Editing Semyon Timoshenko (section)

===The 1930s===
[[File:Khalkhin Gol Zhukov 1939.jpg|thumb|190px|Timoshenko and [[Georgy Zhukov]] at the maneuvers of the [[Kiev Military District]], 1940]]
By the end of the civil and [[Polish–Soviet War|Polish–Soviet]] wars, Timoshenko had become the commander of the Red Army cavalry forces. Thereafter, under Stalin, he became Red Army commander in [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic|Byelorussia]] (1933); in [[Kiev]] (1935); in the northern [[Caucasus]] and then [[Kharkov]] (1937); and Kiev again (1938). In 1939, he was given command of the entire western border region and led the [[Ukrainian Front (1939)|Ukrainian Front]] during the [[Soviet invasion of Poland|Soviet invasion of eastern Poland]]. He also became a member of the Communist Party's [[Central Committee]]. Due to being a loyal friend of Lenin and Stalin, Timoshenko survived the [[Great Purge]] to become the Red Army's senior professional soldier.