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...peasant before he became a soldier, Marshal of the Red Army and the defender of the Don. The chances are that his parents could read nothing but the skies and fields, the winds and weathers of Bessarabia when he was born, 47 years ago, in the village of Furmanka. He was 20, long out of the village school and hardened to the farm, when the last Tsar's armies drafted him in 1915. He was a hardening young trooper in the cavalry when he went over with his regiment to the Red Revolution...
Born in the village of Furmanka, Bessarabia, near Russia's Rumanian border, Marshal Timoshenko worked as a farm hand for wealthy landlords, first fought against the Germans as an Imperial draftee in 1915. He learned to operate American-made machine guns, but his Tsarist service ended when he was court-martialed and jailed for beating up an officer. Released after the Revolution, he rose to be a Red cavalry commander. Though the Marshal has recently been engaged in stamping out democratic procedures once favored by the Red Army, he got his own early promotions in the democratic manner...
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