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Anna was a more subversive influence than anyone knew. She read Uncle Tom's Cabin to the slaves. Her favorite pupil among the King's wives, Son Klim, signed her letters, "Harriet Beecher Stowe Son Klim." Once Anna found the wives bidding for an 18-months-old white baby girl, the child of a native woman and an English sailor. Anna bought both mother and child for $72 to save them from slavery...
Friends. Voronov was witty, shrewd, well-read. He made friends easily. Among them were Klim Voroshilov, the pudgy ex-miner who became War Commissar, and a young air officer named Alexander Novikov, who seemed destined for great ness. Among them, too, was Joseph Stalin...
...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...
...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...
...assumed in Moscow that Commissar "Klim" had evidently split into two forces the single great Far Eastern Army previously commanded by Soviet Marshal Vasily Bluecher, who "disappeared" in the purge (TIME...