Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there a rival to be disposed of? Stalin would have had his secret police torture the offender, then put a bullet in his neck. Nikita Khrushchev, up against Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the second most powerful man in the U.S.S.R., brainwashed the stubborn soldier within a week, relegated him to obscurity with airy insouciance: "I saw Zhukov today. He is in good health. We have not yet decided on a new job for him, but he will get one for which he is experienced and qualified...
Five months ago. when Nikita Khrushchev was engaged in mortal political battle with Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich, it was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who came to Khrushchev's rescue in a crucial session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Angered by this intervention, a civilian member of the committee, so the story goes, hotly demanded of Zhukov: "Have you brought your tanks with you?" Replied Zhukov: "If tanks are needed, I will lead them...
Nikita was grateful then. But from that moment on, Nikita Khrushchev must have known Zhukov had to be destroyed. For if Zhukov could throw his tanks behind Khrushchev, he could also, at some future date, throw them against Khrushchev...
...Unwary Traveler. But not even Khrushchev dared move precipitately against the most popular man in Russia and its greatest living hero. Not until early last month did Khrushchev feel ready to make his move. Then, with all the fanfare due Zhukov's rank as Defense Minister and a member of the Presidium that rules the Communist Party, the unsuspecting marshal was shipped off on a state visit to Yugoslavia-a trip that was scheduled to last two weeks but was suddenly extended to three when Zhukov unexpectedly got orders to proceed from Yugoslavia to Albania...
...generals but to the "indispensable leadership" of the Communist Party. Political commissars throughout the Soviet armed forces held protest meetings to complain that their authority had been so undermined by line officers that the political education of Soviet troops was being neglected. On the day before Zhukov finally returned, Khrushchev held a meeting with the top brass of the Moscow military district-a meeting at which he apparently disclosed his intention of ousting Zhukov from the Defense Ministry...