Word: timoshenko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharing the Blame. The jackals were soon at work. In the Central Committee itself, reported Pravda, many of Zhukov's oldest and closest military comrades-among them Marshals Timoshenko, Rokossovsky and Sokolovsky-"pointed out the serious shortcomings of Zhukov's work . . . unanimously condemned his wrong, unpartylike behavior." Marshal Ivan Konev suddenly discovered that Zhukov shared the blame with Stalin for Soviet reverses early in World War II, did not deserve much credit for the Stalingrad victory, had hindered more than helped at the conquest of Berlin. All in all, Konev concluded, "it would be absurd to affirm Zhukov...
...Moscow young Zhukov became a member of the revolutionary committee of his old unit. This unit was soon incorporated in a cavalry regiment, commanded by ex-Cavalry Sergeant Semyon Timoshenko, which became part of a Red cavalry army led by Semyon Budenny, an ex-Cossack. The war unfolded on a 3,000-mile perimeter around central Russia. The Red cavalrymen fought as irregular shock troops, now galloping 400 miles to strike Poland's Pilsudski, now driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing...
...created, which allowed him to rough out tactical plans for Chief of Staff Vasilevsky to complete, leaving Zhukov time, as the need arose, to go out to take over a battle that was not going well. One of his first field commands after Moscow was to relieve Old Irregular Timoshenko, whose spring drive towards Kharkov had run into trouble. During this period Zhukov's field headquarters were near Kaluga, not far from Strelkovka, the village of his birth. As the Germans were driven from Strelkovka, they prepared to destroy the village and in the course of doing so, they...
...chestnut horse, Marshal Semion Timoshenko, great organizer of Russia's World War II armies, trotted into Moscow's Red Square last week. He had not been seen in a big Moscow ceremony since the great parade celebrating the October revolution, four years ago. Last week he was back to lead the parade for the 35th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power and to lecture the massed troops on foreign "warmongers...
...stolen cars, of cuffings, beatings and brutish practical jokes. Their stories, perhaps individually suspect, have when taken together a great deal of consistency. His first wife was dead. According to one story, she was killed in a plane crash which Vasily survived. At Dallgow he lived with Lelya Timoshenko, 21-year-old daughter of the Soviet marshal. On nights when Vasily's chauffeur brought in a batch of girls, Koshechka ("Little kitten," as Lelya was called) was escorted to their huge bedroom, where a picture of father Stalin looked sternly down from the wall. The master's German...