Roberts Eidemanis


Roberts Eidemanis was a Latvian Soviet Komkor, writer and poet.
He was born in Lejasciems, Gulbene Municipality of Latvia as a son of a Latvian father and an Estonian mother. Eideman fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army and the Russian Civil War on the side of the Soviet Red Army. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of 1918. Eideman was one of the defendants in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization alongside Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. He was executed in Moscow. After the death of Joseph Stalin, Eideman was rehabilitated.

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