1/20/2023 0 Comments Cossacks back to war germanThe Cossack National Movement of Liberation hoped to gain an independent Cossack state, to be called Cossackia, after the war. A Cossack detachment of the 4th Guards Corps marched in Red Square during the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945. Many ethnic Cossacks served in other divisions of the Red Army and in the Navy, including Boris Shaposhnikov, Markian Popov, Aksel Berg, Arseniy Golovko, Oka Gorodovikov, Lev Dovator, Pavel Belov, General Dmitry Karbyshev, Dmitry Lavrinenko, pilot Grigory Bakhchivandzhi and engineer Fedor Tokarev. Oka Gorodovikov formed 49 Cossack cavalry divisions during the war. Their distinction in battle eventually led all to be merited as Guards. Later these corps units were increased in size and reduced to eight. The first Cossacks units were formed as early as 1936 by 1942 there were 17 Cossack corps units in the Red Army (as opposed to two in the German forces). They were used for frontal patrols and logistics on the open prairies (steppes), which they knew well. Their service was crucial on the Southern theater of the Eastern Front. The vast majority of the ethnic Cossacks fought against the Nazis in the ranks of the Red Army and of the Red Navy on all war theaters.
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