This man has lived a difficult life. It was challenging time itself. Lieutenant General Russia of today have a different reputation, however, without belittling the unqualified merits, the share of few of them have had something that lived officers of the Soviet state, first period of its existence. And the question here is not Just about the great Patriotic war. Lieutenant General of the Soviet Union and the other members of the staffing officers of those times were from the Russian Empire. Many of them had to serve in the Tsar's army. Among them Konstantin Rokossovsky, Georgy Zhukov, and our hero. They had to survive the civil war, the party, and then and public cleansing 1920-30 period. Lieutenant General Vlasic has become one of the symbols, even today little known, of the Stalin era. And he took his time with the death of his leader.
Childhood and youth of Nikolai Vlasik
Future Lieutenant General was born in a poor family of one of Belarusian peasants in 1896, in Grodno province. After finishing all three classes of Church school, he was forced to start his career with thirteen years. The young man got a job as a laborer to a local landowner. At an early age he had to try several professions, he worked as a navvy on railway worker in a paper factory. At the age of 19 years, the young man is called up for military service. It was the First world war. During the fighting, he already showed remarkable bravery, was awarded the George cross and promoted to non-commissioned officer ranks. However, Nikolai Vlasik was never To serve in the Imperial army even before the end of the war. In the first days of the October revolution, he makes a fateful decision for himself and goes to the side of the Bolsheviks. And in February, 1918, the future Lieutenant-General of the red army included in its composition. While only in the position of assistant commander. In September of 1919 promising the guy transferred in the structure of the Cheka, where he worked in a special Department under the direct leadership of Felix Dzerzhinsky. In 1920-e years his career was on the rise. In 1926 he became a senior operative of office by the time of the OGPU, and in 1930 assistant to the head of the office.
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