Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, he took part in several of the Red Army's key victories over Nazi Germany, including the Battle of Stalingrad and the Siege of Budapest. As Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1957 to 1967, Malinovsky oversaw the strengthening of the Soviet Army and helped build up the image of the Soviet Union as a military superpower.
