Word: klimenty
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advance the Germans paid in blood & steel. At the points of greatest crisis the Red Army brought up its precious KV tanks-precious because they were Russia's best and because they were so few. Censors permitted the first description of them. The KV (for Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov) is a massive 46-tonner, with a 76-mm. main gun and thick armor which turns shells from enemy 75s and is often proof against fire from the Germans' famed 88s. The Russians say that it is almost fireproof, a decided improvement over German, British and U.S. tanks...
Some military experts estimated that the Germans would have on the front 250 divisions-around 5,000,000 men-when the weather opened up, that they would include at least 25 Panzer divisions. The Russians announced that Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov was ready with his spring troops, in "tens of divisions." From Ankara came more definite figures on Voroshilov's strength: 75 infantry divisions, 20 tank divisions, twelve motorized, 15 cavalry. Added to what Russia already had on the front, they would probably outnumber anything Germany could muster...
...sudden thrust, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov advanced 65 miles in ten days, swept around the Valdai Hills; recaptured Kholm, only 110 miles from the Latvian frontier; and cut the Leningrad-Vitebsk railroad, essential to German communication with Leningrad. In addition to claiming the death of 17,000 Germans, the Russians claimed the capture of 1,000 barrels of gasoline, 10,000 cans of Norwegian food, 150 freight cars of war supplies and "large stores" of good French wine...
...task of welding these two masses -the untrained ore and partly trained ingots-into a more or less efficient machine was entrusted three weeks ago to a good general, Klimenti Voroshilov, and a not-so-good one, Semion Budenny. Last week Marshal Voroshilov reached Russia's auxiliary capital at Samara to organize his great new Army. And as he traveled east to the rear, he passed trainload after planeload of special winter troops, trained since the Finnish war in cold-weather war fare. There were said to be 750,000 of them, of which some 200,000 were reported...
This left two men free: Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov from Leningrad and Marshal Budenny from the south. Joseph Stalin did not scrap them. He gave them a new job, the clearest signal yet that Russia will fight to the last snowball: to form great new armies from raw conscripts, armies to take their stand beyond Moscow to fight for the lands beyond the Volga, beyond the Urals. The new armies will be ill-trained, ill-equipped, ill-fortified. But they would not be formed if the Russians did not still intend to fight...