Who ousted Georgy Zhukov from the Minister of Defence position?
Rodion Malinovsky
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Vladimir Lenin
Answer
Georgy Zhukov was the Minister of Defence in the Soviet Union until 1957. He was ousted from this position by Rodion Malinovsky. Malinovsky had been Zhukov's deputy minister, and he had a good relationship with Nikita Khrushchev, who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the time.
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