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Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz

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Przy mnie rzucali mu pod nogi (Batce, jak go nazywają) głowy bolszewików ścięte szablami. Jeśli coś mu się nie podoba u jego oficerów lub żołnierzy, to osobiście ich strzela przed frontem, lub każe się samym wieszać. Spełniają to bez oporu, patrzą mu w oczy jak psy. Piłem z nim całą noc dzisiejszą, a rano on z grupą swoją, a ja z pułkiem poszliśmy na wypad. Masakra bolszewików była straszna. Pięciokrotnie większe zmasowane siły bolszewickie rozbiliśmy i zmusiliśmy do ucieczki.
914:, one of the centres of concentration of the advancing Russian forces. On 17 August the area was secured and the Bułak-Bałachowicz's forces defended it successfully until 7 September against numerically superior enemy forces. Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz organised an active defence and managed to disrupt the concentration of all enemy attacks before they could be started. For instance, on 30 August and 2 September his forces, supported by the 1114:. The unit consisted of approximately 1750 ill-equipped infantrymen and 250 cavalrymen. It was used on the southern flank of the Polish forces defending the Polish capital and adopted the tactics its commander knew perfectly well: fast attacks on the rear of the enemy forces. On 12 September 1939, the unit entered combat for the first time. It took the German defenders by surprise and retook the southernmost borough of 38: 320: 731:, which was seen by Bałachowicz's superiors as a sign of lack of loyalty. After Pskov was yet again lost to the Bolsheviks in mid-July, general Yudenich ordered Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz to be arrested even though only a few days earlier he promoted him to major general (a move Yudenich undertook with hopes of appeasing Bułak-Bałachowicz and encouraging greater subordinance). 342: 772: 302: 277: 988:, the allied units were to leave Poland before 2 November. General Bułak-Bałachowicz was given the choice of either being interned in Poland with his units and then sent home or continuing the fight against the Reds on his own. He chose the latter option, just like most other White Russian and Ukrainian units fighting on the Polish side in the Polish-Bolshevik War. 643:(Saint Petersburg). With his incompletely-formed regiment, he reached the area and pacified the peasant unrest without the use of force. He was immediately called into Saint Petersburg by his superiors but was afraid of being arrested. Because of that, Bułak-Bałachowicz with his cavalry regiment deserted and moved across the Bolshevik lines to the area of 738:. There he once again created a partisan unit. With 600 men he broke through the Red Army front and started to disrupt its supply lines. Despite Yudenich's hostility towards Bułak-Bałachowicz, the latter cooperated with White Russian units during their counter-offensive in the autumn of 1919. His unit captured the railway node in 1097:
in the Bialowieża Woods. The Jewish Telegraph Agency remarked on his reported passing: "The murder of this ruthless insurrectionary and counter-revolutionary leader brings an end to the career of a bloodthirsty pogromist," referring to a February 1921 report by the Federation of Ukrainian Jews, that
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to the 2nd Leyb-Courland Infantry Regiment. However, unlike many of his colleagues who were awarded the basic NCO grades for their noble ancestry only, Bułak-Bałachowicz proved himself as a skilled field commander and was quickly promoted. By December 1914, only four months after he entered the army,
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in the rear. The city was the most important railroad junction in the area and was planned as the last stand of the Bolshevik forces still fighting to the west of that city. According to a book published in 1943, after Bułak-Bałachowicz's troops entered Pinsk, they have committed a series of pogroms
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At the time, he had a reputation as a defender of the less fortunate and was often an arbitrator in disputes between the farmers and their landlords. As a result of these activities, he acquired the nickname "Daddy" (Bat'ka). His other nickname —"Bułak"— became part of his surname. It means 'cloud'
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8.8.1920 Przez dwie doby piłem z gen. Bałachowiczem. Jest to człowiek bez ideologii, zbój i morderca i takich samych ma towarzyszy – podkomendnych. Jest to dywizja, która swego czasu przeszła na naszą stronę, składająca się z Rosjan, Szwedów, Finów. Nie znają pardonu i przypominają barbarzyńców...
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On 23 July 1920, during the Bolshevik offensive towards central Poland, general Bałachowicz's group started an organised retreat as a rearguard of the Polish 3rd Army. During that operation, Bułak-Bałachowicz abandoned the withdrawing Polish troops and stayed with his forces for several days behind
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and various German anti-Bolshevik units. Initially, the unit fought against the Reds on the White side, but soon conflicts with the German officials arose and Bułak-Bałachowicz switched sides yet again. Together with his battle-hardened unit he disarmed the German units surrounding him and broke to
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and focused on both the cultural and economic recovery of the war-impoverished city. He also put an end to censorship of the press and allowed for the creation of several socialist associations and newspapers, which enraged White generals towards him. Finally, Bułak-Bałachowicz entered in contact
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signed only two days before, Bułak-Bałachowicz's unit skirmished with a German unit near the village of Smolova. Although the enemy unit was severely defeated, forced to retreat and abandon its staff behind, Bułak-Bałachowicz was seriously wounded after being shot in the left lung. Transported to
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and proposed to ally his unit with the Polish Army against the Bolshevist Russia. As the fame of the general preceded him, Piłsudski agreed and soon afterwards Bułak-Bałachowicz with some 800 cavalrymen set off for yet another of his great odysseys. After leaving Estonia, they outflanked the Red
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railroad, which added greatly to the White Russian's initial success. On 5 November 1919, his unit yet again entered the area between Pskov and Ostrov and destroyed the three remaining railway lines linking Pskov with the rest of Russia. However, Yudenich's army could not link up with the areas
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disbanded the unit soon after its formation, executed its commander and started to persecute its members. However, with the help of the French military mission, a Polish cavalry detachment was finally created and Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz became its commander. The new unit received
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On 22 January 1920, general Yudenich signed an order of dissolution of his badly beaten army. On 28 January 1920, general Bułak-Bałachowicz, together with several Russian officers, was arrested by the Estonian police. A large amount of money was found with him (roughly 227,000
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had been signed, Bułak-Bałachowicz and his men were set free from the internment camps. The general retired from the army and settled in Warsaw. There he became an active member of various veteran societies. Among other functions, he held the post of the head of
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on the Jewish population. There were hundreds of victims of rape and murder in Pinsk and in the vicinity around that time. According to one of his own men, Bałachowicz, who faced accusations of personally murdering Jews, was a "robber and a murderer."
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On 28 November, the last organised unit under his command crossed the Polish border and was subsequently interned. The Soviet Russian government demanded that General Bułak-Bałachowicz be handed over to them and tried for high treason. The
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agreed to finance Bałachowicz's unit and on 14 November, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz received his Belarusian citizenship and applied for official service for the Belarusian Democratic Republic. His unit was officially renamed to
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by surprise and on 29 May Bałachowicz entered Pskov. For this action, he was promoted to colonel by General Yudenich. Because of his victories, his subordinates (mostly Belarusian, Cossack, and Polish volunteers) nicknamed him
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After the capitulation of Warsaw, general Bułak-Bałachowicz (formally retired) evaded being captured by the Germans and returned to civilian life. At the same time, he was the main organiser of Konfederacja Wojskowa
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In November 1915, Bułak-Bałachowicz was assigned to the special partisan regiment in the Northern front headquarters as a squadron commander. His regiment under the command of colonel Punin L. took action in the
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Formally independent, the division was one of the most successful units fighting in the ranks of the Polish Army during the Polish-Bolshevik War. The unit entered combat in late June 1920 in the area of
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was even halted by these demands for several days, but eventually, these claims were refuted by the Polish government which argued that Bułak-Bałachowicz was a Polish citizen since 1918.
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and former Red Army soldiers, and received the status of an allied army. Because of the composition of his troops, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz is sometimes referred to as a Belarusian.
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Russian lines and rode several hundred kilometres behind the enemy lines to Latvia, where they were allowed to pass through Latvian territory. Finally, by mid-March, they reached
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However, once again Bułak-Bałachowicz evaded being captured. He handed over his division to his brother Józef and, together with 20 of his friends, left for Estonian-controlled
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In October Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz was stationed with his forces in Pinsk, where they received supplies and a large number of former Red Army soldiers who were taken
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and was annihilated. After that action, the Operational Group was withdrawn to the main lines of the Polish 3rd Army and after 10 July it defended the line of the
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were stationed. The enemy unit was caught by surprise and suffered heavy losses. On 3 July the enemy unit was completely surrounded in the village of
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The highest command of Estonian Army visited Bułak-Bałachowicz's forces in Pskov on 31 May 1919; Bułak-Bałachowicz (left) talks with Estonian general
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until the final Russo-Polish peace treaty was signed. Three days later his forces crossed into Russian-held Belarus and started an offensive towards
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after the Battle of Warsaw and volunteered for the service in anti-Bolshevik units. The unit was to re-enter combat in November, but on 12 October a
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Białoruskie oddziały gen. Stanisława Bułak-Bałachowicza w polityce Józefa Piłsudskiego w okresie wojny polsko-nolszewickiej (marzec-grudzień 1920)
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Wschodni Sojusznicy Polski w wojnie 1920 roku. Oddziały wojskowe ukraińskie, rosyjskie, kozackie i białoruskie w Polsce w latach 1919–1920
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The nationality of Bułak-Bałachowicz was a matter of dispute even during the war. Józef Piłsudski described him with the following words:
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Bułak-Bałachowicz became the military administrator of Pskov. He personally ceded most of his responsibilities to a municipal
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Following Stanisław's birth, his father left the landlord's service and acquired a small estate in Stakavievo near Vilnius.
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On 15 September 1920, the unit was yet again advancing in pursuit of the withdrawing Red Army. That day the unit captured
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Bułak-Bałachowicz S.N. "General Bułak-Bałachowicz on his deeds: how it was in reality? // Civil war archive. Berlin, 1923
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Today he's a Pole, tomorrow he'll be a Russian, the day after – a Belarusian and the following day perhaps an African.
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of 1939, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz volunteered for the Polish army. He created a Volunteer Group that fought in the
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found out his whereabouts. He was surrounded by a group of young conspirators in a house in Warsaw's borough of
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Mashko VV. Bułak-Bałachowicz Stanislaw Nikodimovicz (1883–1940). Novyi Istoricheskii Vestnik, 2002, No. 2 (7)
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In 1923, there were false reports of his death in the local Polish press; supposedly, he had been murdered by
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and was ordered to drive it to the rear of the Bolshevik lines. Three days later his forces took the town of
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the rear of the Red-held territory. From there he fought his way across the fronts to the newly independent
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horse track. Soon afterwards the cavalry organised a disrupting attack on the German infantry stationed in
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overnight of 14 August Bałachowicz's forces were ordered to start a counter-attack towards the town of
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For his resistance against Bolshevik forces that killed local Belarusian peasantry, members of the
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and arrested by the Germans. According to the most common version, Bułak-Bałachowicz was shot by
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Przejście oddziału generała Stanisława Bułak-Bałachowicza z Estonii do Polski (marzec 1920 roku)
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For the German campaign, Bułak-Bałachowicz was decorated with six Russian decorations and three
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Generał Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz: zapomniany bohater (Bułak-Bałachowicz, a Forgotten Hero)
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Kampania białoruska Rosyjskiej Armii Ludowo-Ochotniczej gen. S. Bułak-Bałachowicza w 1920 r.
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the enemy lines only to break through to the Polish forces shortly afterwards. During the
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Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz w estońskiej wojnie narodowo-wyzwoleńczej w latach 1918–1919
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and transferred to the areas that were to be abandoned by the Polish Army and become a
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Representatives of Balachowicz participated in the organization and conduction of the
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Józef Jaklicz (2016). "Wspomnienia żołnierskie i listy z frontu. 2. Listy do żony".
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His unit was formed of four cavalry platoons: one of Cossack light cavalry, one of
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area. For their audacious actions, partisans were nicknamed "Knights of Death".
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agents on 10 May 1940, in the Warsaw centre, on the intersection between
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more than 1000 Jews in Minsk and Gomel were killed by Balachowitz's men.
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with himself as the head of state. Bułak-Bałachowicz declared the exiled
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Bałachowicz's unit prevented the enemy from forming a defensive line in
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with Estonian officers and Poles who were trying to reach the renascent
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From 1918, Bałachowicz was in contact with the representatives of the
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controlled by Bułak-Bałachowicz and their assault was finally broken.
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Soon after its creation, Bułak-Bałachowicz was ordered to quell the "
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A więc wojna! Kampania wrześniowa 1939 oraz inne pisma i wspomnienia
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During the German summer offensive of 1915, Warsaw was taken by the
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volunteers, of whom he formed a cavalry squadron. Together with the
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Special Unit of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in the Baltics
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Koło tradycji wojskowej generała Stanisława Bułak-Bałachowicza
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forest. The assault had been prepared but was thwarted by the
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and Bułak-Bałachowicz's unit was forced to retreat towards
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On 10 May 1919, Bałachowicz was given the command over an
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Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz was born 10 February 1883 in
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Generał Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz. Zapomniany bohater
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In February 1920 Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz contacted
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Society of Former Fighters of the National Uprisings
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Short service for the Belarusian Democratic Republic
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