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...they stood atop Lenin's red granite mausoleum. It poured down on 200 unblinking Red Army soldiers as they marched stiff-legged across Moscow's Red Square. It drenched the 1,400-piece military band and the cheering crowds who had braved the weather to see Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky (on a black horse) and Marshal Georgi Zhukov (on a white horse) lead rumbling masses of tanks and motorized artillery in Russia's biggest victory celebration...
...Courts had run through their docket of war criminal trials. Score: 2,007 death sentences, 1,986 executions. (The 21 condemned persons who had not been shot could not be found.) Another 3,064 prisoners were jailed for terms from a year to life. Among them: famed Liberal Konstantin Muravieff...
...first Russian delegate in San Francisco was the Red Navy's representative, Admiral Konstantin Rodionov (see cut). The Russians holed up in the St. Francis hotel, reveled in three eggs apiece for breakfast, promptly obtained 18 shoe stamps (for some 60 delegates and consultants). A Russian ship brought quantities of caviar, vodka and champagne to be dispensed in a Pacific Heights house rented for entertainment. For the delegation's head, Foreign Commissar Molotov, the State Department had been asked to supply 1) a bullet-proof car, 2) an armed escort...
Four Armies. Marshal Zhukov probably had more than 1,000,000 men massed before the Berlin sector. To the north were some 500,000 more-the armies of Marshals Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Konstantin K. Rokossovsky. which had flattened the East Prussia and Pomerania pockets. To the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's big First Ukrainian Army was launched to hurl itself toward Dresden. Against all this massive weight was the largest force the shredded Wehrmacht could muster: perhaps 900,000 men in formidable defense positions. But greater German forces had failed to stop the Red Army when...
Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky cleaned up the largest of the East Prussian pockets and drove with four armies on Königsberg. Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky took Danzig, first city to fall to the Germans on the first day of World War II. Other Russian troops stormed into Gdynia and found 9,000 dispirited Germans lined up on the docks, waiting to be evacuated on ships that never came...