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...said, flown to the Communist heartland to "see their equipment and their latest developments." This week Nate Twining attended the vaunted Soviet Aviation Day flyover-and saw precious little in the way of startling "late developments." But after the flyover he went to a banquet given by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and met the test-riotously put-as a diplomat and politician...
...Communist Party." Tito was doing his best to show, at one and the same time, his devotion to Communism and his independence. But the Russians were out to compromise him, and they did it in ways and at times when he could not easily respond. It was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who capped the Kremlin's efforts. In the marble St. Catherine Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace, Tito, in his marshal's powder-blue uniform, sat down with Bulganin and Khrushchev to sign the joint communiqu...
After the round of handshaking and back-slapping that followed, Tito presented Marshal Zhukov with the Yugoslav Order of Freedom-the first non-Yugoslav ever so honored...
JEALOUSY OF ZHUKOV...
...After the war Stalin began to tell all kinds of nonsense about Zhukov, among other things the following: 'You praised Zhukov, but he does not deserve it. It is said that before each operation at the front Zhukov used to behave as follows: he would take a handful of earth, smell it and say, "We can begin the attack," or the opposite, "The planned operation cannot be carried out." ' ... It is possible that Stalin himself invented these things for the purpose of minimizing the role and military talents of Marshal Zhukov...