Early Life
Timoshenko was born into a Ukrainian farmer family at Furmanivka, in the Budjak region (Southern Bessarabia). In 1914, he was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire and served as a cavalryman on the western front. On the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917, he sided with the bolsheviks, joining the Red Army in 1918 and the Bolshevik Party in 1919.
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