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editSecond World War, and one of the youngest as well. His spirit and daring inspired devotion among his troops, many of them Cossack cavalrymen who were historically very anti-semitic.
We do not know was he Jewish or not. Of course Soviets were good in falsifications and many Generals of Jewish descent passed for Slavs but we still do not have a definite information. Also, in the Soviet Army were more than 200 Generals of Jewish descent who were registered as "Jewish" in their ethnic identification during the WWII. The statement about few is a gross misrepresentation. User Tracader. 1. 26. 07