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Everybody fell in with the new line. In Leningrad barrel-chested Marshal Georgy Zhukov (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), in a bottle-green uniform listing to port under a load of gold and silver orders, castigated the ousted Malenkov. Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov "antiparty group" for resisting progress. Orated Zhukov: "Its members objected in particular to the slogan: 'Catch up in the next few years to the United States in per capita production of meat, milk and butter,' put forward by the Central Committee on the initiative of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev." Why? Because the anti-party group "had not wanted...
From there on, the way was clear for Khrushchev to pin the rap on Malenkov. In February 1955, when Malenkov was ousted as Premier, one of the charges against him in secret party councils was that he was "co-responsible for the Leningrad Case." And two weeks ago, in Khrushchev's speech to the Elektrosila factory workers came the blunt, public denunciation: "Malenkov, who was one of the most important organizers of the so-called Leningrad Case, was simply afraid to come here to you in Leningrad...
...beauty of the Leningrad Case, in Khrushchev's hands, is that he himself was away from Moscow bossing the Ukraine at the time, and the Leningrad murders are among the few crimes that cannot easily be pinned...
...were killed), rose rapidly in battle command. When Stalin panicked at the German advance on Moscow in 1941, Zhukov brought in fresh Siberian troops and saved the capital. Thereafter, as a troubleshooter who ranged wherever the battle went hardest, Zhukov won the Soviet's greatest victories-at Stalingrad, Leningrad, the Dnieper. He took Berlin with 22,000 cannons, 1,000,000 casualties (he employed the standard Russian tactics: massed attacks, artillery concentrations, heavy casualties...
...Russia's Yuri Stepanov could not achieve enough altitude to win a place on his nation's Olympic high-jumping squad. But last week, at a Leningrad meet, he took his usual short sprint toward the bar, flung himself skywards and crashed into the landing pit with a new world record...