Word: semion
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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...
They reported that the Russians' southern Commander, Marshal Semion Budenny, had set up a strong defensive zone near Poltava, where in 1709 Peter the Great finally stopped the aggrandizement of Sweden's Charles XII. The new Budenny resistance was even admitted to be taking the form of counterattacks...
...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...
...Russia's enormous flanks were being bent inward last week, Russia's center was charging hard. In defense of Moscow, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's three-week-old counter-attacks were reported to be only twelve miles from Smolensk at one point. The Russians said they were constantly shelling that city...