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Battle of Sokolovo

The Battle of Sokolovo took place on March 8 and 9,


1943, near the town of Sokolovo near Kharkiv in Ukraine
when the on-going attack of the Wehrmacht was halted
by joint Soviet and Czechoslovak forces. It was the rst
time that a foreign military unit, the First Czechoslovak
Independent Field Battalion, fought together with the Red
Army. Under the command of Ludvk Svoboda, later
President of Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak soldiers
eectively prevented any further advance of Germans
across the Mzha river. The Soviet supreme command
highly valued both the bravery of the Czechoslovak soldiers and the political signicance of the fact that the Soviet people were no longer alone in their struggle against
Germany. First Lieutenant Otakar Jaro, the commander of the 1st company (who was killed in the course of
the battle and posthumously promoted to captain) was the
rst foreign citizen ever to be awarded the highest Soviet
military order, the Hero of the Soviet Union. Moreover,
one of the local schools in Sokolovo was named in his
honor.
The battle became the subject matter of a 1974
Czechoslovak lm with the same name, directed by
Otakar Vvra.

References
Fidler, Ji. Sokolovo 1943 mal encyklopedick
slovnk. Praha: Nae vojsko, 2003. ISBN 80-2060716-1. (in Czech)

External links
Battle map March 8 to 13, 1943
A battle twice misused (PDF in Czech)
Ludvik Svoboda webpage in Czech
Czechoslovak military units in the USSR (19421945)

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