Ren Fuchen
Ren Fuchen | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 1884 Tieling County, Liaoning Province, Qing China |
| Died | November 1918 (aged 34) Sverdlovsk Oblast, RSFSR |
| Service | Red Army |
| Battles / wars | Russian Civil War |
Ren Fuchen (Chinese: 任辅臣; April 1884 – November 1918) was a Chinese member of the Bolshevik party and a commander of a Chinese regiment of the 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]
References
[edit]- ^ Mark O'Neill (25 August 2014). From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army. Penguin Books Limited. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-85797-907-0.
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