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    Jukums Vācietis (Russian: Иоаким Иоакимович Вацетис, Ioakim Ioakimovich Vatsetis; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1873 – 28 July 1938) was a Latvian Soviet...
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  • Vācietis (feminine: Vāciete) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ojārs Vācietis (1933—1983), Latvian writer Jukums Vācietis (1873–1938)...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Legion Supported by: White Movement Commanders and leaders Leon Trotsky Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Mikhail Muravyov † Alexander Samoylo Vasily Blyukher...
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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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    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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    Unszlicht Maksim Unt Semyon Uritsky Aleksandr Uspensky Leonid Ustrugov Jukums Vācietis Yakov Yakovlev Yefim Yevdokimov Konstantin Yurenev Leonid Zakovsky...
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    October 1918, Following disagreements with the Soviet commander-in-chief Jukums Vācietis, Svechin was removed from his position and appointed professor at the...
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    China  France  Poland 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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  • (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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    Commanders and leaders Vladimir Lenin Leon Trotsky Yakov Sverdlov # Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Nikolai Podvoisky Nikolai Krylenko Joseph Stalin Yukhym...
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    was founded in October 1918, he was the head, joining Trotsky and Jukums Vācietis on the Executive Bureau of the Defence Council. In July 1920, Aralov...
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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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    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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    Fletcher Josef Bischoff Pavel Bermondt-Avalov Walter von Eberhardt Jukums Vācietis Sergei Kamenev Dmitry Nadyozhny Vladimir Gittis Pēteris Slavens # Strength...
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    Butovo Seraphim Chichagov before being sentenced to death and executed Jukums Vācietis after his arrest by the NKVD in 1937 Mural displaying images of victims...
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  • 15th Army was disbanded, and the troops transferred to the 3rd Army. Jukums Vācietis (06.01.1919 — 10.03.1919), Pēteris Slavens (10.03.1919 — 07.06.1919)...
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