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...poured down on 200 unblinking Red Army soldiers as they marched stiff-legged across Moscow's Red Square. It drenched the 1,400-piece military band and the cheering crowds who had braved the weather to see Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky (on a black horse) and Marshal Georgi Zhukov (on a white horse) lead rumbling masses of tanks and motorized artillery in Russia's biggest victory celebration...
Popular Front. The manifesto, which promptly received the blessing of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, administrator of the Russian occupation zone, was signed by Wilhelm Pieck, head of Moscow's former Free Germany Committee (TIME, Oct. 30) and a number of other German Communists who have returned from Russia or from concentration camps to take key jobs in the new German administration...
Four weeks after V-E day, General of the Army Dwight David Eisenhower and Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had finally headed for Berlin. There they would sit down with Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, their opposite number from the Red Army, and open the long delayed first meeting of the Allied Control Commission...
...fugitive was Dr. Georgi M. Dimitroff,* pro-Allied ex-Secretary General of the democratic Agrarian Party. He was seeking sanctuary from his Russian-controlled Government, which was trying to arrest him on unspecified charges. In Moscow last week the Russian Government urged the U.S. to hand over Dr. Dimitroff forthwith. In Washington Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew replied that the matter was under discussion with the Bulgarian Premier and Foreign Minister, "who have not yet found a solution that would provide against Dr. Dimitroff becoming a victim of violence...
...Marshal's full name is Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov. Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, which rarely, if ever, use first names, call him G. K. Zhukov. Foreign correspondents in Moscow, stumped by the G. K. when Zhukov first made important war news, decided to call him Gregory, have more or less stuck to (or been stuck with) it since...