Word: khrushchevism
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...final wild-eyed Paris press conference, Nikita took time out to launch into unsolicited discourse on his Defense Minister. Malinovsky, Khrushchev declared, was "a hero of World War I and II ... a person who has often been decorated for his outstanding services ... a true son of a socialist motherland...
Hints & a Symbol. Astonished by this unprecedented buildup for a Soviet military man, some Westerners inevitably began to see signs that Khrushchev was on a leash. After all, the Red army is known to have little enthusiasm for Khrushchev's policy of peaceful coexistence. Four days before his departure for Paris, Communist Party workers assigned to the Red army had assembled in Moscow for a conference at which one of the chief speakers was tousled-haired Marxist Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, who is always billed by Kremlinologists as the leader of the hard line in Russia's ruling Presidium...
...Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence has always had its hard underside; after all, the summit conference was precipitated in the first place by his threats to West Berlin. In Paris last week, Rodion Malinovsky was an overt reminder of the brute force that Russia's Communists command if they chose to turn tough. He was also the visible symbol of one of the forces that press upon Khrushchev...
Iron Man. At 61, Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky is deprecated by many Soviet officers as a political marshal and a Khrushchev stooge. Gross (5 ft. 7 in., nearly 300 lbs.), diabetic and slow-moving, he retains the abrupt manner of a noncom. But over a 40-year career in the Red army, he has combined a talent for political survival with an impressive combat record...
Bear in Karakul. Much of Malinovsky's war was spent in the Ukraine -where he had the good fortune to come under the eye of Nikita Khrushchev, then a member of the military council for the Ukraine. In January 1943, just after Malinovsky's army had completed the southern arc of the encirclement of Stalingrad, Western correspondents recall meeting him in a tiny, unheated village schoolhouse, short-legged and big-hipped, like a grizzly bear in a brown greatcoat and karakul hat. He traced with a thick forefinger the movement of the fleeing Germans on a field...