biography
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Malinovsky, Rodion Yakovlevich
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pronunciation:
[malinofskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1967)
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| biography:
| Soviet soldier and statesman, born in Odessa, S Ukraine. He joined the Red Army after the Revolution (1917), and was major-general at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1941. He commanded the forces which liberated Rostov, Kharkov, and the Dnepr basin, and led the Russian advance on Budapest and into Austria (1944–5). When Russia declared war on Japan, he took a leading part in the Manchurian campaign. He later became Khrushchev's minister of defence (1957–67). |
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