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...Malenkov was hamming a little, pretending to talk to the men around him. But no one in that audience was deceived. They knew now how serious it was for Malenkov. At the other end of the bench the parched, crushed-satin face of Molotov was turned away, and Marshal Bulganin fussed with papers like an old white parrot. Khrushchev alone among them seemed willing to exchange a word with the ex-Premier...
...good humor won him attention, but he fired thousands of party secretaries and workers, cracked down ruthlessly on resisting collective farmers. He had an easy audacity about him. During World War II, Stalin gave him the rank of lieutenant general, and he went to work with General (now Marshal) Konev on the Ukrainian front. Professional Soldier Konev masterminded the military strategy; Nikita Khrushchev took care of the politics...
Bulganin is a bureaucrat in marshal's uniform. Big and bluff, with a splendidly barbered goatee and a Goring's penchant for fancy uniforms, he looks every inch a soldier but has never actually commanded anything more than a squad of cops. Bulganin owes his rank entirely to Stalin, who used him to insure the Communist Party's supremacy over the army. Bulganin, all his life, has cut a fine figurehead...
Postwar Promotion. Stalin, after the war, shunted aside the triumphant combat soldiers like Zhukov. but Bulganin the policeman-politician-executive rose to Minister of the Armed Forces, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and finally a full member of the Politburo. Medals jangling, he reviews Red Square parades, sometimes on horseback, but more recently, as his weight has increased, in a ZIS limousine. Soviet officers still joke that he does not know the difference between a mortar and a howitzer...
...case his promotion, or that of Marshal Zhukov's to succeed him, should be taken as a sign that the army might take over the country. Molotov last week went out of his way to underscore a vital statistic: 77% of all men in the Red Army belong either to the Communist Party or to the Komsomol (young Communists...