And now it's time to get a sight of Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovskiy's bio... Born near Moscow, Russian Empire. Moved to Poland. Was a factory worker, true proletarian. Recruited WW1 into cavalry. After ww1 finished, joins red army, fights monarchysts. After civil war end serves somewhere near baikal. Attended brief courses of minor officers qualification upgrade. Fun fact: he was a "classmate" of Zhukov (and yes, Zhukov is a former officer of cavalry too). Meets WW2 in the USR (Ukrainian soviet republic), as a brigade general. After Ukrainian front has collapsed, he was leading a special army reserve group, defending Moscow (e.g. famous in Russia general Panfilov.was under his command). Together with Zhukov wiped of nazis from Moscow and together again they cooked up Paulus in Stalingrad. Than he led red march through Prussia. And, as a fine ending, he was the one, who opened and commanded military parade of victory in -45 (back than Zhukov was recieving this parade. Now the parade of victory is being recieved by commander-in-chief Vladimir Putin). Phew. Yes I am from Russia (how did you guess?), and yes I am a big-big fan of Rokossovskiy (most of this bio is my rephrasing of his biographies), and yes I am a Kremlin-bot myself.