Word: voroshilov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flimsily built, most of Tokyo and every other Japanese city is so much pasteboard and matchwood, ready to be kindled by incendiary bombs. Fire is the worst part of every Japanese earthquake. Not being able to count on an earthquake, "Klim" Voroshilov has built up one of the great air armadas of the world. According to Britain's ablest writer on war books for civilians, Captain B. H. Liddell Hart: "In case of war with Japan, Voroshilov . . . is said to be favoring the idea of conducting it purely by air action. If so, he will have the credit...
...when a war flames up almost overnight somewhere along the Siberian-Mongolian border, setting afire some 750,000 sq. mi. of territory, the man of the minute, from the Russian viewpoint, will be handsome Soviet Army, Navy & Air "Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. As Commissar of the Red Navy, red-faced "Klim'' Voroshilov commands a ludicrous force of four battleships, six cruisers, eight modern submarines and some 50 other small boats, mostly anti quated. So superior is Japan on the sea that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia's Siberian...
...Stalin's enemies attribute universally to poison. Stalin's next move was to hand the Army, Navy and Air Force over to a man of whom the Soviet public had never heard, a Red general 13th on the Red Army's ranking list, big, hearty Klimentiy Voroshilov...
Turks called them good-humoredly "Soviet Cinderellas." recalled that they were all dressed in dark, nondescript suits of no recognizable fashion when they landed at Istanbul with their eminent Soviet husbands, chubby War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, ferocious-whiskered Cavalry General Budenny and jovial Commissar of Education Bubnov...
...devoted in heart and in soul to the World Revolution of the Proletariat." The issuing of such an order at such a time seemed to indicate a slip between the cogs of Dictator Josef Stalin's complex State machine. Last week that popular cog War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov had not yet returned from his junket to Angora where he congratulated Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha on the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME, Nov. 6). Order No. 173 was therefore not signed by "Klim" but by fierce-bearded Vice-War Minister Jan Gamarnik, who looks like a world...