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...officer and the starred, medaled tunic of a Marshal, his face is still a peasant's face. It is heavy, broad and brooding, cruel and kind, the face of Soviet Russia and the Red Army. In his face, in the whole person and history of Timoshenko, are the qualities by which Soviet Russia must now live...
Hate is the Banner. It was to the peasant face and soul of Timoshenko and all Russia that Stalin, the man with the superlative Russian face, spoke last May Day: "They [Red soldiers, sailors and airmen] have learned to hate the German fascist invaders. They know it is impossible to conquer the enemy without learning to hate him with all their souls' fibers...
...Banner. Ankara's rumor mills last week ground out the report that Joseph Stalin was on his way from Moscow to Stalingrad, one of the southern cities which Timoshenko was trying to save. If the story was true, it completed a parallel of Red Army history: Timoshenko fought at Stalingrad (then Tsaritsyn) after the Revolution, when the White Armies of Denikin and Kolchak were trying to crush the new Russia, and (according to orthodox Communist history) Stalin himself superseded the Red generals, saved the city and Russia with a series of campaigns over the land where the Nazis advanced...
...Timoshenko took care to be no guest at the Red table. He conformed to the pattern of almost all the great careers in the Red Army: he was successively a local, regional and national official of the Party; the while he attended Red Army schools, commanded Red troops in the field. His associates, superiors and teachers were often the generals whom Stalin purged, with the active or passive consent of Timoshenko and the others who survived and rose in the aftermath. The western world has never made up its mind about the purges. It may be that, as Moscow said...
...Alone." Semion Timoshenko came out of the Finnish war with the Order of Lenin, the cherished title of Hero of the Soviet Union, a Marshalship and credit for smashing the Mannerheim Line. Actually he had to share the credit with two others: Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, then & now Stalin's Chief of Staff (TIME, Feb. 16), and Marshal Grigory Kulik, an artillery expert who has lately dropped out of sight...