Word: klementi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a five-line announcement on the back page of Moscow's Izvestia, Russians learned last week that Marshal Klementi ("Klim") Voroshilov, 63, had been "relieved of his duties as a member of the State Committee of Defense." Into his job stepped Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 49. Bulganin had risen slowly in the Soviet hierarchy. He had been a textile worker, organizer of city Soviets, mayor of Moscow, a member of the Supreme Soviet, vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. Neither a soldier nor a diplomat by training, he was both a general and Soviet representative...
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