Word: semion
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...last intact Russian Armies, those of Marshal Semion Timoshenko, were trapped in two encirclements at Bryansk and Vyazma (see map), and faced inescapable annihilation...
...southern Armies of Marshal Semion Budenny were routed. All that remained to block the German drive in the south was the strain on the Germans' own human endurance and the speed of their machines...
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...
...Actually Semion Budenny is a man. He has lots of brawn on his fine body, but he also has more than his share of bone between his ears. He always was, and probably still is, a great fighter. But he is not a strategist. He is still a cavalry noncom of incredible dash and dumbness...