Konstantin Rokossovsky
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Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky was a Soviet and Polish general who served as a top commander in the Red Army during World War II and achieved the ranks of Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marsh
Rokossovsky in 1945
Graduates of the Leningrad Higher Cavalry School 1924/25 Sitting in the second row (right to left): 1. Bagramyan, 3. Yeremenko. In the third row (right to left): 1. Zhukov, 5. Rokossovsky, 8. Ivan Konev. Standing in the fourth row (right to left): 2. Semyon Timoshenko
Communist party Membership card issued to Rokossovsky, following his reinstatement in 1940
Kresty Prison, where Rokossovsky was imprisoned in Leningrad (the city was renamed as Saint Petersburg after the fall of the Soviet Union)
Marshal of the Soviet Union
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Marshal of the Soviet Union was the second-highest military rank of the Soviet Union. It was de facto the highest rank because its superior rank, Generalissimo, was only applied to Joseph Stalin, who
Konstantin Rokossovsky
…1896 – 3 August 1968) was a Soviet and Polish general who served as a top commander in the Red Army during World War II and achieved the ranks of Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland. He also served as Defence Minister of Poland from 1949 to 1956. Rokossovsky was born to a Polish noble family in Warsaw in…
Peaked cap 1945–1991
The first five marshals of the Soviet Union from left to right: Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Semyon Budyonny, Kliment Voroshilov, Vasily Blyukher, and Alexander Yegorov. Only Budyonny and Voroshilov survived the Great Purge.
Kliment Voroshilov
Маршал Советского Союза Семён Михайлович Будённый