Word: klimenty
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best of Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov's northern defenders were locked in Leningrad...
Scheme for Schisms. Hitler struck first and squarely at the center. He achieved victories great enough to force the Russians to withdraw part of their strength from the two flanks. He then drove a wedge northeastward, which cut off Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov and his forces in Leningrad. That accomplished the split between north and center...
Besieged in Leningrad, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, establishing active defense positions far forward of the main line, made good use of a low semicircle of heights 15 miles to the south of the city. "Still shooting from all barrels," as Nazi correspondents admitted, Marshall Voroshilov's defenders repeatedly counterattacked. He announced that his forces had beaten off a minor German sea raid on the Kronstadt naval base, and claimed the capture of three villages, destruction of over 200 German tanks, 10,000 soldiers, on the outskirts of the defense line...
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...
...this was very Russian, very melancholy, very brave. But daily the Germans came closer to the penetration which Klimenti Voroshilov had, Canute-like, ordered back with words. At week's end he wrote...