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Lavrenty P. Beria

Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria was born on March 29th , 1899 near Suchumi in Georgia. After the revolution he joined the ...

Soviet-Union - Soviet Union

Vyacheslav M. Molotov

Vyacheslav Molotov was one of the most powerful men of the Soviet Union. He was Prime Minister of the Soviet ...

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Konstantin K. Rokossovski

Konstantin Konstantinovitsj Rokossovski was born December 21 1896 in Velikiye Luki, a village near Pskov in northern Russia. His father ...

Soviet-Union - Soviet Union

Aleksandr M. Vasilevski

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilevski was born September 30th, 1895 in Novaya Golshikha, a village east of Moscow. His father was a ...

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Vasily Stalin

Youth Vasily Iosifovich Stalin was born in Moscow on March 21, 1921. He was the first child of Joseph V. Stalin ...

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Vasily G. Zaitsev

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev was a Soviet lieutenant who became well known for his role as a sniper during the battle ...

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Alexander I. Marinesko

On January 30, 1945, at 21:45 hrs. The Nazi vessel Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by a torpedo. Moments later, a ...

Soviet-Union - Soviet Union

Andrei A. Vlasov

In July 1942, amidst the marshes southeast of Leningrad, a Soviet army was surrounded and forced to surrender. Among the ...

Soviet-Union - Soviet Union

Carl Mannerheim

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was born June 4th, 1867 in Louhisaari, the third child of Count Carl Robert Mannerheim and ...

Other countries - Finland

Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini has dominated Italy for years; hence his influence can hardly be underestimated. Following the First World War he ...

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Moshe Lubling

This article was written by Yoram Lubling, Moshe Lubling's grandson. Moshe Lubling , The Spiritual Leader of the Treblinka Revolt Moshe Y. ...

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Wladyslaw Anders

Introduction Władysław Anders was a Polish General who served in the First World War, the Greater-Polish Uprising (1918-1919), the Soviet-Polish War ...

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Stanislaw Maczek

Stanislaw Wladyslaw Maczek was a Polish general who commanded the only motorized division of the Polish army at the beginning ...

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Mordechai Anielewicz

Introduction. During the Warsaw ghetto uprising in the spring of 1943, Mordechai Anielewicz took command of the Jewish Combat Organization. For ...

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Clifford McEwen,

Introduction Clifford ‘Black Mike’ McEwen was an ace from the First World War. Next to that he was the only Canadian ...

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