Sergei Bunyachenko was born to a poor peasant family of Ukrainian origin on 5 October 1902 in the village of Korovyakovka, then part of the Russian Empire. From 1932 to 1935, Bunyachenko studied at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow, one of the Soviet Union's most prestigious military schools. However, in 1937, Bunyachenko was almost expelled from the Communist Party for criticizing agricultural collectivization policies conducted by the Soviet Union, especially in Ukraine. The collectivization efforts led to the forced consolidation of individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled enterprises. This policy caused widespread disruption to traditional farming practices, leading to a significant drop in agricultural productivity. The most devastating result was the Holodomor, a man-made famine from 1932 to 1933, which resulted in the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. Bunyachenko's criticism stemmed from witnessing these severe hardships, including starvation, loss of property, and the suppression of Ukrainian cultural and religious practices.
Although Bunyachenko initially faced expulsion from the Communist Party for his criticism of agricultural collectivization, in the end, he avoided it and received a strong warning instead. In 1938, Bunyachenko was appointed the assistant chief of staff of the 39th Rifle Corps, and fought at the Battle of Lake Khasan, which was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Japan over a disputed border area near Lake Khasan on the Soviet-Manchurian border. The Second World War started on 1 September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Poland found itself fighting a two front war when it was invaded by the Soviet Union from the east on 17 September. Warsaw officially surrendered to the Germans on 28 September and one day later in accordance with the secret protocol to their non-aggression pact, Germany, and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland.
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10 сен 2024
