"Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one."
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Military leaders of World War IIMilitary leaders from RussiaMilitary leaders from the Soviet UnionMinisters of Defense of Russia and the Soviet Union
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Quoted in "Epoch's end" - Page 149 - by Tārāśaṅkara Bandyopādhyāẏa, Hirendranath Mukerjee - 1945
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Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (February 4 [O.S. January 23] 1881 – December 2, 1969), also known as Klim Voroshilov, was a Soviet military commander and politician. He was re-elected to the Central Committee in 1966 and was awarded a second medal of Hero of the Soviet Union 1968. He died in 1969 in Moscow and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
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