Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General headquarters of the Red Central Front were in a little log cabin last week. Marshal Semion Timoshenko, whose job is to keep the Germans away from Moscow, sat behind a desk covered with maps and reports. Beside the papers were several sharpened crayons, a box of cigarets. There was only one thing on the cabin's bleak walls: a barometer...
...worked, Marshal Timoshenko often looked at the barometer. He knew the unpredictability - and the importance - of Russian weather...
...Middle. On the most important front, Marshal Timoshenko's center, a period of beautiful crisp days was about to begin. Like New England's summer, this is what the Russians call babie lieta, " the peasant woman's summer." Here September and the first woman's two or three weeks of October should be much better fighting time than July and August...
Knowing this, Marshal Timoshenko was last week heavily engaged in counterattacks, designed to prevent the Germans from getting rolling again in the weather. The Reds called his efforts merely local attacks, but the Germans paid respects to "strategic counter-actions" i.e., the real stuff...
Storm Cloud on the Volga. Russia showed last week that it was also worried about the political weather of the area behind Marshal Timoshenko's lines. In the heart of Russia, by the Volga River, lay an ethnological storm cloud- the Volga German Republic. This was a colony of hundreds of thousands of Germans, descendants of peasants invited into Russia in the 18th Century by Catherine the Great. These Germans, potential fifth columnists, were last week ordered to move, bag, baggage and bomb, to Siberia...