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2 unusual facts about Red Cossacks


Red Cossacks

Yuriy Kotsiubynsky - one of the creators and first commanders of Red Cossacks Army of Ukrainian Republic, son of famous Ukrainian writer, who wrote on historical and social topics of registry Cossack officers origin;

Aron Baron - Red Cossack of Ukrainian Jewish origin, one of the founders of Red Cossacks Army of Ukrainian Republic;


Vitaly Markovich Primakov

Vitaliy Markovych Prymakov (Віталій Маркович Примаков) or Vitaly Markovich Primakov (Виталий Маркович Примаков) (December 3, 1897, Semenivka, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – June 12, 1937, Moscow, Russian SFSR), was a Ukrainian red cossack, soviet cossack, commander of the Red Cossacks corps, part of Red Army.


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Battle of Komarów

After the battle, its Political Commissars, Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov, failed to control the men in their command: with morale and discipline at a low point, robbery and violence by the 'Red Cossacks' against the civilian population became commonplace.