Ethnic makeup of Soviet Army in 44/45

[Art]

BTW regarding "Jewish commissars" as a common theme in Nazi propaganda. From the same source as of 1 January 1941 of 61,110 political officers of the Red Army 3,377 (or 5.5%) were Jewish. For comparison Jews made almost 12% of Red Army's medical officers (2,449 out of 20,872) and about 3.6% of the total Red Army's officer corps.

[Stephan]

I notice Kazakhs and Uzbeks there were over 200t 1.1. 1944, but roughly half of that a year later, at the end of the war. What happened? Did they found many of these were second grade troops, and so many were send into backward service. Or did they participated much in the hottests fight, and the losses were that heavy not even new recruiting didnt manage to compensate?

I mean, in the popular culture they said at the beginning of the end lotsa of the new soldiers were from Asia. Even camels are mentioned...
Apparently this did happened, but looking at the statistics, perhaps not so often as is told?

[Art]

On 13 November 1941 the GKO approved formation of the following national units:

Cavalry Division:

106 Kazakh

The story of the 106 Cavalry Division is quite curios. This division, which was in the process of deactivation and not fully armed, was transferred to the South-West Front in May 1942 and then partitioned between units of the 6 Cavalry Corps. The entire 6 Cav. Corps was encirced and mostly detroyed just several days later, including personnel of the former 106 CD. For this reason there is few information regarding how they fought, did they recieve requisite weapons etc. As far as I can see there is quite a school of thought in Kazakhstan which sees the 106 Division as unit that took part in battle actions, which is formally not entire correct.