Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mikoyan was slated for the stageby-stage degradation that in Khrushchev's Russia has replaced Stalin's bullet in the neck as the approved Kremlin method of liquidation, the reason might well be his conspicuous association with the detente policy. Perhaps Khrushchev had offered Mikoyan as a sacrifice to Moscow's hard liners to divert their wrath from himself...
...dinner he drank toasts to Stalin, then Churchill, then Roosevelt, each time quaffing a full tumbler of vodka. One correspondent remembers his eyes: "bright, suspicious, ever moving, advertising the cunning thought, but also humorous and undaunted...
...ended, Malinovsky had plenty of practice in improvising offensives. As commander of a Ukrainian army group, he directed the capture of Bucharest, Budapest and Vienna. Then, shifted to command of Russia's Far Eastern armies, he mopped up Japanese forces in Manchuria in the "one week war" that Stalin launched against a Japan already negotiating surrender...
...next ten years Malinovsky stayed in the Far East. But as Khrushchev's star rose, so did Malinovsky's. In 1956, at the same party congress at which Khrushchev denounced the dead Stalin, Malinovsky at last became a full member of the Central Committee of Russia's Communist Party. Before long, he was Deputy in charge of ground forces, under Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov. Then, in 1957, Khrushchev turned on Zhukov. Resentment still smoulders over Nikita's shabby treatment of Zhukov. The army recognized Zhukov as the best soldier Soviet Russia had produced...
Nevertheless, his stories were out of print until the thaw after Stalin's death...