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...spring of their victory, came a moment of deep sadness for Russian military men. In the great Hall of Columns at Moscow lay the body of Marshal Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov, the Tsarist colonel who had turned to the Soviets in 1918, served as one of the few professional midwives at the birth of the Red Army...
...Shaposhnikov had helped steady the amateur soldiers of the civil war. As chief of the Frunze Red Banner Military Academy, he had created a Red officers corps. He planned the 1939 move into Poland and the winter war with Finland. He was Chief of Staff at the beginning of the present war, played a major role in setting Soviet strategy, of trading space for time, of counterattacking when the Germans were most extended. Then illness forced him to the sidelines...
...Recent Moscow gossip said Rokossovsky had been retired after the 1937 Army purge, returned to active service in 1941 after a plea to Stalin by Talent-scout Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, Chief of Army Staff...
...Leaders. The battle wisdom on which this now depends must come from the heads of Russia's leaders. Part of it must come from the Soviet Supreme Command (Marshals Stalin, Shaposhnikov, Zhukov, Voroshilov, Vasilevsky, Voronov, Novikov). Part of it must come from the leaders who have actually wrought Russia's victories in the field...
Last August Stalin designated Zhukov First Vice Commissar for Defense, but left him in command of the central front. For reasons known only at the Kremlin, he also left him with his title of Army General, one degree below Marshals Shaposhnikov, Timoshenko, Voroshilov, et al. Marshal Shaposhnikov lately has been ill, and in the months when Stalin was planning his winter offensives he turned more & more to his Liubimets...