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Russians in the Estonian War of Independence – The Kachanov Single Battalion

Summary/Abstract: By the spring of 1919, the Estonian military forces had driven the Bolsheviks out of Estonia. In June, the Sakala Partisan Battalion, that had been operating in South-Eastern Estonia, as part of the 2nd Division, carried out a liberating sortie into Kachanov Parish in Russia’s Pskov Province. Local Russian peasants, who were fed up with the Bolsheviks’ tyranny, organized a partisan unit, and joined up with the Estonians. Throughout the summer, they fought valiantly, to protect their home against the Red Army. (Longer version of this abstract available as a separate article)

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