An Enormous Bear Rug. Dwight Eisenhower and Georgy Zhukov became friends in the early days of Allied control in Berlin. Their friendship did not indicate sympathy on the part of either man for the ...

Eisenhower once asked Zhukov how his men negotiated minefields. Zhukov’s answer chilled Ike: “When we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks as if it were not there.

In mid-1951, he carefully trimmed a 1945 news photo of four Allied generals toasting the Allied victory in Europe, at which time Russia’s Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov presented Eisenhower and ...

First Day. Inside the huge marble building, Eisenhower greeted the waiting Russians, shook hands warmly with his wartime friend of Berlin days, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, now Russia’s Minister of ...