18-03-2008, 09:15 PM
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| Partisan   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cheshire, England
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__________________  The Motherland, bent over her daughter's ashes, Sings this tender maternal song About Zoya, the girl, who has become a legend, Who died and was born for eternal life. Dimitri Shostakovich Song for Zoya (1944) The War in the East | |
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18-03-2008, 09:48 PM
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__________________ When you go home, tell them of us and say: 'For your tomorrow we gave our today' | |
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18-03-2008, 10:57 PM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| And boy was he made to suffer for it!!!
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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19-03-2008, 01:05 PM
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| Discharged  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: wessex
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| marshal vatutins death,led to zhukov taking command of the ukrannian 1st front.he should have imo given vatutins front to some one else.stalin and zhukov could then have planned the death of the wehrmact earlier imo.lee |
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29-03-2008, 01:30 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :)
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| Someone said that the Russians never reciprocated re medals. Ehm,surely this was more a case of the western allies/governments not allowing them to? Yes,Marshall R' was indead half Polish,infact he was brought up in the lovely Warsaw district of Praga ( ). He did indeed live a "charmed" life in one sense escaping both the Gulag and Praga  |
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22-04-2008, 04:16 PM
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In 1949, Rokossovsky, with a rank of Marshal of Poland, was made commander in chief and minister of defense of Polish Peoples Republic and from 1952 he was deputy prime minister; in this capacity he was an important symbol of Soviet influence in Poland. Although Rokossovsky was nominally Polish most Poles regarded him as a Russian and Soviet, especially as he spoke poor Polish and even ordered Polish soldiers to address him in Russian instead. As Rokossovsky himself bitterly put it: "In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian". Rokossovsky took part in the suppression of the Polish independence movement and sovietization of Poland in general and the Polish Peoples Army in particular. As the superior commander of the Polish Army, he introduced various ways of suppression of anti-Soviet activity and socially or politically insecure elements in the army. Among groups targeted by the repressions were former soldiers of the pre-war Polish Army, wartime Home Army and Polish Forces in the West. In 1956 during protests in Poznan against Soviet domination of Poland, Rokossovsky approved the order to send military units against protesters. As a result of the action of over 10,000 soldiers and 360 tanks, at least 74 civilians were killed.  source: Wiki
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