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...done much to shape the modern Red Army. He had no use for the man who was merely a professional militarist; for Stalin, officers and men had to be citizens of the revolution as well. When the Red cause seemed all but lost in south Russia, Stalin wrote to Lenin: "The fact is that our experts are not only psychologically incapable of ruthlessly combatting the counterrevolution, but likewise, being staff workers who know only how to make field sketches and draft plans for realignment, are absolutely indifferent to actual operations, and in general regard themselves as outsiders, as guests...
...Alone." Semion Timoshenko came out of the Finnish war with the Order of Lenin, the cherished title of Hero of the Soviet Union, a Marshalship and credit for smashing the Mannerheim Line. Actually he had to share the credit with two others: Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, then & now Stalin's Chief of Staff (TIME, Feb. 16), and Marshal Grigory Kulik, an artillery expert who has lately dropped out of sight...
...Lenin. "A master mind and a genius in revolution," a "lump of ice covering a blazing fire within...
Klieg lights played on the pink marble head of Lenin, brooding in the great hall of the Kremlin; on the thousand heads in mid-Asian skullcaps, scarves and army caps; on the calm, mute face of Stalin; on the discreet face of Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; and on Molotov, crying to the members of the Supreme Soviet...
...Russian incident would be one with Norway, France and Greece. Even U.S. Communists shivered in their Russian boots, put less faith in Marshal Timoshenko, Voroshilov and Budenny than in Generals Winter, Mud and Slush. When the Germans bogged down, backsliding fellow travelers slid back, a statue to Lenin was unveiled in London, and nearly everybody sighed: The impossible has happened...