V. Stalin. With Stalin’s backing, Zhukov went to Germany in the 19203 to attend lecture courses on armor. He was later to clash with his instructors on the civil war battlefields of Spain.

While the German-Soviet alliance was being concluded, Stalin gave Zhukov the green light to launch his offensive and Zhukov struck the Kwantung army at Nomonhan. And the Japanese suffered a ...

We were good friends, and we could talk in that fashion.” But Zhukov became ill, later fell from Stalin’s favor, and never made the trip. Was the invitation to Zhukov still open? Said the ...

It makes a lot of sense to ban the release of the movie ‘The Death of Stalin’ in Russia, states Maria Zhukova, a daughter of the legendary World War II commander, Marshal Georgy Zhukov.

Postwar Promotion. Stalin, after the war, shunted aside the triumphant combat soldiers like Zhukov. but Bulganin the policeman-politician-executive rose to Minister of the Armed Forces ...