Malinovsky stalin biography

Malinovsky was not regarded as a spokesman for the Russian military. He was regarded basically as a political general even though he had a good wartime record.

The childhood years of Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky were not easy.

His mother, a struggling cook, hardly managed to send her son to an elementary school after which he was forced to take up a number of manual jobs. Reading books about Russian heroes was his only diversion from the daily toil.

Impressed by his readings, the young Rodion dreamed about someday becoming a military man too.

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By the time the Great War broke out he, already a 16-year-old young man, made his way to the battlefront. He fought valiantly, was wounded and decorated with the much-touted St. George’s Cross for Valor. In 1916 his life took a drastic turn and he found himself on board a steamer that was taking elite Russian soldiers to Marseilles across two oceans around Asia, via Singapore and across the Red and Mediterranean Seas.

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