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Semyon M. Budyonny

Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was born April 25 1883 in a small Cossack village in the vicinity of Kuban in the ...

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Mikhail P. Kirponos

Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos was born January 9, 1882, in Vertiyevka Chernigovskoi, a small village in the countryside in the Shumeikskogo ...

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Ivan S. Konev

Ivan Stepanovich Konev was born December 28, 1897 in Lodeino, the son of an agricultural worker who was also engaged ...

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin is undoubtedly one of the most spoken of statesmen of the 20th century. His successor Chrushev said after ...

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Semyon K. Timoshenko

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was born on February 18th, 1895 in Furmanka (Bessarabia, the present Moldavia). As a child he worked ...

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Kliment Y. Voroshilov,

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov was born February 4th, 1881 in Verhneye in what is now the Ukraine. His father was a ...

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Georgi K. Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was born December 1st, 1896 in Obinskoye in the vicinity of Kaluga. He grew up in bitter ...

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Aleksey I. Antonov

Introduction Aleksey Antonov is not among to the best known Soviet generals but experts consider him one of the most highly ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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