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Konstantin Rokossovsky
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Soviet and Polish military commander (1896-1968)
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Konstantin Rokossovsky, also known as Konstanty Rokossowski, was a military officer, politician, and soldier who served in the Imperial Russian Army and the Red Army. He held the ranks of Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland, as well as komdiv and major general. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Polish United Workers' Party, he was also part of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. He participated in World War I, the Russian Civil War, the Sino-Soviet conflict, and the Eastern Front.
Born in 1889 or 1896 in Cieliachany, Velikiye Luki, Warsaw, he died of cancer in Moscow in 1968. He was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. His awards included the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945," and the title Hero of the Soviet Union. He commanded the 9th Mechanized Corps, 4th Army, 16th Army, and Bryansk Front. He was educated at the M.V. Frunze Military Academy and spoke Russian and Polish.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Moscow - Stalingrad 1941-1942
- A soldier's duty
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1947-06-01
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ColabFold: making protein folding accessible to all
· 2022 · cited 9,192x
- Variational Mode Decomposition
· 2014 · cited 8,572x
- Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive
<i>k</i>
-mer weighting and repeat separation
· 2017 · cited 7,110x
- Ferroptosis: A Regulated Cell Death Nexus Linking Metabolism, Redox Biology, and Disease
· 2017 · cited 6,835x
- The SWISS-MODEL workspace: a web-based environment for protein structure homology modelling
· 2005 · cited 6,017x
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Quotes
- “Has a strong will. Decisive and firm. Often demonstrates initiative and skillfully applies it. Disciplined. Demanding and persistent in his demands. A somewhat ungracious and not sufficiently sympathetic person. Rather stubborn. Painfully proud. In professional terms well trained. Broadly experienced as a military leader... Absolutely cannot be used in staff or teaching jobs because constitutionally he hates them.”
- “The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!”
- “In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian.”
- “The troops of the Don Front at 4pm on February 2nd, 1943 completed the rout and destruction of the encircled group of enemy forces in Stalingrad. Twenty-two divisions have been destroyed or taken prisoner.”
- “I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.”
- “I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are trying to make their way into the leadership. In addition, it is vitally important to maintain the lines of communication with Germany through Poland.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (9 December [O.S. 21 December] 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 present-day Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, or according to other sources in Velikiye Luki in present-day Russia. He served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, and in 1918, joined the Red Army and fought with distinction during the Russian Civil War. Rokossovsky rose to hold senior Red Army commands by 1937, when he fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge and was branded a traitor, imprisoned and tortured. After Soviet failures in the Winter War, Rokossovsky was released from prison in 1940 and returned to command of an army corps.
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