252nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 252nd Rifle Division was raised in 1941, within days of the German invasion, as a standard Red Army rifle division, and served for the duration of the Great Patriotic War in that role. After helping to defeat an offensive by Third Panzer Group at Kalinin in October, and serving through the winter counteroffensive west of Moscow, the division was sent south where it participated in the Battle of Stalingrad. In the summer of 1943 the 252nd distinguished itself in the final liberation of Kharkov, and again near the end of the war for assisting in the liberation of Bratislava.
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252nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 252nd Rifle Division was raised in 1941, within days of the German invasion, as a standard Red Army rifle division, and served for the duration of the Great Patriotic War in that role. After helping to defeat an offensive by Third Panzer Group at Kalinin in October, and serving through the winter counteroffensive west of Moscow, the division was sent south where it participated in the Battle of Stalingrad. In the summer of 1943 the 252nd distinguished itself in the final liberation of Kharkov, and again near the end of the war for assisting in the liberation of Bratislava.
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252-я стрелковая дивизия — воинское соединение СССР в Великой Отечественной войне
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The 252nd Rifle Division was r ...... the liberation of Bratislava.
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Col. A.A. Zabaluev
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252-я стрелковая дивизия — воинское соединение СССР в Великой Отечественной войне
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The 252nd Rifle Division was r ...... the liberation of Bratislava.
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252-я стрелковая дивизия
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252nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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