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Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz

Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz
Russian Empire state institutions Counter-revolutionary forces Poland Belarusian and Polish 1883–1940 ✕ Murdered

Anti-Soviet partisan commander who moved from Estonia to Belarus, changing camps as he went

Pilsudski judged him 'a bandit, but not only a bandit: today a Russian, tomorrow a Pole, the day after a Belarusian.'

He went from the Red Army to the Whites, took Pskov in 1919, broke with Yudenich to side with Estonia and in 1920 moved to Poland for a Belarusian expedition. His troops' anti-Jewish violence is on record; he was killed in occupied Warsaw in 1940.

Career timeline
  • 1914Mobilized into the tsarist army; awarded the George Cross and St George medal
  • 1918Joined the Red Army; formed the Luga cavalry regiment with Trotsky's sanction
  • 1918.11Defected to the Whites with about 400 men
  • 1919Colonel then major-general; took Pskov in the Yudenich offensive
  • 1920.01Arrested Yudenich and sided with Estonia
  • 1920In Polish service took Pinsk and formed the Russian People's Volunteer Army
  • 1920.11Invaded Soviet Belarus and proclaimed himself head of a Belarusian state; after defeat fled to Poland
  • 1939Helped defend Warsaw; killed in May 1940