Word: timoshenkos
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...Timoshenko. In naming the new Defense Commissar, Dictator Stalin also let it be known for the first time who brought to its victorious conclusion the Finnish campaign. Both were the same man, Marshal Semion Timoshenko. The Marshal is a Bolshevik so comparatively obscure that the latest edition of the Soviet Encyclopedia gives him not a line...
...Timoshenko fought on the Eastern Front until the Revolution of 1917, then joined the Red Army and (by a process since abolished) was elected an officer. After the Whites whipped his Red unit in the Caucasus, Comrade Timoshenko escaped to Tsaritsyn, then defended by Red Army forces under Stalin and Voroshilov, with whom he became fast friends. They gave him command of a cavalry brigade and in 1920, while attacking Baron Wrangel's forces at Perekop in the Crimea, Timoshenko was severely wounded and his brigade was cut to pieces by the Whites...
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...