Lev Mekhlis

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Soviet politician (1889-1953)

PoliticiansLived 1889 to 1953 · aged 64

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Awards 10

Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Banner

Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

Order of the Red Star

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Virtuti Militari

Connected to Lev 6

Ivan SerovAlso won Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Pavel RybalkoAlso won Virtuti Militari

Sydir KovpakAlso won Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Sergey GorshkovAlso won Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

Henryk SucharskiAlso won Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Nikolai VlasikAlso won Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

About this person

Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis was a Soviet politician and a prominent officer in the Red Army from 1937 to 1942. As a senior political commissar, he became one of the main Stavka representatives on the Eastern Front (1941-1945) during World War II, being involved successively with five to seven Soviet fronts. Despite his fervent political engagement and loyalty to the Communist Party, various Soviet leaders, including Joseph Stalin, criticized and reprimanded Mekhlis for incompetent military leadership during World War II.

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