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Born September 22, 1869 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died January 17, 1947 (aged 77) • Soviet Union
Role In Eastern Front • Russian Civil War • World War II
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Zhukov
Soviet marshal
Ivan Konev
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
Gerd von Rundstedt.
Gerd von Rundstedt
German field marshal
Heinz Guderian
Heinz Guderian
German general
Eberbach, Heinrich
Heinrich Eberbach
German military officer
Bock, Fedor von
Fedor von Bock
German military officer
Kleist, Paul Ludwig von
Paul Ludwig von Kleist
German general
Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky
Soviet military officer
Günther von Kluge, German field marshal during World War II.
Günther von Kluge
German general
Hasso, baron of Manteuffel
German military strategist
Brauchitsch, Walther von
Walther von Brauchitsch
German military officer
Semyon Timoshenko
Semyon Timoshenko
Soviet general
Vasily Chuikov
Soviet general
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
United States military officer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
George S. Patton
George Patton
United States general

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