Joseph Stalin shuffled his High Command last week. By doing so, he admitted that Russia had suffered grim defeat. By the way he did it, he served notice that his country was by no means finished.
Timoshenko for Budenny. Joseph Stalin moved his best field general to the area of worst disaster. Marshal Semion Timoshenko had shown that he could at least give the Germans pause, whereas Marshal Semion Budenny, in the south, had dissipated Russia's manpower and geography.
So Stalin put Marshal Timoshenko in command down south, where the Germans last week threatened...
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