Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zhukov for Timoshenko. To stem the wave before Moscow, in the absence of Timoshenko, Stalin assigned General of the Army Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov...
...General Zhukov first won respect by his close study of Russian communications. The classic Russian military deficiency has been ponderousness in action. This was due to the sluggishness of communications. This, in turn, was due (General Zhukov said) to clerical, rather than physical, causes. No one knew how much rolling stock there was, or where it was; what locomotive sheds, coaling sheds, etc., were available. General Zhukov found...
...General Zhukov has energy to throw away. As commander at Kiev, he used to ride 20 miles before breakfast, then work twelve hours straight. He fenced with his aides till they were bleary-eyed...
Before Moscow his knowledge of communications, his hatred, his energy and what tanks he had seemed to be standing him in good stead. When the Germans had pressed to practically within view of the capital's onion-shaped towers, Marshal Zhukov's men counterattacked and held...
...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...