. "Marshal of the Soviet Union (Russian: \u041C\u0430\u0440\u0448\u0430\u043B \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u043E\u0433\u043E \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437\u0430 Russian pronunciation: [\u02C8mar\u0282\u0259l s\u0250\u02C8v\u02B2\u025Btsk\u0259v\u0259 s\u0250\u02C8juz\u0259]) was the highest military rank of the Soviet Union (while the supreme rank of Generalissimus of the Soviet Union was proposed for Joseph Stalin after the Second World War, it was never officially approved).The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in 1991. Forty-one people held the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union."@en . .