Word: klimenti
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These were brave words. But the very fact of their utterance, by Russia's northern commander, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, not to his troops but to the people of Leningrad-a military commander exhorting the unmilitary horde to action-indicated a sense of strategic desperation. The words seemed a prologue to their own disproving...
Thus, in extremity, did Klimenti Voroshilov ring in the old, beloved duty: manning the barricades. The Neva's left bank, scene of bloodshed in two Russian revolutions, was changed to a training ground, where men and boys hurriedly boned up on grenade-throwing and bayonet-thrusting. On the Neva's right bank, across from the Winter Palace, shipyard and metal workers, some of whom had stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, staged a mock battle. Every street got its barrier. In the factories men worked with guns beside them...
Another indication of the seriousness of the situation was that Comrade Stalin placed his three top marshals to defend the three important sectors defending his three big threatened cities. He entrusted Leningrad to Klimenti E. Voroshilov, former Commander in Chief and Defense Commissar; Moscow to Semion K. Timoshenko, who now holds those jobs (TIME, June 30); Kiev to Semion M. Budenny, who was always Voroshilov's right-hand...
...convincing is Werner's analysis of the Russo-Finnish War, which turns out in Werner's hands to have been much more of a victory for Russian arms and Russian benignity than is generally supposed. According to Werner, who takes his Soviet military figures from War Commissar Klimenti Voroshilov and other Soviet sources, Russia's military strength is almost twice as great as Germany's. The future of the world depends upon Russia and the U.S. Russia, he says authoritatively, would like to join the Anglo-Saxon powers in trimming Hitler's wings. There...