Word: semion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second week of their culminating blow - and the tenth of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's long effort to break into the Don elbow and relieve Stalingrad from the German rear - the Russians won the positions from which they must now fight for the victory. They cleaned the Germans from a great, thinly defended patch, 50 to 100 miles deep, within the Don bend and west of the corridor between the Don and the Volga. They forced the Germans to establish a defense line on the Don's eastern bank, with their backs to Stalingrad, facing the Russians...
...first three days of the Russian advances, the Red Army's gains were both impressive and promising. Marshal Semion Timoshenko's troops, attacking northwest and southwest of Stalingrad, broke through in two places and drove 50 miles to the western banks of the Don, and then 90 miles beyond. The Russians routed half a dozen German divisions, captured hundreds of artillery pieces, killed some 26,000 Germans and captured 24,000 others...
...intended. That the Red Army still exists, and is still strong, the headlines announce every day. Is it strong enough to turn upon and defeat the sorely wounded German Armies? Its only important counteroffensives this year (at Voronezh and Orel, at Rzhev on the Moscow front) were failures. Marshal Semion Timoshenko's limited counteroffensive above Stalingrad in six weeks has failed to advance the Red troops the bare ten miles or so which they had to cover to relieve Stalingrad...
...between the wars with the Finns and with the Nazis that Semion Timoshenko cemented his reputation, received his highest honors. He came as near as he ever dared, and nearer than most of his brother officers, to outright conflict with the Communist Party. Reorganizing the army to correct the defects of the Finnish campaign, he booted out the Party commissars who had been attached to every important Army unit. With General Georgy Zhukov, a reputedly brilliant newcomer to the High Command, he simplified Army organization, improved communications, cut tape which in any other army would be called red. Zhukov last...
...judge the Red Army and its commanders. And known events may be deceptive. Thus it was generally supposed that when Timoshenko did none too well in the early defense of Moscow last year, he was summarily shifted to his present front in the southwest to replace gay, heady Marshal Semion Budenny, who had done worse. But a German record presents another story: that Timoshenko asked Stalin to put him where he expected the decisive fighting to develop some day. That fighting had developed in south Russia last week...