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...Year I nominate the Bald Eagle of the Steppes, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...
After many a negative, Russia had its first positive victory last week. Russia's best general, Marshal Semion Timoshenko, retook Rostov-on-Don and for the first time made the Germans get their tails up and churn their shanks in the general direction of Berlin...
...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...
Timoshenko for Budenny. Joseph Stalin moved his best field general to the area of worst disaster. Marshal Semion Timoshenko had shown that he could at least give the Germans pause, whereas Marshal Semion Budenny, in the south, had dissipated Russia's manpower and geography...
...Vyazma, which preceded last week's fighting (TIME, Oct. 20), had taken a terrible toll. The German claim of eight armies of 67 infantry divisions, six cavalry and seven tank divisions, altogether 648,000 prisoners, was probably exaggerated at least twice over; but even so many of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's best were lost...