Tribute to first fighters against bolshevism.
Junker (Юнкер in Russian, or yunker) has several meanings in the Imperial Russia. The word is from the German language, where it means "young lord". Junker was a military rank for junior officers of dvoryan descent since 1902. Junker was the rank for a volunteer at military service (вольноопределяющийся, volno-opredelyayuščiysya) in the Russian Navy in 19th and 20th centuries. Junker was a term for students of any military or junker school in between 1864 and 1917.
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During the October Revolution and the 1917-23 Russian Civil War, cadets and junkers unanimously supported the White movement (Anti-bolshevik). A small portion of cadets were able to evacuate with the White Army towards the end of Russian Civil War to western countries. Subsequently, the Soviet Government executed or imprisoned all surviving cadets to Siberian GULAG slave labor camps. Fifteen years later, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, none remained alive and free inside USSR.
During World War II a number of White emigre cadets joined the Russian Corps, feeling it was a means of continuing the battle against the Bolshevik regime.
After World War II, with the emigration of cadets to the United States, Canada, Argentina, and Australia, White emigre cadet corps ceased to function. A cadet union was formed to unite the graduates of the cadet corps.
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