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Voroshilov was elected to the Central Committee in 1921 and remained a member until 1961.
Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Defence in 1934 and a Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1935.
Stalin's death prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as chairman of the Presidium (ie President of the Soviet Union) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.
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 Kliment Voroshilov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Voroshilov was born in Verkhneye, near Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Ukraine, under the Russian Empire.
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 Soviet-Finnish War from November 1939 to January 1940, but due to his incompetence the Red Army suffered tremendous casualties.
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Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (January 23 1881 - December 2, 1969) was a Russian military commander and politician.
Voroshilov was elected to the Central Committee (1921-1961).
Stalin's death prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as chairman of the Presidium with Nikita Khrushchev as General Secretary.
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 Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A Bolshevik from 1903, he was an active revolutionary prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and an outstanding Red Army commander in the civil war (1918-20) that followed it.
Voroshilov was a member of the politburo of the central committee of the Communist party from 1926 and a member of the Supreme Soviet from 1937.
A close associate of Stalin, he became chairman of the presidium of the supreme council of the USSR (i.e., president of the USSR) on Stalin's death (1953).
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World War II, Voroshilov was a member of the State Defense Committee.
Stalin's death prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as chairman of the Presidium (ie
Supreme Soviet granted Voroshilov's "request for retirement" and elected Leonid Brezhnev chairman of the Soviet Presidium (or state President).
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A miner and factory worker in his youth, Voroshilov became a Bolshevik in 1903, and was frequently imprisoned by the imperial authorities.
In 1926 he was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and from 1925 to 1940 served as Soviet commissar of defense.
When Stalin died in 1953, Voroshilov was made chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium, or head of state.
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In 1925, after the death of Mikhail Frunze, Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affairs and Chairman of the
German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Voroshilov was made commander of the northwest armies, but despite considerable personal bravery - at one point he personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol - he failed to prevent the Germans from surrounding
He was re-elected to the Central Committee in 1966 and was awarded a second medal of
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 Purim in Stalin's Presidium
Another presidium member, Vyacheslav Molotov, whose Jewish wife Paulina was exiled to the Kazakhastan wilderness a few years earlier, broke the silence and dared to object stating that the expulsion of Jews would have a negative impact on world opinion, while another longtime Politburo member, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, shook his head in agreement.
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov dared to defy the dictator.
In a dramatic gesture of defiance, he threw his party card on the table and resolutely stated that he no longer wanted to be a part of the Communist party.
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Upon his release in 1959 he returned to Germany (then East Germany) and became an East German citizen.
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov was a Russian politician and soldier.
He was born in 1881 near Dneppropetrovsk, Ukraine and died in 1969.
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 Kliment Voroshilov - Iliment_yefremovich_voroshilov - Dangeruss-Industries.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Климе́нт Ефре́мович Вороши́лов) (January 23, 1881 - December 2, 1969) was a Soviet military commander and politician.
[[Image:Stalin-Gorky-Voroshilov.1931.jpgleftthumb230pxVoroshilov, 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.
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