Word: zhukov
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...defeat him, Russia advanced Norway's Trygve Lie, and moved her supporters on the ballot box like Marshal Zhukov maneuvering his tanks before Berlin. The U.S., favorably disposed toward Lie, and still trying to convince Russia that America and Britain would not gang up against her on every vote, tagged along-but Lie went down to defeat...
...Joseph Stalin was the most feared man of 1945. By his followers in every country he was also the most admired. But he did not dominate the year. And he ended it amidst rumors of ill health, amidst mounting speculation whether his successor would be Diplomat Molotov or Soldier Zhukov...
Soldiers & the Bomb. Except for one thing, 1945 would have been the year of the Allied military men, of Zhukov or Montgomery, of Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower or Nimitz, or-as in many respects it was-of G.I. Joe, an unwilling hero, not knowing what he was fighting for but fighting superbly well...
...recent meetings of the Control Council, zonal government showed at its worst. Marshal Georgi Zhukov calmly declared that while he really trusted the British, he could not understand the presence in the British zone of entire German Wehrmacht units under German officers. Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery retorted testily that Zhukov's facts were inaccurate. The question was shelved, leaving a bad taste all around...
Potsdam's End. Clearly, the Russians, still yammering at the Western powers for coddling Germans, were promoting German good will toward Russia. At the Karlshorst conference, the German delegates got Zhukov's word that by year's end removals of industrial equipment would cease. Declared the Marshal: "Stalin has said we did not intend to destroy the German people. . . . We are now bent on aiding [Germans] in reconstruction...