Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I mua noa o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, i te tau 1938 ka noho a Strokach hei rangatira mo te 25th Border Detachment i Tiraspol. Whai muri i te
I te noho a te Soviet o Bessarabia me Northern Bukovina, i nekehia te tari matua o te wehenga ki Kahul i te tau 1940. I te 1941-1946 ko Strokach he kaitohutohu o te iwi o te Interior o UkrSSR. I muri tata mai i te whakaekenga a Tiamana Nazi ki te Soviet Union, i te 1942, i whakawhiwhia ia ki te Kaiwhakahaere o te Kaimahi o Ukraine o te nekehanga Partizan. I taua tau ano ka noho a Strokach hei mema o te Komiti Matua o raro o te Communist Party o Ukraine. I muri i te whakaoranga o Ukraine, i te tau 1944 i whakawhiwhia ia ki te tari whakahaere mo te whawhai ki nga kaipahua.