The Czechoslovakian Legion in Russia

So, I've been reading on the Internet about something amazing. If I would have heard yesterday that, near the end of the First World War, there was an army of about 50,000 Czechoslovak soldiers in Russia being transferred east along the Trans-Siberian Railroad so they could, through Vladivostok and the USA, fight on the Western front, rather than the Eastern Front which collapsed in 1917, I would have thought it was something from a bizarre alternate-reality story. Can you imagine a bunch of Czechoslovakians just stranded in the middle of Russia, trying to go to France to fight the Germans? To make it even more interesting, throw in eight train-cars' worth of Imperial Russian gold falling into the hands of the Czechoslovak legionnaires and being demanded by the Bolsheviks. Well, it turns out it's true. What's even more amazing is that most of them made it out alive: although they started out all spread out over the railway, they managed to regroup in Vladivostok and, with the help of mainly American and Japanese troops, evacuated and returned home (the First World War was over by then, although the war in Russia was still raging).

In other news, here's a little blast from the past:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-1RPDqJAY
and an "interesting" combination of two memes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3TK0MEtM-E
Speaking of combining memes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP4uUnOJL2M

That's all for today.