Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another is pushing down the railway below Millerovo toward Rostov, is Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin, 42. Another veteran of the Czarist Army and the Revolution, Vatutin was an Army commander in the Ukraine when the Germans invaded it. He skillfully retreated from the Dnei-per Bend, then helped Marshal Timoshenko launch successful counterattacks...
Commanders who failed have been relieved or shot. The Army's own Red Star has repeatedly complained that the Germans still outgeneraled the Russians. Last week Moscow announced that one of its famous generals-Marshal Semion Timoshenko (TIME, July 22), commander on the southern front when the Germans broke through and drove to Stalingrad-had been replaced...
Zhukov for Timoshenko. The vast reserves of men and weapons available for the Red Army's winter offensives (see p. 23) showed that the retreats of last summer and fall had been triumphs of military thrift. Stalin and the Red Army Command had sacrificed Russian cities, resources and territory rather than risk the Soviet reserves. But there was evidence that not all of the retreats were planned that...
...stead, directing the Red Army's counteroffensives to relieve Stalingrad, was aggressive, 48-year-old Army General Gregory Zhukov, who also had much to do with planning the offensive on the central front (TIME, Dec. 14). London reported that Marshal Timoshenko was still in high favor, helping Stalin prepare a final blow against the Germans. But, in a unique communiqué, Moscow announced a long list of generals who had distinguished themselves this winter and the name of Timoshenko did not appear among them. This unprecedented list personalized the Red Army with new names, new faces (see cuts) like...
Last August Stalin designated Zhukov First Vice Commissar for Defense, but left him in command of the central front. For reasons known only at the Kremlin, he also left him with his title of Army General, one degree below Marshals Shaposhnikov, Timoshenko, Voroshilov, et al. Marshal Shaposhnikov lately has been ill, and in the months when Stalin was planning his winter offensives he turned more & more to his Liubimets...