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...Georgi or Grigori...
...different from the crowd is a laudable ambition, but not at the expense of a fact. Every publication in the world, including Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, calls the commander of the First White Russian Army Marshal Grigori Zhukov. TIME alone insists on Georgi...
...your information: Grigori and Georgi are two distinct Russian names. The first corresponds to Gregory in English and the second to George. And calling Marshal Zhukov Georgi is just about the same as calling George Washington Gregory Washington...
Berlin's end came two years and four months after the salvation of Stalingrad. It came 16 days after the armies of Marshals Georgi K. Zhukov and Ivan S. Konev lunged for the Nazi capital, twelve days after they reached its streets. The date was May 2 and the time was 3 p.m.-Moscow time...
...Monument. But Berlin was a masterpiece in another way - the finished-canvas broad-brushed by Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov in 41 months of battling back from Moscow. In the dust and ashes of death, Berlin stood as a monument to the enormous sufferings and the monumental resolution of the Red Army, and imperturbable Marshal Zhukov had been the chief instrument of that Army's victory. Up from the darkest days before Moscow, up from the bloody pit of Stalingrad and the snows and mud and dust of the Ukraine and Poland, he now stood before Berlin...