Word: voroshilov
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...marchers 40,000 were picked Red Army troops. They marched and wheeled in perfect parade formation to a crunching accompaniment of fast Red Army caterpillar tanks, some mounting 2-in. guns. Leading the parade on a prancing cavalry charger rode red-faced, ham-fisted War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, bowing and grinning, cheered as loudly on this day as the Red Dictator himself...
Marching workers carried papier-mache figures of "Japanese Imperialists" strangling "Chinese Comrades." In a military order of the day, Klim Voroshilov declared: "On this 14th anniversary of the Revolution we are ready to defend our-selves." To cheering throngs in the Red Square he roared: "Our workers and peasants have proved by their strenuous labor that they can win victory in war as in the peaceful battles of industrialization!" Meanwhile the famed Third International, Moscow's bureau of world propaganda, clarioned: "Japan's war against the working masses of China is a war against us and a step toward...
...Soldier, Not a Gun." So much for Red fireworks. But in his quiet office, seated behind his paper-strewn desk, Klim Voroshilov gave an interview, his first to the foreign Press...
...Moscow the knowing say that Comrade Voroshilov was hand-picked for the job of Commissar of War by Dictator Josef Stalin because, even with his three medals* "he possesses an almost total lack of ambition...
Stalin had had enough of the too ambitious Trotsky, creator of the Red Army and the real "savior" of the Soviet State from the armies of Wrangel, Denikin and Yudenich. In 1925 Klimentiy Voroshilov stood 13th on the ranking list of Soviet commanders. Surely he is grateful to Stalin for lifting him over twelve disgruntled heads to the supreme command. His antecedents are impeccable. Born the son of a very poor Ukrainian peasant in 1881, he became a proletarian factory worker in early youth, has been since 1904 a consistent revolutionist, always modest, fearless and devotedly obedient to his party...