Viktor Bilash
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Viktor Fedorovych Bilash was a Ukrainian military commander who was the Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine under Nestor Makhno during the Russian Civil War. Bilash himself p
Viktor Bilash (back row, second from the left) sitting for a picture with other members of the insurgent general staff.
Nestor Makhno
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Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.
Viktor Bilash
…Білаш; 1893 – 29 January 1938) was a Ukrainian military commander who was the Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) under Nestor Makhno during the Russian Civil War. Bilash himself planned many of the Insurgent Army's operations, later becoming its commander in chief after Makhno's…
Makhno in 1921
Butyrka prison, in Moscow, where Makhno was imprisoned from 1911 to 1917 (pictured in 2010)
Makhno (centre) and Fedir Shchus (right), together with other Insurgent command staff in Huliaipole (1919)
Makhno wearing his Red Army uniform (1919)