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The initial personnel of the Czechoslovak army was heavily composed of Jewish refugees. It is estimated that 70 percent of the soldiers who fought at Sokolovo were Jewish. [1] After the liberation of Ukraine, many Volhynian Czechs were drafted into the army, drastically increasing its size and leading to an increase in antisemitism. Svoboda ...
Otakar Jaroš (Czech pronunciation: [ˈotakar ˈjaroʃ]; 1 August 1912 – 8 March 1943) was a Czech officer in the Czechoslovak forces in the Soviet Union.He was killed in the Battle of Sokolovo and became the first member of a foreign army decorated with the highest Soviet decoration, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Sokolovo, Serbia; Sokolovo, Ukraine, village in Kharkiv Oblast, place of the Battle of Sokolovo; Sokolovo, Burgas Province, Bulgaria; Sokolovo, Dobrich Province ...
Colonel Svoboda commanded a battalion that distinguished itself at Sokolovo (in the fight against the retaliatory operation of the German army for Stalingrad and Kharkiv). [17] He commanded a brigade that played a significant role in the liberation of the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, and in the battles for western Ukraine. In December 1943, after ...
Sokolovo (Russian title Соколово) is a 1974 Soviet–Czechoslovak war film made by Otakar Vávra depicting the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943. The film was published in two parts and was meant as the middle part of Vávra's "war trilogy" consisting of movies Days of Betrayal, Sokolovo and Liberation of Prague.
The Itkul Distillery was founded in the village of Sokolovo by Konstantin Pavlovich Platonov (Russian: Константин Павлович Платонов), a hereditary nobleman and former official of the Altai Mountain Region administration, and a Barnaul merchant by the name of Grigory Terentyevich Badyin (Russian: Григорий Терентьевич Бадьин).
After World War II, when it was customary to change names of German origin, the town was renamed Sokolov. According to communist propaganda at the time, the name was not related to a falcon (i.e. sokol in Czech), but to the Battle of Sokolovo in which Czechoslovak soldiers had fought alongside Soviet soldiers on the Eastern Front in World War ...
The village of Sokolovo (Соколово) existed on this location since at least 1615. [ citation needed ] Since 1796, the village was part of Kadnikovsky Uyezd of Vologda Governorate . In 1897, a paper mill was built near the village and Sokolovo became the primary place of residence of the employees of the mill.