Zhukov quarreled with Stalin, and the head of the guard slapped him twice in anger, seemingly rude but saving his life
In the minds of the Soviets, Marshal Zhukov's name was comparable to Stalin's, and in the minds of the Soviet people, Zhukov had a high prestige, and even some experts believed that if there had been only Zhukov and no Khrushchev, the Soviet Union might have been a different story.
Zhukov performed very well in the Soviet-German war, Zhukov was resolute and resourceful, and finally led the Soviet army to victory with his superb wisdom and talent. However, Marshal Zhukov's military career was not smooth, and in the Soviet-German war, Zhukov encountered a loss of face.
During World War II, Zhukov could be said to be one man above ten thousand people, and everyone except Stalin had to be jealous of him. In the early stage of the war, because the Soviet Union was relatively hasty to fight, it was always chased by the German army, the Soviet army suffered heavy losses, and the hot-tempered Stalin ordered to compete with the German army, but the behavior at this time was extremely unfavorable to the Soviet Union, if it was really hard, the Soviet casualties would only be greater.
The commanders at the front naturally disagreed with Stalin's order, but none of them dared to stand up for fear of upsetting Stalin's exile and breaking siberia. However, only Zhukov dared to speak up, pointing out that it was better to withdraw one after the other.
As soon as Stalin heard that someone dared to disobey his decision, he did not give Zhukov any face, and the two quarreled in front of everyone in the house, and seeing that Stalin was about to erupt, One of the guards next to him, Arkadiev, stood up and went up to give Zhukov two slaps. Zhukov was obviously confused by these two slaps, and Stalin only removed Zhukov from his post as chief of the general staff afterwards, and did not investigate his responsibility for the confrontation. In fact, the reason why the head of the guard dared to beat Zhukov in front of Stalin was because he was saving Zhukov, and if it were not for the chief guard to come out like this, perhaps Zhukov would not have lost more than a post!