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The Czechs and growing rebel army continued their advance into the Russian heartland.
Standing in their way is the River Volga, the key crossing point is the city of Kazan.
The city falls to the rebels, and the Bolsheviks realize the size and danger of this new threat.
Almost by accident, an army had been created around the Czech legion, determined to remove the Bolsheviks from power.
The Counter-Revolution they had feared was underway. Elsewhere, others start to rebel. To distinguish them from the Red Revolutionaries they were later called Whites.
The fighting starts in the center of Russia. With the Red Army occupied with the war with Germany, the government called on their most loyal troops to save the emerging crisis, the sailors of Kronstadt.
The sailors had been at the forefront of Lenin's October Revolution and had a reputation as his most feared shock troops.
The sailors travelled by train from Kronstadt and sailed the last 200 miles down the River Volga.
Leading the fleet was the Bolshevik Fedor Raskolnikov. As they approached the city of Kazan, they planned their attack.
Bolshevik forces attacked from the hills above the town while soldiers and sailors launched their assault from ships on the River. The battle was fierce and after several days, progress is still slow. Trotsky and Bolshevik agitators helped turn things back in the favor of Bolshevik, and Kazan was reclaimed. It was the first successful counter-attack for the Reds on the Eastern front.
When the Bolsheviks arrived they realized how brutal the fight with the Whites was going to be.
The battle for Kazan had been hard-fought, but the Bolsheviks turned the tide at the Volga and the sailors of Kronstadt had again been at the Vanguard.
Continued: The Red Army, Trotsky and the soldiers of Kronstadt pursue the retreating rebel forces. America, Japan and the British send in support of 200,000 to support the White Army in its battle against the Lenin and the Bolshevik Regime's Red Army. Previous: Murder of the Royal Family, The rebel army moved west and in their path was the city of Yekaterinburg, where the royal family had been under house arrest for four months. Bolsheviks murder the royal family to prevent them from falling into enemy hands and used as leverage. After 300 Years the Romanov Dynasty was ended.
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Thousand Dollar Question
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth (tender) grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Still waiting... |
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