RUSSIA: Significant Shake-Dps

The man who sold Stalin the idea that South Korea was another ripe plum waiting to fall into the Soviet basket was three-star General Terenty F. Shtykov, boss of the Soviet armed forces in North Korea and later Soviet ambassador to Pyongyang. When the Communist invasion unexpectedly ran into allied armed opposition, Stalin pulled the rank and ribbons off Shtykov and sent him into that twilight of disfavor which has so often preceded the long night for Communist bigwigs. But last week Shtykov surprised the world by springing back into the news: at Vladivostok (only 400 miles from...

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