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...system paid off: Chekist disregard for life accounted for some of the Red army's more daring and costly victories. With the war's end, many of the Red army's greatest marshals were not soldiers, but cops. Such a one is goateed Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, now Minister for Defense...
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...clock in the Kremlin Spassky tower chimed 10 as Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin, resplendent in gold-braided dress uniform, arrived in Moscow's Red Square. He came not astride the usual cavalry charger, but perched on the back seat of a dove-hued ZIS sports car. After briefly touring the crack units up for review, he joined Georgy Malenkov and the eight other Presidium members atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb. As 150 massed bugles unloosed a mighty blast, he advanced to the microphones and began the traditional address on Soviet Russia's 36th...
Gone were the familiar gibes at warmongers and capitalists. Bulganin proclaimed: "Given good will and a sensible approach, all international problems can be solved by peaceful means." Then, blandly throwing Eisenhower's words back, Bulganin observed: "The Soviet government would like to see the peaceful statements of other governments supported by deeds . . . We must remain vigilant...
...Habsburgs had danced in a brighter time. The foreign source of his climb to power was never more apparent than in his funeral: the bands played Russian music; the troops used the Russian parade step and carried Russian machine pistols. The most notable mourners were Russia's Marshal Bulganin and Red China's Chou Enlai...