Czech founding father Masaryk's message revealed in long-sealed envelope(nbcnews.com)
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Czech founding father Masaryk's message revealed in long-sealed envelope
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/masaryk-message-revealed-envelope-czech-founding-father-rcna232353
For example, he was one of the people who forcefully argued for fakeness of the so-called "Manuscripts", which were held in high esteem by the emerging patriotic intellectual class.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscripts_of_Dv%C5%AFr_Kr%C3...
He also took side of a Jewish guy called Leopold Hilsner, who was accused of a ritual murder of a Czech girl:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilsner_affair
Plenty of anti-Semites hated him for that and he received a lot of threats.
And, at an already old age, he left his country to fight for independence of future Czechoslovakia, which looked like a quixotic mission until it suddenly bore fruit.