Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loaded with military notables, their chesty uniforms stiffened with buckram to carry the weight of glittering decorations. Center of attention was Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, new Premier of the U.S.S.R. and longtime top military commissar. The speech of the day was made by the new Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who has a better right than Bulganin to call himself a soldier...
...Zhukov was the man in charge of Moscow's defense. He administered the first major defeat the Wehrmacht suffered. Assigned to Stalingrad, he transformed a threatened Russian disaster into a German catastrophe. Then it was Leningrad's turn, and again Zhukov-ruthless and. imperturbable, yet strangely capable of inspiring his peasant soldiers-broke a German siege. From defense he turned to offense, flaming westward across the Ukraine in 1943, into Poland...
...Zhukov's military apogee was the Battle of Berlin. He launched 4,000 tanks, supported by 5,000 planes and 22,000 guns. into a 50-mile-wide front. Describing the victory to a group of Americans, Zhukov said: "I brought my tanks against them like this," pushing a matchbox forward. "Then two fresh artillery groups over here. And the infantry here...
...Zhukov, the hero, looked stunned. His voice trailed off: "Generalissimo Stalin directed every move . . . made every decision . . . He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived...
Obscurity & Comeback. After victory, to make sure that the army could not threaten the regime, Stalin shook up the command, and banished Hero Zhukov to Odessa and the Urals. Never again in Stalin's lifetime did Russia's top soldier hold a top command. But with Stalin's death, Zhukov came marching home. An uncertain new regime, needing the support of the Red army marshals, made him a Deputy Minister of Defense. After Beria's arrest, Zhukov took his seat on the Communist Central Committee. In last week's shuffle, Zhukov at last reached...