the Red Army

Description

The army of the USSR in which Kalaushins fought in the Great Patriotic War.

Kalaushins in the Red Army12

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • …1903 as “Стефанида Антонова Колоушина” (Stefanida Antonova Koloushina). The Red Army soldier Nikolay Sergeyevich Kalaushin, who died of wounds on 14 June 1943 and was buried at…

2. 6. The Workshop

   • …but was released on Budyonny’s orders “because he was a good saddler”; a sentry was posted at his house, and Red Army men were taught saddlery inside it. Aleksandr Alekseyevich died in Sukhumi in 1933…

3. 7. The Upheaval

   • …masters, the family said, could be counted on the fingers even then. A sentry was posted at his house, and Red Army men were taught saddlery inside it. His house gave shelter to the families of his brothers Savva…
   • The restrictions on Cossacks serving in the Red Army were lifted by a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of 20 April 1936…

4. 8. Exile

   • …reference book captures the turning point of that year: “Courses, 3rd intake, 1918. Col., podyesaul. 1918, Red Army; 1918–1920, Eastern Front”. On 7 August 1918 Kazan was taken by the People’s Army; the head…

5. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • The final entry in his work record book bears the same date: “discharged on mobilisation into the Red Army”. At the front he became the cinema and radio technician of the political department of the 128th Rifle…
   • In the same Siege winters Leningrad was defended by Red Army man Anatoly Nikolayevich Kalaushin, born in 1920 and called up in December 1940 by the Nalchik city military…
   • …Trophy Depot No. 2742 of the 69th Army. On 10 June 1945 the head of the depot wrote in his award sheet that Red Army man Kalaushin had worked as a carter for more than a year and “keeps the horses entrusted to him in…
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6. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …, a Khoper Cossack who was dispossessed as a “kulak” in the 1930s and ended the Second World War as a Red Army soldier in Berlin. Of the dekulakisation, the family remembers: “all they gave back was a…

7. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

   • …1918; at dawn on 5 September 1918 the stanitsa was taken by the forces of A.G. Shkuro; on 22–23 March 1920 the Red Army returned; in the summer of 1920 General M.A. Fostikov’s insurgents rose in the mountains; and only from…