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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovet_%C4%B0ttifaq%C4%B1_Generalissimusu" title="Sovet İttifaqı Generalissimusu – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sovet İttifaqı Generalissimusu" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%81%D1%96%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%8E%D0%B7%D0%B0" title="Генералісімус Савецкага Саюза – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Генералісімус Савецкага Саюза" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li 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Радянського Союзу" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i_nguy%C3%AAn_so%C3%A1i_Li%C3%AAn_X%C3%B4" title="Đại nguyên soái Liên Xô – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Đại nguyên soái Liên Xô" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%98%87%E8%81%AF%E5%A4%A7%E5%85%83%E5%B8%A5" title="蘇聯大元帥 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="蘇聯大元帥" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a 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class="infobox-caption">Proposed uniform <a href="/wiki/Epaulette" title="Epaulette">epaulette</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Service branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Armed_Forces" title="Soviet Armed Forces">Soviet Armed Forces</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/General_officer" title="General officer">General officer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data">26 June 1945</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Abolished</th><td class="infobox-data">1993</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Next lower rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Marshal of the Soviet Union">Marshal</a> (<a href="/wiki/Soviet_Army" title="Soviet Army">Soviet Army</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiral_of_the_Fleet_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union">Admiral of the Fleet</a> (<a href="/wiki/Soviet_Navy" title="Soviet Navy">Soviet Navy</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Generalissimo of the Soviet Union</b> (Russian: <span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Генералиссимус Советского Союза</span></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian" title="Romanization of Russian">romanized</a>:</small> <span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Generalissimus Sovetskogo Soyuza</i></span>) was the highest <a href="/wiki/Military_ranks_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Military ranks of the Soviet Union">military rank</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, created after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> for <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> and awarded to him on 27 June 1945. Stalin soon came to regret the rank, which he considered too ostentatious, and continued to wear his <a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Marshal of the Soviet Union">Marshal</a> insignia and uniform. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Generalissimo_of_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The rank of <a href="/wiki/Generalissimo" title="Generalissimo">Generalissimo</a> was awarded to several military leaders in the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Russian_Army" title="Imperial Russian Army">Imperial Russian Army</a>, including for the first time by <a href="/wiki/Peter_the_Great" title="Peter the Great">Peter the Great</a> to <a href="/wiki/Aleksei_Shein" title="Aleksei Shein">Aleksei Shein</a> in 1696, by <a href="/wiki/Catherine_I_of_Russia" title="Catherine I of Russia">Catherine I</a> to Prince <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Danilovich_Menshikov" title="Alexander Danilovich Menshikov">Alexander Danilovich Menshikov</a> in 1727, to <a href="/wiki/Duke_Anthony_Ulrich_of_Brunswick" title="Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick">Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick</a> in 1740, and most famously by <a href="/wiki/Paul_I_of_Russia" title="Paul I of Russia">Paul I</a> to Count <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov" title="Alexander Suvorov">Alexander Suvorov</a> after the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Second_Coalition" title="War of the Second Coalition">War of the Second Coalition</a> in 1799.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first proposal to create the rank of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union came after the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a>'s victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Battle of Stalingrad</a> in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. On 6 February 1943, the <a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)</a> received an appeal from employees at a Moscow factory for <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, "a brilliant military leader", to be awarded the title of Generalissimo of the Red Army. Another such proposal was submitted to the party's <a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Politburo</a> on 24 June 1945, the day of the <a href="/wiki/1945_Moscow_Victory_Parade" title="1945 Moscow Victory Parade">Victory Parade</a> in Moscow's <a href="/wiki/Red_Square" title="Red Square">Red Square</a>, by the commanders of the Red Army, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Navy" title="Soviet Navy">Navy</a>, and the General Staff. The note stated that "for the outstanding leadership of combat operations of the active Army and Navy, which led to the historic victory over <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Patriotic War">Great Patriotic War</a>", it was necessary "to establish the military rank of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union and to award it to Comrade Stalin".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The rank of Generalissimo was established by the <a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_Supreme_Soviet" title="Presidium of the Supreme Soviet">Presidium of the Supreme Soviet</a> on 26 June 1945,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and awarded to Stalin (who had held the rank of <a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Marshal of the Soviet Union">Marshal</a> since 1943) on 27 June by the same body "for especially outstanding services to the Motherland in leading all the armed forces of the state during the war".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stalin soon regretted allowing himself the title, and at the <a href="/wiki/Potsdam_Conference" title="Potsdam Conference">Potsdam Conference</a> asked <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> to continue to refer to him as Marshal instead.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stalin rejected any distinction between his rank and Marshal, and continued to wear his Marshal insignia and uniform. According to the memoirs of General <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Shtemenko" title="Sergei Shtemenko">Sergei Shtemenko</a>, in one episode General <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Khrulyov" title="Andrey Khrulyov">Andrey Khrulyov</a>, the head of logistics for the Red Army, designed an "opulent" uniform for the rank "sewn on the model of <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Kutuzov" title="Mikhail Kutuzov">Kutuzov</a>'s times", with a high <a href="/wiki/Standing_collar" class="mw-redirect" title="Standing collar">standing collar</a> and gilded stripes on the trousers. Upon presenting it to Stalin, the following was said: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Stalin: Who are you going to dress like this?<br />Khrulyov: This is the proposed uniform for the Generalissimo.<br /> Stalin: For whom?<br />Khrulyov: For you, Comrade Stalin...</p></blockquote> <p>Stalin burst into a long and angry tirade against his excessive glorification, and the subject was not raised again.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rank of Generalissimo, while never awarded to another holder, continued to appear in the list of ranks and in statutes of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Armed_Forces" title="Soviet Armed Forces">Soviet Armed Forces</a> until 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1996, a replica of the proposed uniform was exhibited at the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_the_Great_Patriotic_War,_Moscow" title="Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow">Museum of the Great Patriotic War</a> in Moscow, and design sketches for it were published in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-polygonv_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-polygonv-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Proposed_insignia">Proposed insignia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Generalissimo_of_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Proposed insignia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Below are proposed designs of the shoulder insignia of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-polygonv_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-polygonv-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Generalissimus_1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Generalissimus_1.svg/46px-Generalissimus_1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="46" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Generalissimus_1.svg/69px-Generalissimus_1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Generalissimus_1.svg/93px-Generalissimus_1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="138" data-file-height="356" 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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Project_of_the_Generalissimo_of_the_USSR%27s_rank_insignia_-_Variant_5.png/120px-Project_of_the_Generalissimo_of_the_USSR%27s_rank_insignia_-_Variant_5.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Project_of_the_Generalissimo_of_the_USSR%27s_rank_insignia_-_Variant_5.png/180px-Project_of_the_Generalissimo_of_the_USSR%27s_rank_insignia_-_Variant_5.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Project_of_the_Generalissimo_of_the_USSR%27s_rank_insignia_-_Variant_5.png/240px-Project_of_the_Generalissimo_of_the_USSR%27s_rank_insignia_-_Variant_5.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="780" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a 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class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:CCCP_army_Rank_generalissimus_CCCP_infobox.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/CCCP_army_Rank_generalissimus_CCCP_infobox.svg/120px-CCCP_army_Rank_generalissimus_CCCP_infobox.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/CCCP_army_Rank_generalissimus_CCCP_infobox.svg/180px-CCCP_army_Rank_generalissimus_CCCP_infobox.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/CCCP_army_Rank_generalissimus_CCCP_infobox.svg/240px-CCCP_army_Rank_generalissimus_CCCP_infobox.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="511" data-file-height="312" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a 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