Evening star., 1955-02-09

Bulganin, a marshal who never
commanded troops and an army
bureaucrat with a fair for gov
ernment finances. Marshal
Bulganin is the new Soviet
Premier.
Despite the opposition to in
reference before and during
World War II, Marshal Zhukov
apparently remained a party
man and a party general. He
is a Communist. and probably
will be swayed by Communist
dialectics in his approach to
world problems. He is just as
apt to use the party as a tool for
Russian expansion as any nom
party leader.
On a white charger. tradi-
tional mount of the military
ruler. Marshal Zhukov rode in
triumph through Moscow's Red
Square. before the eyes of 2 mil
lion spectators, while the radio
and the press blared his glories
as the conqueror of Germany.
Son Of Peasants.
Marshal Zhukov is thoroughly
Russian in looks. outlook and
A son of peasants,
he was born in 1896 in a village
so miles from Moscow. AS a boy
in Moscow he worked as a fur
rier's apprentice. When World
War I came, he turned UP in the
Cars army. where his love and
knowledge of horses got him into
The 10th Regiment of the Nov
gorod Dragons. He soon be-
came a commissioned Of
f1cer. and for his exploits was
decorated with Czarist medals.
But after the Bolshevik revo-
lution. he Joined the Red Army
to fight in the civil war.
In 1889 Zhukov was at the
head of tank divisions facing
the Japanese in Mongolia, where
his troops destroyed the Jap
anese 9Th Army.
Attacked Commissar System.
In the Soviet war with Finland.
zhukov served on the staff of
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko.
At it's conclusion he became a
general of the army and COM
mander of the Kiev military dis
trict in the Ukraine. It was
there that he first attacked the
Communist political commissar
system in the army as a him
france to efficient military oper-
atoms. The commissars could
1verrule a commanders decision.
1t took courage to stand out
against the system, particularly
1t a time when a great purge
was Just coming to a close, but
apparently won out.
Stain brought him to Moscow
% reorganize the army with more
for command officers.
In the preinvasion days Of 1941
zhukoy was vice commissar of
iefense and an alternate member
If the Central Committee of the
Communist Party. When the
Germans attacked. it fell to him
% save Moscow He did.
Zhukov, alternately command
ng field armies and working in
he Kremlin on grand strategy.
inally came to command troops
numbering many millions. When
1e lifted the siege of Leningrad
n 1943. he was made a marshal.
1hukov, who planned the victory
1T Stalingrad. drove the Ger
mans from the Ukraine and the
Crimea, and blasted into the
Baltic countries, Poland and
Germany itself. It was Marshal
1hukov who sent 1000 tanks
into Berlin to begin the
,oup de grace which ended Hit
er's career.
Praised American Tactics.
Zhukov expressed admiration
of American tactics. strategy
and general boldness in the war,
and appeared to have had
warm feeling for Gen. Eisen-
then the supreme allied
commander.
After all the glories of the
had. passed into his
tory. Marshal Zhukov in 1916
still a glittering hero-found
himself suddenly kicked upstairs
as commander of Soviet ground
forces. A year later he was sent
quietly into the Ukraine to be-
come commander of the Odessa
district, a sharp de-
for a man of his stature.
For almost four years, little
was heard Of Zhukov. Sud-
denly he reappeared in Moscow
at Supreme Soviet session, and
then at a Communist demon
stration in Poland. He gained
more and more prominence as
time went by.
Marshal zhukov became the
,opic of excited international
gossip in November. 1853. The
occasion was big reception
yiven by Foreign Minister v. M.
Molotoy in honor of the 37th
anniversary of the Bolshevik
evolution.
Supports Bohlen Toast.
At the reception. during the
course of many toasts. United
States Ambassador Charles E.
3ohlen offered a toast to justice.
later. Marshal zhukov was sum-
noned to the head table. The
hen trade minister, Anatas
Mikoyan. asked zhukov to make
/ toast.
zhukov, looking sternly dis
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