Red Cossacks
The Red Cossacks (Ukrainian: Червоне козацтво, Russian: Червонное казачество) was a military formation of Bolsheviks and the Soviet government of Ukraine. Red Cossacks was a collective name for one of the biggest cavalry formations of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) and was part of the Ukrainian, Southern, and Southwestern fronts during the Russian Civil War and later was stationed in the Ukrainian SSR.
| Red Cossacks | |
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| Червоне Козацтво | |
| Active | 1918 – 1939 |
| Country | Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, Ukrainian Soviet Republic and Ukrainian SSR |
| Allegiance | Russian SFSR |
| Branch | Red Army (RKKA) |
| Type | Cavalry |
| Size | Division, Corps (originally as regiment) |
| Decorations | Order of the Red Banner (1928), Order of Lenin (1934) |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Vitaly Primakov |
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According to Vitaly Primakov, the formation was created in protection of the Soviet government in Ukraine, the liquidation of the "nationalistic and counter-revolutionary" Central Council of Ukraine and as an opposing force to the Central Council's armed forces known as the "Free Cossacks".
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