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Time Magazine-October 13, 1941-Volume XXXVIII-Number 15-104 pages. This vintage, complete Time Magazine-which originally sold for fifteen cents features a cover of Russia's Semyon Budenny Budyonny plus an article with photos..............Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny (25 April [O.S. 13 April] 1883 – 26 October 1973) was a Russian cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin................Budenny, Semyon Mikhailovich 1883–1973, Russian marshal. A sergeant major in the czarist cavalry, he joined the Communist party in 1919, helped to organize the Soviet cavalry, and served in the Russian civil war (1918–20). He was made marshal in 1935. He commanded in the war against Finland (1940) and was made deputy commissar for defense. In World War II, he was placed in command of the southwest Soviet forces. After Stalin denied him permission to abandon Kiev in the face of an imminent onslaught by Hitler's troops in late 1941, Budenny led the Russian soldiers to a severe defeat. He was replaced in the field, but in 1953 became inspector of the cavalry. The Time Magazine has been hand signed on the front cover by Semyon Budenny/Budyonny.............................BOTH MAGAZINE AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN NICE CONDITION.
