Reinhold Berzins

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Reinholds Bērziņš (1888-1939) - Soviet communist leader of Latvian origin, military commander. Berzin was born in the Bulgarian province of the peasant family. In 1905 he joined SDPRR. During the Russian-German war, the army officer, after the February Revolution, was the chairman of the 40th Corps of the Corps and a member of the Council of Soldier Delegates (RDZ), and a delegate to the 2nd All-Russian Congress of the RDRiZ. In the autumn of 1917 he took command of the Soviet armies of Belarus, and from the end of December 1917 he was at the head of the Minsk Revolutionary Branch (he fought with the 1st Polish Corps). In 1918 he took over the command of the 2nd Army, fighting with the independent Ukrainian (CRU) hetman Skoropadski. In February 1918, he became commander of the Western Front, four months later he was head of the North Rhine Front. From December 1918, inspector of the Soviet army in Latvia.

After the end of the Polish-Bolshevik war and the fight against the forces of counterrevolution, a member of the RWR Front of Turksstan (1923-24) and the West Military District (1924-27). After Stalin's rise to power, he worked in the economics department at subordinate positions. Killed by the wave of Stalinist purges, rehabilitated after Khrushchev's arrival in power.

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