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Once again change convulsed the Kremlin. Moscow announced tersely that Marshal Georgy Zhukov, first soldier of the Soviet Union, "has been released from his post" as Defense Minister. Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, 59, was named in his place. That was all. There was not even the customary suggestion of "other duties" for the famed Red army leader...
...Zhukov Exile Likely...
LONDON, Nov. 1--Reports from Moscow tonight said Soviet armed forces are being purged of powerful friends of ex-Defense Minister Georgi K. Zhukov and the marshal himself is likely to be exiled to a remote military...
...President prepares for these conferences, he is still puzzled at the significance of Russia's dropping his postwar associate and acquaintance, Marshal Georgi Zhukov, as minister of defense...
MOSCOW, Oct. 29--Georgi K. Zhukov will get another job "according to his experience and qualifications,...but we have not decided" what it will be, Communist boss Nikita S. Khrushev said tonight. Speaking at a Turkish embassy reception, he declined to explain why Russia's top soldier was dismissed as defense minister...