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...heart of Moscow to paralyze Beria's police. Elevated to Defense Minister, Zhukov was the man who ordered Soviet tanks into Budapest ("liquidating fascism," he called it) to crush the Hungarian rebellion for Khrushchev. Last June, when the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich forces mustered a majority in the Presidium, it was. Zhukov who saved Khrushchev by throwing the army's support to him. As a reward, he was named to the Presidium itself, the first professional soldier ever to sit in the ruling body of the Communist Party...
Getting Tito's Goat. Jovial and blunt, Zhukov was the man in the top Soviet hierarchy that Westerners liked best; even Ike Eisenhower spoke of him as a friend. In the Soviet Union he was popular beyond a dictator's dreams. Shortly after his elevation to the Presidium, he went off to Leningrad, received a popular ovation rarely seen in the Soviet Union. There he made a speech denouncing the ousted 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...
Already, according to reports reaching Belgrade, he has been expelled from all his positions of power--from the top-level party Presidium, the party Central Committee and the Defense Ministry...
LONDON, Oct. 28--Unofficial reports from Moscow today said Marshal Georgi Zhukov has been fired from the ruling Presidium of the Soviet Communist party and is facing disgrace...
...Molotov-from factories, village squares and streets. Towns like Voroshilovgrad and Mikoyanabad, whose namesakes are still untoppled, continued to bear their old names-but there will be no additions to the roster. Last week, in the interest of efficiency, economy, and the vagaries of internal Russian power politics, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet announced that in future no towns, villages, streets or institutions in the U.S.S.R. will get the names of prominent Russians until after they are safely dead...