Word: strelkovka
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Born: Dec. 2, 1896, in the peasant village of Strelkovka, near Moscow...
...take over a battle that was not going well. One of his first field commands after Moscow was to relieve Old Irregular Timoshenko, whose spring drive towards Kharkov had run into trouble. During this period Zhukov's field headquarters were near Kaluga, not far from Strelkovka, the village of his birth. As the Germans were driven from Strelkovka, they prepared to destroy the village and in the course of doing so, they rounded up the Zhukov family, locked them in a cottage and set fire to it. The story goes that Zhukov's men dashed into Strelkovka just...
...word would reach Ike through relays of military men and from Western visitors to Russia. But the name Zhukov disappeared from Russian newspapers. The bronze bust, which is erected by statute in the home town of anyone who is twice Hero of the Soviet Union, did not appear at Strelkovka...
Early Career. Zhukov was born in a hut in the primitive village of Strelkovka, not very far from Moscow. As a youth he was a furrier's apprentice, but in 1915 he joined the Novgorod Dragoons and won at least two Czarist decorations for bravery before he had read a line of Karl Marx. Came the Revolution, and Zhukov, a veteran cavalryman, joined 1) the Red Guard, and 2) the Communist Party. Commanding a cavalry division, he won the notice of its political commissar: J. V. Stalin...
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