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Then he did a good job under General Grigory Stern against the Japanese in 1939's brief border war in Outer Mongolia.
In the winter of 1939, when Russia's ill-trained and ill-equipped troops were led to a freezing massacre in the snows of Finland, the campaign was finally saved by the use of better troops following the shrewd tactics of Generals Grigory Kulik, Boris M. Shaposhnikov and Semion...
The plan was worked out by Red Army 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...
» On the Karelian Isthmus last week General Grigory Stern's fresh Russian troops dug themselves into trenches, while northward from Leningrad streamed more fresh soldiers and supplies. The Russians tried again to flank the Mannerheim Line, were slaughtered at Tolvajärvi.
A tall-story teller in conversation, Consul Reinhardt used to have breathless U. S. socialites bug-eyed as he described his escape from a Bolshevik prison. Jailed while assisting prisoners during the Russian Revolution, Consul Reinhardt day by day watched Chinese guards lead away some of his companions to be...