Voroshilov
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Kliment Efremovich 1881–1969, Soviet general: president of the Soviet Union 1953–60.
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former name of Ussuriisk.
noun
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After some delay the Russians disclosed that Molotov was being advised by no lesser personages than Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov and onetime Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S.
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Marshal Voroshilov later said the Russians had argued that to be able to give effective aid the Red Army would have to enter Polish territory.
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Voroshilov "sincerely condemns his acts and repents," said Khrushchev; what is more, he helped expose his onetime collaborators.
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Voroshilov made a second attempt to join his old comrades through a side door of the Mausoleum and was ejected by a plainclothesman.
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Pleading ill health, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 79, resigned as head of state at the Supreme Soviet's closing session.
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