Rise and Fall After Stalin
After Stalin's death Zhukov returned to favor, becoming Deputy Defense Minister in 1953. He then had an opportunity to avenge himself on Beria.
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“May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?”
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“It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.”
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