Dmitry Safonov
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Dmitry Safonov
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Dmitry Potapovich Safonov was a Red Army major general. He served in World War I and the Russian Civil War as an artilleryman, and rose to command artillery regiments in the 1930s. Despite this background, he was given command of the 143rd Rifle Division and led it in the opening days of the war in Belarus after Operation Barbarossa began. Safonov was killed four days into the war in an attempt to escape from encirclement.
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2023-06-04T21:39:54Z
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