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...common German soldier on the Moscow front knew last week was that he was being attacked by Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, the new Red Chief of Staff, by Colonel Winter, who knew the weak points of German uniforms, by Captain Mud, who was a bear on tanks, and by Private Cootie, who carries typhus bullets in his magazine. Something was not right with the German plan...
This week, Marshal Shaposhnikov may learn whether he has made a bad mistake in strategy. His decision to stand undoubtedly inflicted heavy losses on the Germans. But the vital question for Russia is whether its own Army is still intact. For the war will be over if the Russian Army is destroyed...
...Russia claimed to have beaten off 42 attacks on Smolensk, which Napoleon grabbed from strategic retreaters in one day. This Russian decision to stand and counterattack, however it turns out, will undoubtedly be credited to Stalin. But his chief military adviser is Vice Commissar of Defense, Marshal Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov (Joseph Stalin himself is now self-appointed Commissar...
...Boris Shaposhnikov, 58, tough-faced and mild-mannered as a bulldog, planned the Finland strategies, which were lauded by most neutral observers and bungled in the field handling. He is the only Red officer to have been decorated by the Tsar, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin-testimony to a political nature as canny as it is adaptable. (Without batting an eyelash, he sat on the tribunal which court-martialed and condemned eight of his old Army colleagues, including the late, great Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky...
...minor civil-service employe, Marshal Shaposhnikov was born in the town of Zlatoust in the Urals, in 1910 was top man at the Moscow Imperial Academy. By 1917 he had become a Tsarist colonel. The next year he joined the Red Army and became a prime strategist of the war on the Whites. He has been an active Commander of the Leningrad, Moscow and Volga military districts, Chief of Staff, head of the Frunze Military Academy (Soviet West Point), and he joined Comrade Stalin at the signing of the Russo-German Pact (see cut). But his reputation has always been...