The Soviets and the Chekoslavaka Legion

The soviet government granted them safe passage to vladavostok. But local authorities were suspicious and hostile of these heavily armed checks and slovoks passing through town. The legionaries then staged an armed attack to rescue their brothers from jail, and in the process, wound up taking effective military control of the city. Trotsky has by now resigned as commissar of foreign affairs and taken up his job as commissor of the army and navy. He was not going to shoot anybody who tried to implement comrade trotsky's order at the moment.