Word: nikita
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...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...
...World War II, Malinovsky commanded the armies that drove the Germans from his native Ukraine, where his friend Nikita Khrushchev was political commissar. In 1945 he was transferred to the Far Eastern front, directed Soviet forces in the brief war against the Japanese in Manchuria, told Chinese Communists that if the U.S. "put out a hand" to interfere with them, "we will cut it off." Staying on as Soviet commander in the Far East, he presumably masterminded the Korean invasion of 1950, moved back to Moscow last year. For Khrushchev he will be a faithful servant rather than rival...
Bevan, who is the last important Western statesman to have visited Nikita Khrushchev, said that the Communist party leader "'seemed to me very much like many of the high-ranking executives I met in the United States...
MOSCOW, Oct. 29--Georgi K. Zhukov will get another job "according to his experience and qualifications,...but we have not decided" what it will be, Communist boss Nikita S. Khrushev said tonight. Speaking at a Turkish embassy reception, he declined to explain why Russia's top soldier was dismissed as defense minister...
...reports come from members of Western diplomatic missions in Moscow. Indications were that Soviet Communist party boss Nikita Khruschev had called an urgent meeting of the party Central Committee, probably to affirm Zhukov's ouster as defense minister...