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.

Malinovsky stalin biography

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.

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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