Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Matvei Zakharov
Born: August 17, 1898
Died: January 31, 1972 (aged 73)
Bio: Matvei Vasilevich Zakharov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief of General Staff, Deputy Defense Minister, was born in Voylovo, a village in Kalininsky District, Tver Oblast to peasant parents. Zakharov joined the Red Guards in 1917.