Word: rodion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could afford to disarm, Khrushchev announced a 1,200,000 cut in the number of men in uniform. Last week his Defense Minister, in a major policy statement, hinted at a further release of military manpower to farms and factories. "Our government and the party Central Committee," wrote Marshal Rodion Malinovsky in Pravda, "are now thinking over and studying the question of eventually shifting over our armed forces to a territorial system...