SOVIET DEFENSE MINISTER MARSHAL RODION MALINOVSKY WITH NIKITA KHRUSCHEV AT A PART MEETING IN MOSCOW.Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ????????????; 23 November 1898  31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander in World War II and Defense Minister of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s. He contributed to the major defeat of Nazi Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest. During the post-war era he made a pivotal contribution to the strengthening of the Soviet Union as a military superpower.(WIKIPEDIA)
