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* " Radola Gajda of Czechoslovakia " by Joseph F. Zacek in East Central European War Leaders: Civilian and Military edited by Bela K. Kiraly ( Columbia University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-88033-140-2 )
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* Radola Gajda ( 1892 – 1948 ), military officer ( and eventually general ) with the Czechoslovak Legions in World War I and the Russian Civil War ; later one of the founders of the fascist ( yet anti-German ) National Fascist Community and member of the Czechoslovakian Parliament
Radola Gajda, born as Rudolf Geidl, ( February 14, 1892 Kotor, Austria-Hungary – April 15, 1948 Prague, Czechoslovakia ) was a Czech / Montenegrin military commander and politician.
* " The Would-Be Führer: General Radola Gajda of Czechoslovakia " by David Kelly in Issue 12. 3 of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
* Antonín Klimek and Petr Hofman: " Generál Radola Gajda, vítěz, který prohrál " ( General Radola Gajda, the winner who lost ), 1995, ISBN 80-7185-033-0, excerpts.
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After arriving in Czechoslovakia in early 1920, Gajda was given a pension and the rank of General, but was not assigned a command.
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When World War II ended Gajda was imprisoned by the NKVD ( May 12, 1945 ) and interrogated under harsh conditions ( he lost his eyesight while jailed ).
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The northern army under the Russian Anatoly Pepelyayev and the Czech Rudolf Gajda seized Perm in late December 1918 and after a pause other forces spread out from this strategic base.
The plan was for three main advances – Gajda to take Archangel, Khanzhin to capture Ufa and the Cossacks under Alexander Dutov to capture Samara and Saratov.
Following the collapse of the Montenegrin Army in 1916, Gajda escaped into Russia where he joined a Serbian battalion as a physician.
At the end of 1916 the battalion was destroyed and Gajda joined the Czechoslovak Legions ( January 30, 1917 ) as a staff captain.
Gajda proved himself as an able commander in the Battle of Zborov and quickly rose through the military hierarchy.
Gajda returned two years later and on October 9, 1922 was given command of the 11th Division in Košice, Slovakia.
In this capacity, Gajda worked successfully to limit the influence of the mission, which was brought to an end in 1926.
Under pressure from president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Gajda was forced to retire, because he had publicly shown himself sympathetic to Italian fascism.
The NOF was somewhat successful in the 1935 elections and Gajda obtained a seat in parliament, which he was to hold until 1939.
( After the Munich Agreement Gajda, as a gesture of defiance, returned all French and British honors and medals.
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