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Konstantin Rokossovsky

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Rokossovsky in 1945
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Soviet Union postage stamp

Konstanty Rokossovsky, Polish: Konstanty Rokossowski, (21 December 1896 in Warsaw - 3 August 1968 in Moscow) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union (1944), a Marshal of Poland (1949), and twice a Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945).

In World War II he commanded an army in the Moscow battle, Bryansk, and Donskoy fronts (in the Stalingrad battle).[1]

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