After XX Congress of the CPSU in the "secret report" published the lists of the innocent victims of Stalin's terror.The conclusion that the violation of Leninist norms of party leadership and the country lost many talented generals, whose managerial skills in World War II could be invaluable.Mention the names Gamarnik, Tukhachevsky, Yakir.Marshal Blucher suffered, the hero of the Civil War.
Surname non-Russian, although its owner - the son of a peasant from Yaroslavl province.The fact is that in the era of the Napoleonic wars was a Prussian field marshal, who played a significant role in the defeat of the army of Napoleon at Waterloo.The landowner, the owner's great-grandfather of the future commander, gave one of his peasants the nickname because of the heroic participation in the Crimean War.The great-grandson was born either in 1889, or in 1890.
Vasily Blucher, when grown up, worked in St. Petersburg at first to run errands at the store, then at the wagon factory.He had a restless temper, sooner joined the class struggle and even was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
With the start of World War II, Blucher was mobilized, but the front was not immediately apparent.At first, he served in the protection of the Kremlin, and having got to the front, distinguished himself in battle, for which he was awarded a medal and two crosses of St. George.The non-commissioned officer rank, were seriously injured, Basil was outright the reserve and working in the shipyards of Sormovo, joined the RSDLP.
amazing career that has made during the Civil War Vasily Konstantinovich Blucher.Biography, which became accessible to a wide audience after 1956, contains scant information about it, starting with a modest office clerk 102nd reserve until a few months "grown" to a member of the Samara revvoenkomiteta.
Taking an active part in the Civil War, he became the most award-order bearers of the Red Army.On his chest was as many as four "Red Banner", as there was no one.
the Far East in 1921, it has become a place where Marshal Blucher reached the peak of his career.Numerous armed clashes with the Japanese militarists, belokitaytsami White Guard and military forces operating from the territory of Manchuria, usually ends successfully for the Red commander.Actually, he was awarded the title of Marshal of the troops of the Far Eastern District victory in the battle for the CER.
Then there was the trial Tuhachesvskim and other "conspirators" (Eideman, Uborevicha Feldman, Putnam and Cork), which actively participated Marshal Blucher with Ulrich and Budyonny.Civil War Hero Honored stigma of traitors, not knowing that he will soon take their place.Having proved his loyalty, he returned to the office, but the conflict at Lake Khasan in 1938 and its outcome alerted Stalin.Formally, everything was fine, the aggressor is defeated, but some of the circumstances, the results reported, "who should" in Moscow, revealed a number of shortcomings in the management of troops.
Stalin learned that Marshal Blucher drinks a lot, and not tea.At work, he took a passive position, is engaged in the affairs of little more settle personal problems.In those hard times on pension managers that rank did not send.It is much easier to blame objectionable commander of criminal negligence or espionage, which was done.
Marshal Blucher in a sense, lucky.His health, undermined wound and really immoderate consumption of alcohol, could not stand the torture Lefortovo, he died in 1938, 9 November, awaiting trial.The sentence he announced March 10, 1939 posthumously.
