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Also Known As Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov
Born December 1, 1896 • Kaluga • Russia
Died June 18, 1974 (aged 77) • Moscow • Russia
Political Affiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Awards And Honors Order of Lenin (1966)
Role In Eastern Front • Operation Barbarossa • World War II

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Ivan Stepanovich Konev
Soviet general
Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov
Soviet military and political leader
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky
Soviet commander
Vlasov, Andrey Andreyevich
Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov
Soviet officer
Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky
Soviet military officer
Semyon Timoshenko
Semyon Timoshenko
Soviet general
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
premier of Soviet Union
Vasily Chuikov
Soviet general
Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Molotov
foreign minister of Soviet Union
Gerd von Rundstedt.
Gerd von Rundstedt
German field marshal
Heinz Guderian
Heinz Guderian
German general
Bock, Fedor von
Fedor von Bock
German military officer
Kleist, Paul Ludwig von
Paul Ludwig von Kleist
German general
Brauchitsch, Walther von
Walther von Brauchitsch
German military officer
Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov
Russian officer
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin
Soviet aircraft designer
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German minister
Demjanjuk, John
John Demjanjuk
Ukrainian-born automobile worker
Ugaki Kazushige.
Ugaki Kazushige
Japanese statesman
Eberbach, Heinrich
Heinrich Eberbach
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