Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Timoshenko for Budenny. Joseph Stalin moved his best field general to the area of worst disaster. Marshal Semion Timoshenko had shown that he could at least give the Germans pause, whereas Marshal Semion Budenny, in the south, had dissipated Russia's manpower and geography...
...Stalin put Marshal Timoshenko in command down south, where the Germans last week threatened to cut Russia off from its oil and from its greatest remaining industrial centers...
...which preceded last week's fighting (TIME, Oct. 20), had taken a terrible toll. The German claim of eight armies of 67 infantry divisions, six cavalry and seven tank divisions, altogether 648,000 prisoners, was probably exaggerated at least twice over; but even so many of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's best were lost...
...last intact Russian Armies, those of Marshal Semion Timoshenko, were trapped in two encirclements at Bryansk and Vyazma (see map), and faced inescapable annihilation...
...Germans could say with truth that this time they commanded numerical superiority. They had tricked the Russians into sending important reinforcements to the Ukraine, so that now the most optimistic figure possible for Marshal Timoshenko's central forces was 1,800,000 men to the Germans...