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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—Chinese proverb.
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“Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall:
The word outleaps the world, and light is all.”
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