Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov
He is the savior of the dangerous situation on the battlefield, plotting to move backwards and retreating thousands of miles from the enemy. He was the terminator of Nazi Germany, the military hero of the former Soviet Union, and the chief warlord of Russia. He only attended primary school for three years, but his writings were regarded as a valuable asset of military scholarship, and its role was irreplaceable, and he was praised as a firefighter on the Battlefield of the Soviet Union and Germany. Whether in Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, whenever there is a critical moment, he is always able to stand up, turn the tide, and finally plant the flag of victory on the head of Berlin, and his name has become an eternal symbol of victory in the war. In the unprecedentedly tragic battlefield, although he was in the storm and rarely met the enemy, in the unpredictable political landscape, he experienced ups and downs and ups and downs. He was Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, the outstanding military commander who had served as deputy commander of the former Soviet Union and minister of defense.
This issue tells you the story behind Zhukov, the iron-blooded military god of the former Soviet Union.
Zhukov in his youth
Zhukov was unfortunate in that era, because she personally experienced these two world wars and suffered from the pain that war brought to mankind. But he was lucky, because it was the two world wars that made him. The First World War enabled Zhukov to grow from an ignorant teenager into a glorious soldier of the Red Army; and the Second World War created Zhukov's great achievements in the anti-fascist war, making him not only a national hero forever remembered by the Soviet people, but also a righteous fighter permanently commemorated by the people of the world.
Zhukov was born in 1896 at the end of the Tsarist rule, to an ordinary peasant family without any prominent background, the father of a shoemaker and the mother of a farmer. When he was 11 years old, forced to make ends meet, his father took him to his uncle in Moscow as an apprentice. Although the work was hard, tiring and arduous for young Zhukov, he insisted on self-study. In 1913, he enrolled in all the courses of the Municipal Secondary School and achieved qualified grades.
In 1915, Zhukov enlisted in the army, joined the cavalry unit of Tsarist Russia, participated in the First World War, and was promoted to corporal after nearly two years of fighting with the Germans on the front line, during which time he also received two cross medals. Due to the dark rule of Tsarist Russia at that time, coupled with the defeat of front-line operations.
At the same time, there were growing calls for the overthrow of Tsarist rule at home. In October 1917, the October Revolution led by Lenin ended Tsarist rule. After that, Zhukov joined the Red Army. On September 1, 1919, Zhukov successfully joined the Bolsheviks, and in the years of defending the young Soviet Republic and fighting against enemies at home and abroad, he quickly grew into an excellent commander of the Red Army. By the end of the Civil War, he had been promoted to commander of a cavalry company. In April 1923, at the age of 26, Zhukov was promoted to commander of the 39th Cavalry Regiment.
Zhukov military parade
However, Zhukov did not give up the opportunity to learn. From 1924 to 1930, he was admitted to the Leningrad Higher Cavalry School and the Frunze Military Academy, where he received more comprehensive and systematic professional military training. He threw himself into learning with a fanatical curiosity. During his time at the school, Zhukov was well-read, from Caesar's "Gallic War Record" to Sualov's "The Science of Victory" to China's "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and other military theoretical works.
In February 1931 he was promoted to brigade commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade.
In February 1932 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Cavalry Superintendent. In March 1933, he was appointed commander of the 4th Cavalry Division.
From the autumn of 1937 to the spring of 1938, he was promoted to commander of the Sixth Army of the Third Cavalry Army.
In 1938, he served as a military adviser in China for a short time, and after returning to China, he was promoted to deputy commander of the Belarusian Special Military District.
Zhukov fought against Japan
In September 1939, when the Japanese army carried out armed provocations in the Halaha River area and the situation in the Far East was tense, Zhukov was appointed commander of the First Army group of the Soviet Army in Mongolia, commanding the operation against Japan. He successfully organized and implemented the Battle of the Haleha River in a short period of time, annihilating more than 50,000 enemy troops at a relatively small cost. In this battle, Zhukov first appeared sharp, showing his superb command ability and organizational ability, and the theory of concentrated use of tanks was also confirmed in actual combat. Zhukov triumphed in Moscow, was praised by the whole country, and was awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union".
In May 1940, he was promoted to general and was soon appointed commander of the Kiev Special Military District, the largest military district of the USSR.
On 11 January 1941, Zhukov became Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army. At this time, the international situation was becoming tense, and Zhukov followed the instructions of the CpSU Central Committee and began to reorganize the Soviet army, improve military training, and strengthen war preparations.
Soviet-German battlefield
On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany unilaterally tore up the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact and sent 5.5 million troops to invade the Soviet Union. The Germans attacked in three directions, north into Leningrad, in the middle of Moscow, and south into Kiev. Due to insufficient preparations in the early stage, the Soviet army rushed to battle, resulting in heavy losses, failed to block the German army, and lost a large number of cities and land.
In less than three weeks, the Germans advanced 300 to 600 kilometers. In late July, the southward Marching Germans were only 15 to 20 kilometers from Kiev. At the same time, Stalin insisted on sticking to Kiev, while Zhukov, as chief of the general staff, advocated abandoning Kiev. As Stalin refused to accept Zhukov's advice, he not only dismissed him as chief of the general staff, but also demoted him to commander of the reserve front. Two months later, when the Southwestern Front was surrounded by German forces in the Kiev region, Stalin realized that Zhukov's claim was correct, but it was too late. 660,000 Soviet troops were surrounded and annihilated by the Germans. At this point, Kiev fell.
At a time when the Soviet army was facing many difficulties, Stalin began to use Zhukov again. Zhukov also lived up to expectations and did not fail in his mission, and was ordered many times to return to the front line and rush to the most arduous and crucial battlefield to coordinate and command major battles. Victory at the Battle of Smolensk was achieved on 8 September 1941, the first victory since the Soviet-German war. After this battle, the Soviet army began to move to the defensive stage. Because stalin was so satisfied with his performance in this campaign, he was immediately sent to Leningrad, which was under siege by the German army.
On September 10, 1941, Zhukov went to Leningrad. Seeing that kiev had been taken so easily, the Germans thought that Leningrad in front of them was about to be within reach. As everyone knows, the nightmare begins here. As soon as Zhukov arrived in Leningrad, he quickly made adjustments and deployments, adopted a variety of effective defensive measures, and after the heroic and tenacious battles of the Soviet generals, they completed the arduous task, defended Leningrad, eliminated the direct threat of the German army to the city, and smashed the crazy plans of the German army in Leningrad.
The Germans again pointed the finger at Moscow, which was taking its course. At the same time, the German high command formulated the "Typhoon" battle plan, trying to divide and annihilate the main force of the Soviet army from the north, west and south, and then detour to Moscow from the north and south sides, planning to capture Moscow before winter.
Counter-offensive against Berlin
Faced with such a crisis, on the evening of October 7, 1941, Zhukov flew again to Moscow. Stalin trusted Zhukov fully and gave him full responsibility for commanding the defense of Moscow. Zhukov also relied on his cool head, accurate judgment, and creative combat command art to lead LinkedIn brave and tenacious Soviet generals to once again successfully teach the arrogant Nazi Germany. The Battle of Moscow ended in a Soviet victory.
Since then, the German army has been forced to turn to the defensive due to various factors at home and abroad. The victory of the Soviet army at the Battle of Moscow also declared the bankruptcy of Hitler's "Blitzkrieg" and reversed the situation in the Soviet-German battlefield. Since then, the Soviet army launched a counter-offensive, began to occupy the initiative of the battlefield, and launched a full-scale counter-offensive of the German army. In April 1945, the Soviets cooperated with the Allies in capturing the German capital, Berlin. On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany finally announced its surrender. The end of the Battle of Berlin marked the demise of the Third German Reich.
Zhukov
Zhukov performed a thrilling, singable and tearful implementation of the great strategy. He was a legendary figure in military history, and in just 25 years, he grew from an ordinary soldier to a great marshal in military history. He has gone through a glorious battle course and written an immortal chapter in the history of world wars. The world will forever commemorate Zhukov, who fought hard against fascism for the peace of mankind; history will always remember Zhukov's outstanding contributions in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union and the World Anti-Fascist War.