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Without this perspective, dispatches and headlines inevitably give the impression that the Russians stand to win all or lose all in their first winter offensives of 1942. The impression is not shared by the hard-eyed, hard-mouthed peasant, Communist and soldier, Army General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, who commands the drive on the Rzhev front and had much to do with planning the others...
...shouldered with domestic and international responsibilities which grow with each German step into Russia. Last week Stalin sought someone to share his burdens. As First Deputy Defense Commissar he chose a man who, until two years ago, was an unknown quantity to a non-Russian world: General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov...
Zhukov for Timoshenko. To stem the wave before Moscow, in the absence of Timoshenko, Stalin assigned General of the Army Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov...
Tough, stone-bald, peasant-born Marshal Semion Konstantinovich Timoshenko is about as young a marshal as a great nation ever had. That is his advantage, for while not all young generals are geniuses, most of history's generals with genius have been younger men. It is many generations since Russia has produced a great general and perhaps...
...military sphere, Russia also made a move which may or may not have been aimed for German consumption. General Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, an expert with tanks and parachutes and one of three boosted to the rank of General of the Army after generals were reinstated last spring, was elevated to Chief of Staff of the Red Army. The interesting thing about this appointment was the fact that for nine months General Zhukov has been chief of the Kiev military district-next to the touchy Balkans. He recently stated that his men must be constantly ready, "so that no tricks...