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Within the crenelated Kremlin walls, a different drama had been enacted. There the Red Army's Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov, Hero of the Soviet Union, Defense Minister, the man who used the weight of the army to keep Nikita S. Khrushchev in power last summer, was stripped of his jobs and brainwashed (see FOREIGN NEWS). Khrushchev, clearly the dictator, master of what he could see, menaced by what he could not see, drank a champagne toast. "In life," he said, "one cell must die and another take its place. But life goes...
...Mamie filed into Michie Stadium, loudly sang the Army fight song and settled back to watch the cadet varsity kick off to Colgate. The game was six minutes old when the United Press slipped Ike a piece of copy on the ouster of his old wartime colleague Marshal Zhukov from the Presidium and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Ike sent thanks to the reporter, settled back to watch Army win. Reporters had not seen Ike so cheerful and relaxed in a long time. An old Army wife explained it easily: "He's back with his own people...
...there a rival to be disposed of? Stalin would have had his secret police torture the offender, then put a bullet in his neck. Nikita Khrushchev, up against Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the second most powerful man in the U.S.S.R., brainwashed the stubborn soldier within a week, relegated him to obscurity with airy insouciance: "I saw Zhukov today. He is in good health. We have not yet decided on a new job for him, but he will get one for which he is experienced and qualified...
Five months ago. when Nikita Khrushchev was engaged in mortal political battle with Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich, it was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who came to Khrushchev's rescue in a crucial session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Angered by this intervention, a civilian member of the committee, so the story goes, hotly demanded of Zhukov: "Have you brought your tanks with you?" Replied Zhukov: "If tanks are needed, I will lead them...
...hailed the political measures of the Soviet Communist party from the de-Stalinization program down to the ouster of Marshal Georgi Zhukov...