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Jukums Ioakimovich Vācietis Jukums Иоакимович Vācietis The Red Army's first commander-in-chief: an Imperial colonel who built the revolutionary armed forces Military command · Soviet Union 1873–1938
Yan Karlovich Berzin Jānis Ян Карлович Берзин Bērziņš The Latvian Bolshevik who built Soviet military intelligence and was consumed by the purges Military command · Soviet Union 1889–1938
Hans von Manteuffel-Szoege Hans Freiherr von Manteuffel-Szoege Baltic Landeswehr strike-troop commander who led the Liepāja coup and fell at Riga Military command 1894–1919
Robert Petrovich Eideman Роберт Петрович Эйдеман Latvian-born Civil War hero turned defendant in the Tukhachevsky trial Military command · Soviet Union 1895–1937
Yakov Ivanovich Alksnis Яков Иванович Алкснис Built the world's largest bomber force, then died the death he had sentenced others to Military command · Soviet Union 1897–1938
Žanis Lipke Žanis Lipke Riga docker who used his contract work for the Luftwaffe to smuggle dozens of Jews out of the ghetto and camps and hide them Social movements and organizing 1900–1987