Английская Википедия:Fedir Shchus
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Fedir Shchus (Шаблон:Lang-uk, 25 March 1893 – 30 June 1921), also Fyodor Shuss or Feodosiy Shchus, was a commander (ataman) in the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine of Nestor Makhno.[1]
Biography
Fedir Shchus was born into a poor peasant family in the small Ukrainian village of Dibrivka. In 1915 he was conscripted into the military service and enlisted in the navy as a seaman on the Ioann Zlatoust, a battleship in the Black Sea Fleet. He did a lot of sports in the Navy, was a champion in French boxing and wrestling, and knew jiu-jitsu well, he was able to defeat any opponent with a quick capture without much stress.Шаблон:Sfn He returned to his home town after the Revolution, where he established a partisan band known as the "Black Guards" in order to wage guerrilla warfare against the local nobility.Шаблон:Sfnm Shchus believed that because of the abdication of Nicholas II, landowners no longer had any right to their lands, as the Tsarist legal system that upheld their private property no longer existed.Шаблон:Sfn
Following the invasion of Ukraine by the Central Powers in April 1918, Shchus attended an insurgent congress at Taganrog, where it was decided that they would regroup in the Huliaipole Raion and go on the offensive against the Ukrainian State and the occupation forces.Шаблон:Sfn After the conference, he returned to wage guerrilla warfare against the occupation, harrying the occupation forces and carrying out punitive expeditions against Ukrainian collaborators.Шаблон:Sfn In July 1918, Shchus was defeated by the forces of the Austro-Hungarian Army that were occupying Dibrivka, forcing him to retreat into the region's dense forests to regroup.Шаблон:Sfn
Following his return to Ukraine from Russia, the anarchist revolutionary Nestor Makhno joined forces with Shchus, making common cause against the forces of the Central Powers. The local landowners and kulaks responded by notifying the Austro-Hungarian Army and encircling the dozens-strong partisan detachment in Dibrivka.Шаблон:Sfnm In a surprise attack against the Austrian forces, Shchus led half a dozen men in a flanking attack on the town's market square, forcing the Austrians to retreat from the village. With the success of their assault, Shchus and the rest of the detachment greeted Makhno as their Bat'ko.Шаблон:Sfnm Soon after, Shchus joined Makhno in infiltrating a meeting between Austrian officers and supporters of the White movement, during which they killed everyone involved by throwing a grenade into the room.Шаблон:Sfn
On 5 October, the Austrian forces counterattacked, occupying Dibrivka after levelling it with artillery and driving a wounded Shchus out of the town.Шаблон:Sfnm On 15 November, the retreating insurgents were pinned down at Шаблон:Ill, where Shchus was shot in his legs before they managed to escape.Шаблон:Sfn
Shchus' tendency to embark on unjustified raids brought him under close watch,Шаблон:Sfn with one of his best friends being shot for imposing levies on peasant property.Шаблон:Sfn After some conflict between Makhno and Shchus, due to the latter's banditry in the region, the first Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents confirmed Makhno as commander-in-chief over smaller atamans like Shchus,Шаблон:Sfn who was elected to the Insurgent Army's general staff.Шаблон:Sfnm
Following the collapse of the insurgents' alliance with the Bolsheviks, on 24 June 1919, Shchus led a 250-strong detachment in a retreat over the Dnieper.Шаблон:Sfn Having fallen back to right-bank Ukraine, the insurgents linked up with Nykyfor Hryhoriv's green army in Шаблон:Ill, where Hryhoriv himself was assassinated and his forces integrated into the Insurgent Army.Шаблон:Sfnm During the subsequent reorganization of the insurgent forces, Shchus was placed in command of the cavalry brigade,Шаблон:Sfnm which numbered roughly 2,000 people.Шаблон:Sfn Following the battle of Peregonovka, Shchus led his cavalry in the insurgent occupation of Oleksandrivsk from September to November 1919.Шаблон:Sfn
By March 1921, Shchus was still leading a partisan group, albeit smaller and disconnected from others, and in May 1921, rendezvoused with other insurgents in Poltava.Шаблон:Sfn But by this time, the Makhnovists had been militarily defeated, leaving Shchus badly wounded.Шаблон:Sfn In June 1921, Shchus was killed in an engagement with the Red Army.Шаблон:Sfnm
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