Vladislav Vikentyevich Korchits ( pl, Władysław Korczyc) (1 September 1893 in Bogdanowicze,

Slonim Slonim ( be, Сло́нім, russian: Сло́ним, lt, Slanimas, lv, Sloņima, pl, Słonim, yi, סלאָנים, ''Slonim'') is a city in Grodno Region, Belarus, capital of the Slonimski rajon. It is located at the junction of the Ščar ...

, now

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– 17 October 1966, Moscow) was a Soviet and Polish general. He supported the Bolshevik side during the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...

, joining the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

. He participated in the Polish-Soviet War. In the interwar period he graduated from the Mikhail Frunze Military Academy. He was imprisoned and tortured during the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...

, survived it and was reinstated afterward. He took part in

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. From 1944 he was attached to the

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. After the war he remained in the

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. He served in the

Polish People's Army The Polish People's Army ( pl, Ludowe Wojsko Polskie , LWP) constituted the second formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the East in 1943–1945, and in 1945–1989 the armed forces of the Polish communist state ( from 1952, the Polish Peo ...

as the chief of

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from 1 January 1945 to 18 January 1954. While in Poland, he joined the

Polish Workers' Party The Polish Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) was a communist party in Poland from 1942 to 1948. It was founded as a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) and merged with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) in 1948 ...

, was the Deputy Minister of National Defense (1949/1950-?), and the deputy to the Polish parliament (

Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ...

) for the term 1952-1956. In 1954 he retired and returned to the Soviet Union. He died in Moscow.

References

*''Generał broni Władysław Korczyc 1893-1966'', MON 1980

External links

Korczyc Władysław (1893-1966)
Polish Sejm members biographies

in PWN Encyclopedia 1893 births 1966 deaths People from Slonim District People from Grodno Governorate Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Polish Workers' Party politicians Members of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party Soviet people of Polish descent Soviet colonel generals Polish generals Russian military personnel of World War I Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War People of the Polish–Soviet War Polish military personnel of World War II Soviet officers in Polish Army 1943-1968 Frunze Military Academy alumni Recipients of the Order of the Builders of People's Poland Commanders with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta Knights of the Virtuti Militari Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 1st class Recipients of the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class {{mil-bio-stub