Myths and Truth About Marshal Zhukov
14 hrs. 40 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexey Isayev
Author
Alexey Isayev
Narrator
Kristina Salamatova
Narrator
Kristina Salamatova
Description
In recent years, one of the main targets of the “liberal” revisionist historians has been Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. What accusations haven’t been made against him—lack of competence, capriciousness, cruelty, disregard for soldiers’ lives. The purpose of such “criticism” is obvious: to cast a shadow on the Marshal of Victory, who became one of the symbols of the greatest triumph of the USSR—and thereby smear even the Soviet past itself.
Based not on common myths and quotes from “Memoirs and Reflections,” but on authentic operational documents signed by Zhukov himself, this book reveals his true role as the Red Army’s main “crisis manager” and his invaluable contribution to our Victory: “On the 30th anniversary of Victory in Paris, posters with Zhukov’s portrait were displayed and the caption read: ‘The man who won the Second World War.’ Of course, it was an exaggeration, but there is a rational kernel in that phrase…”
Based not on common myths and quotes from “Memoirs and Reflections,” but on authentic operational documents signed by Zhukov himself, this book reveals his true role as the Red Army’s main “crisis manager” and his invaluable contribution to our Victory: “On the 30th anniversary of Victory in Paris, posters with Zhukov’s portrait were displayed and the caption read: ‘The man who won the Second World War.’ Of course, it was an exaggeration, but there is a rational kernel in that phrase…”
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