Who replaced Georgy Zhukov as Minister of Defence?
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Rodion Malinovsky
Josef Stalin
Answer
Rodion Malinovsky replaced Georgy Zhukov as Minister of Defence after Zhukov was fired by Nikita Khrushchev in October 1957. Malinovsky had been Zhukov's deputy, and he was seen as a more loyal and less ambitious figure than Zhukov. Malinovsky served as Minister of Defence until his death in 1967, and he was succeeded by Andrei Grechko.
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