Alexey Rodin
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Alexey Grigoryevich Rodin was a Soviet Army colonel general and Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Smolensk operation
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The second Smolensk operation was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as part of the Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943. Staged almost simultaneously with the Lower Dnieper Of
Alexey Rodin
…advance. In September 1943, Rodin became commander of the Western Front (later 3rd Belorussian Front) Armored and Mechanized Forces, participating in Operation Suvorov, Operation Bagration and the East Prussian Offensive. Postwar, he became head of the Directorate of Combat Training of the Armored and Mechanized Forces…
Yelena Zalogina, employed as forced labor by German troops, returns home with her children, August 1943
Red Army soldiers raising the Soviet flag in Yelnya
Soviet submachine gunners clearing buildings in Dukhovshchina
Officers of the Soviet 91st Guards Rifle Division raising their divisional banner over Dukhovshchina, 19 September