Word: klim
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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...