Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Have we the men [to open a Second Front]? We have more than the number who saved Moscow last autumn, more perhaps than the number whom Timoshenko commands. Have we the machines? We have Matildas and Valentines, and Timoshenko fights with them. We have two-pounders to equal the German 37-mm. We have six-pounders to surpass their 50-mm. We have new tanks designed for the close country of Flanders and France. We have mastery...
...Semion Timoshenko, the peasant from Bessarabia, had seldom seen a better stand of wheat. It was high and golden, ripening in the sun, nodding with the blue cornflowers in the summer winds which swept the valley of the Don. The grain, his peasant eyes told him, was almost ready for harvest when the Germans came...
Face of the Earth. Semion Timoshenko was a peasant before he became a soldier, Marshal of the Red Army and the defender of the Don. The chances are that his parents could read nothing but the skies and fields, the winds and weathers of Bessarabia when he was born, 47 years ago, in the village of Furmanka. He was 20, long out of the village school and hardened to the farm, when the last Tsar's armies drafted him in 1915. He was a hardening young trooper in the cavalry when he went over with his regiment...
...officer and the starred, medaled tunic of a Marshal, his face is still a peasant's face. It is heavy, broad and brooding, cruel and kind, the face of Soviet Russia and the Red Army. In his face, in the whole person and history of Timoshenko, are the qualities by which Soviet Russia must now live...
Hate is the Banner. It was to the peasant face and soul of Timoshenko and all Russia that Stalin, the man with the superlative Russian face, spoke last May Day: "They [Red soldiers, sailors and airmen] have learned to hate the German fascist invaders. They know it is impossible to conquer the enemy without learning to hate him with all their souls' fibers...