STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 401, sig. 109-4/146 (damaged)

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You co-workers, their deniks and post-signs prove otherwise. If they look to me in a particularly difficult way - tuaci - the Czech legionary command must have seen the Russian process - their most urgent task in a fast and safe way - 52 and outside of their troops home - we will be able to excuse and use extra-curricular means and methods. However, it is not possible to embellish or even idealise the methods of integritylessness and treachery, which Czech legionnaires have proven to be used - in which they used internal confusion in Russia. Breached by the treaty- you, treason on Russian commanders, the treason of criminal acts purely criminal-like, immense plundering of the Russian country, unparalleled murders committed on Austrian prisoners of German national jurisdiction, accompanied the legion during this heroic campaign. ©I cannot survive the shame that has affected our army by a series of acts of unbridled fa-natal demagögs. They killed the best in us: our honor. © With these words in their farewell letter, the Czech legionnaire colonel- ník Švec ended up killing himself.© However, this fact is not compared with the legend, spread immediately after the coup in 1918, which, according to the words of the first mini-tra war of Klofáč - claimed that the legion was overcome by all the heroes- the works that people had ever performed since Herodotovych. And the task of returning with legionnaires was seen as being to be teachers of the heroic feelings that make the nation an unshakable pilgrim of freedom. State Secretary K. H. Frank in his svėm article says of this: Finished ra party of the other.