Word: govorov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filtrating through the great marshlands, fighting, always fighting, in winter blizzard or in blistering summer heat, the Red army recaptured half a million square miles of territory in two years, and liberated Soviet Russia. New names had come up beside Zhukov's: Konev, Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Tolbukhin, Malinovsky, Chuikov, Govorov, Voronov and others, almost all men less than 40 years of age. One name that did not make the headlines was that of Secret Police Commissar Serov, who came close in the wake of Zhukov's victories. His assignment : to liquidate all anti-Soviet elements...
Died. Marshal Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov, 58, Soviet Deputy Defense Minister and Red army artillery specialist, in 1945 proclaimed a Hero of the Soviet Union for breaking the German ring around Leningrad; after long illness; somewhere in the Soviet Union...