Michaił Tuchaczewski
He was born in 1874 in Wierzchosławice. During the partitions, he was one of the founders of the Polish people’s movement. With the end of World War I, he headed the Polish Liquidation Commission, a temporary body of Polish administration in Cieszyn Silesia. Born on February 16, 1893, a commander, originally serving in the Army of the Russian Empire, and then in the Red Army. During the Russian Civil War, he won a series of victories over the White Guard troops.
In the Polish-Bolshevik war, he commanded the Western Front. Taking advantage of the mistakes made by the Polish Army in the summer of 1920, he immediately led the Bolshevik troops to the Polish capital. He commanded the forces of the Red Army in the Battle of Warsaw, and then in the Battle of the Nemunas. He accused Stalin of failure, who, contrary to orders, did not transfer his forces to the Polish capital.
After the Polish-Bolshevik war, he commanded the pacification of the Kronstadt uprising and the defeat of Aleksandr Antonov’s anti-Bolshevik forces. He became one of the most important figures in the Red Army, which he modernized in the 1930s. In 1935, he became Marshal of the Soviet Union. Two years later, as part of the Stalinist purges, he was sentenced to death and shot.