Vitovt Putna

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Vitovt Putna
Kronstadt Rebellion
AwardsOrder of the Red Banner (Three times)

Vitovt Kazimirovich Putna (Russian: Ви́товт Казими́рович Пу́тна, Lithuanian: Vytautas Putna; 1893–1937) was a Soviet Red Army officer of Lithuanian origin.

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Kronstadt Rebellion and Peasant uprisings on the Lower Volga. In 1923, he was sent as a military advisor to China and between 1927 and 1931, he was military attaché to Japan, Finland and Germany. He was posted to the Far East Military district in 1931 and was made military attache to Great Britain in 1934.[2]

He was promoted to

Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization, sentenced to death on 11 June 1937 and executed the next day.[3]

The Soviet government posthumously exonerated him after Joseph Stalin's death, when he was formally rehabilitated in 1957.

Vitovt Putna after arrest by NKVD 1936

References

  1. ^ Entsyklapedyya histories of Belarus: U 6 vol. T. 6 Book.
  2. ^ "Putna, Vitovt Kazimirovich (biography in Russian)".
  3. ^ Cherushev N. S., Cherushev Yu. N. The executed elite of the Red Army (commanders of the 1st and 2nd ranks, corps commanders, division commanders and their equal): 1937-1941. Biographical Dictionary.