One of the major improvements to the Soviet armed forces that came out of the Winter War was the replacement of Kliment Voroshilov by Semyon Timoshenko as People’s Commissar for Defence. Voroshilov had helped Stalin carry out the Great Purge by denouncing some of his military colleagues, and (as I recall) he reversed some of the army reforms that his predecessors had carried out. He also bungled the opening phases of the Winter War, and was eventually turfed out in favour of the more competent Timoshenko. After the Soviets won in Finland, Timoshenko set about modernizing the Red Army.
Mussolini's Bunker
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The World War II bunker of Italy’s fomer dictator, Mussolini, is set to open to the public.
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Thanks. Never saw that and had forgotten how paranoid he was.
Incidentally my very English daughter was born on baldy’s birthday. I had hoped she would be born on the 1st or 2nd August(anniversaries of Battle of the Nile and… Cannae).
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Thanks for sharing