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Inner Alliance. At 60, Zhukov has already risen higher than any other professional officer of the world's most powerful army. The Soviet Union's most authentic popular hero, he is the general who saved Moscow, led the counteroffensive that relieved Stalingrad, conquered Berlin and briefly ruled it jointly with his U.S. opposite number, General Dwight Eisenhower. But Stalin was jealous of his popularity, banished him to provincial posts for six years. Within 24 hours after the tyrant's death, Zhukov was called back to Moscow...
...Zhukov soon formed an alliance with Khrushchev. He may have helped him depose Malenkov as First Party Secretary. When the showdown with Beria came, it was Zhukov who ordered the army's tanks into the heart of Moscow to paralyze Beria's police. Elevated to Defense Minister, Zhukov was the man who ordered Soviet tanks into Budapest ("liquidating fascism," he called it) to crush the Hungarian rebellion for Khrushchev. Last June, when the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich forces mustered a majority in the Presidium, it was. Zhukov who saved Khrushchev by throwing the army's support...
Getting Tito's Goat. Jovial and blunt, Zhukov was the man in the top Soviet hierarchy that Westerners liked best; even Ike Eisenhower spoke of him as a friend. In the Soviet Union he was popular beyond a dictator's dreams. Shortly after his elevation to the Presidium, he went off to Leningrad, received a popular ovation rarely seen in the Soviet Union. There he made a speech denouncing the ousted trio as "monsters . . . who have lost their right to be ministers and even members of our great Communist Party" -stronger language than Khrushchev himself had used. Soon...
Early this month, first stopping off for a talk with Khrushchev in the Crimea, Marshal Zhukov boarded the cruiser Kuibyshev for a long-planned visit to Yugoslavia and Albania. Clad in rough green hunting suit, he went shooting mountain goats with Tito (he bagged four, Tito one). Though Tito took the step of establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany while he was in the country, Zhukov seemed unconcerned about such political matters. In his one big speech he boasted of "our first-class modern arms, including atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . the intercontinental ballistic rocket." Barging slowly through Albania, he inspected...
Faithful Servant. The man who replaces him as Defense Minister is a lesser Soviet war hero, usually ranked fifth in the Red army hierarchy after Marshals Zhukov, Konev, Vasileysky and Sokolovsky. Malinovsky is stubby, barrel-chested and almost two years younger than Zhukov. He fought with a Czarist brigade beside U.S. troops at Saint-Mihiel on World War I's Western front, hurried back after the Revolution to help form soldiers' Soviets in Siberia...