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...shrill recruiting cry of Mme. Budenny as she dashed on a plunging charger into tiny Russian villages, fired peasant lads with her tales of battle and glory. Soon every man who possessed a horse and gun (or even a pony and pitchfork) was galloping at her heels to join Budennevskaya Kon-armia (Budenny's Horsemen). Only last year, when the Soviet Congress was discussing a project for electrification of certain provincial cities, Commander Budenny strode in and stampeded the session by shouting: "What is all this talk of 'electrification?' What we need is 'horsification!' Give me enough horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: Blucher v. Chiang | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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