Ren Fuchen
Ren Fuchen | |
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Born | April 1884 RSFSR |
Service/ | Red Army |
Battles/wars | Russian Civil War |
Ren Fuchen (
Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1908. He was killed in action during a battle against the White Army forces of Alexander Kolchak. He was known as "China's first Bolshevik". In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, he raised a regiment of 1,500 Chinese expatriates for the Soviet cause. He was killed in November 1918. The Soviet Union awarded him a Red Flag medal in November 1989, and a statue of him was erected in Tieling, his hometown, in 1993.[1]
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