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General of the Army (USSR)
General of the Army (Russian: генерал армии, general armii) was a rank of the Soviet Union which was first established in June 1940 as a high rank for Red Army generals, inferior only to the Marshal of the Soviet Union. In the following 51 years the USSR created 133 General of the Army, 32 of whom were later promoted to the rank of Marshal.
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