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...Other Steps." Although the Red Army has spent the time since the Finnish War nursing a black eye and tucking in its shirttails, there are indications that Russia might be willing to help the Allies-at least to the extent of complete stoppage of vital exports to Germany. Russia would like to let the present belligerents wear each other out and then communize them. At present the war is too one-sided, might end too soon. It is to Russia's interest to prolong it by helping the Allies...
...Committee theoretically controls the Army, Navy and Air 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...
...Chief of Staff Boris Shaposhnikov. The Red Army artillery which pounded the Mannerheim Line to bits was in charge of Inspector General Grigory Kulik, cited during the Stalin purge of the Red Army for having "helped to reveal the high treason of two successive chiefs." In reward for their Finnish triumphs, last week Timoshenko, Shaposhnikov and Kulik were made Marshals...
...Alcazar fall in the Spanish Civil War. He wrote how the Finnish cold froze cigaret butts between puffs...