Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Klim" Upstairs. No less significant than its reform in principle was the Red Army's simultaneous shift in personnel. Defense Commissar Marshal Kliment ("Klim") Voroshilov, the popular, jolly and easygoing warlord who for 15 years has cavorted about the Red Square every May Day on a glossy charger set off by a naming red saddlecloth with gold trimmings, was kicked upstairs to the job of Vice Premier and Chairman of the Defense Committee...
...Force, so that ostensibly Klim was promoted, but in Moscow few doubted the Dictator was stripping the Marshal of all real power. Two most accepted reasons: 1) the original Red Army fiasco in the Finnish campaign was the fault of either the Dictator or of his Defense Commissar, and ipso facto in Russia it was not Joseph Stalin's fault; 2) Klim is a believer in the traditional Russian defensive strategy, which would be a handicap if & when the U. S. S. R. continues aggressions. His successor...
Timoshenko. In naming the new Defense Commissar, Dictator Stalin also let it be known for the first time who brought to its victorious conclusion the Finnish campaign. Both were the same man, Marshal Semion Timoshenko. The Marshal is a Bolshevik so comparatively obscure that the latest edition of the Soviet Encyclopedia gives him not a line...
...Defense Commissar was born in 1895 of peasant stock in Bessarabia (now Rumanian), worked as farm laborer for a Russian noble, in 1915 was drafted into the Imperial Army. Private Semion
...music schools in towns where he once lived. Said Pravda: "He is the most beloved composer of the Soviet masses-he is the toilers' favorite." A monument was ordered built for Tschaikowsky in Moscow. At the Bolshoi Theatre a Tschaikowsky concert brought out the diplomatic corps, Foreign Commissar Molotov, War Commissar Timoshenko, ex-War Commissar Voroshilov-and Stalin...