It was the first time that a foreign military unit, the First Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion, fought together with the Red Army.

Under the command of Ludvík Svoboda, later President of Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak soldiers delayed the advance of Germans to the Mzha River.

Svoboda attempted to counter this with an antisemitic show trial of Maximilian Holzer, the unit's former supply officer, who was blamed for the defeat at Sokolov.

[2] The Battle of Sokolovo was widely celebrated under the post-war communist regime in Czechoslovakia as an example of Soviet-Czechoslovak comradeship.

The town of Falkenau an der Eger in Karlovy Vary Region was renamed Sokolov in 1948 after the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia.