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    The Battle of Sokolovo took place on March 8 and 9, 1943, near the town of Sokolovo near Kharkiv in Ukraine when the on-going attack of the Wehrmacht was halted by joint Soviet and Czechoslovak forces. It was the first time that a foreign military unit, the First Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion, fought together with the Red Army. Under the command of Ludvík Svoboda, later President of Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak soldiers effectively prevented any further advance of Germans across the Mzha river. The Soviet supreme command highly valued both the bravery of the Czechoslovak soldiers and the political significance of the fact that the Soviet people were no longer alone in their struggle against Germany. First Lieutenant Otakar Jaroš, the commander of the 1st company (who was killed in the course of the battle and posthumously promoted to captain) was the first foreign citizen ever to be awarded the highest Soviet military order, the Hero of the Soviet Union. Moreover, one of the local schools in Sokolovo was named in his honor. The battle became the subject matter of a 1974 Czechoslovak film with the same name, directed by Otakar Vávra.

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    Battle of Sokolovo

    The Battle of Sokolovo took place on March 8 and 9,


    1943, near the town of Sokolovo near Kharkiv in Ukraine
    when the on-going attack of the Wehrmacht was halted
    by joint Soviet and Czechoslovak forces. It was the rst
    time that a foreign military unit, the First Czechoslovak
    Independent Field Battalion, fought together with the Red
    Army. Under the command of Ludvk Svoboda, later
    President of Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak soldiers
    eectively prevented any further advance of Germans
    across the Mzha river. The Soviet supreme command
    highly valued both the bravery of the Czechoslovak soldiers and the political signicance of the fact that the Soviet people were no longer alone in their struggle against
    Germany. First Lieutenant Otakar Jaro, the commander of the 1st company (who was killed in the course of
    the battle and posthumously promoted to captain) was the
    rst foreign citizen ever to be awarded the highest Soviet
    military order, the Hero of the Soviet Union. Moreover,
    one of the local schools in Sokolovo was named in his
    honor.
    The battle became the subject matter of a 1974
    Czechoslovak lm with the same name, directed by
    Otakar Vvra.

    References
    Fidler, Ji. Sokolovo 1943 mal encyklopedick
    slovnk. Praha: Nae vojsko, 2003. ISBN 80-2060716-1. (in Czech)

    External links
    Battle map March 8 to 13, 1943
    A battle twice misused (PDF in Czech)
    Ludvik Svoboda webpage in Czech
    Czechoslovak military units in the USSR (19421945)

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