One of the best generals in WW2! Because of his leadership in the battle of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and most of all, Operation Bagration, we are not living under Nazi's boots today. Respect!
@@СергейБульдог-я2ъ it was, but Zhukov was a strategist because he's a field Marshall more like a whole front commander he didn't have a direct command of the troops but Rokossovsky was an army general and one of the best tactians in the red army and WW2. And he did have a direct command of the troops both in stalingrad and the battle of Moscow that's why people love him he's more like a friend of the troops.
Zhukov was the commander of the Western Forces and all troops were under his command. Don't give all the credit to Rokosovski, Because Zhukov made the strategy, Rokosovski's men proved brave in battles. Zhukov saved Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and retook Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and reached Berlin!
The more I learn about this man, the more I admire him. A great General who was loved by his men because he cared about them and treated every one of them with due respect.
Konstantin Rokossovsky is one of the finest military commanders of all time, no doubt. Ivan Konev's Ist Ukrainian Front entered Berlin first, but Stalin gave Zhukov the honor of capturing Berlin and hoisting the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. Zhukov's Ist Belarusian Front was protected by Rokossovsky's II Belorussian Front, and Marshal Konev was supported by Yeremenko's IV Ukrainian Front. Although Rokossovsky's II Belorussian Front was not chosen to lead the attack at the Seelow Heights, it did benefit Zhukov's Ist Belarusian Front . It was the actions of Rokossovsky's Front that allowed Zhukov's Front to concentrate on their sector of the front-line while the IInd Belorussian Front to attack in the lower half of the Oder, between Schwedt and the Baltic Sea coast. This attack on the northern flank of the German Seelow Heights position by the IInd Belorussian Front helped to reduce resistance on the Ist Belorussian Front sector, and made it possible for the Ist Belorussian Front to emerge victorious at the battle of the Seelow Heights and battle of Halbe (By late April 1945, only the Wehrmacht 9th and 12th Army were what left of the Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front. The result of battle of Seelow Heights was the encirclement of the Wehrmacht 9th Army and resulted in the complete enrichment of Berlin)
Konstantin Rokossovsky is one of the finest military commanders of not only the Red Army, but of WWII. “As we fight outside Moscow, we need to think of Berlin. The Red Army will definitely be in Berlin" - Rokossovsky told a Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) newspaper correspondent in Oct 1941, a time when the Germans were attempting to besiege Moscow. Rokossovsky was one of the architects of ‘Operation Uranus’ to encircle and destroy the Wehrmacht 6th Army of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus at Stalingrad. Rokossovsky also led "Operation Bagration", the Red Army destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. It was the biggest defeat in German military history, with around 450,000 German casualties (a defeat worse than Stalingrad). (During the planning of Operation Bagration, Rokossovsky disagreed with Stalin regarding the military plans. After disagreeing with Stalin three times on the conduct of the operation, Stalin remained silent, walked over to Rokossovsky and put a hand on his shoulder. A tense moment followed as the whole room waited for Stalin to rip the epaulette from Rokossovsky's shoulder; instead, Stalin said "Your confidence speaks for your sound judgement", and ordered the attack to go forward according to Rokossovsky's plan) Ivan Konev's Ist Ukrainian Front entered Berlin first, but Stalin gave Zhukov the honor of capturing Berlin and hoisting the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. Zhukov's Ist Belarusian Front was protected by Rokossovsky's II Belorussian Front, and Marshal Konev was supported by Yeremenko's IV Ukrainian Front. Although Rokossovsky's II Belorussian Front was not chosen to lead the attack at the Seelow Heights, it did benefit Zhukov's Ist Belarusian Front . It was the actions of Rokossovsky's Front that allowed Zhukov's Front to concentrate on their sector of the front-line while the IInd Belorussian Front to attack in the lower half of the Oder, between Schwedt and the Baltic Sea coast. This attack on the northern flank of the German Seelow Heights position by the IInd Belorussian Front helped to reduce resistance on the Ist Belorussian Front sector, and made it possible for the Ist Belorussian Front to emerge victorious at the battle of the Seelow Heights and battle of Halbe (By late April 1945, only the Wehrmacht 9th and 12th Army were what left of the Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front. The result of battle of Seelow Heights was the encirclement of the Wehrmacht 9th Army and resulted in the complete enrichment of Berlin) “I am the most unfortunate Marshal of the Soviet Union. In Russia, people viewed me as a Pole and, in Poland, as Russian" - Konstantin K. Rokossovsky.
@@yaneyobe3147 Nazis were not his friends and officers of the military of the bourgeois, semi-feudal, semi-fascist Second Republic are not the heroes of the Polish working class.
I don't know if it is the accent, I was thinking more of the rythm and intonation of the sentences; martial and komintern style, pretty common all over soviet influenced nations.
"Front commander's persistence shows that the organization of this operation is well thought out." Joseph Stalin addressing Rokossovsky in the planning stage of "Operation Bagration" during a STAVKA meeting on 23 may 1944
He was a real pole having his routes in an aristocratic polish patriotic family. He just chose to be a soviet and to serve this country for ideological reasons. As a polish man I recognise his polish accent as perfect with surprisingly little influence from russian language.
Лучший маршал Советского Союза. В отличии от Жукова он всегда берëг и ценил своих солдат. Спасибо польской земле за то, что вырастила такого великого человека!
I'm surprised by so many positive comments from Polish people. I was sure Rokossovsky had been regarded as a traitor who served the Soviets. For me he was a man of a tragic fate, so common during the 20th century's cataclysms, exceptional talent, strength of body and spirit. I don't know another WW2 personality who deserves more respect. Besides he was just a very handsome and charming man and a great dancer.
When this man first became a soldier, he was a soldier of Tsarist Russia, that is, the Russian Empire. And there was no independent Polish state at that time. Also, his mother was Russian. Therefore, the man was not loyal to Poland and had not made any statements expressing his loyalty, at least before World War II, so he cannot be a traitor. However, despite this, he saved Poland and worked for Poland's industrialization and development. Learn history.
It is really curious. At the time the Poles were adamant that the Soviets ( and Rokossovski was considered their main agent) stole eastern Polish lands, specifically the city of Lwow (now renamed Lviv) but now not only they seem not to care but strongly support Ukrainians despite horrific crimes they committed against Polish inhabitants of the stolen lands. It's certain that presently Poles are quite happy with the Stalin's dictat that established the present Polish borders.
@@PerryKobalt just forget about him his name betrayed him, we all know where he come from, from the west everything they hear from people from other part of the world are false except theirs.
@@ziuuum4971 The communist regime established by Moscow in Poland DOES NOT represent the interest of the Polish ppl. Alliance with Moscow was forced to the Polish ppl by guns, which only tears up the already awful wounds of the century old rivalry between the 2 ppl much, much worse. There have never been any popular support of a government closely aligned with Moscow and basically run by Stalin. Should Stalin respect the idea of self-determination and not use the advantage that Red Army was in much of Poland the moment Germany surrenders this 'Polish People's Republic' has no chance of ruling Poland, which is what it should be. The largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Poland in WW2 was the AK & the underground state, which IS NOT aligned with Moscow, in fact kinda hate them because Soviets invaded Poland from the East in 1939, and they fought against Soviet occupation at least during 1939-41. Also the discovery of things such as Kathyn Forest just made it impossible for a group of highly patriotic ppl like the Polish AK (which HAS the support of the MAJORITY of the Polish ppl) to align themselves with Moscow in any long term bases. The communist Polish state was founded on and designed to basically strip large chunks of sovereignty away from the Polish ppl and transfer them to this Soviet-led thing nominally, but de facto consolidated among the top leaders in Moscow (including the likes of Stalin who couldn't be worse), which is something that most Polish people would never have approved. With historical events like the division of the first Rzeczpospolita the idea of 'pan-Slavism (usually envisioning a strong Russia as the leader)' that calls for Russia leading other Slavic ppl (including Polish ppl) just doesn't sit well with the Polish. Also, the idea of 'socialist brotherhood', especially the idea that it could transcend the century old nationalistic sentiments like the deep distrust of Polish ppl to their so called 'Russian big brothers' could not be more false and more ridiculous, so much so that Stalin doesn't believe that BS himself, when Lenin & Trosky naively believe that when the Red Army arrives at Warsaw in 1920 they'll be seen as liberators instead of oppressors. Not to mention that socialism/communism has brought Poland all nightmares and little to no benefits. And the Polish communists were some of the most impotent ppl in the entire Eastern bloc. Despite theoretically having a strong base of resistance, domestically within the rank of the Polish 'People's' Republic it was all but staffed with Moscow loyalists who were more than willing to let Moscow take over the governance. And their economic development was also just pathetic. Poland was one of the poorest countries in the entire Eastern bloc, much poorer than even Soviet Union itself. Which proves to be basically the failure of the communist system, as after Polish transition away from the communist dictatorship in 1989, the Polish economy soared to a level that not a single former USSR member state can compare to. In short, the Polish communists are not defenders of their ppl's freedom or rights or whatsoever. They are more like those who betrayed the very ppl they 'pledged' to protect. I personally respect Soviet's war effort & thank them for destroying the Nazis who really are worse. Marshal Rokossowski is also a legend that I respect as a person and a military genius. But unfortunately, I do believe he's ultimately on the wrong side of the history, especially for his own, Polish people. By (actively) supporting Stalin's effort to turn Poland communist & integrate her into Moscow's sphere of influence he has done a big disservice to his very own ppl in Poland.
@@karrole88 well so you think that it's true that Polish ppl welcomed the establishment of the communist state? And the 'Soviet brotherhood' that came with it? And that ppl lived happily under communist Poland?
One of the best generals in WW2! Because of his leadership in the battle of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and most of all, Operation Bagration, we are not living under Nazi's boots today. Respect!
Leadership in the battle of Moscow was Zhukov
@@СергейБульдог-я2ъ it was, but Zhukov was a strategist because he's a field Marshall more like a whole front commander he didn't have a direct command of the troops but Rokossovsky was an army general and one of the best tactians in the red army and WW2. And he did have a direct command of the troops both in stalingrad and the battle of Moscow that's why people love him he's more like a friend of the troops.
Zhukov was the commander of the Western Forces and all troops were under his command. Don't give all the credit to Rokosovski, Because Zhukov made the strategy, Rokosovski's men proved brave in battles. Zhukov saved Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and retook Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and reached Berlin!
Jeden z najlepszych dowódców i konstruktorów bitew militarnych w historii świata. Najzdolniejszy minister obrony Rzeczypospolitej. Wielki Polak.
The more I learn about this man, the more I admire him. A great General who was loved by his men because he cared about them and treated every one of them with due respect.
The first general to reached Berlin... GOAT!
GOAT? Yes
Reached Berlin? No
Konstantin Rokossovsky is one of the finest military commanders of all time, no doubt.
Ivan Konev's Ist Ukrainian Front entered Berlin first, but Stalin gave Zhukov the honor of capturing Berlin and hoisting the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. Zhukov's Ist Belarusian Front was protected by Rokossovsky's II Belorussian Front, and Marshal Konev was supported by Yeremenko's IV Ukrainian Front.
Although Rokossovsky's II Belorussian Front was not chosen to lead the attack at the Seelow Heights, it did benefit Zhukov's Ist Belarusian Front . It was the actions of Rokossovsky's Front that allowed Zhukov's Front to concentrate on their sector of the front-line while the IInd Belorussian Front to attack in the lower half of the Oder, between Schwedt and the Baltic Sea coast.
This attack on the northern flank of the German Seelow Heights position by the IInd Belorussian Front helped to reduce resistance on the Ist Belorussian Front sector, and made it possible for the Ist Belorussian Front to emerge victorious at the battle of the Seelow Heights and battle of Halbe (By late April 1945, only the Wehrmacht 9th and 12th Army were what left of the Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front. The result of battle of Seelow Heights was the encirclement of the Wehrmacht 9th Army and resulted in the complete enrichment of Berlin)
One of the greatest generals ever.
Wielki Polak! Chluba naszego Narodu!
Raczej odwrotnie
@@ppmm2708 czemu?
@@kacpekowalczyk9714 walczył przeciwko polsce w 1921
@@michaekrynicki8330 bzdura
ale i tak to POLAK@@michaekrynicki8330
Konstantin Rokossovsky is one of the finest military commanders of not only the Red Army, but of WWII.
“As we fight outside Moscow, we need to think of Berlin. The Red Army will definitely be in Berlin" - Rokossovsky told a Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) newspaper correspondent in Oct 1941, a time when the Germans were attempting to besiege Moscow.
Rokossovsky was one of the architects of ‘Operation Uranus’ to encircle and destroy the Wehrmacht 6th Army of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus at Stalingrad.
Rokossovsky also led "Operation Bagration", the Red Army destroyed 28 of 34 divisions of Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre and completely shattered the German front line. It was the biggest defeat in German military history, with around 450,000 German casualties (a defeat worse than Stalingrad). (During the planning of Operation Bagration, Rokossovsky disagreed with Stalin regarding the military plans. After disagreeing with Stalin three times on the conduct of the operation, Stalin remained silent, walked over to Rokossovsky and put a hand on his shoulder. A tense moment followed as the whole room waited for Stalin to rip the epaulette from Rokossovsky's shoulder; instead, Stalin said "Your confidence speaks for your sound judgement", and ordered the attack to go forward according to Rokossovsky's plan)
Ivan Konev's Ist Ukrainian Front entered Berlin first, but Stalin gave Zhukov the honor of capturing Berlin and hoisting the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. Zhukov's Ist Belarusian Front was protected by Rokossovsky's II Belorussian Front, and Marshal Konev was supported by Yeremenko's IV Ukrainian Front. Although Rokossovsky's II Belorussian Front was not chosen to lead the attack at the Seelow Heights, it did benefit Zhukov's Ist Belarusian Front . It was the actions of Rokossovsky's Front that allowed Zhukov's Front to concentrate on their sector of the front-line while the IInd Belorussian Front to attack in the lower half of the Oder, between Schwedt and the Baltic Sea coast. This attack on the northern flank of the German Seelow Heights position by the IInd Belorussian Front helped to reduce resistance on the Ist Belorussian Front sector, and made it possible for the Ist Belorussian Front to emerge victorious at the battle of the Seelow Heights and battle of Halbe (By late April 1945, only the Wehrmacht 9th and 12th Army were what left of the Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front. The result of battle of Seelow Heights was the encirclement of the Wehrmacht 9th Army and resulted in the complete enrichment of Berlin)
“I am the most unfortunate Marshal of the Soviet Union. In Russia, people viewed me as a Pole and, in Poland, as Russian" - Konstantin K. Rokossovsky.
great Rokossovsky !! hero of the working class!
Nasz marszałek
No... he said bad words about Polish power
No... he said bad words about Polish power
No... he said bad words about Polish power
No... he said bad words about Polish power
No... he said bad words about Polish power
Our Polish hero
Where was he when his friends murdered our heroes in Katyn ?
@@yaneyobe3147 He was in prison or he was just released from it.
@@yaneyobe3147 Nazis were not his friends and officers of the military of the bourgeois, semi-feudal, semi-fascist Second Republic are not the heroes of the Polish working class.
katyn was done by the nazis@@yaneyobe3147
Exactly@@anonymouse7336
back when Poland had dignity
Even tho he lived his first 20 years in Warsaw and his polish seems fluent, he speaks with a heavy russian accent.
Eastern Polish accent if anything.
@@gabriela.pierzynski9923 well yea. eastern polish sounds this way because of russian influence.
I don't know if it is the accent, I was thinking more of the rythm and intonation of the sentences; martial and komintern style, pretty common all over soviet influenced nations.
@@ComradeIsy Ruthenian not Russian influence , and it’s still polish. We lived alongside them since Kasimir the Great.
No Russian accent he is speaking clean Polish I am from central Poland.
I love ❤️ this man! So brave!
Братский пролетарский привет от рождённых в Киеве
Гордость России и Польши. Слава!
Великий Рокоссовский! Спасибо тебе! Великий Русский солдат!
"Front commander's persistence shows that the organization of this operation is well thought out."
Joseph Stalin addressing Rokossovsky in the planning stage of "Operation Bagration" during a STAVKA meeting on 23 may 1944
From iraq love to read army and all Russian
Rokosovky was also polish if I'm not mistaken
Sort of
Not sort of. He was polish. He lived first 20 years in poland. He lived in USRR as an emigrant, later after war he retuened to Poland.
He was a real pole having his routes in an aristocratic polish patriotic family. He just chose to be a soviet and to serve this country for ideological reasons. As a polish man I recognise his polish accent as perfect with surprisingly little influence from russian language.
Лучший маршал Советского Союза. В отличии от Жукова он всегда берëг и ценил своих солдат. Спасибо польской земле за то, что вырастила такого великого человека!
Yeach Stalin talkin only to him on Mr. Nasz Marszałek
@@nikos1.9tdi Yes, after releasing him after spending years in prison.
I'm surprised by so many positive comments from Polish people. I was sure Rokossovsky had been regarded as a traitor who served the Soviets.
For me he was a man of a tragic fate, so common during the 20th century's cataclysms, exceptional talent, strength of body and spirit. I don't know another WW2 personality who deserves more respect. Besides he was just a very handsome and charming man and a great dancer.
When this man first became a soldier, he was a soldier of Tsarist Russia, that is, the Russian Empire. And there was no independent Polish state at that time. Also, his mother was Russian. Therefore, the man was not loyal to Poland and had not made any statements expressing his loyalty, at least before World War II, so he cannot be a traitor. However, despite this, he saved Poland and worked for Poland's industrialization and development. Learn history.
Great Poles: Rokossovsky, Sklodovska-Curie, Chopin.
Also includes Copernicus, Josef Bem and Sienkiewicz.
Dzerzhinsky
@@arsonviburnums8453Dzierżyński
Other Poles are not great people?
Konstantin rokossovsky is polish
It is really curious. At the time the Poles were adamant that the Soviets ( and Rokossovski was considered their main agent) stole eastern Polish lands, specifically the city of Lwow (now renamed Lviv) but now not only they seem not to care but strongly support Ukrainians despite horrific crimes they committed against Polish inhabitants of the stolen lands. It's certain that presently Poles are quite happy with the Stalin's dictat that established the present Polish borders.
Shut up
Not that it would've changed something, but it is fair to say that at the time Lwow "was stolen" Rokossovsky was in Kresty prison.
0:02 anyone know what the guy was shouting right before the marshal’s speech?
I think it had to do something with praising Rokossokov
,,Long live for marshal Konstanty Rokosowski! "
@@Stallker193
Is that the accurate translation?
If only he was a good statesman.
antypolack
polish president named beirut.. LOL..
Boleslaw Bierut, not Beirut.
Bierut not Beirut
Yes , exactly, His real name is Beirut Goatfucker. Nickname "Shavarma ". Was born in a tent on fuckin desert .
its simply not true
what isnt true?
@@ziuuum4971 lol he didn't explain, that means he lying
@@PerryKobalt just forget about him his name betrayed him, we all know where he come from, from the west everything they hear from people from other part of the world are false except theirs.
@@ziuuum4971 The communist regime established by Moscow in Poland DOES NOT represent the interest of the Polish ppl. Alliance with Moscow was forced to the Polish ppl by guns, which only tears up the already awful wounds of the century old rivalry between the 2 ppl much, much worse. There have never been any popular support of a government closely aligned with Moscow and basically run by Stalin. Should Stalin respect the idea of self-determination and not use the advantage that Red Army was in much of Poland the moment Germany surrenders this 'Polish People's Republic' has no chance of ruling Poland, which is what it should be. The largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Poland in WW2 was the AK & the underground state, which IS NOT aligned with Moscow, in fact kinda hate them because Soviets invaded Poland from the East in 1939, and they fought against Soviet occupation at least during 1939-41. Also the discovery of things such as Kathyn Forest just made it impossible for a group of highly patriotic ppl like the Polish AK (which HAS the support of the MAJORITY of the Polish ppl) to align themselves with Moscow in any long term bases. The communist Polish state was founded on and designed to basically strip large chunks of sovereignty away from the Polish ppl and transfer them to this Soviet-led thing nominally, but de facto consolidated among the top leaders in Moscow (including the likes of Stalin who couldn't be worse), which is something that most Polish people would never have approved. With historical events like the division of the first Rzeczpospolita the idea of 'pan-Slavism (usually envisioning a strong Russia as the leader)' that calls for Russia leading other Slavic ppl (including Polish ppl) just doesn't sit well with the Polish. Also, the idea of 'socialist brotherhood', especially the idea that it could transcend the century old nationalistic sentiments like the deep distrust of Polish ppl to their so called 'Russian big brothers' could not be more false and more ridiculous, so much so that Stalin doesn't believe that BS himself, when Lenin & Trosky naively believe that when the Red Army arrives at Warsaw in 1920 they'll be seen as liberators instead of oppressors. Not to mention that socialism/communism has brought Poland all nightmares and little to no benefits. And the Polish communists were some of the most impotent ppl in the entire Eastern bloc. Despite theoretically having a strong base of resistance, domestically within the rank of the Polish 'People's' Republic it was all but staffed with Moscow loyalists who were more than willing to let Moscow take over the governance. And their economic development was also just pathetic. Poland was one of the poorest countries in the entire Eastern bloc, much poorer than even Soviet Union itself. Which proves to be basically the failure of the communist system, as after Polish transition away from the communist dictatorship in 1989, the Polish economy soared to a level that not a single former USSR member state can compare to. In short, the Polish communists are not defenders of their ppl's freedom or rights or whatsoever. They are more like those who betrayed the very ppl they 'pledged' to protect.
I personally respect Soviet's war effort & thank them for destroying the Nazis who really are worse. Marshal Rokossowski is also a legend that I respect as a person and a military genius. But unfortunately, I do believe he's ultimately on the wrong side of the history, especially for his own, Polish people. By (actively) supporting Stalin's effort to turn Poland communist & integrate her into Moscow's sphere of influence he has done a big disservice to his very own ppl in Poland.
@@karrole88 well so you think that it's true that Polish ppl welcomed the establishment of the communist state? And the 'Soviet brotherhood' that came with it? And that ppl lived happily under communist Poland?
Polski marshal.Czy cos sie zmienilo od czasu tego przemuwienia ? Nic ! Zachod To Banda podzegaczy !
Him & Zhukov my 2 favorite genarals