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Marshal Georgi Zhukov: Hero of the Soviet Union

By Blaine Taylor

The German Wehrmacht had just invaded the Soviet Union in the predawn hours of June 22, 1941, and the chief of the Soviet General Staff, General Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, was calling the Kremlin in Moscow to alert dictator Josef Stalin, nicknamed “The Chief. “

“About three minutes later, Stalin picked up the receiver. I reported the situation and requested permission to start retaliation. Stalin was silent. The only thing I could hear was the sound of his

breathing,” Zhukov reported in his postwar memoirs. “‘Do you understand me?’ Silence again. At last Stalin said, ‘Come to the Kremlin with [Soviet Marshal Semyon K.] Timoshenko. Tell my Secretary to summon all Politburo members.”

The Georgian-born dictator was in a state of shock. He knew that the initial success of the German onslaught against the Soviet Union was due in full measure to his own 1937 purge of the Russian Army officer corps with more than 36,000 murdered. It was also the product of his belief in the promises of Adolf Hitler as stated in t

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Zhukov: The Soviet General

Geoffrey Roberts. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. Random House. 400 Pages. $30.

Soviet marshals were known for their fondness for outsize hats and a chest load of medals, and on this point of military splendor, Marshal Zhukov, the man who had crushed Hitler’s panzers and conquered Berlin, was in a class all by himself. In his memoir Berlin Command Frank Howley, who later became commandant of the U.S. sector, provides a portrait of Zhukov from the Allied victory parade in Berlin on September 7, 1945, which combines close observation with sly satire:

Marshal Georgi Zhukov was there in all his glory. He wore robin’s egg blue trousers, with yellow stripes, topped off with a dark green blouse and a bright red sash. Across his chest, and almost down below his hips, hung so many decorations that a special brass plate had to be worn to house this immense collection, giving the impression of being riveted to the Russians chest.
The decorations included the highest order of the Soviet Union, as well as many from the Allies. Zhukov was a big ma
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Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov
September 29, 2024
It ended up being a lot drier of a book than I thought it would. The most interesting part to me was Zhukov's childhood. That was quite informative. The other main tidbit I found interesting was Zhukov mentioning how all of the ammo depots were moved too close to the front before the German invasion, which sounded oddly familiar.

Zhukov was tremendously dismissive of lend lease in this book. I think this was largely politically motivated given the Cold War climate. He mentioned how few airplanes, tanks, and artillery were sent. What he failed to mention was the food, raw materials, radios, and trucks. It seemed a bit suspect, given I would expect someone who was a former cavalry officer would vaguely be aware that having 2/3rds of your trucks (about 400,000) be given to you, and the remaining one third being a domestic Ford design, might in fact be useful. In general he was completely dismissive of the Western allies.

Not the worst book I've read, but I was expecting a bit more than political propaganda. If you still want to read thi