The persecution got so bad, many Cossacks fought for Nazi Germany during WWII. At wars end, General Krasnov and other Cossack leaders persuaded Hitler to allow civilians and non-combatant Cossacks to permanently settle in the sparsely settled Carnia, in the Italian Alps. They fought primarily for the White (anti-Communist) Russians, which earned them persecution when the Bolsheviks won the war and founded the Soviet Union. Per the Yalta and Tehran agreements, the non-Soviet Allies forcibly rendered the Cossacks to the Red Army for repatriation to the U.S.S.R. When the Empire fell during World War I and the Czar abdicated, the Cossacks were divided between the Red and White factions of the Russian Civil War. It was the Cossacks who captured Paris and unseated the French Emperor. After his Grand Armée was forced out of Russia, the Cossacks harassed them all the way back to France. Training could begin in infancy and only ever stop in an actual pitched battle.Įventually, the Russian nobility came to accept the Cossacks, endowing them with certain rights and privileges in the Empire for their continued service in defending Russia’s borders. Many Czars were faced with Cossack uprisings and were forced to deal with them in their own ways, from putting down the rebellion or forcibly moving the population to another area of the Russian Empire.įrom a young age, Cossacks raised their children to be elite warriors and ethnically Cossack in every way possible. Cossack loyalty to the Russian Czar was earned over centuries of fighting to maintain that independence.
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