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Tough, stone-bald, peasant-born Marshal Semion Konstantinovich Timoshenko is about as young a marshal as a great nation ever had. That is his advantage, for while not all young generals are geniuses, most of history's generals with genius have been younger men. It is many generations since Russia has produced a great general and perhaps...
...promoting a fight between Germany and Russia convincing. These made much of "massed troops" in Russia's Northern Bukovina, the partial evacuation of Cer-nauti on the Rumania-Russian border, rumored movements of Soviet tanks and motorized units, the visit to Bessarabia of Russian Commissar of Defense Semion Timoshenko. The principal business of Marshal Timoshenko was to visit his home town and chat with his rickety brother. One extremely indirect report told of the sinking of Rumanian Monitor No. 6 by the Russians; but another version called it a Yugoslav tanker sunk by a Rumanian mine. Proponents...
...city of Kiev was peppered with mock bombs. The Red Navy completed summer maneuvers off the brand-new Soviet Republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which now constitute the Baltic Military District. A new diamond-encrusted gold-&-platinum star was created for the five Red Army Marshals: Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kulik, Budenny and Sheposhnikov. Large Russian forces massed quietly along the frontier of Finland, whose well-loved old peasant President Kyösti Kallio lay dying...
...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...