Genuine Soviet bust of Marshal Red Army K.E. Voroshilov

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Description Genuine Soviet bust of hero of Civil and WW II K.E. Voroshilov. ( Below I placed historical reference for thoese who are interested in ) Material is polymer, paint. Old "patina" bronze color. Made in USSR. Height 32 cm, width 22 cm. The state is good. This bust is rare. *** Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (February 4 (O.S. January 23) 1881 âe" December 2, 1969) was a Soviet military commander and politician. Voroshilov was born in Verkhneye, near Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. He joined the Bolshevik party in 1903. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917 he was a member of the Ukrainian provisional government and Commissar for Internal Affairs. In the Soviet defense of Tsaritsyn during the civil war, he became closely associated with Joseph Stalin. He was well known for aiding Stalin in the Military Council (led by Leon Trotsky). He was instrumental in the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War while with 1st Cavalry Army. Voroshilov was elected to the Central Committee in 1921 and remained a member until 1961. In 1925, after the death of Mikhail Frunze, Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, a post he held until 1934. Frunze's position was Troika compatible (Zinoviev, Kamenev, Stalin), but Stalin preferred to have a Stalinist in charge (as opposed to Frunze, a "Zinovievite"). Frunze was urged to have surgery to treat an old stomach ulcer. He died on the operating table of an overdose of chloroform, an anesthetic. Stalin's critics charge that the surgery was used to disguise the assassination of Frunze. Voroshilov was made full member of the newly formed Politburo in 1926, remaining a member until 1960. He was heavily involved in Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s. His career benefited greatly from the downfall and execution of Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Voroshilov, Gorky, Stalin (left to right) 1931 photo Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Defence in 1934 and a Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1935. During World War II, Voroshilov was a member of the State Defense Committee. Voroshilov commanded Soviet troops during the Winter War from November 1939 to January 1940, but due to his poor planning and overall incompetence the Red Army suffered tremendous casualties. He was later replaced by Semyon Timoshenko. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Voroshilov was made commander of the northwest armies. He displayed considerable personal bravery - at one point he personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol - but also grave incompetence and failed to prevent the Germans from surrounding Leningrad, was dismissed from that post, and replaced by Georgy Zhukov. In 1945-47 he supervised the establishment of the communist regime in Hungary. In 1952, Voroshilov was appointed a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee. Stalin's death prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (ie President of the Soviet Union) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. Voroshilov, Georgy Malenkov and Khrushchev brought about the arrest of Lavrenty Beria after Stalin's death in 1953. After Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, Voroshilov temporarily joined the conservativefaction of Malenkov, Lazar Kaganovich and Vyacheslav Molotov (the so-called "Anti-Party Group"), in an unsuccessful attempt to remove Khrushchev from power in June 1957, but he soon switched sides and supported Khrushchev.On May 7, 1960, the Supreme Soviet granted Voroshilov's "request for retirement" and elected Leonid Brezhnev chairman of the Soviet Presidium (or state President). The Central... read more

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