Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inched into Stalingrad, fighting house to house. But like Napoleon, Hitler had come too far into Russia and reckoned without the Russian cold. The suffering and bravery of Stalingrad in that terrible winter became a new myth of an enduring Soviet Union. The Red Army, under Georgi Zhukov, managed to encircle Paulus' 200,000-man army and batter it into submission. The German surrender on Feb. 2, 1943, was a turning point...
Died. Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 77, squat, solemn Soviet marshal dubbed "the Eisenhower of Russia"; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Zhukov fought in World War I as a Czarist dragoon, in 1918 suited up as a Red Army cavalryman. After weathering both the shift to mechanized warfare and Stalin's purges of military professionals, Zhukov was Chief of Staff when Hitler first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad...
...Moscow, reporting on the rise and fall of Premier Georgy Malenkov, the ascendancy of Nikita Khrushchev, the Suez crisis and the Hungarian revolution. Khrushchev apparently loved to trade quips with him. At a diplomatic party, the Russian dictator once remarked to Bohlen that Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov was putting away the refreshments "as if he had starved for a week...
Khrushchev enlisted the support of General K.S. Moskalenko, the air-defense commander. He was soon joined in the plot by ten other generals and marshals, including Georgy Zhukov, who was later to become Khrushchev's Defense Minister. "In those days all military personnel were required to check their weapons when coming into the Kremlin, so Bulganin was instructed to see that the marshals and generals were allowed to bring their guns with them," says Khrushchev. "We arranged for Moskalenko's group to wait for a summons in a separate room." On the appointed day, the conspirators and their...
...Malenkov was still in a state of panic," Khrushchev continues. "As I recall, he didn't even put my motion to a vote. He pressed a secret button which gave the signal to the generals who were waiting in the next room. Zhukov was the first to appear. Then Moskalenko and the others came in. Malenkov said in a faint voice to Comrade Zhukov, 'As Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R., I request that you take Beria into custody.' 'Hands up!' Zhukov commanded Beria." The police boss seemed to be reaching...