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Did you know... that when offered, soldiers under Russian general V. P. Taranovsky chose imprisonment in Algeria rather than continuing to fight or serving as labourers?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 21:46, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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General Taranovsky

... that in 1918 when Russian General V. P. Taranovsky offered his men the choice to continue to fight, carry out non-combatant work or enter imprisonment in Algeria, most of them chose the latter? Source: "There were to be three classes, as follows: Class 1 to go back to the front in the French Army; class 2 to work in the rear presumably on the railways or in the Salonika power plant at the same salaries as the workers already employed there; class 3 those who refused both these offers, to be considered as rebels and sent to hard labor in the salt mines in South Algeria on the border of the Sahara Desert until the end of the war. The decision was to be taken the next morning...The French general once more read the conditions of the offer and General Taronovsky translated them to the men ... [he goes on to describe that apart from around 25 men in his battalion they all chose imprisonment and then:] we witnessed repetition of the same scene as the other battalions of the division were given the same offer. The concerted action of the men was amazing. Battalion after battalion did exactly the same thing ... the same wild burst of enthusiasm would greet the third call [for imprisonment]" from pages 282-283 of Lobanov-Rostovsky, Andrei (1935). The Grinding Mill: Reminiscences of War and Revolution in Russia, 1913-1920. Macmillan.
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Created by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 14:58, 31 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

The article is long enough and new enough. I assume good faith on the book reference. The hook is directly cited. A QPQ has been completed and the image is fine. I fixed the wikilink in the hook. SL93 (talk) 18:22, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Modified ALT0 to T:DYK/P4