Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Struggle Against Cowards." The greatest piece of news the Germans had all week was issued by Comrade Stalin. He announced that he himself would take over from Marshal Semion Timoshenko the post of Commissar for Defense - i.e., Commander in Chief. The office of political commissar in the Army was reinstated...
...were right. Commissars were dismissed and the Soviet Army organ, Red Star, declared: "War does not tolerate dilettantism. . . . The great Stalin urges us to face reality and not lock ourselves in shells of ossified dogma. . . . The discipline of the Red Army must be stronger, sterner, and more exacting." Marshal Timoshenko told his officers: "Teach your troops only what is necessary for war and only in the way it is done...
Another indication of the seriousness of the situation was that Comrade Stalin placed his three top marshals to defend the three important sectors defending his three big threatened cities. He entrusted Leningrad to Klimenti E. Voroshilov, former Commander in Chief and Defense Commissar; Moscow to Semion K. Timoshenko, who now holds those jobs (TIME, June 30); Kiev to Semion M. Budenny, who was always Voroshilov's right-hand...
...come we have Stalin and Timoshenko on the cover...
...clock in the morning, the 800,000 printed covers were just so much waste paper. The Emir plates had been torn off the press. The Stalin-Timoshenko cover plates had been bolted on in their place, a special extra crew of press men had been routed out of bed to come down and rush the makeready, and a complete foundry force had been summoned by telephone to make 210 additional press plates on Sunday double time to make it possible to print the Timoshenko cover 16 up-65,000 an hour...