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...Zhukov had also said that Ike had twice invited him to visit the U.S.. and that he still dreams of doing so. Did Ike's recollection confirm that Zhukov memory? It surely did, said the President. "Now, when I asked him to visit our country, I was acting as the agent of my Government, which directed me to do so, and more than that, arrangements had been made once. My plane had been put at his disposal, and my son was detailed as his aide. And I remember he made the remark, 'Well, I shall certainly...
...Zhukov became ill, later fell from Stalin's favor, and never made the trip. Was the invitation to Zhukov still open? Said the President: "Well, as a matter of fact, this is the first time it has been mentioned to me since I have been in my present responsible post. And you can well imagine that I wouldn't stand here and suddenly issue an invitation without consulting . . . my advisers. So I would say this would be a remarkable thing at the present state of affairs, but I certainly wouldn't hesitate to talk it over with...
...Years. When the Nazis attacked Russia, Bulganin became the civilian organizer behind Georgy Zhukov's defense of the capital. He mobilized the entire population, drafting men and women alike into the front lines, where they died by the thousands, but saved the city. He was made a lieutenant general...
Postwar Promotion. Stalin, after the war, shunted aside the triumphant combat soldiers like Zhukov. but Bulganin the policeman-politician-executive rose to Minister of the Armed Forces, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and finally a full member of the Politburo. Medals jangling, he reviews Red Square parades, sometimes on horseback, but more recently, as his weight has increased, in a ZIS limousine. Soviet officers still joke that he does not know the difference between a mortar and a howitzer...
...case his promotion, or that of Marshal Zhukov's to succeed him, should be taken as a sign that the army might take over the country. Molotov last week went out of his way to underscore a vital statistic: 77% of all men in the Red Army belong either to the Communist Party or to the Komsomol (young Communists...