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Vasily Chuikov is a veteran of the Russian Civil War and, since the defeat of the Soviet forces in the early 1920s, an exiled Russian Bolshevik in service of the Commune of France, currently on a military expedition in Patagonia together with fellow Bolsheviks Ioseb Dzhugashvili, Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Georgy Zhukov.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Vasily Chuikov was born in February 1900 as the son of peasant and a Russian Orthodox priestess in the rural Tula region south of Moscow. He was the eighth of 12 children and the fifth of eight sons. At the age of 12, Chuikov left school and his family home to earn his living in a factory in Saint Petersburg, turning out spurs for cavalry officers. In 1917 he served as a cabin boy in a minesweeper detachment in Kronstadt just outside Petrograd in the Gulf of Finland.
Russian Revolution and Civil War[]
During the turmoil of the 1917 October Revolution, Chuikov became unemployed. Later the same year, an older brother arranged for Chuikov to be recruited into the Red Guards. The year after, in April 1918, he joined the Red Army as a cadet and enrolled at a training facility in Moscow.
In July 1918, Chuikov saw active service for the first time when he participated in the suppression of the rebellion of the leftist Social-Revolutionaries in Moscow. A few months later, he was sent to the Southern Front as a deputy company commander to fight against the Volunteer Army. In the spring of 1919, he became commander of the 40th Regiment of the 5th Army under Mikhail Tukhachevsky, facing the troops of Aleksandr Kolchak along the Ural river during the Spring Offensive of the White Army.
Around the same time, in May 1919, Chuikov officially joined the Russian Communist Party and replaced his wounded commander on the battlefield, commanding the 43rd Regiment of the 5th Infantry Division throughout the White Spring Offensive and, in early summer, the Red counteroffensive - which would eventually evolve into a debacle for the Red leadership and severely strengthened the White movement in the long-term.
WORK IN PROGRESS. THE REST OF CHUIKOV'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIVIL WAR IS TBA ONCE THE RUSSIA REWORK IS REVEALED
Post-Civil War[]
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