SOVIET ARMY

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28447, 29 November 1957, Page 27

SOVIET ARMY

“Servant Of The Party” •Ret •d ■ LONDON, November 27 seJlanTof th® y r iS the obedie «‘ vant of the Communist Party This was made quite clear bv Marshal Malinovsky, the Soviet Defence Minister, who has replaced Marshal Zhukov, in an ineZ™."' i,h an American corre- ? ays the Moscow correspondent of the “Daily Mail ’’ Marshal Malinovsky said he that the party in! al j fieids. and addedth^ any s °' ,lel military units have is'ion"" Communist Party organ. armed forces of the Soviet of a P ra ctical instrument sion h !f Communist Party extenaion of the teachings of Lenin and Marx. It bespeaks unity. Our practice has proved correct,” ne said. Maj-Shal Malinovsky, who dethobew ?T n A ral SpeideL chief of .’.J land forces, as J as “ st ; r id the United Nations was a badge disguising American mihtary interests.” He said pushbutton war was the invention of writers, not of people who really know war, “because ?o°ot W so'id?e a r n ” be W °" the

He added that Soviet submarines would “drown” any American aircraft-carriers that entered Russian waters. “The submarine is not only an offensive weapon. It is also a defensive weapon, a good weapon to use against United States aircraftA^ rS ' - We . can ' l “dude American aircraft-carriers coming to the Black Sea so we build submarines. They have become . * m° s t modern weapon with which to drown any American aircraft-carrier that appears in our waters. Carriers are already obsolete,” he said. The bomber had been made obsolete by Soviet anti-aircraft ro-kets. he said. “Our rockets can easily reach bombers in short time and accurately because their speed- is great.” Marshal Malinovsky also spoke of his long membership of the Communist Party and said: “It is bad where there is a gap between the military and politics. Perhaps that is the case in the United States. Our case is different. “If our Soviet Army doesn’t like war. it means our Soviet Government doesn’t like war and the Soviet Government means the Soviet peonle. The views of the people entirely coincide with the point of view of the Government so there can’t be a case where our Government would start a war because it would be contrary to the wishes of the people.” he said.