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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...
...been on the point of firing the Soviet officers commanding Poland's 25-division army and had promised reforms in government. Last week, instead of being fired from the Polish Defense Ministry, Russia's Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky was apparently to be gently pushed upstairs into Marshal Ivan Konev's job as top commander of all Warsaw Pact forces. Some 30 Soviet officers "resigning" from Polish units were wined and dined and presented with Polish decorations before going back to Russia...
...Honor, Croix de guerre with palm, Bronze Star with cluster. At war's end, when the 104th linked up with the Soviet forces in Germany, Lieut. Colonel Hoegh was in a group that flew behind the Russian lines in a Piper Cub to establish liaison with Marshal Konev's advancing army...
...midst of the elaborate picnic laid on by the leaders of Russia for foreign diplomats (TIME, Aug. 15), bald-polled Ivan Konev, commander in chief of the satellite armies, turned to his companion in the raspberry patch, the British minister. "The marshals are picking berries," said Marshal Konev, and pointed the moral: "The marshals have been turned into soldiers of peace." In case this seemed a little pat for the Western world to believe, the marshals went farther last week. The Kremlin announced that it would reduce the size of the Soviet armed forces by 640,000 men before...
...untrusting masters of the Kremlin and the untrusting brasshats of Moscow's Frunze Street, the Red army GHQ. The Kremlin used Bulganin as "the eye of the party on the army." At one point, his job was to cut down to size such wartime heroes as Zhukov and Konev. But Bulganin also seems to have ingratiated himself somewhat with the military people by becoming a lobbyist in the Kremlin for better weapons and higher army...