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    Jukums Vācietis (Russian: Иоаким Иоакимович Вацетис, romanized: Ioakim Ioakimovich Vatsetis; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1873 – 28 July 1938) was a...
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  • Vācietis (feminine: Vāciete) is a Latvian ethnonymic surname literally meaning "German person". Notable people with the surname include: Jukums Vācietis...
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    Revvoyensoviet was Leon Trotsky, with Latvian rifleman Jukums Vācietis as his commander-in-chief. Vācietis was replaced in July 1919 by Sergei Kamenev who served...
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    Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1918. In July 1919, Kamenev replaced Jukums Vācietis as Commander-in-chief of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War...
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    Leon Trotsky (then the civilian leader of the Red Army), signed by Jukums Vācietis, the first commander-in-chief of the Red Army (RKKA), and by Ephraim...
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    military recognition of that time: the Honorable Red Flag of VTsIK. Jukums Vācietis, formerly a colonel in the Latvian Rifles became the first commander-in-chief...
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    February 12 that order was updated to include the Bug river. On that day Jukums Vācietis ordered the new Western Command to carry out a "reconnaissance in-depth"...
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    Lenin doubted the loyalty of the commander of the Latvian Riflemen, Jukums Vācietis, and expressed his readiness to “accept his services” only by assigning...
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    The first chairman was Trotsky, and the first commander-in-chief was Jukums Vācietis of the Latvian Riflemen; in July 1919 he was replaced by Sergey Kamenev...
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    : Military Bulletin, 1930. Civil war. 1918–1921. N.E. Kakurin and Jukums Vācietis. - 2nd ed. - St. Petersburg: Polygon, 2002. - 672 p. - (Great Controversies)...
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    became more complicated. On April 23, the leader of the Red Army, Jukums Vācietis informed Vladimir Lenin that the decisive battles were on the eastern...
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  • (born 1946) – contemporary composer Jukums Vācietis (1873–1938) – first commander of the Soviet Army Ojārs Vācietis (1933–1983) – poet Kaspars Vecvagars...
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    against the intentions of the commander-in-chief of the Red Army Jukums Vācietis. However, the transfer of troops was stopped in the last days of March...
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    Wilds P. Richardson Nikolai Yudenich Nikolai Tchaikovsky Evgeny Miller Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Aleksandr Samoylo Dmitri Parsky Dmitry Nadyozhny Rüdiger...
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    clashes with the newly formed Red Army and Red Latvian riflemen under Jukums Vācietis. After sporadic fighting in late January, on January 31 Dowbor-Muśnicki's...
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    Force Supported by: White Movement Commanders and leaders Leon Trotsky Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Mikhail Muravyov † Alexander Samoylo Vasily Blyukher...
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    In October 1918, disagreements with the Soviet commander-in-chief Jukums Vācietis caused Svechin to be removed from his position and to be appointed...
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    reorganization of the entire Red Army, coordinated by its commander-in-chief Jukums Vācietis and the military commissar Leon Trotsky, the Red forces in Tsaritsyn...
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    straightforward uprising against Soviet power. Lenin promptly summoned Jukums Vācietis, the commander of the Latvian Riflemen, now headquartered in the outskirts...
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     Canada China  France Mongolia Commanders and leaders Leon Trotsky Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Frunze Vasily Blyukher...
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    military leaders and politicians, such as Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich, Jukums Vācietis, Sergei Kamenev, Boris Shaposhnikov, Vladimir Egoryev. Most of these...
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    officials and prominent communist revolutionaries like Jānis Rudzutaks, Jukums Vācietis, Jānis Bērziņš, and others. More than 21,300 persons were sentenced...
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    Fletcher Josef Bischoff Pavel Bermondt-Avalov Walter von Eberhardt Jukums Vācietis Sergei Kamenev Dmitry Nadyozhny Vladimir Gittis Pēteris Slavens # Strength...
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    Russia was established by the secret order signed on 5 November 1918 by Jukums Vācietis, the first commander-in-chief of the Red Army (RKKA), and by Ephraim...
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    stripped of his command over the Ukrainian Front and replaced with Jukums Vācietis, a Latvian former Imperial Army officer. According to Alexandre Skirda...
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  • Alexander Tsiurupa Juris Plyavins as Jūlijs Daniševskis Hari Liepins as Jukums Vācietis Roman Khomyatov as Mikhail Frunze Nina Veselovskaya as Inessa Armand...
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    Unszlicht Maksim Unt Semyon Uritsky Aleksandr Uspensky Leonid Ustrugov Jukums Vācietis Yakov Yakovlev Yefim Yevdokimov Konstantin Yurenev Leonid Zakovsky...
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    Leiko was arrested in December 1937 and executed on 3 February 1938 Jukums Vācietis after his arrest by the NKVD in 1937 Mural displaying images of victims...
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    Rudzutaks) Ivan Strod (Jānis Strods) Kirill Stutzka (Kirils Stucka) Jukums Vācietis Leonid Zakovsky (Leonīds Zakovskis) Estonian Operation of the NKVD...
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    Johan Laidoner Jaan Soots Nikolai Yudenich Vladimir Lenin Leon Trotsky Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Dmitry Nadyozhny Vladimir Gittis Rüdiger von der Goltz...
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