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...cropped grey hair and bulldog face were in dour contrast to his gleaming epaulets and the nine rows of gaily colored medal ribbons that adorned his chest. By no accident, the wrecking of the Paris summit coincided with the West's first close-up look at Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Russia's Minister of Defense...
...visiting the village where Malinovsky had been billeted with Russian troops serving on the western front during World War I. When Malinovsky pointed out the hayloft in which he had slept, Khrushchev swiftly moved in to extract every possible kernel of corn. "Cows below and a future marshal above," he said. "Well, cows make excellent heating appliances...
...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. Marshal Malinovsky had been added to Khrushchev's list of traveling companions only three days before the Paris confrontation. Was he sent along to make sure that Nikita stuck rigidly to the position papers drawn up for him? Suspicions were reinforced by the curious tone of some of Nikita...
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...
...Malinovsky's. In 1956, at the same party congress at which Khrushchev denounced the dead Stalin, Malinovsky at last became a full member of the Central Committee of Russia's Communist Party. Before long, he was Deputy in charge of ground forces, under Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov. Then, in 1957, Khrushchev turned on Zhukov. Resentment still smoulders over Nikita's shabby treatment of Zhukov. The army recognized Zhukov as the best soldier Soviet Russia had produced, and as a champion at court who had no patience for the party's effort to establish control over...