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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the Chinese revolution and the People’s Republic
People of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
People of the wider world
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Žanis Lipke Žanis Lipke
Riga docker who used his contract work for the Luftwaffe to smuggle dozens of Jews out of the ghetto and camps and hide them
Social movements and organizing
1900–1987
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Pavel Alekseyevich Kurochkin Павел Алексеевич Курочкин
From Civil War cavalryman to the commander whose army liberated Auschwitz, the last surviving wartime Front commander
Military command · Soviet Union
1900–1989
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Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov Илья Григорьевич Старинов
The 'grandfather of Soviet special forces,' a sabotage engineer who designed the radio-controlled mine and the partisan rail war
Military command · Soviet Union
1900–2000
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Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin Николай Фёдорович Ватутин
Strategic architect of Stalingrad and Kursk, the army general who fell at the front
Military command · Soviet Union
1901–1944
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Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov Андрей Андреевич Власов
Hero of the Battle of Moscow who defected to lead the Nazi-backed Russian Liberation Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1901–1946
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Nikolai Vladimirovich Feklenko Николай Владимирович Фекленко
An armoured commander tested by shifting fronts
Military command · Soviet Union
1901–1951
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Pyotr Akimovich Dibrova Пётр Акимович Диброва
Soviet commandant of Berlin who declared a state of emergency in East Berlin on 17 June 1953
Military command · Soviet Union
1901–1971
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Aleksei Semyonovich Zhadov Алексей Семёнович Жадов
The commander Stalin made change his name, who led the 5th Guards Army from Stalingrad to Prague
Military command · Soviet Union
1901–1977
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Pavel Alekseyevich Rotmistrov Павел Алексеевич Ротмистров
The Marshal of Armour who commanded history's largest tank battle at Prokhorovka
Military command · Soviet Union
1901–1982
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Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov Сергей Иванович Тюльпанов
Head of SMAD’s Propaganda Administration who drove the founding of the SED and the Sovietisation of eastern Germany
Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union
1901–1984
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Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko Дмитрий Данилович Лелюшенко
'General Forward' who halted Guderian at the gates of Moscow and drove the 4th Guards Tank Army to Prague
Military command · Soviet Union
1901–1987
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Maxwell Davenport Taylor Maxwell Taylor
A military strategist of the nuclear age
Military command · United States state institutions
1901–1987
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Xu Xiangqian 徐向前
Marshal who commanded the Fourth Front Army through Zhang Guotao’s split and as defence minister directed the 1979 war with Vietnam
Military command · People’s Republic of China
1901–1990
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Zhang Xueliang 张学良
The “Young Marshal” who detained Chiang Kai-shek at Xi’an and opened the way to the second united front
Military command · Beiyang government and warlords
1901–2001
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Yakov Vladimirovich Smushkevich Яков Владимирович Смушкевич
A victorious air-force builder destroyed by the purges
Military command · Soviet Union
1902–1941
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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Free French armoured commander
Military command · France state institutions
1902–1947
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Sergei Alexandrovich Khudyakov Сергей Александрович Худяков
Stalin's air adviser at Tehran and Yalta. The Red Army's only Armenian Marshal of Aviation, executed 1950
Military command · Soviet Union
1902–1950
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Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin Митрофан Иванович Неделин
Chief Marshal of Artillery who created the Strategic Rocket Forces and drove the R-7 that launched Sputnik: killed at his own pad
Military command · Soviet Union
1902–1960
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Masanobu Tsuji 辻政信
The Kwantung Army staff officer whose Border Defense Guide sparked the Nomonhan Incident
Military command · Japan state institutions
1902–1961
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Markian Mikhailovich Popov Маркиан Михайлович Попов
The most gifted front commander who never became a marshal
Military command · Soviet Union
1902–1969
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Stanislav Gilyarovich Poplavsky Станислав Гилярович Поплавский
A Polish-born Soviet general who commanded the suppression of the Poznań uprising
Military command · Soviet Union
1902–1973
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Kirill Semyonovich Moskalenko Кирилл Семёнович Москаленко
The marshal who led Beria's arrest and called his subordinates 'enemies of the people'
Military command · Soviet Union
1902–1985
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Christian de Castries Christian de Castries
French general who commanded the Điện Biên Phủ fortress in 1954 and was captured when it fell
Military command · France state institutions
1902–1991
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Kim Chaek 김책
Korean revolutionary military leader who fought alongside Kim Il Sung in the Manchurian anti-Japanese guerrillas
Military command · Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949)
1903–1951
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Nikolai Ivanovich Krylov Николай Иванович Крылов
From Stalingrad to the Strategic Rocket Forces: the marshal who built the nuclear triad's third leg
Military command · Soviet Union
1903–1972
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Andrei Antonovich Grechko Андрей Антонович Гречко
Brezhnev-era defence minister
Military command · Soviet Union
1903–1976
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Heinz Reinefarth Heinz Reinefarth
The SS general who commanded the repression of the Warsaw Uprising
Military command · Nazi party and regime
1903–1979
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Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev Исса Александрович Плиев
The only cavalryman twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who went to the brink of nuclear war in Cuba
Military command · Soviet Union
1903–1979
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Valery Pavlovich Chkalov Валерий Павлович Чкалов
Stalin's falcon who flew nonstop over the North Pole to America, and fell on his final test flight
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1938
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Kim Mu-chong 金武亭
The only Korean to complete the Long March, Eighth Route Army artillery commander who led the Korean Volunteer Army and the Yan'an faction
Military command · Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949)
1904–1952
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Kuzma Nikolayevich Derevyanko Кузьма Николаевич Деревянко
The Soviet general who signed Japan's surrender, ending World War II
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1954
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Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov Николай Герасимович Кузнецов
Architect of the Soviet Navy who ordered combat readiness hours before Barbarossa, twice demoted and posthumously restored
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1974
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Alexander Yevgeniyevich Golovanov Александр Евгеньевич Голованов
Red Army's youngest marshal: Stalin's personal commander of strategic bomber aviation
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1975
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Pyotr Kirillovich Koshevoy Пётр Кириллович Кошевой
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union who took Mount Sapun and stormed Königsberg
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1976
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Ivan Terentyevich Peresypkin Иван Терентьевич Пересыпкин
The architect of communications at Stalingrad and Kursk: first Marshal of the Signal Troops
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1978
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Fyodor Fedotovich Kuznetsov Фёдор Федотович Кузнецов
GRU to GlavPUR: the colonel general who led wartime intelligence and late Stalinist army political control
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1979
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Sudets Владимир Александрович Судец
Marshal of Aviation who led the 17th Air Army to Prague and commanded Soviet Air Defence Forces
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1981
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Sergei Ignatevich Rudenko Сергей Игнатьевич Руденко
Marshal of Aviation who commanded the 16th Air Army from Stalingrad to Berlin
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1990
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Aleksei Sergeyevich Zheltov Алексей Сергеевич Желтов
Chief political commissar of the post-Stalin Soviet military who helped bring down Zhukov
Military command · Soviet Union
1904–1991
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Aris son of Dimitrios Velouchiotis Άρης Βελουχιώτης
Organizer of a mass partisan war against occupation
Military command · Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS)
1905–1945
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Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev Александр Ильич Родимцев
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union who held Mamayev Kurgan at Stalingrad
Military command · Soviet Union
1905–1977
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Ivan Ivanovich Ilyichev Иван Иванович Ильичёв
Wartime GRU chief who reported directly to Stalin, steering Soviet military intelligence through the Red Army's greatest victories
Military command · Soviet Union
1905–1983
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Arseniy Grigoryevich Golovko Арсений Григорьевич Головко
Guardian of the Arctic convoys as Northern Fleet commander, architect of Soviet naval power projection in the Atlantic
Military command · Soviet Union
1906–1962
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Juan Modesto Juan Guilloto León
A field commander of the defeated Republic
Military command · Spanish Republic
1906–1969
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Iosif Vasilievich Shikin Иосиф Васильевич Шикин
Zhdanov's GlavPUR chief who survived the Leningrad Affair: political commissar of the postwar Red Army
Military command · Soviet Union
1906–1973
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William H. Tunner William H. Tunner
Architect of large-scale airlift operations
Military command · United States state institutions
1906–1983
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Xu Shiyou 许世友
Shaolin-trained Red Army general who led the Guangzhou military region on the eastern front of the 1979 war with Vietnam
Military command · People’s Republic of China
1906–1985
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Curtis E. LeMay Curtis LeMay
The Air Force general who firebombed Japan and urged nuclear war on his adversaries
Military command · United States state institutions
1906–1990
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Edmund Myers Edmund Myers
A British engineer officer drawn into Greek resistance politics
Military command · United Kingdom state institutions
1906–1997
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Ivan Iosifovich Proskurov Иван Иосифович Проскуров
The GRU chief who warned Stalin of the German invasion, and was shot for it
Military command · Soviet Union
1907–1941