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    Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher (Russian: Васи́лий Константи́нович Блю́хер, romanized: Vasiliy Konstantinovich Blyukher; 1 December 1889 – 9 November...
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    Army in Khabarovsk and worked on military intelligence, reporting to Vasily Blyukher, the commander of the Far Eastern Army. The Soviet Far Eastern Army...
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    intelligence failures and embezzlement. Frode Berg, Norwegian spy Vasily Blyukher Vladimir Bukovsky Nicholas Daniloff Svetlana Davydova [ru] Alexander...
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  • Yegorov, and three senior commanders, Vasily Blyukher, Semyon Budyonny, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Of these, Blyukher, Tukhachevsky, and Yegorov were executed...
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    Voroshilov (6 times) Vasily Arkhipov Joseph Beyrle, US Army POW Sergey Semyonovich Biryuzov Vasili Mikhailovich Blokhin (2 times) Vasily Blyukher (first recipient...
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    The People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic under Vasily Blyukher defeated units of the counterrevolutionary Far Eastern White Army led...
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    infrastructure, the overburdening of the front's commander, Marshal Vasily Blyukher (or Blücher), shortage of equipment, and poor organization led to the...
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    which was largely devised by Soviet advisors Mikhail Borodin and Vasily Blyukher, was to focus on defeating Wu Peifu and appeasing Sun Chuanfang, while...
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  • formation of the Red Army, active from 1929 to 1938 and under command of Vasily Blyukher. It was activated on 6 August 1929, originally with the 18th and 19th...
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    after, while serving in the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army under Vasily Blyukher, he took part in the Russo-Chinese Eastern Railroad War of 1929–1930...
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    Union created the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, commanded by Vasily Blyukher, with the assistance of Voroshilov. Around a fifth of the entire Soviet...
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    vindication and rehabilitation of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Grigoriy Shtern, Vasily Blyukher, Alexander Yegorov and many others. In response his opponents accused...
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    Soviet Union had also sent military advisers to China, among them Vasily Blyukher and Konstantin Rokossovsky whom Greim befriended during his stay in...
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    Shtern became chief of staff of the Far Eastern Front, commanded by Vasily Blyukher, who would soon be executed in the Great Purge. During the July and...
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    (l–r): Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Semyon Budyonny, Kliment Voroshilov, Vasily Blyukher, Alexander Yegorov. Only Budyonny and Voroshilov survived the Great...
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    Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Frunze Vasily Blyukher Yakov Tryapitsyn  Aleksandr Samoilov Sergey Lazo  A. Krasnoshchyokov...
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    Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Mikhail Muravyov † Alexander Samoylo Vasily Blyukher Mikhail Frunze Mikhail Tukhachevsky Reingold Berzin Filipp Goloshchyokin...
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    replacing), Vasily Blyukher (a Marshal of the Soviet Union), and Albert Yanovich Lapin (the Far East Air Corps Commander). Balitsky, Blyukher, and Lapin...
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    captured Oryol and together with the troops of the Southeastern Front led by Vasily Shorin, they captured Voronezh, crossed the Don River and then drove off...
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  • Napoleon". Mikhail Tukhachevsky was considered the prime candidate, but Vasily Blyukher and Semyon Budyonny were subject to similar speculation. The hopes...
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    Tribunal was presided over by Vasili Ulrikh and included marshals Vasily Blyukher, Semyon Budyonny and Army Commanders Yakov Alksnis, Boris Shaposhnikov...
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    Krylenko Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Frunze Vasily Blyukher Alexander Samoylo Joseph Stalin Kliment Voroshilov Fedor Raskolnikov...
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    Within the hour, Tukhachevsky was summoned from his cell by NKVD captain Vasily Blokhin. As Yezhov watched, the former Marshal was shot once in the back...
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    Union in November 1935, clockwise from top left: Semyon Budyonny, Vasily Blyukher, Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, Kliment Voroshilov and Mikhail Tukhachevsky...
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  • 'intensive investigations'. Put in charge of forcing a confession out of Vasily Blyukher, Shvartzman beat him to death. Shvartzman also tortured the former...
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  • German politician Heinrich Blücher (1899–1970), German philosopher Vasily Blyukher (1899–1938), Marshal of the Soviet Union (named after the Prussian...
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  • arrested. Three out of five Soviet marshals (Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, Vasily Blyukher, Tukhachevsky) and several thousands of the Red Army officers were...
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    Union Vasily Blyukher, while still functioning as a military district. The Army became the Soviet Far East Front in June 1938, after Blyukher's torture...
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  • politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866) 1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Russian marshal (b. 1889) 1940 – Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American...
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  • (d. 1977) Shōji Nishimura, Japanese admiral (d. 1944) December 1 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1938) December 2 –...
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