Marshal of the Soviet Union (1895-1977)
The Soviet general who climbed from Imperial Army captain to Marshal, survived Stalin's purges, and spent World War II coordinating entire fronts from the General Staff — then led the lightning invasion of Manchuria that ended the Pacific war.
Aleksandr Vasilevsky began as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, reaching captain by 1917 before the revolution pulled him into the Red Army and the Polish-Soviet War. He rose fast through the interwar ranks, appointed to the Directorate of Military Training in 1931 and then deputy chief of operations in 1939 after Stalin's purges had thinned the officer corps. When Germany invaded in June 1941, his mentor Boris Shaposhnikov recommended him for promotion; by June 1942 Vasilevsky had succeeded Shaposhnikov as chief of the General Staff and became deputy defense minister…
Sourced, dated quotes from Aleksandr Vasilevsky
I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war.
Why I should be in Romania in the name of unknown to me goal. There was a time when I led soldiers to battle, thinking I was doing my duty as a Russian patriot.
By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 – the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den – Berlin.
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