When Zhukov is mentioned, people often associate him with words such as "marshal" and "famous general". Indeed, as a famous general of the Soviet Union, he did fight many important battles during World War II, and also achieved many victories, making a major contribution to the successful victory of the Soviet Union over the German army. With his outstanding merits, Zhukov's position in the Soviet army was also very high, only under the leader stalin at that time. What was the reason for this, such a famous Soviet general who played an important role in the Soviet-German war, participated in the grand military parade after the victory of the war, but was soon removed from his military post? In fact, it had to do with Zhukov's superior, Stalin, the then supreme leader of the Soviet Union.
The mention of Stalin must be familiar to everyone, this leader is not ordinary, after taking office to carry out the "Great Purge" of the CPSU; in World War II, he led the Soviet people to heroically resist the German Nazi army, and finally ushered in victory, and people are under the impression that he was a leader with an iron fist and a strong fist and a complete strategy. However, on the issue of Zhukov's dismissal, it is often thought that this is related to Stalin's suspicions. As early as 1941, at the beginning of the war between the Soviet Union and the German army, in the face of the menacing German army, Zhukov, as the chief of the general staff of the Soviet side, formulated a set of operational plans against Germany according to the situation at that time.
Since nearly 6 million German troops at that time invaded the Soviet Union in three ways, and the German army in the south had already entered the important city of Kiev in the Soviet Union, the situation was not optimistic for the Soviet Union, and for the sake of feasibility, Zhukov proposed to abandon Kiev and concentrate his forces in the southwest for a counter-offensive. When he learned of Zhukov's decision to abandon Kiev, Stalin was so angry that he rebuked Zhukov, and the two had a heated argument, and finally because the two could not agree, Zhukov decided to go to the front to command the battle, while Stalin personally commanded the battle to defend Kiev. But the result was not as Zhukov expected, the Soviet army and the German army in the battle for Kiev suffered a crushing defeat, Stalin also realized the correctness of Zhukov's judgment, which also made Zhukov's authority in the Soviet army to a higher level.
After the victory in World War II, the Soviet Union held a grand military parade ceremony in Red Square to celebrate the victory, and the head of the parade should have been Stalin, but just in time for Stalin to be injured not long ago, he was unable to move and could not serve as the head of this parade. Stalin saw Zhukov and asked, "What about your horseback riding skills?" Zhukov did not know, so he replied: "Not very good." Stalin added, "Then what will happen, the parade chief will ride a horse?" Only then did Zhukov realize that he was going to be the head of the parade.
It was during this military parade that Zhukov's behavior made Stalin unhappy. Before the military parade officially began, Stalin gathered the leaders of all sides of the Soviet Union and prepared to take a group photo together, and as soon as everyone was ready to take a group photo, the guards around Stalin came to report that there were calls from the front that Stalin personally answered. Just as Stalin was leaving, Zhukov summoned a newspaper reporter and asked him to take a picture of him and the commanders. Originally it was just a photo, and there was nothing wrong with it, but the next day on the news page of the newspaper there was this group photo without Stalin, which was learned by Stalin, which made Stalin very angry.
Stalin thought that Zhukov was somewhat proud of his own merits, and there were still some signs of opposition to himself, so he recruited Zhukov on some charges and demoted zhukov. Since then, Zhukov has become increasingly marginalized, knowing that he died in 1974 and never turned over.