, the rest was taken with them.

   10.Robberies of Czechs in Siberia

After the Red Army knocked the Legionnaires out of Kazan, they abandoned the front (during the next two years they did not participate in battles with the Red Army) and moved towards Vladivostok. On the way, they acted like a gang of robbers, taking away all the valuables that came in the way. In 1920, the Belarusian newspaper "The Case of Russia" wrote: "The extraction of Czechs was striking not only with its quantity, but also with its diversity. What the Czechs didn't have. Their warehouses were bursting with a huge amount of Russian uniforms, weapons, cloth, food supplies and shoes.

   11.Not content with the requisition of state warehouses and state property, the Czechs began to take away everything that came under the arm, completely disregarding the one to whom the property belonged. Metals, all sorts of raw materials, valuable machines, thoroughbred horses were declared Czechs military prey.

   12.Some medicines were taken by them for the sum of more than three million gold rubles, rubber for 40 million rubles, from the Tyumen district removed a huge amount of copper and so on. The Czechs did not hesitate to declare their prize even the library and laboratory of the University of Perm.

   13.According to the most modest calculation, this peculiar contraception cost the Russian people many hundreds of millions of rubles and significantly exceeded the contraception imposed by the Prussians on France in 1871. Some of this production was the subject of open sale and was released to the market at inflated prices, some was loaded into cars and intended to be shipped to the Czech Republic. In short, the famous genius of the Czechs blossomed in Siberia in lush color. True, this kind of commerce is rather approaching the notion of open robbery (or armed theft), but the Czechs, as a practical people, were not disposed to reckon with prejudice."

   14.onfession of theft

It can be said that the Czechs have set a real "record" of looting in Russia, stealing part of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire. Back in 2007, the Czech edition of Reflex published an article "Who Stole Russian Gold." The author of the article Stanislav Motl said that working in the archives of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, where he collected materials for the book "Where the golden reserve of the republic disappeared", he discovered the text of the speech in the parliament in May 1925 by Rudolf Lodgmann von Auen.

   15.The MP accused the then Foreign Minister Dr. Edward Benesh of covering the crimes of Czechoslovak legionnaires in Russia. In his impassioned emotional speech, Lodgmann stated that "the legionnaires participated in the ruin of the Russian people", apparently expressing that they had "stolen most of the royal gold".

   16.The parliamentary inquiry of Lodgmann interested the London newspaper Economist (30.05.1925), which accused the Czechoslovak "Legiobank" that his wealth owed to the Russian royal gold. This bank was established in 1919 as a bank of the Czechoslovak Legion "with the aim of managing the savings of Czechoslovak legionnaires...".

 

17."One of the documents of the headquarters of the 1st Division mentions the secret transportation of 750 boxes on the ship Sheridan from Vladivostok to Trieste. This transportation was carried out in the summer of 1920. From Triesta, the cargo was transported to Czechoslovakia in a sanitary echelon , under the beds of soldiers, whose diagnosis indicated a mental disorder."

   18."Among the legionnaires who first saw this gold," the Czech newspaper writes, was the then delegate of the First Regiment at Kazan headquarters, a regimental doctor, and later the writer FrantisekLanger. Later, his impressions were included in the book "For a Stranger City." The writer recalls the feelings he experienced in the basements of the Kazan State Bank, where he saw with his own eyes oak boxes filled with gold bricks, bars and coins, the approximate value of which was half a billion. During the month, together with the Siberian battalion, the Czechoslovak legionnaires repelled the Red Army's offensive. Then they left Kazan. And, as we know today, we have retreated from most of the Russian gold reserves."

  19.Other Czech sources also confirm the theft of Russian gold. Thus, in the article "Where did the gold reserve disappear?" published in the magazine "Glasreluce" (1988), VlastimilVara writes that in Kazan Czechoslovak legionnaires seized "30563 pounds of gold worth 651532117 rubles 86 cents."

   20.Benes: take out gold to the Czech Republic

The Czechoslovakian authorities themselves were involved in the theft of gold. The letter sent by Edward Benesh to the Legionnaires on February 13, 1920 has been preserved.

"The Allies would welcome the rescue of the echelon with the Russian gold reserve. If it is still in your power, try to take it to a safe place, for example, in the Czech Republic," he wrote.

    21.In Soviet times, the question of the responsibility of the Czechs for the crimes committed in Russia and their theft of Russian gold and other valuables in our country for reasons of political correctness was not raised. Especially when after the Second World War the "brotherly" CHSR was created and a "socialist camp" was formed. Therefore, the fate of Russia's missing gold reserves is still exactly unknown.

   22.As the well-known publicist Nikolai Starykov wrote, who studied this story in detail, "the Czechs safely reached Vladivostok, quietly unloaded the loot from 20,000 cars, loaded it onto ships and sailed home."

   23.Many historians have repeatedly raised the question of the reasons for the rapid development of ravaged Czechoslovakia after the end of the First World War. Many believe that it was possible to do this at the expense of gold and other valuables looted in Russia. Some of the gold is believed to have gone to the bank founded by the legionnaires, and the other - to the State Bank of Czechoslovakia.

   24.Version of the director of the FSB museum

"I think there was one third of Russia's gold reserves in Kazan, because the other part of the gold was stored in Nizhny Novgorod and In Tbilisi," Lt. Col. Rovel Kashapov, director of the FSB Museum in Kazan, told the Red Spring news agency. According to him, the Czech legionnaires together with the White Guards participated in the capture of Kazan. Having shot about 200 Bolsheviks, they engaged in looting. 650 million rubles of gold and other valuables were seized from the Kazan bank. The gold was loaded onto barges and sent to Samara. There he was counted and sent to Ufa, where they added some more gold from the Ufa bank. The Czechs took out the echelon of valuables from Kazan, after the looting of Ufa there were already two.

   25."Gold was taken in echelons to Kolchak, guards were carried out by white-bears as the most disciplined and trained military units. As we moved east, the gold stock decreased. Confirmed fact - Ataman Semenov personally was given 30 boxes of gold for the maintenance of the troops, there were other similar cases," Kashapov continued.

26.The director of the FSB museum believes that by the time of departure from Vladivostok, the legionnaires had 40 tons of Russian gold in their hands, which they brought to Prague and opened Legionbank with these funds.

27.Germany and the U.S. are accomplices in the robbery?

However, as the same Starykov noted, stolen Russian gold bars did not go to the benefit of Czechoslovakia. Its gold reserves were kept in Britain, and after Czechoslovakia ceased to exist in March 1939, its gold was transferred to the Third Reich by the British.

  28.In 1945, the remainder of Germany's national gold reserve of 111 tons was exported by a special SS team to the Bavarian Alps. Hidden treasures were later found by Allied forces. The question of where about 700 tons of gold went remained open. Most likely, this volume was transferred through Swiss banks to the countries of South America, where many Nazi bonzas later settled.

   29.In 1951, the so-called economic miracle took place in restored Germany, as before in the Czech Republic. The country began to successfully form a national gold and currency reserve - by 1968 the reserves of gold bullion reach a historical high of 4000 tons.

   30.But it is still unclear where Germany, which survived the devastating war, took the funds to buy so much gold. After all, there are no large gold deposits in The Territory of Germany and there were no. And then again pops up a version of the well-hidden gold of the Nazis, which was never found by either the Soviet or Allied troops.

   31.Perhaps it was also gold stolen by the Czechs in Russia, which the British handed over to the Reich.

32.Such is the sad fate of the gold reserves of Tsarist Russia, due to which not only the Czechs, but probably also Germany managed to profit. According to another version, some of this gold, which was found by the Americans in the defeated Hitler's Reich, is located in the town of Fort Knox in the United States. The robbed Russia did not get anything back. And now these robbers have the audacity of us to demand something and impose sanctions.

Andrey Sokolov, Centennial