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...official gesture toward the West. Coming from Zhukov, and not from Molotov the Great Stone Face, the message was, and was meant to be, more acceptable. For Georgy Zhukov is a great professional soldier, whose name will be linked in Russian history with the victories of Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad and Berlin. Zhukov has always faithfully obeyed party orders, but he also seems to have stayed out of power politics and cliques. From the point of view of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (of which he is a full member), Zhukov was the perfect channel for a direct approach...
...driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing the war to a close. Georgy Zhukov, the barrel-chested, hard-riding kid from Kaluga Province, swung his saber with the toughest of them. Wounded at Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad), where Voroshilov was in command, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and became a member of the Communist Party. He never regretted...
...turning point was the tough, bitter, bloody battle of Stalingrad (September 1942 to February 1943). Zhukov masterminded Stalingrad, but was not there to take the German surrender, because he had to fly to besieged Leningrad to get Old Irregular Voroshilov out of a mess. During the Stalingrad campaign Zhukov told Stalin that his young, upcoming commanders could be trusted, and got Stalin to abolish the commissars. The crafty old dictator, however, instituted a system of Zampolits who, while they were not supposed to interfere with command decisions, were still the army's political directors. But Stalin promoted Zhukov...
...Officina Meccànica (truck bodies), the Communist vote plummeted from a secure 80% last year to a minority 37%. Most significant yet was last week's vote at the Falck steel works in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial suburb of Milan known as Italy's Little Stalingrad...
...Stalingrad. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti could do nothing about his defeat on the farms. But he had to do something about his defeat in the factories. He hastily assembled the Central Committee and announced a "critical inquiry" of Communist union policy. In an attempt to check the rebellion with a show of strength, the Communists picked Genoa, where their power in the unions is almost undisputed, and succeeded in all but closing down the port...