Difference between revisions of "Georgi Zhukov"
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Zhukov led the final attack on [[Germany]] and the ultimate capture of [[Berlin]] in 1945. A hero, after the [[war]] he commanded the Soviet zone in occupied Germany. | Zhukov led the final attack on [[Germany]] and the ultimate capture of [[Berlin]] in 1945. A hero, after the [[war]] he commanded the Soviet zone in occupied Germany. | ||
Revision as of 21:50, April 3, 2025
Georgi Zhukov (1896-1974) was a military leader for the Soviet Union during World War II and afterwards. He was awarded the nation's highest honor, Hero of the Soviet Union. He is widely credited as one of the earliest and most successful proponents of manoeuver warfare.
Following the Battle of Khalkyn Gol in 1939 where his forces scored a decisive victory over the Japanese, Zhukov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Siege of Moscow
Hitler's troops were turned back at Moscow during the winter of 1941-42 after Stalin appointed Georgy Zhukov as commander of the Red Army. The Red Army conducted most of the fighting against Nazi Germany during the Second World War, inflicting about eighty percent of German casualties along the Eastern Front.
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in World War II. It was a decisive Soviet victory, as Zhukov's Don/Stalingrad front (mainly 62nd Army) crushed Wehtmacht Gen. Friedrich von Paulus's 6th Army. Germany suffered casualties that were simply irreplaceable.
Siege of Leningrad
Zhukov's forces lifted the Siege of Leningrad in 1944.
Battle of Berlin
- See also: Operation Bagration and Vistula-Oder Operation
The Vistula-Oder Operation took place on the Eastern Front between January 12 and February 2, 1945. Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler, who dreamed of being a combat leader but never had any combat training or duty, in charge of German operations on the Vistula front. Soviet troops, led by Marshals Georgi Zhukov and Ivan Konev, advanced from the Vistula river in Poland to the Oder river which was only 50 miles from Berlin. The extermination camp at Auschwitz was liberated on January 27, 1945. The Wehrmacht suffered enormous losses as a result of the operation.
Zhukov led the final attack on Germany and the ultimate capture of Berlin in 1945. A hero, after the war he commanded the Soviet zone in occupied Germany.
Modern "democratic" Ukraine
Ukrainian Nazis tore down the statue to Zhukov in Kharkiv in 2019.[1]
In popular culture
In the film The Death of Stalin, he was portrayed by Jason Issacs.