CC Resolution on Comrade Voroshilov's Work

Source: Tom 18

Comrade Voroshilov was sent to the Volkhov Front in March 1942 as the representative of the Stavka of the Supreme Command.

In the course of his assignment at the Volkhov Front, Comrade Voroshilov was unable to organize the execution of the Stavka's directive on the timely and rapid withdrawal of the 2nd Shock Army. Moreover, Comrade Voroshilov did not display the necessary persistence and fortitude in carrying out the operational tasks of the Stavka of the Supreme Command.

Comrade Voroshilov was then sent to coordinate the partisan movement. But this assignment, too, proved beyond him, since Comrade Voroshilov was unable to cope with this somewhat unfamiliar work.

In August 1942 Comrade Voroshilov was sent to the Stalingrad Front to coordinate the actions of the Stalingrad and Southeastern fronts. He spent one week there but achieved nothing, since the methods of warfare on the Stalingrad Front proved fundamentally different from those Comrade Voroshilov was accustomed to during the Civil War, and he was unable to adapt to the demands of modern combat.

The CC of the VKP(b) resolves:

That at the request of Comrade Voroshilov himself, Comrade Voroshilov be granted the opportunity to work in the rear, specifically in military training.