Posted on 06/22/2024 9:14:32 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1918, Captain Alexey Schastny received the cold thanks of the Bolshevik government for saving its Baltic fleet. Icebound in the city of Helsingfors (Helsinki) across the Gulf of Finland from his Red homeland, Schastny (English Wikipedia entry | the more substantial Russian) orchestrated an emergency speedy breakout just ahead of a German incursion that seized the city in April and could have grabbed the Soviet Baltic fleet.
Schastny’s decisive action brought 236 vessels, including six battleships, across the frozen sea and safely home to Kronstadt. The heroism of this operation at a moment of such low ebb for Russian prestige made Schastny a potentially dangerous element, should the onetime tsarist sailor choose to exercise his great prestige in the navy to the detriment of the Bolsheviks. This was the winter of the Russian Civil War, when White insurgents tore at the nascent Revolution.....
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Between 1914-1945 Russia lost forever its best genetic stock.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Cold weather must have been hell back then, everything was freakin’ wool, wool sweaters, wool coats, and then they get wet and turn to ice.
And thanks to those bastard sailors the revolution was saved a Stalin would go on to murder , force starve 62,000,000 good people.
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That number is a solid well researched one from the U of Hawaii. Trash deep state sites like WIKI, Google etc give far lower numbers like 7 million.
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