Kliment Voroshilov

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov Kliment Efremovi Voroilov, Ukrainian , Klyment Oxrimovy Voroylov, popularly known as Klim Voroshilov was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era. He was one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union , along with Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, and three senior commanders, Vasily Blyukher, Semyon Budyonny, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

Voroshilov was born in the settlement of Verkhnye, Bakhmut district , Yekaterinoslav Governorate , in the Russian Empire, into a railway workers family of Russian ethnicity. However, according to the Soviet Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, Voroshilov himself alluded to his Ukrainian heritage and to the previous family name of Voroshilo. Voroshilov joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Voroshilov became a member of the Ukrainian Council of Peoples Commissars and Commissar for Internal Affairs along with Vasiliy Averin. He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council , having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Armys 1918 defense of Tsaritsyn. Voroshilov was active as a commander of the Southern Front during the Russian Civil War and the PolishSoviet War while with the 1st Cavalry Army. As Political Commissar serving coequally with Stalin, Voroshilov was responsible

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