Alexander Yegorov: Difference between revisions

In 1927, he became commander of the Belorussian Military District. In 1931, Yegorov was appointed Deputy People's Commissar for Defence and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army. In 1934, he became a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1935, he became one of the first five Marshals of the Soviet Union when this rank was created.

 

In World War 2, Yegorov like most Soviet Generals would find themselves fighting a desperate losing battle. In the European part of Russia, the Soviet army was in disarray. Marshal Voroshilov, not so much due to his incompetence, more so due to the fact he had nothing to fight with, failed to hold off the Germans and counterattack along the Volga.