Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kingdom collapsed after 12 years in a war that remains the most atrocious, the most brutal and the deadliest in history. But which, by the same token, allowed several large figures to emerge. Their names have become legendary: Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Montgomery, Zhukov, Patton...
Such offers were bound to strike a chord in Belarus, a country suffering from 500% inflation, whose national currency, adorned with the image of a hare, is derisively referred to as the "bunny rabbit." Says Moscow economist Stanislav Zhukov: "The Belarussian economy is so unreformed, it has nowhere to go. It continues to produce goods that are so bad that even Russians don't want them...
Fyodorov, a former engineer, is the CEO of a company that sells everything from Twix candy bars to $80,000 Jaguars. His well-guarded headquarters, a suite of offices stylishly caparisoned in halogen lamps, marble tiles and tastefully understated artwork, occupies several floors of a converted kindergarten on Marshal Zhukov Street. Scurrying around the cubicles is a multilingual staff that manages Fyodorov's advertising firm, his home-security company, his men's clothing shop and his private day-care company (which supervises the offspring of wealthy jet-setters for $300 a day). Fyodorov's other enterprises include Wild Orchid...
...early November, amid their second big push toward Moscow, the Germans were already suffering their first severe cases of frostbite. Soviet General (later Marshal) Georgi Zhukov reportedly noted that the enemy was perhaps too efficient: its soldiers had been supplied with the correct size boots. Russians, he said, knew enough to wear oversize footwear -- the better to stuff with wool and straw to protect toes against the cold. A popular Russian caricature of the time had the Fritzes -- as German soldiers were less than affectionately called -- wrapped in anything they could grab out of occupied civilian homes -- including women...