Bronze Plaque Bust Relief of Soviet WWII General Smushkevich from Lithuania For Sale
$200.13
Item Description
Rare original bronze plaque bust relief of Soviet WWII pilot, lieutenant general of aviation from Lithuania
Jakovas Smuškevičius, 1902 - 1941.Diameter 16 cm, weight 0.68 kg.In good vintage condition as on photos.
Yakov Vladimirovich (Vulfovich) Smushkevich, (April 14, 1902, Rokiškis , Kovno Governorate — October 28 ,1941, Kuibyshev, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet military leader, pilot , lieutenant general of aviation (1940). Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1937, 1939). Chief of the Red Army Air Forces (1939-1940), assistant to the Chief of the Red Army General Staff for aviation (1940-1941).
Senior military adviser for aviation to the Spanish Republican Army in 1937. Commander of the Red Army Air Forces in combat operations near the Khalkhin Gol River (1939), Inspector General of the Red Army Air Forces (1941).
Arrested and executed in 1941. Posthumously rehabilitated in 1954. The first Jew to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The first twice Hero of the Soviet Union to be arrested and executed as an "enemy of the people."
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