Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again change convulsed the Kremlin. Moscow announced tersely that Marshal Georgy Zhukov, first soldier of the Soviet Union, "has been released from his post" as Defense Minister. Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, 59, was named in his place. That was all. There was not even the customary suggestion of "other duties" for the famed Red army leader...
...Soviet Union. There he made a speech denouncing the ousted trio as "monsters . . . who have lost their right to be ministers and even members of our great Communist Party" -stronger language than Khrushchev himself had used. Soon there was learned speculation that Zhukov was the real power in the Kremlin, might even be getting ready to take over from Nikita Khrushchev himself...
Slipped Pretense. But Russia kept the drums of war rolling. Pointedly, the Kremlin named Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, "the hero of Stalingrad" and former Red viceroy of Poland, to command Russian troops on the Turkish frontier, and announced that "atomic maneuvers" had been conducted. (The West retaliated with an announcement that NATO had decided to hold land, sea and air exercises on Turkey's "southwestern coast," i.e., in the direction of Syria, beginning this week...
...Hungarian revolt and its brutal repression by the Russians served to remind the Western world as well as the uncommitted nations of the true nature of the Communist system. In deflating Kremlin propaganda, the freedom fighters made a great contribution to the cause for which they died...
Greater Power. The U.S. met the new threat to the Middle East as it had met the old. During the Suez crisis the Russians had threatened to rocket-bomb London and Paris and to send Communist volunteers into the Middle East; the U.S. responded by warning the Kremlin that the U.S. would forcibly oppose the Communist volunteers, that any rocket attack against Western Europe would trigger instant U.S. air retaliation against the centers of Soviet power (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Now the State Department fired off a tough statement warning the unpredictable Khrushchev, in effect, that the U.S. would...