Francišak Kušal
| General Francišak Kušal |
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| Born |
16 February 1895 Piaršai, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 May 1968 (aged 73) Rochester, New York |
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| Years of service | 1916—1945 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held |
 Belarusian Home Defence
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| Battles/wars |
World War I Polish-Bolshevik War Invasion of Poland World War II |
| Awards |
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| Relations | Natallia Arsiennieva |
Francišak Kušal (Belarusian: Францішак Кушаль, also Frantsishak Kushal, Franz Kushel, February 16, 1895, Piaršai, Russian Empire - May 1969, Rochester, New York, United States) was a Belarusian and Polish militaryman and politician.
Kušal was born into a family of Roman Catholic Belarusian peasants near Valozhyn.
After the outbreak of World War I, Kušal was drafted into the Russian army. He graduated from an infantry military school in Vilnia in 1916 and was sent to the Western Front.
After the October Revolution he joined the Belarusian national movement that demanded the establishment of an independent or autonomous Belarusian republic. In 1919, he was arrested by Polish authorities for Belarusian pro-independence activism.
In 1919-1921 Kušal was Deputy Head of the Belarusian Military Commission, a body organising Belarusian national military units within the Polish army. After the Polish-Bolshevik War, he joined the Polish army and graduated from an officer school in 1922. During the 1920s and 1930s he was director and lecturer at various military schools. He has been promoted to Captain and awarded the Silver Cross of Merit.
After the Soviet attack on Poland, in 1939, Kušal was commander of a Polish battalion that fought the German army near Lviv. He was imprisoned and placed in a concentration camp near Starobilsk and then in Butyrka prison in Moscow. In early 1941 he was set free and sent to Bielastok, then part of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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