Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the crenelated Kremlin walls, a different drama had been enacted. There the Red Army's Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov, Hero of the Soviet Union, Defense Minister, the man who used the weight of the army to keep Nikita S. Khrushchev in power last summer, was stripped of his jobs and brainwashed (see FOREIGN NEWS). Khrushchev, clearly the dictator, master of what he could see, menaced by what he could not see, drank a champagne toast. "In life," he said, "one cell must die and another take its place. But life goes...
...Mamie filed into Michie Stadium, loudly sang the Army fight song and settled back to watch the cadet varsity kick off to Colgate. The game was six minutes old when the United Press slipped Ike a piece of copy on the ouster of his old wartime colleague Marshal Zhukov from the Presidium and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Ike sent thanks to the reporter, settled back to watch Army win. Reporters had not seen Ike so cheerful and relaxed in a long time. An old Army wife explained it easily: "He's back with his own people...
...hailed the political measures of the Soviet Communist party from the de-Stalinization program down to the ouster of Marshal Georgi Zhukov...
...Defense Minister, Zhukov was scheduled to preside over next week's grandiose celebration of the Revolution's 40th anniversary in Moscow. Masses of the latest military gear are already marshaled under canvas near Red Square. Red luminaries from all over the world, headed by Red China's Mao Tse-tung, are on their way to Moscow. What function would Zhukov be assigned...
...only job which would give Zhukov more power than he already wields is Khrushchev's. Any other position-President, Premier, or manager of an electric power station-would be no promotion...