caption serviceyears laterwork commands death_date allegiance awards placeofburial_label battles birth_date nickname rank image article_title name
major general f. baltušis-Žemaitis 1915 & ndash ; 1954 military lecturer lithuanian army 16th lithuanian rifle division 30 november 1957 russian empire russian empire ussr soviet union 2 lenin orders of the red star 2 orders of place of burial world war ii war i russian civil war hamburg uprising world june 1 , 1897 Žemaitis major general f.baltushis-zhemaitis . jpg feliksas baltušis-Žemaitis
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feliksas baltušis-Žemaitis

feliksas baltušis-Žemaitis -lrb- , november 30 , 1897 in apydimai , kovno governorate -- june 1 , 1957 in moscow -rrb- was a soviet lithuanian red army major general and lecturer/docent at the frunze military academy in 1935 -- 1940 .
baltušis-Žemaitis briefly commanded the lithuanian army in 1940 during lithuania 's incorporation into the soviet union .
he earned his candidate of military sciences academic degree in 1940 .
he was also a senior lecturer at the ussr general staff academy during 1940 -- 1941 and 1943 -- 1945 , and served as the chief of ussr supreme command courses 1945 -- 1947 .
he was one of the lithuanian officers of the army of the russian empire -lrb- vytautas putna , ieronim uborevich , viktoras penkaitis -rrb- who would later go on to serve in the red army .
he participated in world war i , the russian civil war , the hamburg uprising , and world war ii .
he was the only lithuanian to have taught in the prestigious frunze military academy and general staff academy -lrb- roughly equivalent to the command and general staff college at fort leavenworth , kansas or the british army 's staff college , camberley -rrb- .
