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In his youth, Marshal Rodion Malinovsky served in the French Army of Africa, while Marshal Leonid Govorov actively fought against the Bolsheviks....

Hundreds of thousands of servicemen died, went missing in action or were taken prisoner. Whole Soviet divisions simply ceased to exist.

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya became the first female recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union gold star medal for her actions in World War II. Mountains...

Also known as the Kursk Gorge, the battle was a large-scale engagement that took place during the Great Patriotic War in 1943. It lasted from July 5 to August 23 and consisted of three strategic operations conducted by the Red Army.

This commander didn’t dazzle with his military leadership skills. But, his fanatical loyalty to Stalin ensured his high position in the Soviet state.

Larry Simon survived enemy fire and weeks in a fox hole. He also took beautiful pictures while fighting for the U.S. in Europe in World War II.

Grigory Kulik was a brilliant artillery commander, however, when he was entrusted with leading entire armies, it turned into a disaster for him.

Hitler thought he knew better than the generals. Heres What You Need to Remember: In the final analysis, Hitler would have done well to heed Guderian’s advice to commit the Sixth Panzer Army to the defense of the Oder line to slow the Russian advance on Berlin. Georg Maier, deputy chief of staff for operations for the Sixth Panzer Army, offered a fitting summation of the failed offensive. “Time, pressure, poor weather, extremely difficult terrain conditions, [and] Hitler’s impatience joi...