Battle of Sokolovo (1943)

took place on March 8 and 9, 1943 around the town of Sokolovo near Kharkiv in Ukraine where the on-going attack of Wehrmacht was halted by joint Soviet and Czechoslovak forces. It was for the first time that a foreign military unit, 1st Czechoslovak Battailion fought together with the Red Army. Under the command of Ludvík Svoboda, later President of Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak soldiers effectively prevented any further advance of Germans across the Mzha river. The Soviet supreme ...
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