Word: rodion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Presidium members who had accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. The Tass account of Zhukov's arrival shrank to three lines in next morning's edition of Pravda...
Once again change convulsed the Kremlin. Moscow announced tersely that Marshal Georgy Zhukov, first soldier of the Soviet Union, "has been released from his post" as Defense Minister. Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, 59, was named in his place. That was all. There was not even the customary suggestion of "other duties" for the famed Red army leader...
Diplomatic sources used such terms as audacious, surprising and bold to describe the unexpected step which put another professional soldier, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky, into the high post of defense minister...
...recognition to the North Korean regime. Its propaganda cheers on the North Korean army. Last week Nationalist Chinese intelligence reported that Red China's Boss Mao Tse-tung, Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and No. 1 Field General Lin Piao were conferring in Mukden with Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...