4 Soviet partisans who wreaked havoc on the Nazi war machine
Nazis may have caught the Red Army by surprise in 1941, but the Soviet Union was a big place with a large population and a massive workforce.
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Nazis may have caught the Red Army by surprise in 1941, but the Soviet Union was a big place with a large population and a massive workforce.
On June 7, 1887 in the village of Kotelva (now Poltava region), Sidor Kovpak,a famous Soviet military commander, statesman and public figure of USSR was born.
They liberated vast areas behind enemy lines, hunted down high-ranking German officers, and even tracked down Hitler's secret bunker in the USSR.
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