Revolutionary Military Council
From December 1918 to June 1919 Reinholds Bērzinš was an inspector of army of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic and later joined the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front. From December 1919 to 1924 he was a member of Revolutionary Military Council of other fronts such as Southern, Southwestern and Turkestan. In 1924 Bērziņš worked for the Western Military District. In 1924 he retired from the army and in 1927-37 worked for the military industry and the People's Commissariat of Land Cultivation of the Russian SFSR. While being a director of Agrotekhznanie trust, during the Great Purge, as a part of the so-called "Latvian Operation", Bērziņš was arrested on December 10, 1937, and on March 19, 1938, executed by a firing squad at the Kommunarka shooting ground near Moscow.