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...Monument. But Berlin was a masterpiece in another way - the finished-canvas broad-brushed by Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov in 41 months of battling back from Moscow. In the dust and ashes of death, Berlin stood as a monument to the enormous sufferings and the monumental resolution of the Red Army, and imperturbable Marshal Zhukov had been the chief instrument of that Army's victory. Up from the darkest days before Moscow, up from the bloody pit of Stalingrad and the snows and mud and dust of the Ukraine and Poland, he now stood before Berlin...
More than any other man, except his chief, Joseph Stalin, strong-shouldered, heavy-legged Deputy Commander in Chief Zhukov had carried the responsibility for the life or death of the Soviet nation. No Allied field commander had deployed and employed larger numbers of troops and guns; for the attack on Berlin and north and central Germany he had 4,000,000 men. No Allied commander had plotted strategy on a grander geographic scale; none had matched his complex tactics and massive attacks...
...Marshal Zhukov's First White Russian Army smashed into Berlin last week (see below). The Paris radio blabbed that the U.S. and Red Army patrols had already made contact near Dresden...
Thus, in a 70-mile arc of flame and steel, had the soldiers of Red Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, Stalin's designated conqueror of Berlin, come up to the outskirts of the Nazi capital. They had left behind, on the roads and fields back to Küstrin and Schwedt, thousands of dead German soldiers, more thousands of prisoners, hills of wreckage. In five days they had fought through five defense belts, smashing down a great concentration of enemy tanks in what may have been the war's biggest battle of armor. Now they could pierce the heart...
...Zhukov's men did not wait. Like a multi-toothed clamp, the Red Army sent piercing thrusts into the outer districts, tightening the pressure all around. Suddenly the Russians were everywhere in the ring of industrial districts and workers' suburbs to the north and east. The first deep piercings were among the wreckage of the rows of dark, ugly brick and stone houses of Wreissensee and Pankow. Here had lived the hundreds of thousands of Berliners who had known the kicks and cuffs of the little Nazi bosses. These were Berlin's onetime centers of Socialism...