Word: semion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still had to defeat the remaining Ukraine armies of the whiskery horseman, Semion Budenny (see p. 21). He still had to crack Odessa, with its cauterizing artillery. He still had to take the Crimea, with its naval base. He still had to crush Leningrad, with its 16 divisions and millions of angry civilians (see p. 23). Above all, he still had to wrench Moscow, at the center of Russia's web of communications, from its defenders (see p. 21). Unquestionably, he still had work...
...division between center and south was a harder assignment. It was accomplished by a series of maneuvers which made up the Ukraine campaign. That the maneuvers were not thwarted was due to the apparent inability of a very brave but not very wise man, Marshal Semion Budenny, Commander of the Ukraine Front, to see what was coming...
Myth. In the eyes of most Russians, Semion Budenny is something superhuman. They say that in the Revolution he and his horsemen struck like lightning, that ever since he has been a fine thunderbolt of a man. His was the revolutionary cry which swept southwestern Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" Such speed did he command that sometimes (the legend goes) he personally fought in half a dozen sectors at once. With five men, the peasants say, he routed an army under Denikin. His praise, it is said, made men warm in winter; he could kill with no other ammunition than unprintable...
...became the hero of novels, the theme of poems. Some people thought he looked a little like Peter the Great, victor at Poltava (which Semion Budenny lost fortnight ago). One of the largest coal trusts in Russia was named for him. A city in the Caucasus, a town in the Ukraine, factories, collective farms changed their names to Budenny. The grey peaked cloth hat which used to be part of the Red Army uniform is called Budennovka. Among men who knew horses he became the incarnation of horsemanship, something approaching the upper half of a Centaur. Red cavalrymen sing...
...Reds were apparently not tuckered out yet, because a force with enough power to counterattack must be moderately strong. After the Germans claimed 633,000 prisoners in the Minsk and Smolensk areas Marshal Semion Timoshenko was still able to counterattack and stabilize that front (see p. 27). But upon what happens when the Germans have emptied the kettle of Kiev and are ready again to pound the wedge depends the future of British-Russian cooperation on a common front (see p. 25) against that artist of Keil und Kessel, Adolf Hitler...