Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purge Promotions. Some years later virtually illiterate Cavalryman Timoshenko learned his three Rs and the art of war at the Frunze School, especially founded for uneducated Bolsheviks like himself who had done their best in the Red Army. After graduating, Timoshenko found the road of Red Army promotion slow, but it was speeded when Stalin began having officers he mistrusted shot. Into the shoes of "purged" Commander Dubo-voy of the Military District of Kharkov in 1937 stepped Commander Timoshenko...
Next year he was made Commander of the Special Military District of Kiev. This meant that after the German Army smashed Poland fortunate Commander Timoshenko was right next door and with flying colors led Red Army forces to scoop up Russia's share of the spoils...
When the Red Army began to misfire in Finland, the Dictator summoned Semion Timoshenko to Leningrad, placed him in command of the operations which ultimately broke the Mannerheim Line...
...Shaposhnikov. The Red Army artillery which pounded the Mannerheim Line to bits was in charge of Inspector General Grigory Kulik, cited during the Stalin purge of the Red Army for having "helped to reveal the high treason of two successive chiefs." In reward for their Finnish triumphs, last week Timoshenko, Shaposhnikov and Kulik were made Marshals...
...towns where he once lived. Said Pravda: "He is the most beloved composer of the Soviet masses-he is the toilers' favorite." A monument was ordered built for Tschaikowsky in Moscow. At the Bolshoi Theatre a Tschaikowsky concert brought out the diplomatic corps, Foreign Commissar Molotov, War Commissar Timoshenko, ex-War Commissar Voroshilov-and Stalin...