On June 28, 1974, Zhukov died a long time ago at the age of 78. The funeral of the greatest marshal of the Soviet Union, who made great achievements for the country during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union and the greatest marshal since the founding of the Soviet Union, was cold and unusually simple, and in addition to some relatives and friends at his funeral, the unexpected thing was that none of the leaders of the country came, and shortly after his death, the Soviet government sent a kgb to monitor Zhukov's three daughters for 24 hours in the name of taking care of his family.
So how could such a fierce general, who had once been in the battlefield, end up in such a situation? Why was it that even after Zhukov's death, the Soviet government was reluctant to spare his family? What are the untold stories behind Zhukov's fall from the altar?
First, he joined the army at a young age and showed his first sharp edge.
Zhukov was born into a poor peasant family and grew up poor. At the age of 19, because of the outbreak of The First World War, the war led to a continuous decline in people's living standards. Life for zhukov's family was difficult, and it coincided with the expansion of the cavalry force in Russia, and Zhukov was called into the army. However, with the continuous expansion of the war, Zhu Ke saw the cruelty of the war and recognized the true face of the Tsarist Russian ruling class in continuing the war regardless of the people's lives and exploiting the people. This also paved the way for the Zhukov uprising.
In 1918, Russian communism, led by Lenin, took control of Russian politics. At this time Zhukov came into contact with Bolshevism for the first time, Zhukov felt that he had found the goal of struggle, began to firmly side with Russian communism, at this time he joined the Red Army, began to fight against domestic resistance and foreign intervention.
During this period, Zhukov, who had faith, fought bravely. Stand out in the battle against the White Army, and step by step there are platoon commanders and company commanders. After the end of the civil war, Zhukov successively served as the commander of the cavalry battalion and the deputy regimental commander. Later, he was sent to the famous Frunze Military Academy, where he often stayed up late to study military knowledge, and eventually graduated with impressive results.
When he returned to the army after graduation, Zhukov chose to return to the garrison at least, which lasted seven days and nights, traveled nearly a thousand kilometers, and conducted reconnaissance of the terrain from Leningrad to Minsk, a major Russian town. After returning to the unit, he served as a brigade commander, a division commander, and a military commander until he became the deputy commander of the Belarusian Military District. At this time, when the Soviet Union was in full swing to carry out construction, something happened in the Far East.
Second, the Japanese army was severely damaged, and its prestige was far and wide
In 1939, Japan further expanded its achievements and began to tentatively provoke the Soviet Union, holding frequent drills on the Halaha River on the Border between China and Mongolia. Eventually, the Zhang Gufeng incident broke out. After another invasion even by force, when the Soviet Union had just undergone a great purge, and the commander of the Soviet Far East at that time could not fight at all, Zhukov was appointed commander of the First Army by the line of fire.
Zhukov just took office, on the terrain, organization of defense, in a short period of time to organize the Battle of Nomenkan, although the Japanese elite, or was defeated by the Soviet Union, Zhukov mentioned in the book "Memories and Reflections" that the Soviet casualties of 9,000 people, the Japanese army nearly fifty thousand. This scared the Japanese army. From then on, I did not dare to mention the northward advance. The battle was won, and just as the whole of the Soviet Union was celebrating and stepping up the development of the domestic economy, Hitler came.
Third, the Great Patriotic War, outstanding achievements
On June 22, 1941, Hitler mobilized more than 150 divisions and 4 million men and began to invade the Soviet Union to carry out the Barbarossa Plan. Because the Soviet Union and Germany had signed a Soviet-German non-aggression pact, the Soviet army was caught off guard, and in just a few days, more than one million Soviet troops were annihilated or surrendered. The Germans reached Moscow and Stalingrad. At this time, Zhukov had just finished participating in the Battle of Smolensk and was urgently transferred by Stalin to Leningrad.
Zhukov's arrival gave Leningrad new hope, and his series of moves made the panicked Soviet army firm and temporarily stabilized. Zhukov and the Soviet people stood in Leningrad, hungry with the people, and fought against the Germans together. Zhukov and Soviet soldiers and civilians created the myth of the siege campaign. It was not until 1945 that the Red Army launched a counteroffensive, and Leningrad showed that the crisis had turned into a safe one. But Zhukov did not have time to celebrate, and he was going to the next place to fight the fire, that is, Moscow.
At this time, Moscow was already besieged by the German army on three sides, the situation was not optimistic, Zhukov once again broke out his amazing military thinking, repeatedly defeated the German army, and pressed the German army outside Moscow is unable to move forward. It persisted until the Soviet counteroffensive. Zhukov commanded 2.5 million Soviet troops to beat the Germans out of the Soviet Union, liberated Eastern Europe, invaded Germany, and occupied Berlin. It can be said that the Soviet Union did not have Zhukov in the Great Patriotic War, and it is really difficult to say whether the Soviet army can turn defeat into victory.
Fourth, dismissal and dismissal, sudden death.
After the victory of the Great Patriotic War, Zhukov was regarded as a national hero by the Soviet people for a time, and he responded to the people, especially the army, and the light far surpassed Stalin. Zhukov also had a bit of a arrogant mentality. This is something that Stalin must not tolerate. At this time, someone planted a conspiracy theory about Zhukov, and it was found that Zhukov had taken a lot of the money and goods seized at that time during the conquest of Berlin, and Stalin used this as an excuse to avoid him from holding an important position. Zhukov slipped to the bottom of the power for a while.
After Khrushchev came to power, in order to stabilize the situation, Zhukov made a comeback. With Zhukov's enormous influence, Khrushchev firmly held the first seat of Soviet politics. Soon, however, Khrushchev was relieved of Zhukov and found an excuse to remove Zhukov from his post again. Zhukov has since completely distanced himself from the political center of the Soviet Union and written his memoirs with peace of mind.
At the end of 1973, Zhukov's second wife, Galina, died of breast cancer. This was a huge blow to Zhukov after the death of his wife, Zhukov's condition worsened, and 8 months later, Zhukov died of a lonely illness in Moscow. He died on December 31, 2012 at the age of 78.
Because Zhukov had been charged with too many false accusations and had not yet been rehabilitated, not a single state leader came to mourn. Finally, under the discussion and study of the Soviet high-level, it was believed that Zhukov still contributed to the state and was specially buried under the Soviet Kremlin.
Although Zhukov had died of illness, the Soviet hierarchy was still uneasy about him, and Zhukov had two marriages and three daughters. So the Soviet government decided to send a KGB to closely monitor Zhukov's three daughters, who were also worried about whether the Soviet government would cut the grass and remove the roots from them, so they had been trembling.
Kgb's surveillance caused so much trouble in the lives of the three daughters that they couldn't even find a boyfriend, let alone start a family. The three daughters have spent another 21 years relying on each other.
It was not until 1995, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, that Zhukov was rehabilitated by Russia and his statue was erected on Russia's Red Square, that the surveillance of his three daughters was lifted and he returned to normal life.
5. Summary
Zhukov's life was a legendary one. Born as a poor peasant, he has made outstanding military achievements along the way and ranked as a marshal by virtue of his own military achievements. His journey has been full of bumps. The first half of his life was an inspirational drama, but the second half of his life was a complete tragedy.
Zhukov's life was more like the emperor's jealousy of the heroes of the battle, his overly dazzling military achievements and prestige, and the final fate. Like Yue Fei, he was very popular on the battlefield, but he did not understand it politically, and finally ended up with a desolate evening scene. His three daughters were also implicated and fell victim to his failed old age.