Marshal of the Soviet Union (1896-1974)
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Stalin's marshal who broke the Wehrmacht. Zhukov commanded at Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Berlin — the Red Army's architect of survival and conquest. His reward for winning the war: exile, twice, because victors who eclipse dictators don't retire quietly.
Born to peasants near Moscow in 1896, Zhukov fought in the Tsar's army, then the Bolsheviks', and climbed fast. In summer 1939 he crushed Japanese forces at Khalkhin Gol, earning his first Hero of the Soviet Union. Stalin made him chief of the General Staff in February 1941; five months later, after Germany invaded, Stalin fired him for arguing over Kiev's defense. What followed was the war's center of gravity: Zhukov, often with Aleksandr Vasilevsky, ran the decisive Soviet operations — Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk. He became deputy commander-in-chief in August 1942 and Marshal in Jan…
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If they [the Germans] attack, we will defend. If they do not attack until winter comes, then we will and will tear them to shreds!
The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.
We will do all we can to insure peace... but if war is imposed upon us we will be together shoulder to shoulder as in the last war to strive for the happiness of mankind.
Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived...
There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.
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