Biography of the great commanders

But to realize his efforts, to protect the Fatherland on the battlefields, a high level of military art of the Armed Forces was required, which was supported by the military talent of military leaders. Operations carried out in the past war by our military leaders are now being studied in all military academies of the world. And if we talk about the assessment of their courage and talent, then one of them, brief, but expressive: "As a soldier who observed the Red Army campaign, I was imbued with the deepest admiration for the skill of its leaders." This said Dwight Eisenhower, a man who understood a lot about military art.

The harsh school of war took away and secured by the end of the war the most outstanding commanders in the posts of the front commanders. The main features of the general talent of Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov are creativity, innovation, the ability to make unexpected decisions for the enemy. He was also distinguished by a deep mind and insight. According to Machiavelli, "nothing makes the commander great as much as the ability to penetrate the intake of the enemy." This ability of Zhukov played a particularly important role in the defense of Leningrad and Moscow, when, with extremely limited forces, only due to good intelligence, anticipation of possible directions of enemy strikes he managed to collect almost all available funds and reflect enemy blows.

Another outstanding military leader of the strategic plan was Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky being the head of the General Staff during the war for the twentieth months, A. Vasilevsky was only 12 months in Moscow, in the General Staff, and was 22 months at the fronts. Zhukov and A. Vasilevsky possessed developed strategic thinking, a deep understanding of the situation.

It was this circumstance that led to the same assessment of the situation and the development of visionary and reasonable decisions on the counterattack under Stalingrad, to the transition to strategic defense on the Kursk arc and in a number of other cases. The invaluable quality of the Soviet commanders was their ability to rational risk. This feature of general talent was noted, for example, Marshal Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, one of the remarkable pages of the commander -in -law activities of K.

Rokossovsky -Belarusian operation, in which he commanded the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front. An important feature of general talent is intuition, which allows to achieve the surprise of the blow. This rare quality was possessed by Konev Ivan Stepanovich his commander talent most convincingly and vividly manifested in offensive operations, during which there were a lot of brilliant victories.

At the same time, he always sought not to get involved in protracted battles in large cities and bypass maneuvers forced the enemy to leave the city. This allowed him to reduce the losses of his troops, to prevent large destruction and casualties among the civilians. If I. Konev showed his best commercial qualities in offensive operations, then Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko is in defensive.

A characteristic feature of a real commander is the extraordinary plan and actions, the departure of the template, military cunning, which the great commander A. during the years of World War II, Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich, throughout the war, was excelled, throughout the war, a remarkable feature of his general talent was that he had a certain unexpected method of action in the plan of each operation, and was able A whole system of well -thought -out measures to mislead the enemy.

Having experienced all the anger of Stalin in the first days of nightmares on the fronts, Tymoshenko Semyon Konstantinovich asked him to send him to the most dangerous site. Subsequently, the marshal commanded strategic directions and fronts. Under his command there were heavy defensive battles in Belarus in July - August. The heroic defense of Mogilev and Gomel, counterattacks near Vitebsk and Bobruisk are associated with his name.

Under the leadership of Tymoshenko, the largest and most persistent battle of the first months of the war - Smolensk. In July, the troops under the command of Marshal Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan participated actively in the defeat of the Nazi troops on the Kursk arc, in the Belarusian, Baltic, East Prem and other operations and in the capture of the Koenigsberg fortress. During the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov commanded the 8th Guards Army, which was forever inscribed in the annals of the heroic defense of the city of Stalingrad.

Commander Chuikov introduced new tactics to the troops- close combat tactics. In Berlin, V. Chuikov was called: "General is a storm." After the victory in Stalingrad, operations were successfully carried out: Zaporozhye, the forcing of the Dnieper, Nikopol, Odessa, Lublin, the forcing of the Vistula, the Poznan citadel, the Kustrinsky fortress, the Berlin and the youngest of the commanders of the fronts of the Great Patriotic War were Army General Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky.Chernyakhovsky’s troops participated in the liberation of Voronezh, Kursk, Zhytomyr, Vitebsk, Orsha, Vilnius, Kaunas, other cities, distinguished themselves in the battles for Kyiv, Minsk, among the first to go to the border with fascist Germany, and then smashed the Nazis in East Prussia.

During the Great Patriotic War, Kirill Afanasevich Meretskov commanded the troops of the northern directions. In the city of Meretskov, the first serious defeat in the war inflicted on the terses of Field Marshal near Tikhvin. In June, Marshal K. Mannerheim in Karelia was defeated under their command. In October, in the spring of the year, the “cunning Yaroslav” as Stalin called him under the name “General Maximov” was sent to the Far East.

In August-September, his troops participated in the defeat of the Kwantun Army, bursting from Primorye into Manchuria and freeing the regions of China and Korea. Thus, during the Great Patriotic War, many remarkable commander -in -law qualities appeared among our military leaders, which allowed the superiority of their military art over the Nazis military art.