[BBell]

So widely held was the belief that the Legion escaped with a haul of the late Tsar’s treasure that when the Soviets liberated Eastern Europe at the end of World War Two, Red Army troops raided its vaults, sending much of the gold reserves there to Moscow.

Commies never forgive and forget.

[KC Burke]

There is a certain amount of debate about raided gold reserves.

With the British blockading the Baltic Sea and the Russians looking for goods to rebuild factories and infrastructure from the Swedes, what gold reserves were impossible to get to the Swedes due to weight and the markings of the Czarist regime.

Russia had huge debt to the western allies and anything found would be seized.