9th Guards Army
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The 9th Guards Army was a field army of the Red Army during World War II, which fought in the Vienna Offensive and the Prague Offensive at the end of the war. The army was formed in January 1945 and i
Soviet troops during the Vienna Offensive
Vasily Glagolev
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Vasily Vasilyevich Glagolev was a Red Army Colonel general, Hero of the Soviet Union, and commander of the Soviet airborne. After initially serving in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Gla
9th Guards Army
…infantry. Postwar, the army headquarters became Soviet airborne headquarters. The 9th Guards Army was formed on 5 January 1945 under the command of Vasily Glagolev as directed by the Stavka directive of 18 December 1944. It was formed from the headquarters of the 7th Army and the Separate Airborne Army. It was…
Vasily Glagolev