Supposedly told new troops: "If you do not know how to do a task, we will teach you; if you do not WANT to do a task, we will MAKE you." Whatever, he succeeded. Stalin finally got the messaage after the first few months when the Soviets had sustained horrendous casualties and disastrous defeats. He then listened to his commanders who were at the scenes of the actions and allowed them to participate in the planning of operations. Chuikov, Rokosovsky, Koniev were also great commanders.
i wouldn't say Zhukov is The most famous field marshal in WW2 i know many people in my history class who've never even heard of the man.(probably because america and britain drown out many generals and field marshals with their own) E.I: eisenhower, montgomery. patton, etc but I would have to say discluding them Zhukove would have to be in the top 5 ranging around the 4th or 5th spot next to rommel, goering, Rundstedt,and auchinleck
@ZRedWingZ nice try but i never said that he couldnt beat them i said that he wasnt as famous as the others and also get facts straight Rommel never fought on the eastern front there for never had the chance to test against Zhukov Since after all he died on hitlers orders Though when you think about it Rommel would probably have won Zhukov was a good general but rommel had experiance/loyalty of troops and actuall military tactics that would have resulted in close 5x more deaths for the russians
Everytime i hear a disscussion about greatest generals, German generals always come to mind and it saddens me that Red Army Generals are never taken into consideration.
Even if Prussian commanders were great, Marshal Zuhkov was not only the first to stop the German blitzkreig (notably at Kursk) he also lead the longest blitzkreig counter attack that took the most land in a matter of two weeks. This man, along with other red army generals(Chouikov,Koniev,Rokosovsski), in my books, are legends!
Well as a shock to the everybody the general is one of the few general officers I'd trust to not waste my life pointlessly. That number I can count on one hand. He's also on my even shorter list that if he said to charge hell with a bucket of water I'd be for to doing it without question and no need to threaten me.
Looks as if everyones neglecting the fact that USSR and Germany were allies until June 22, 1941, that USSR were co-belligerants with Nazis in carving up Poland thus, starting WWII. Why Russians fought so hard to preserve their enslavement to a system more ruthless than Germanys is astounding. Stalin picks a fight and then bitches when his new found allies, US and UK, won't waste their soldiers the he did to the Red Army. Biggest SOB of this war was FDR, a traitor to American interests.
@Kalinin1917 as a historian, I must say, he is right in everything except the moralization of regimes. One cannot say one was worse than the other one. They both committee terribl, criminal attrocities not to be repeated in the future.
@chickenwretch Let me tell you this, you are blaming Stalin for alliying with Hitler. Why didnt you mention which events preceded that treaty? Like Munich agreement in 1938? Why didnt you mention that GB and France did everything possible to force Hitler to start offensive on the east? Why didnt you mention that GB and France refused to cooperate with the USSR and to forge a military alliance? In fact Stalin didnt have much of a choice, there was only one man who wanted to cooperate - Htiler.
@Kalinin1917 Why didn't you mention Stalin/Molotov used Hitler as an "icebreaker", let Nazis aggress in the West and after parties bloodlet USSR would then enter to pick the remnants. Which in fact is exactly what happened. Stalins sphere of influence was agreed upon in non-agression pact and then renegotiated later with the Allies. The archives have been opened comrade, your lies are no longer debateable.
@chickenwretch Haha, western point of view. Typical. Too bad that timeline is against you. I hope that name Maxim Litvinos says something to you. I hope that you know about the huge effort the soviets did to stop the nazi/fascist influence in Europe and in Africa. I hope that you know that the West refused this effort and was quite happy with Hitler's doing. Later, in 1939 Stalin used the "western logic". And watch your tongue, Im not used to be called a lier.
@Kalinin1917 Sir, the timeline will always be against you because you're not lining up with historical, not western, fact. Yeah that bighearted effort the Soviets made against Nazis was real altruistic. Except they didn't let go of the lands they "liberated". With liberation like that who needs enslavement, right? Your history is fascinating, your nation is fearsome. Born under the dread imposed by the Cold War I detest any ploy to dilute the offensive intents USSR had. Again, I'm not opining.
@chickenwretch My dear sir, You are blaming Soviets that they occupied rather than liberated countries of eastern and central Europe? That they didnt leave? Do the US have still military bases in Germany, Holland, France, Italy and Denmark lets say, like from the end of the WW2? So the Soviets were not allowed to do what Americans did and what are they still doing? I love this attitude: "You cant do that but we can". And of course, the USSR never plotted any offensive action agains the West.
@Kalinin1917 First off, US didn't set up puppet governments and free elections, that is threat-free, were conducted per cycle.Secondly, US troops demilitarized immediatelty post war, with shared influence in Germany. Soviets and conquered lands (eastern Europe) were offered Marshall Plan, only nonaggressive western nations accepted. Thirdly, the West reacted, your reactionaries of course, to communist offensives wherever it occurred. Any contradiction to your claims you disregard, the end.
@chickenwretch 1. Soviets didnt set up puppet goverments in Eatern europe neither (Poland was problematic) 2. The Marshall Plan was offered to the USSR and other countries, but under different conditions, which were unacceptabble to the government of the USSR. Soviets also recommended that other countries should not participate in it, instead Soviets offered their own help in reconstruction and development. There were no aggresive nations in the eastern europe when the WW2 have ended.
@Kalinin1917 I will not continue to argue facts. I see you are a history teacher. UK and US did not want oppressive governments in Eastern Europe; none of these countries dare cross USSR. To defend tyranny is incomprehensible. Btw, you're right, Stalin whacked Litvonov after he served his purpose. Your conclusions are based on party interpretation, something taught at Pravda Poly, Isvestia Institute, or Tass Tech. After pillageing aforementioned nations Stalin then offers his military aid. Thanx
@chickenwretch No, UK and US didnt want any governemnt that would have something to do with the communists, ignorig the fact, that all political parties somehow collaborated with the germans, except the communists. And blackmailing countries of the eastern europe: "dont let the communists in (to the power) or we will not help you" is, of course, fine by you. Litvinov was replaced with someone not so idealistic, comrade Molotov, when the concept of collective security failed completely.
@Kalinin1917 There was ample reason the West wanted no further communist states post war; reasons going back pre war and reasons backed up by post war aggressions, i.e. 1953 smashing of German labor strikes, Czech trials and 1968 invasion, Hungary 1956, etc. Lenins Red Terror, Holdomor, kulak genocide, Stalin purges, all before the war. Do you believe our kind of corresponding here on YT would be allowed under post war Eastern Bloc? This is my point, I'm not promoting anything but freedom.
@Kalinin1917: Everyone collaborated "except the communists?" "EXCEPT THE COMMUNISTS!!!!" It was basically ONLY the communists who were collaborating w/ the Nazis during the period of Molotov-Ribbentroppe Aggression Pact against Poland. Not only was the Soviet Union giving direct & massive aid to Hitler in his war against the West, every Soviet financed communist party in the West actively worked to sabotage all war efforts against Nazi aggression. Quit reading propaganda, learn real history.
@VictorLepanto What are you arguing? None of the communist parties were part of goverment in any occupied country. And that they were ordered to stand down, when that treaty was forged? Sure, they warnings were not heard during the era of appeasement, why should the have bothered themselfs now, when the Germany had a symbiotic partnership of USSR. Again, you are critizing only communist, because, they are communist. You really have nothing to say. And the other notion of your's, clear nonsense.
@Kalinin1917: By occupied I assume you refer to the Nazi occupations in the West. Ironically, both the Soviets & the British occupied Iran during the war, to use Iran as a supply route for Lend-Lease. I am addressing the Communist behavior b/c I here find people sugar coating the Soviet role advancing Nazi power in WWII. Only the USSR invaded Poland as Nazi Ally. NOT the actual Fascist of Italy. All communist parties that weren't Trotskyite were run by Stalin. They were ALL ordered to obstruct.
@163linker: They wer most certainly allies of Nazis. The invasion was agreed to under the Molotov-Ribbentroppe Treaty. Poland had most certainly NOT surrendered to Germany. Poland was waiting for the Western Allies to organise an affective strike from the rear, in Germany's West. W/o the Soviets aiding the Nazis, Poland could have probably held out a month longer. Soviet & Nazi troops held a joint victory parade & haned over 1,000s of Jewish prisoners to Germany. Not to mention the Katyn Forest.
>haned over 1,000s of Jewish prisoners to Germany.
What exactly prisoners do you mean?
>Not to mention the Katyn Forest.
I dont believe in soviet responcibility. Poles were killed by german bullets, their hands were fixed by german rope. Place of killing - place of the rest of soviet scouts. In 1941 - place of distribution of German regiment. Germans in 1941-43 killed 435 000 people in Smolensk region. Nothing remarcable that they could kill some thousands of Poles.
@163linker: Then you are no better then a Holocaust denier. If you don't know that the Russian troops handed over Jews to be murdered by the Germans I can hardly begin to explain things to you on a Youtube comments section. I've seen videos of the Soviet-Nazi joint victory parade in Poland. Russian & German generals shaking hands & smiling at each other & admiring each others goosestepping troops. A lovely scene. Every legit historian says Russians killed the Polish officer corps in Katyn.
@163linker: Not when we are dealing a country & gov't which DIRECTLY allied to Hitler! Not when we're talking about a gov't which BEGAN WWII WITH Hitler as an ally. Not when we're talking about gov't which was rounding up Polish civilians POWs & shipping them off to their own concentration camps & out right murdering them @ the exact same time the Nazis were. The Holocaust began in Poland, w/ the invasion. The Soviets invaded Poland w/ the Nazis, thus they began the war & the Holocaust together!
NEVER began. W. Churchill, 1.10.39: Russian armies should stand on that line for defence from nazis. England and France declared war on Hitler, cause he was an agressor. They never declared war on USSR cause USSR wasnt an agressor. Alternative of Soviet entering of western Ukraine and Belorussia 17 of september 1939 - German occupation of that lands during 20-30 of september 1939.
@163linker: "holocaust never began in western Ukraine(sic, indeed; very, very sic)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I just coughed up a lung at that one. DO YOU HAVE THE FOGGIEST IDEA WHAT SOVIETS DID TO THE UKRAINE IN THE '30S! What kind of a demented fanatic am I dealing w/ Stalin's Holodomor in the Ukraine was a very BIG inspiration for Hitler. As I said to you, Stalin's troops handed over Jewish civilians for the Nazis to muder in Poland it is a simple fact. This DIRECT culpability in the Holocaust.
Holodomor was invented by dr. Goebbels in 1941. But Ukrainians never believed him, and were loyal to USSR during Great Patriotic war. By the way, Western Ukraine was a part of Poland in 1921-39.
USSR took 250 000 Jewish civilians from occupied Poland in 1939-41.
But its time to remeber of St. Louis ocean liner, how USA refuged to resque 930 Jews, and sent them back to Europe, on death.
Big inspiration of Hitler was when winners of WW1 allowed Hitler to build Wehrmacht.
@163linker: Handing over Jews DIRECTLY to the SS is hardly comparable to refusing to give them refuge. Not that Roosevelt should be let off condemnation for his behavior. You bring up various things, which are like a candle against the Sun compared to Soviet culpability in Nazi crimes. Soviet radio operators guided Nazi bombers to Polish cities. Soviet oil was used to run Nazi tanks in France, & Luftwaffe planes over Britain. Soviet iron went into Nazi weapons. A shameful legacy.
@163linker: Even if the Soviets had not handed Jews over (which they indisputably did), the Soviets were still culpable in the Holocaust by the simple fact that Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty (w/ its secret agreement to invade Poland together) allowed Polish Jews to fall into Nazi hands & become among the 1st victims of the Holocaust. I don't think America was selling any oil to Nazis. A ban strategic minerals was in effect. The Soviets guided Nazi bombers in Poland. FACT! Look it up.
Why Soviets should hang Jews to Germans? They didnt that.
Secondly, USSR, proposed system of collective safety: west and Poland disagreed. They let Hitler mobilize, annex Poland and Czechoslovakia, while USSR was ready to help Czechoslovakia fight. Poland disagreed to pass Soviet forces, England and France DIRECTLY ordered Czechoslovakia to surrender Sudetenland. If west wanted to stop Hitler - they could simply do it: for example, to agree to system of collective safety.
@163linker: Thus we see how a life time of listening to propaganda can ruin the mind. As if Stalin didn't have a life time of doing stupid self destructive & counter productive things. Why did he desimate his own officer corps b/f the war, nearly insuring a Nazi victory. Your Zhukov only survived the purge of officers b/c he was in Asia fighting Japan at the time. If he had been in the West, he'd have died & Russia would have had no competant commanders. Even Finland nearly defeated Russia.
Propaganda can really ruin the mind. Lets look at history with Minsk radiostation. Employee of German embassy in Moscow Hilger asked USSR to broadcast message "Richard Wilhelm 1.0" in night time, and use word "Minsk" more often. Soviet side agreed only on word "Minsk". That means, that USSR refused to german proposition, because Minsk radiostation allways uses word "Minsk". But look, how your teachers insolently lied: "The Soviets guided Nazi bombers"!
Lets look who signed non-agression pacts with Hitler: Poland - 1934, England and France - 1938, Baltic states - 1939. While USSR was antinazi.
American oil for Germany: directly they were supplied until 1941, undirectly, through Spain - until 1944. Also - Japan, Invasion of China and Nanjing massacre - 1937, but USA sold oil to Japan until 1941.
Finland really nearly defeated Russia? Finland never knew than, when asked USSR for peace.
Secret agreement is a fake. But lets look who signed non-agression pacts with Hitler: Poland - 1934, England and France - 1938, Baltic states - 1939. While USSR was antinazi.
>I don't think America was selling any oil to Nazis.
Directly - until 1941, undirectly, through Spain - until 1944. Also - Japan, Invasion of China and Nanjing massacre - 1937, but USA sold oil to Japan until 1941.
@163linker the soviets and the nazis both invaded poland, it was the 1939 non aggresion act between joesph stalin and adolph hitler to split poland to avoid war between the ussr and nazi germany. So i would imagine that its logical that soviet radio operators did help the nazi invade poland while they invaded poland also
It COULD be argued that stalin's decisions in the 30s made it possible for the Soviet Union to defeat the nazis but..........
BUT it's VERY clear that it was stalin that resulted in million and millions of Soviet peoples to have died during the "Great Patriotic War" that need not to have.
"It is now said that the Allies never helped us . . . However, one cannot deny that the Americans gave us so much material, without which we could not have formed our reserves and COULD NOT HAVE CONTINUED THE WAR . . . we had no explosives and powder. There was none to equip rifle bullets. The Americans
actually came to our assistance with powder and explosives."
This great military commander, Zhukov, ended up being purged by Stalin as a 'threat' just because Stalin didn't like the attention he was getting, he was forced to resign his post as head of the military and was sent to the Odessa military district.
brits are educated that 250000 allies landed on a beach in 1944 and won the war. the germans were knackered because 87 spitfires fought the luftwaffe in 1940. there might be a gap in that flawed history?
Jorji Joukov never lost a battle, won the 4 most important of WW II. He changed the face of the war at Khalkin-Gol in 1939, when he crushed the Japs so badly they decided to attack anybody else but the SSSR. But what would Joukov have been without his I-16 (first plane w/retractable landing gear, 1931), his BT fast tanks (ancestors of T-34)... even his T-26B (Vickers) were far superior to anything Mitsubishi would offer til 1945. Happy New Anna Perenna of AnnaPyr Na(zdarovié)
hey, Kalinin1917, are you a soviet communist or a stalinist? that is, do you believe in Stalin and his policis, or do you agree with Khruschev's (forgive me if I'm misspelling his name) secret speech denouncing stalinism?
@ABDACOM I dont agree with Khruschev for one reason, he was a part of stalin's politics and after stalin's death he blamed everybody else but himself. I also believe that Stalin did 70% of good things, the rest is more problematic.
@Kalinin1917 I see, and what do you say to those historians and political scientists who point to the starvation of the Ukraine, the Katyn Massacre, the purges and other of Stalin's crimes? Would you say they fall under the other 30%? (thanks for your previous answer, by the way)
@ABDACOM Well the so called holodomor was not a sole matter of Ukraine, but it was presented in other part of soviet union as well. And the cause? Bad weather with resistance from the side of villagers who should have joined the sovchoz and kolchoz (joint agrarian community). Moreover, officials, who were in the goverment of Ukraine lied to Stalin about the actual state of holodomor so adequate measuress couldnt be applied. Katyn massacre cannot be justified, in my opinion.
@Kalinin1917 Katyn Massacre was a lie conducted by infamous Goebbels himself. Why the hell Soviets should massacre Polish officials just after the victory at Stalingrad?! The massacre is a work of Nazis, just to put the blame under USSR. Ropes, bullets, everything that has been used for the massacre was German-made. Photos are taken by the Germans, then fell under NATO after the war, and used against the communism for anti-propaganda. Think, and research twice before accepting American lies.
@BiomechanicMan I do believe, that the Katyn massacre was commited by the Soviets. Reason for such an act? Not very clear - except the hatred for the Polish. Stalin signed that order and many historical materials prove that it is a fact, not an american lie. Denouncing facts wont help us.
@Kalinin1917 United Nations had made an investigation at that times, finding german bullets and german-made rope on the polish victims, that data was denounced later when suddenly some stalin's signature appeared, i strongly believe those signatures are made up
@majora23 are you referring to the murders of the Polish Officers, near places like Smolensk, and other people from Poland, Stalin considered a threat?
@BiomechanicMan How was the Katyn Massacre a German lie if Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, Medvedev, and recently Russian Duma said it was the crime of Stalin. The Russians still have not given out all archives regarding the Katyn Massacre because some of the people who commit it are still alive in Russia.
@BiomechanicMan "Why the hell..." The The old "vozh'd y uchitel" and his soviet régime did even worse during the '30's with the purges and the killing of 30 MLN people - BEFORE WW-2 began (for the USSR, June 1941)., so what could 22,000 POLISH officers have been for them??!!! peanuts... Furthermore, the massacre took place in 1940, NOT " just after the victory at Stalingrad" in 1943!!! I won't let myself be fooled by "american lies" but neither will I be bamboozled by soviet onesa
@BiomechanicMan "Think and research twice before accepting American lies" NKVD murdered Polish select in 1940, Battle of Stalingrad ended in Feb. 1943. You need to get your facts straight before indicting the target of your prejudice. Those pesky Soviet archives were opened and decades-long lies and misinformation have been dispelled that is, by any serious educated person. Red propaganda never dies, it just LIES there whimpering.
@ABDACOM the same historicans and scientists wrote under the communists how great the time was. And they will write it again, under another russian government. Whos bread i eat, those song i sing - russian saying. And, yes. Polnish officers killed about 200.000 prisoners of war and earned their shooting.
Comrade Stalin did NOT sack Comrade Zhukov-though he sent him to a relatively minor post--Beria wanted to Stalin to kill him Comrade Stalin said "I know Comrade Zhukov better than I knowmyself he would never betray me or the USSR" you can look it up!
@vivascargill that fact is rather well known here. "The War in Europe has been won and to no one man does the United nations owe a greater debt to than to Marshal Zhukov" General Eisenhower.
@vivascargill it should be. The US involvement and contribution in the War is well detailed with the books I own. I wish that it were the same in the West for our contribution.
@MarshalGeorgiZhukov US Contribution! They only came in when the great Red Army was winning! But Churchill was the worst! Good series on u tube that was shown in US called "The Unknown War" Good I mean better than the garbage we get most of the time--of course Comrade Stalin here still equals Hitler--god we are a stupid country!
@vivascargill yes, in some of the books in the US I have seen it nearly, almost exclusively, talks about the West's involvement to the War, making as little mention about us as possible. The books that I own give the credit to who deserves it. For the US it's their exploits in the Pacific and North Africa. The British it's all over the world. Just about every nation that participated in the war is talked about in my books. The US and the UK did send us a tremendous amount of food and clothing.
@MarshalGeorgiZhukov if I had not told my kids about Zhukov and all the other great heroes of the great patriotic war they would have known nothing--in this country no one knows about our Communist party's work against racism for example--for example no one knows here that the reason the West "won" the battle of the bulge is because Ike or Churchill sent Comrade Stalin a plea and the Red army's advance was speeded up so the Nazis had to turn around.Zhukov Vassilesky or Kursk? Hah!
@vivascargill, in the 60's, and I think in the 50's as well, there were some African Americans who looked to the Soviet Union for aid in their struggle for Civil Rights, they looked at us with envy because everyone was an equal by law, and that law was enforced. I could only imagine how that battle would have turned out if the Germans were not so preoccupied with fighting us. Something I do not want to imagine.
@hundturken2 yea stalinist are killer... so for the mass rape im gonna kil 20 millions perssones from your country *like everyone know a perssones that was killed* and put you in a big army what are you gonna do ?
The Red Army choir have so many good songs v put, Zhukov, Katkusha, My Army, the Soviet Union is long gone but thay are still poping up around the World
@aargirhsmil Thats nonsence, Zhukov's parents died of natural causes, he even managed to evacuate his mother to Moscow, when germans were advancing through USSR.
@initvesa First it was Stalin, then Khrushchev brought him back, but after a disagreement he was sacked again. But Marshal Zhukov outlived both Stalin and Khrushchev.
@hundturken2 that is nothing compared to the millions of Soviet Civilians the Germans did that to, and worse. Unlike them, we did not slaughter 14% of their population because we considered then "Sub-human". They did that to us. So don't even think about trying to lower us to those worthless animals. How dare you even attempt to do so.
the great Zhukov--and yes I know what Konev did-- even though he was probably a good general--Comrade Zhukov was NEVER in the Gulag!! Beria wanted him dead but Comrade Stalin refused and sent him to a remote post of command. Hrushov later betrayed him--but he died a natural death and even made a come back. In 1965 he was at the victory memorial and women cleaning the streets cried with joy. He made one mistake --not supporting comrade Molotov in 1957 Even in America he is admired.
@ericartwo1 How come, you havent received my reply? In short, after the war Zhukov became a commander of several military districts, after Stalin's death in 1953 he became a minister of defence (1953-1955), then he was retired. And lived happily ever after :-)
@Kalinin1917 Thank you for replying to my question. Marshall Zhukov was renowned in Britain as a great military strategist. Probably, he was the best Army Commander of all World War Two generals. It is a long time since the WW2 but I always remember him from various history, military programmes and documentaries.
@Kalinin1917 I don't think so. Zhukov, Malinovsky, Eremenko and some other marshals were victims of Stalin's purges after Great Patriotic war. Zhukov suffered the greatest consequences because he was very popular in the army and people. When Khruschev came, Zhukov saved him from Malenkov and Molotov, but Khruschev did the same thing as the Stalin. Zhukov's life was full of rises and falls, especially after the war. I think he was a true military genius, but he wasn't such a good politician.
How long after the war before he wound up in a Gulag? lol I don't know his history but I know the history of the Bolsheviks. Surely he didnt' die of old age or natural causes right?
@coaltrader07 Why are you commenitng on something you havent even the slightest clue? The only thing you are prooving (by your lol comment) is that you are stupid.
@Kalinin1917 Just a hunch from my study of the Bolshevik beasts. You're right I don't know. Inform me on how Zhukov lived out the remaining years of his life?
@HelgiWartooth777 Zhukov was a great commander. I understand there was a great rivalry with Koniev? How about that machine gun at 1:02 - looks kind of obsolete, doesn't it? maybe a residual from WW-1?
@Gheorgyi Yes of course you are right my friend, in fact they had a race to Berlin and Zhukov got bogged down in the Seelow Heights when he faced off against an excellent German General named Heinrici. He could actually predict when the Soviets were going to attack within a half hour before their attack, he would then have his troops fall back to alternate positions. This turned out to be a great battle. The machine gun you mentioned is called the Maxim 1910. Best wishes!
@ ashis Not in the US My children knew nothing about him until I told them In the US Eisenhower won the war! A disgrace but true--ask most Americans about oh say Kursk and they will not know what you are talking about.
@Scoutrussp7 Konev Timoshenkko Rokosoowski any of the generals! They no nothing!! American education. Alas even I forget the great general who died and received the 21 gun salute! I thought Chuikov led the army then Zhukov. But of course we americans know so little so I could be wrong
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He was great man... but Tukhachevsky could be many times better with in relative of Zhukov minimal casualities. Tukhachevsky could be best Red Army commander of all times(and maybe Hitler would not attack on Soviet Union if Tukhachevsky lived...). One of biggest difference beetwen Tukhachevsky and Zhukov is Tukhachevsky worried about his soldiers and officers, Zhukov was cold-blood commander of "human waves".
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Zhukov was no Hero. He wasted more lives taking Berlin than neccesary. Thousands lost as Seelowe Hieghts. A friggen ape could have done better than that Communist Goon. I spit on his grave as well as Stalin"s and Lenin"s. Fuck all you Commies cunts!!
Im glad that you didnt have a chance to prove otherwise. And what great operation did you lead, that you dare to judge Zhukov's doings? I think that I know the answer.
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Do not forget heroes of civil war murdered by Stalin. Do not forget Tukhachevsky which military theories saved USSR before total collapse. Do not forget Iona Yakir which tactical operational documents and theories was used by Zhukov in defense of Moscow. Do not forget V. K. Blyukher who repeled Japanese imperialist attack on Lake Khasan and shocked Japan empire. Do not forget thousands and thousands other innocent Red Army officers tortured, prisoned and murdered by Stalinn and his bloody band!
Honestly speaking Marshal Zhukov shall be named "Marshal Zhukov THE GREAT". What is wrong with historians! are they bloody sleeping or drinking American/english Cocacola!
Agree with cuban. However Marshal Zhukov's life story itself makes him legendary hero. If he was American or British would have known to all people today. Eisenhower, Patton or Montgomerry were nothing before him but still known worldwide. Just American/British propaganda!
Marshal Zhukov's glory was completely earased by Stalin after war. But after all years he still is a great hero. I think two field marshals were real war heros
Better than Rommel, on the German side, were Manstein and Guderian. Rommel didn't achieve much when compared to these two. What happened with Rommel is that he has been given overdue credit by the West, since he is the Field Marshal who faced them in the West, first in North Africa and then in France. Manstein and Guderian achieved much more
he defeated german generals in moscow,kursk & stalingrad..he defeated paulus,von manstein & guderian..these are great generals..zhukov is more greater than these germans..
Supposedly told new troops: "If you do not know how to do a task, we will teach you; if you do not WANT to do a task, we will MAKE you." Whatever, he succeeded. Stalin finally got the messaage after the first few months when the Soviets had sustained horrendous casualties and disastrous defeats. He then listened to his commanders who were at the scenes of the actions and allowed them to participate in the planning of operations. Chuikov, Rokosovsky, Koniev were also great commanders.
Tannenberg71410 3 weeks ago
i wouldn't say Zhukov is The most famous field marshal in WW2 i know many people in my history class who've never even heard of the man.(probably because america and britain drown out many generals and field marshals with their own) E.I: eisenhower, montgomery. patton, etc but I would have to say discluding them Zhukove would have to be in the top 5 ranging around the 4th or 5th spot next to rommel, goering, Rundstedt,and auchinleck
The9thGeneral 1 month ago
@The9thGeneral my friend don't lie to yourself, rommel, goering, etc lost to zhukov.
ZRedWingZ 4 weeks ago
@ZRedWingZ nice try but i never said that he couldnt beat them i said that he wasnt as famous as the others and also get facts straight Rommel never fought on the eastern front there for never had the chance to test against Zhukov Since after all he died on hitlers orders Though when you think about it Rommel would probably have won Zhukov was a good general but rommel had experiance/loyalty of troops and actuall military tactics that would have resulted in close 5x more deaths for the russians
The9thGeneral 3 weeks ago
Everytime i hear a disscussion about greatest generals, German generals always come to mind and it saddens me that Red Army Generals are never taken into consideration.
Even if Prussian commanders were great, Marshal Zuhkov was not only the first to stop the German blitzkreig (notably at Kursk) he also lead the longest blitzkreig counter attack that took the most land in a matter of two weeks. This man, along with other red army generals(Chouikov,Koniev,Rokosovsski), in my books, are legends!
RedAssassin911 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Well as a shock to the everybody the general is one of the few general officers I'd trust to not waste my life pointlessly. That number I can count on one hand. He's also on my even shorter list that if he said to charge hell with a bucket of water I'd be for to doing it without question and no need to threaten me.
GrigoriZhukov 2 months ago
honor to Zukov, the great soldier that saved Europe from hiltler
vasilijepravoslavac 3 months ago
yeha good bless you, for me a great mariscal
oooooooooooooooo5452 3 months ago
damn I want my own music some day
4d616c65737469636b 5 months ago
Vechnaya pamyat!
danilovsky22 6 months ago
Ukrainian Kulaks themselves didnt agree with collectivism. This is why Holomodor happened.
Scatmanfi 8 months ago
Looks as if everyones neglecting the fact that USSR and Germany were allies until June 22, 1941, that USSR were co-belligerants with Nazis in carving up Poland thus, starting WWII. Why Russians fought so hard to preserve their enslavement to a system more ruthless than Germanys is astounding. Stalin picks a fight and then bitches when his new found allies, US and UK, won't waste their soldiers the he did to the Red Army. Biggest SOB of this war was FDR, a traitor to American interests.
chickenwretch 9 months ago
@chickenwretch LOL, looks like you are confusing facts.
Kalinin1917 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917 Looks like you're not pointing them out.
chickenwretch 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917 as a historian, I must say, he is right in everything except the moralization of regimes. One cannot say one was worse than the other one. They both committee terribl, criminal attrocities not to be repeated in the future.
ABDACOM 9 months ago in playlist Soviet Union
@chickenwretch Let me tell you this, you are blaming Stalin for alliying with Hitler. Why didnt you mention which events preceded that treaty? Like Munich agreement in 1938? Why didnt you mention that GB and France did everything possible to force Hitler to start offensive on the east? Why didnt you mention that GB and France refused to cooperate with the USSR and to forge a military alliance? In fact Stalin didnt have much of a choice, there was only one man who wanted to cooperate - Htiler.
Kalinin1917 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917 Why didn't you mention Stalin/Molotov used Hitler as an "icebreaker", let Nazis aggress in the West and after parties bloodlet USSR would then enter to pick the remnants. Which in fact is exactly what happened. Stalins sphere of influence was agreed upon in non-agression pact and then renegotiated later with the Allies. The archives have been opened comrade, your lies are no longer debateable.
chickenwretch 9 months ago
@chickenwretch Haha, western point of view. Typical. Too bad that timeline is against you. I hope that name Maxim Litvinos says something to you. I hope that you know about the huge effort the soviets did to stop the nazi/fascist influence in Europe and in Africa. I hope that you know that the West refused this effort and was quite happy with Hitler's doing. Later, in 1939 Stalin used the "western logic". And watch your tongue, Im not used to be called a lier.
Kalinin1917 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917 Sir, the timeline will always be against you because you're not lining up with historical, not western, fact. Yeah that bighearted effort the Soviets made against Nazis was real altruistic. Except they didn't let go of the lands they "liberated". With liberation like that who needs enslavement, right? Your history is fascinating, your nation is fearsome. Born under the dread imposed by the Cold War I detest any ploy to dilute the offensive intents USSR had. Again, I'm not opining.
chickenwretch 9 months ago
@chickenwretch My dear sir, You are blaming Soviets that they occupied rather than liberated countries of eastern and central Europe? That they didnt leave? Do the US have still military bases in Germany, Holland, France, Italy and Denmark lets say, like from the end of the WW2? So the Soviets were not allowed to do what Americans did and what are they still doing? I love this attitude: "You cant do that but we can". And of course, the USSR never plotted any offensive action agains the West.
Kalinin1917 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917 First off, US didn't set up puppet governments and free elections, that is threat-free, were conducted per cycle.Secondly, US troops demilitarized immediatelty post war, with shared influence in Germany. Soviets and conquered lands (eastern Europe) were offered Marshall Plan, only nonaggressive western nations accepted. Thirdly, the West reacted, your reactionaries of course, to communist offensives wherever it occurred. Any contradiction to your claims you disregard, the end.
chickenwretch 9 months ago
@chickenwretch 1. Soviets didnt set up puppet goverments in Eatern europe neither (Poland was problematic) 2. The Marshall Plan was offered to the USSR and other countries, but under different conditions, which were unacceptabble to the government of the USSR. Soviets also recommended that other countries should not participate in it, instead Soviets offered their own help in reconstruction and development. There were no aggresive nations in the eastern europe when the WW2 have ended.
Kalinin1917 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917 I will not continue to argue facts. I see you are a history teacher. UK and US did not want oppressive governments in Eastern Europe; none of these countries dare cross USSR. To defend tyranny is incomprehensible. Btw, you're right, Stalin whacked Litvonov after he served his purpose. Your conclusions are based on party interpretation, something taught at Pravda Poly, Isvestia Institute, or Tass Tech. After pillageing aforementioned nations Stalin then offers his military aid. Thanx
chickenwretch 9 months ago
@chickenwretch No, UK and US didnt want any governemnt that would have something to do with the communists, ignorig the fact, that all political parties somehow collaborated with the germans, except the communists. And blackmailing countries of the eastern europe: "dont let the communists in (to the power) or we will not help you" is, of course, fine by you. Litvinov was replaced with someone not so idealistic, comrade Molotov, when the concept of collective security failed completely.
Kalinin1917 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917 There was ample reason the West wanted no further communist states post war; reasons going back pre war and reasons backed up by post war aggressions, i.e. 1953 smashing of German labor strikes, Czech trials and 1968 invasion, Hungary 1956, etc. Lenins Red Terror, Holdomor, kulak genocide, Stalin purges, all before the war. Do you believe our kind of corresponding here on YT would be allowed under post war Eastern Bloc? This is my point, I'm not promoting anything but freedom.
chickenwretch 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917: Everyone collaborated "except the communists?" "EXCEPT THE COMMUNISTS!!!!" It was basically ONLY the communists who were collaborating w/ the Nazis during the period of Molotov-Ribbentroppe Aggression Pact against Poland. Not only was the Soviet Union giving direct & massive aid to Hitler in his war against the West, every Soviet financed communist party in the West actively worked to sabotage all war efforts against Nazi aggression. Quit reading propaganda, learn real history.
VictorLepanto 9 months ago
@VictorLepanto What are you arguing? None of the communist parties were part of goverment in any occupied country. And that they were ordered to stand down, when that treaty was forged? Sure, they warnings were not heard during the era of appeasement, why should the have bothered themselfs now, when the Germany had a symbiotic partnership of USSR. Again, you are critizing only communist, because, they are communist. You really have nothing to say. And the other notion of your's, clear nonsense.
Kalinin1917 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917: By occupied I assume you refer to the Nazi occupations in the West. Ironically, both the Soviets & the British occupied Iran during the war, to use Iran as a supply route for Lend-Lease. I am addressing the Communist behavior b/c I here find people sugar coating the Soviet role advancing Nazi power in WWII. Only the USSR invaded Poland as Nazi Ally. NOT the actual Fascist of Italy. All communist parties that weren't Trotskyite were run by Stalin. They were ALL ordered to obstruct.
VictorLepanto 9 months ago
@VictorLepanto
>Only the USSR invaded Poland as Nazi Ally.
USSR wasnt nazi ally. USSR entered Poland only after defeat of polish army, to prevent Germans in western Ukraine and Belorussia.
163linker 8 months ago
@163linker: They wer most certainly allies of Nazis. The invasion was agreed to under the Molotov-Ribbentroppe Treaty. Poland had most certainly NOT surrendered to Germany. Poland was waiting for the Western Allies to organise an affective strike from the rear, in Germany's West. W/o the Soviets aiding the Nazis, Poland could have probably held out a month longer. Soviet & Nazi troops held a joint victory parade & haned over 1,000s of Jewish prisoners to Germany. Not to mention the Katyn Forest.
VictorLepanto 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
>The invasion was agreed to under the Molotov-Ribbentroppe Treaty.
Where exactly? There were no obligations to invade Poland.
>Poland was waiting for the Western Allies
But French on conference in Abbeville 12 of september 1939 decided to not to begin offencive on Germany.
>Poland could have probably held out a month longer.
One week longer, I think.
>held a joint victory parade
That was marsh, not parade. Firstly Germans outed, secondly Russians entered.
163linker 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
>haned over 1,000s of Jewish prisoners to Germany.
What exactly prisoners do you mean?
>Not to mention the Katyn Forest.
I dont believe in soviet responcibility. Poles were killed by german bullets, their hands were fixed by german rope. Place of killing - place of the rest of soviet scouts. In 1941 - place of distribution of German regiment. Germans in 1941-43 killed 435 000 people in Smolensk region. Nothing remarcable that they could kill some thousands of Poles.
163linker 8 months ago
@163linker: Then you are no better then a Holocaust denier. If you don't know that the Russian troops handed over Jews to be murdered by the Germans I can hardly begin to explain things to you on a Youtube comments section. I've seen videos of the Soviet-Nazi joint victory parade in Poland. Russian & German generals shaking hands & smiling at each other & admiring each others goosestepping troops. A lovely scene. Every legit historian says Russians killed the Polish officer corps in Katyn.
VictorLepanto 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
>Then you are no better then a Holocaust denier.
Redictio ad Hitlerum detected.
163linker 8 months ago
@163linker: Not when we are dealing a country & gov't which DIRECTLY allied to Hitler! Not when we're talking about a gov't which BEGAN WWII WITH Hitler as an ally. Not when we're talking about gov't which was rounding up Polish civilians POWs & shipping them off to their own concentration camps & out right murdering them @ the exact same time the Nazis were. The Holocaust began in Poland, w/ the invasion. The Soviets invaded Poland w/ the Nazis, thus they began the war & the Holocaust together!
VictorLepanto 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
>DIRECTLY allied to Hitler!
NOT allied.
>BEGAN WWII WITH Hitler as an ally.
NEVER began. W. Churchill, 1.10.39: Russian armies should stand on that line for defence from nazis. England and France declared war on Hitler, cause he was an agressor. They never declared war on USSR cause USSR wasnt an agressor. Alternative of Soviet entering of western Ukraine and Belorussia 17 of september 1939 - German occupation of that lands during 20-30 of september 1939.
163linker 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
>rounding up Polish civilians POWs
USA was rounding up Japanese civilians after Pearl Harbor - the exact same time the Nazis were with other nations.
>The Holocaust began in Poland
So, you blame USSR because holocaust never began in western Ukraine and Belorussia already in 1939?
But its time to see the true guilty. USSR tried to build the system of collective safety against Hitler in 1933-39 - Western countries never agreed.
163linker 8 months ago
@163linker: "holocaust never began in western Ukraine(sic, indeed; very, very sic)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I just coughed up a lung at that one. DO YOU HAVE THE FOGGIEST IDEA WHAT SOVIETS DID TO THE UKRAINE IN THE '30S! What kind of a demented fanatic am I dealing w/ Stalin's Holodomor in the Ukraine was a very BIG inspiration for Hitler. As I said to you, Stalin's troops handed over Jewish civilians for the Nazis to muder in Poland it is a simple fact. This DIRECT culpability in the Holocaust.
VictorLepanto 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
Holodomor was invented by dr. Goebbels in 1941. But Ukrainians never believed him, and were loyal to USSR during Great Patriotic war. By the way, Western Ukraine was a part of Poland in 1921-39.
USSR took 250 000 Jewish civilians from occupied Poland in 1939-41.
But its time to remeber of St. Louis ocean liner, how USA refuged to resque 930 Jews, and sent them back to Europe, on death.
Big inspiration of Hitler was when winners of WW1 allowed Hitler to build Wehrmacht.
163linker 8 months ago
@163linker: Handing over Jews DIRECTLY to the SS is hardly comparable to refusing to give them refuge. Not that Roosevelt should be let off condemnation for his behavior. You bring up various things, which are like a candle against the Sun compared to Soviet culpability in Nazi crimes. Soviet radio operators guided Nazi bombers to Polish cities. Soviet oil was used to run Nazi tanks in France, & Luftwaffe planes over Britain. Soviet iron went into Nazi weapons. A shameful legacy.
VictorLepanto 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
>Handing over Jews DIRECTLY to the SS
Thats false.
>Soviet radio operators guided Nazi bombers to Polish cities.
Thats total lie.
>Soviet oil was used to run Nazi tanks
American oil too. Everybody traded with the nazis, so USSR wasnt the worst.
>Soviet iron went into Nazi weapons.
Mostly Swedish iron.
163linker 8 months ago 8
@163linker: Even if the Soviets had not handed Jews over (which they indisputably did), the Soviets were still culpable in the Holocaust by the simple fact that Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty (w/ its secret agreement to invade Poland together) allowed Polish Jews to fall into Nazi hands & become among the 1st victims of the Holocaust. I don't think America was selling any oil to Nazis. A ban strategic minerals was in effect. The Soviets guided Nazi bombers in Poland. FACT! Look it up.
VictorLepanto 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
Why Soviets should hang Jews to Germans? They didnt that.
Secondly, USSR, proposed system of collective safety: west and Poland disagreed. They let Hitler mobilize, annex Poland and Czechoslovakia, while USSR was ready to help Czechoslovakia fight. Poland disagreed to pass Soviet forces, England and France DIRECTLY ordered Czechoslovakia to surrender Sudetenland. If west wanted to stop Hitler - they could simply do it: for example, to agree to system of collective safety.
163linker 8 months ago
@163linker: Thus we see how a life time of listening to propaganda can ruin the mind. As if Stalin didn't have a life time of doing stupid self destructive & counter productive things. Why did he desimate his own officer corps b/f the war, nearly insuring a Nazi victory. Your Zhukov only survived the purge of officers b/c he was in Asia fighting Japan at the time. If he had been in the West, he'd have died & Russia would have had no competant commanders. Even Finland nearly defeated Russia.
VictorLepanto 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
Propaganda can really ruin the mind. Lets look at history with Minsk radiostation. Employee of German embassy in Moscow Hilger asked USSR to broadcast message "Richard Wilhelm 1.0" in night time, and use word "Minsk" more often. Soviet side agreed only on word "Minsk". That means, that USSR refused to german proposition, because Minsk radiostation allways uses word "Minsk". But look, how your teachers insolently lied: "The Soviets guided Nazi bombers"!
163linker 8 months ago
@VictorLepanto
Lets look who signed non-agression pacts with Hitler: Poland - 1934, England and France - 1938, Baltic states - 1939. While USSR was antinazi.
American oil for Germany: directly they were supplied until 1941, undirectly, through Spain - until 1944. Also - Japan, Invasion of China and Nanjing massacre - 1937, but USA sold oil to Japan until 1941.
Finland really nearly defeated Russia? Finland never knew than, when asked USSR for peace.
Btw, are you a trotskist?
163linker 8 months ago 3
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@VictorLepanto
Secret agreement is a fake. But lets look who signed non-agression pacts with Hitler: Poland - 1934, England and France - 1938, Baltic states - 1939. While USSR was antinazi.
>I don't think America was selling any oil to Nazis.
Directly - until 1941, undirectly, through Spain - until 1944. Also - Japan, Invasion of China and Nanjing massacre - 1937, but USA sold oil to Japan until 1941.
>The Soviets guided Nazi bombers in Poland.
Thats false.
163linker 8 months ago
@163linker the soviets and the nazis both invaded poland, it was the 1939 non aggresion act between joesph stalin and adolph hitler to split poland to avoid war between the ussr and nazi germany. So i would imagine that its logical that soviet radio operators did help the nazi invade poland while they invaded poland also
manbearpig1864 4 months ago
@manbearpig1864 Poland signed non-agression pact with Hitler in 1934, England and France - in 1938.
>both invaded poland
Red Army entered Poland after defeat of polish army to prevent Wehrmacht in wesern Ukraine and Belorussia.
>soviet radio operators did help the nazi
Thats false.
163linker 4 months ago
@chickenwretch And by the way, Im not a russian, sir, Im Czech.
Kalinin1917 9 months ago
Glória ao povo soviético que quebrou a hidra nazista.
Armando1735 9 months ago
Folk here NEED to do some reading up.
It COULD be argued that stalin's decisions in the 30s made it possible for the Soviet Union to defeat the nazis but..........
BUT it's VERY clear that it was stalin that resulted in million and millions of Soviet peoples to have died during the "Great Patriotic War" that need not to have.
lukebccb 1 year ago
Bless you Zhukov! you saved the world from evil Nazis.
DanKelso 1 year ago 9
excellent historical piece about a true hero and revolutionary.
truthslap 1 year ago
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Zhukov:
"It is now said that the Allies never helped us . . . However, one cannot deny that the Americans gave us so much material, without which we could not have formed our reserves and COULD NOT HAVE CONTINUED THE WAR . . . we had no explosives and powder. There was none to equip rifle bullets. The Americans
actually came to our assistance with powder and explosives."
tranmere789 1 year ago
OMG! HE SMILED AAAAAAHHHH!!-ITS THE SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE!
jasincl 1 year ago
Excellent hero of our motherland!
patrioticSpetsnaz 1 year ago
This great military commander, Zhukov, ended up being purged by Stalin as a 'threat' just because Stalin didn't like the attention he was getting, he was forced to resign his post as head of the military and was sent to the Odessa military district.
kill3456 1 year ago
@kill3456 he deserved more than anyone to be the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 1 year ago
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jasincl 1 year ago
@jasincl didn't work out that way for Eisenhower.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 1 year ago
@kill3456 then he was promoted under Khrushchev.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 11 months ago
brits are educated that 250000 allies landed on a beach in 1944 and won the war. the germans were knackered because 87 spitfires fought the luftwaffe in 1940. there might be a gap in that flawed history?
kilomeister 1 year ago
Check out the book My Cousin Killed Hitler based on the story of Marshal Zhukov.
rajahbabe 1 year ago
Jorji Joukov never lost a battle, won the 4 most important of WW II. He changed the face of the war at Khalkin-Gol in 1939, when he crushed the Japs so badly they decided to attack anybody else but the SSSR. But what would Joukov have been without his I-16 (first plane w/retractable landing gear, 1931), his BT fast tanks (ancestors of T-34)... even his T-26B (Vickers) were far superior to anything Mitsubishi would offer til 1945. Happy New Anna Perenna of AnnaPyr Na(zdarovié)
MardQUre327 1 year ago
marshal zukov bol najvecsi a najlepsi general druhej svetovej vojny
MaTuS111100 1 year ago
one of the most bad ass generals in the war, R.I.P Marshall Zhukov
gamergeektwo 1 year ago
hey, Kalinin1917, are you a soviet communist or a stalinist? that is, do you believe in Stalin and his policis, or do you agree with Khruschev's (forgive me if I'm misspelling his name) secret speech denouncing stalinism?
ABDACOM 1 year ago
@ABDACOM I dont agree with Khruschev for one reason, he was a part of stalin's politics and after stalin's death he blamed everybody else but himself. I also believe that Stalin did 70% of good things, the rest is more problematic.
Kalinin1917 1 year ago
@Kalinin1917 I see, and what do you say to those historians and political scientists who point to the starvation of the Ukraine, the Katyn Massacre, the purges and other of Stalin's crimes? Would you say they fall under the other 30%? (thanks for your previous answer, by the way)
ABDACOM 1 year ago
@ABDACOM Well the so called holodomor was not a sole matter of Ukraine, but it was presented in other part of soviet union as well. And the cause? Bad weather with resistance from the side of villagers who should have joined the sovchoz and kolchoz (joint agrarian community). Moreover, officials, who were in the goverment of Ukraine lied to Stalin about the actual state of holodomor so adequate measuress couldnt be applied. Katyn massacre cannot be justified, in my opinion.
Kalinin1917 1 year ago 6
@Kalinin1917 Katyn Massacre was a lie conducted by infamous Goebbels himself. Why the hell Soviets should massacre Polish officials just after the victory at Stalingrad?! The massacre is a work of Nazis, just to put the blame under USSR. Ropes, bullets, everything that has been used for the massacre was German-made. Photos are taken by the Germans, then fell under NATO after the war, and used against the communism for anti-propaganda. Think, and research twice before accepting American lies.
BiomechanicMan 1 year ago
@BiomechanicMan I do believe, that the Katyn massacre was commited by the Soviets. Reason for such an act? Not very clear - except the hatred for the Polish. Stalin signed that order and many historical materials prove that it is a fact, not an american lie. Denouncing facts wont help us.
Kalinin1917 1 year ago
@Kalinin1917 United Nations had made an investigation at that times, finding german bullets and german-made rope on the polish victims, that data was denounced later when suddenly some stalin's signature appeared, i strongly believe those signatures are made up
majora23 1 year ago
@majora23 are you referring to the murders of the Polish Officers, near places like Smolensk, and other people from Poland, Stalin considered a threat?
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 11 months ago
@BiomechanicMan How was the Katyn Massacre a German lie if Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, Medvedev, and recently Russian Duma said it was the crime of Stalin. The Russians still have not given out all archives regarding the Katyn Massacre because some of the people who commit it are still alive in Russia.
ByzantineWarrior1 1 year ago
@BiomechanicMan "Why the hell..." The The old "vozh'd y uchitel" and his soviet régime did even worse during the '30's with the purges and the killing of 30 MLN people - BEFORE WW-2 began (for the USSR, June 1941)., so what could 22,000 POLISH officers have been for them??!!! peanuts... Furthermore, the massacre took place in 1940, NOT " just after the victory at Stalingrad" in 1943!!! I won't let myself be fooled by "american lies" but neither will I be bamboozled by soviet onesa
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Gheorgyi 9 months ago
@BiomechanicMan "Think and research twice before accepting American lies" NKVD murdered Polish select in 1940, Battle of Stalingrad ended in Feb. 1943. You need to get your facts straight before indicting the target of your prejudice. Those pesky Soviet archives were opened and decades-long lies and misinformation have been dispelled that is, by any serious educated person. Red propaganda never dies, it just LIES there whimpering.
chickenwretch 9 months ago
@Kalinin1917
>Katyn massacre cannot be justified, in my opinion.
Who, in your opinion, killed polish oficers? Do you believe dr. Frantisek Hajek, who wrote about german falsifications?
163linker 8 months ago
@ABDACOM the same historicans and scientists wrote under the communists how great the time was. And they will write it again, under another russian government. Whos bread i eat, those song i sing - russian saying. And, yes. Polnish officers killed about 200.000 prisoners of war and earned their shooting.
AV7Volhv 1 year ago
Comrade Stalin did NOT sack Comrade Zhukov-though he sent him to a relatively minor post--Beria wanted to Stalin to kill him Comrade Stalin said "I know Comrade Zhukov better than I knowmyself he would never betray me or the USSR" you can look it up!
vivascargill 1 year ago
@vivascargill that fact is rather well known here. "The War in Europe has been won and to no one man does the United nations owe a greater debt to than to Marshal Zhukov" General Eisenhower.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 1 year ago
@MarshalGeorgiZhukov you are exactly right--unfortunately in the US the fact is not well known
vivascargill 1 year ago
@vivascargill it should be. The US involvement and contribution in the War is well detailed with the books I own. I wish that it were the same in the West for our contribution.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 1 year ago
@MarshalGeorgiZhukov US Contribution! They only came in when the great Red Army was winning! But Churchill was the worst! Good series on u tube that was shown in US called "The Unknown War" Good I mean better than the garbage we get most of the time--of course Comrade Stalin here still equals Hitler--god we are a stupid country!
vivascargill 1 year ago
@vivascargill yes, in some of the books in the US I have seen it nearly, almost exclusively, talks about the West's involvement to the War, making as little mention about us as possible. The books that I own give the credit to who deserves it. For the US it's their exploits in the Pacific and North Africa. The British it's all over the world. Just about every nation that participated in the war is talked about in my books. The US and the UK did send us a tremendous amount of food and clothing.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 1 year ago
@MarshalGeorgiZhukov if I had not told my kids about Zhukov and all the other great heroes of the great patriotic war they would have known nothing--in this country no one knows about our Communist party's work against racism for example--for example no one knows here that the reason the West "won" the battle of the bulge is because Ike or Churchill sent Comrade Stalin a plea and the Red army's advance was speeded up so the Nazis had to turn around.Zhukov Vassilesky or Kursk? Hah!
vivascargill 1 year ago
@vivascargill, in the 60's, and I think in the 50's as well, there were some African Americans who looked to the Soviet Union for aid in their struggle for Civil Rights, they looked at us with envy because everyone was an equal by law, and that law was enforced. I could only imagine how that battle would have turned out if the Germans were not so preoccupied with fighting us. Something I do not want to imagine.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 1 year ago
@MarshalGeorgiZhukov I sent you two videos of Brother Paul Robeson
vivascargill 1 year ago
@vivascargill Ah, thank you. He was a great singer, I actually have one or two records of his music.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 1 year ago
Slavna Crvena Armija i Ruski narod podneli su najvise zrtava u borbi protiv nacizma i fasizma !!!
Maršal Žukov i Slavna Crvena Armija je prva usla u Berlin i slomila Hitlerovsku Nemacku !!!
Nikada nesmemo da zaboravimo na slavne Crveno-armijske vojnike Heroje koji su dali svoje zivote za pobedu !!!
SLAVA MARSALU ŽUKOVU !!!
SLAVA CRVENOJ ARMIJI !!!
ZIVEO DAN POBEDE !!!
Veliki bratski pozdrav iz Srbije !
Da nam zivi majka Rusija !
lalabanatvs 1 year ago
This man stared dead into Stalin's eyes and did not flinch. He feared no one.
rustaayy 1 year ago
Great video. Wasn't he one of the few military leaders left from Tsarist times?
theromanian19 1 year ago
@theromanian19 yes he was in the imperial army
SoviMusic 1 year ago
The Crime History of Stalinism -Mass rape of German women by Stalinists
Crimes of the Red Army
The Crime History of Stalinism -Mass rape of German women by Stalinists
Soviet Soldiers Rapists in 1945 - Советские солдаты насильники в 1945.
hundturken2 1 year ago
@hundturken2 yea stalinist are killer... so for the mass rape im gonna kil 20 millions perssones from your country *like everyone know a perssones that was killed* and put you in a big army what are you gonna do ?
SoviMusic 1 year ago
long live the motherland and ouer zhurkov !!!!
SovietAssault 1 year ago
Great song and great man. He truly was a genious. All glory to the soldiers of the red army and to Zhukov,Konev,Timoshenko,Rokossovsky.
MilitariaMan 1 year ago
песня фуфел современный....
ahirzaman1000 1 year ago
The Red Army choir have so many good songs v put, Zhukov, Katkusha, My Army, the Soviet Union is long gone but thay are still poping up around the World
southeastatheist 1 year ago
sorry one of his grandghilds lives in greece
aargirhsmil 1 year ago
zhukof was greek pontian,stalin killed his parents and widow woman zhukof raise him,one of his three doughters is married and lives in athens
aargirhsmil 1 year ago
@aargirhsmil Thats nonsence, Zhukov's parents died of natural causes, he even managed to evacuate his mother to Moscow, when germans were advancing through USSR.
Kalinin1917 1 year ago
@Kalinin1917 maybe you must run a better search,of course his life was "under cover",for reasons i think you can understand
aargirhsmil 1 year ago
@Kalinin1917 correct!! where does this nonsense about comrade stalin and comrade Zhukov come from?--I will tell you from Imperialists!
vivascargill 1 year ago
I truly wish that when Stalin died that Marshal Zhukov would have taken his place.
MarshalGeorgyZhukov 1 year ago
@MarshalGeorgyZhukov It's ironic that it's KHRUSCHEV that sacked Zhukov!
initvesa 1 year ago
@initvesa First it was Stalin, then Khrushchev brought him back, but after a disagreement he was sacked again. But Marshal Zhukov outlived both Stalin and Khrushchev.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 1 year ago
Marsal Zukov komandant slavne Ruske Amije je slomio hitlerovsku nacisticku-fasisticku nemacku
i podigao RUSIJU na pijedestal pobednika !!!
SLAVA MARSALU !!!
SLAVA RUSKOJ ARMIJI !!!
lalabanatvs 1 year ago
I'm sorry to mention this, but at 3:07 you spelled smiled wrong. But besides that, this is the perfect video.
MarshalGeorgyZhukov 1 year ago
@MarshalGeorgyZhukov Why are you sorry? I made a mistake and I will correct it. Thank you for noticing and your time.
Kalinin1917 1 year ago
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The Crime History of Stalinism -Mass rape of German women by Stalinists
Crimes of the Red Army
The Crime History of Stalinism -Mass rape of German women by Stalinists
Soviet Soldiers Rapists in 1945 - Советские солдаты насильники в 1945.
hundturken2 1 year ago
@hundturken2 that is nothing compared to the millions of Soviet Civilians the Germans did that to, and worse. Unlike them, we did not slaughter 14% of their population because we considered then "Sub-human". They did that to us. So don't even think about trying to lower us to those worthless animals. How dare you even attempt to do so.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 1 year ago
the great Zhukov--and yes I know what Konev did-- even though he was probably a good general--Comrade Zhukov was NEVER in the Gulag!! Beria wanted him dead but Comrade Stalin refused and sent him to a remote post of command. Hrushov later betrayed him--but he died a natural death and even made a come back. In 1965 he was at the victory memorial and women cleaning the streets cried with joy. He made one mistake --not supporting comrade Molotov in 1957 Even in America he is admired.
vivascargill 1 year ago
GREAT! Many Thanks!
grummeper 1 year ago
this man is my great great great grandfather i found it out just today
MrMegathunder100 1 year ago
Whatever happened to Marshall Zhukov? Anyone know?
ericartwo1 1 year ago
@ericartwo1 How come, you havent received my reply? In short, after the war Zhukov became a commander of several military districts, after Stalin's death in 1953 he became a minister of defence (1953-1955), then he was retired. And lived happily ever after :-)
Kalinin1917 1 year ago
@Kalinin1917 Thank you for replying to my question. Marshall Zhukov was renowned in Britain as a great military strategist. Probably, he was the best Army Commander of all World War Two generals. It is a long time since the WW2 but I always remember him from various history, military programmes and documentaries.
ericartwo1 1 year ago
@ericartwo1 you are welcome.
Kalinin1917 1 year ago
@Kalinin1917 I don't think so. Zhukov, Malinovsky, Eremenko and some other marshals were victims of Stalin's purges after Great Patriotic war. Zhukov suffered the greatest consequences because he was very popular in the army and people. When Khruschev came, Zhukov saved him from Malenkov and Molotov, but Khruschev did the same thing as the Stalin. Zhukov's life was full of rises and falls, especially after the war. I think he was a true military genius, but he wasn't such a good politician.
Zika1742 1 year ago
How long after the war before he wound up in a Gulag? lol I don't know his history but I know the history of the Bolsheviks. Surely he didnt' die of old age or natural causes right?
coaltrader07 1 year ago
@coaltrader07 Why are you commenitng on something you havent even the slightest clue? The only thing you are prooving (by your lol comment) is that you are stupid.
Kalinin1917 1 year ago
@Kalinin1917 Just a hunch from my study of the Bolshevik beasts. You're right I don't know. Inform me on how Zhukov lived out the remaining years of his life?
coaltrader07 1 year ago
Glory to the great Marshall Zhukov , the greatest victor of WWII, So a man!
justiciaideal46 1 year ago
Eternal glory to the great Marshall Zhukov, the real victor of the WWII, So a man!
justiciaideal46 1 year ago
Glory to Zhukov as well as all the other brave souls who defended the world against the Facist Pigs!
HelgiWartooth777 2 years ago 24
yes glory to this exeptional marshal
SoviMusic 2 years ago
@HelgiWartooth777 Zhukov was a great commander. I understand there was a great rivalry with Koniev? How about that machine gun at 1:02 - looks kind of obsolete, doesn't it? maybe a residual from WW-1?
Gheorgyi 9 months ago
@Gheorgyi Yes of course you are right my friend, in fact they had a race to Berlin and Zhukov got bogged down in the Seelow Heights when he faced off against an excellent German General named Heinrici. He could actually predict when the Soviets were going to attack within a half hour before their attack, he would then have his troops fall back to alternate positions. This turned out to be a great battle. The machine gun you mentioned is called the Maxim 1910. Best wishes!
HelgiWartooth777 9 months ago
Glory to Zhukov but don't forget Comrade Giap!
vivascargill 2 years ago
Kalinin what about Marshall Rokossowski??
Lordwalgaw 2 years ago 3
Sure, actually, Rokossoski is my favourite of all comanding officers of the soviet army.
Kalinin1917 2 years ago
NO !! even as a non russian i can say Marshal Zhukov is best man known worldwide after lev Tolostoy and Lenin.
ashishjuyalin 2 years ago
@ ashis Not in the US My children knew nothing about him until I told them In the US Eisenhower won the war! A disgrace but true--ask most Americans about oh say Kursk and they will not know what you are talking about.
vivascargill 2 years ago
Marshal Konev are not so popular as Zhukov or Rokossvskiy outside ex-USSR states, but he leads the Red army during Stalingrad battle!
Scoutrussp7 1 year ago
@Scoutrussp7 Konev Timoshenkko Rokosoowski any of the generals! They no nothing!! American education. Alas even I forget the great general who died and received the 21 gun salute! I thought Chuikov led the army then Zhukov. But of course we americans know so little so I could be wrong
vivascargill 1 year ago
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He was great man... but Tukhachevsky could be many times better with in relative of Zhukov minimal casualities. Tukhachevsky could be best Red Army commander of all times(and maybe Hitler would not attack on Soviet Union if Tukhachevsky lived...). One of biggest difference beetwen Tukhachevsky and Zhukov is Tukhachevsky worried about his soldiers and officers, Zhukov was cold-blood commander of "human waves".
nekdonekdonekdo 2 years ago
Look at "The Furies" by Mayer I would not have believed it but there is real evidence Tukachevsky
vivascargill 2 years ago
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Zhukov was no Hero. He wasted more lives taking Berlin than neccesary. Thousands lost as Seelowe Hieghts. A friggen ape could have done better than that Communist Goon. I spit on his grave as well as Stalin"s and Lenin"s. Fuck all you Commies cunts!!
3shacks1house 2 years ago
Im glad that you didnt have a chance to prove otherwise. And what great operation did you lead, that you dare to judge Zhukov's doings? I think that I know the answer.
Kalinin1917 2 years ago
@3shacks1house bloody Amerika will take another 1000 yrs to have a man like Marshal Zhukov. Bloody Patton is nothing before him.
ashishjuyalin 2 years ago 3
he saved more civillian lives than those who prefer nukes instead of assault
kosiak10851 2 years ago 2
he could bomb every thing easily. but didn't
kosiak10851 2 years ago
Russian sacrifice in world war 2 has not been forgotten.
6313635 2 years ago 3
Zhkov was a hero, but not only him!
The rest of soviet generals were great like Rokossovsky.
Long live communism !
guaiounsonga 2 years ago 3
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Do not forget heroes of civil war murdered by Stalin. Do not forget Tukhachevsky which military theories saved USSR before total collapse. Do not forget Iona Yakir which tactical operational documents and theories was used by Zhukov in defense of Moscow. Do not forget V. K. Blyukher who repeled Japanese imperialist attack on Lake Khasan and shocked Japan empire. Do not forget thousands and thousands other innocent Red Army officers tortured, prisoned and murdered by Stalinn and his bloody band!
nekdonekdonekdo 2 years ago
ashishjuyalin I agree.
hobied62 2 years ago
iam not against american/ british. Actually due to american as well as European historians Zhukov never got he position he deserved.
ashishjuyalin 2 years ago
Honestly speaking Marshal Zhukov shall be named "Marshal Zhukov THE GREAT". What is wrong with historians! are they bloody sleeping or drinking American/english Cocacola!
ashishjuyalin 2 years ago 2
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rommel was great too.
rommel = fox desert
guderian?lol rommel was better!
roomel was gentleman, he killed for hitler.
Leninsicklehammer 2 years ago
Hannibaal was the best! (LOL)
vivascargill 2 years ago
Comrade Zhukov and Comrade Giap will live forever1
vivascargill 2 years ago
Agree with cuban. However Marshal Zhukov's life story itself makes him legendary hero. If he was American or British would have known to all people today. Eisenhower, Patton or Montgomerry were nothing before him but still known worldwide. Just American/British propaganda!
ashishjuyalin 2 years ago 3
@ashishjuyalin
yeah i agree.zhukov was great military!!
need people as him at army
Leninsicklehammer 2 years ago
are you admitting that british and american propogandists are finaly better than the russians?
hobied62 2 years ago
Great salute to Marshal Zukov from India.
ashishjuyalin 2 years ago 3
Marshal Zhukov's glory was completely earased by Stalin after war. But after all years he still is a great hero. I think two field marshals were real war heros
1. Marshal Zuhukov
2. Field marshal Rommel
They are like Trojan war Achilles& Victor
ashishjuyalin 2 years ago
Better than Rommel, on the German side, were Manstein and Guderian. Rommel didn't achieve much when compared to these two. What happened with Rommel is that he has been given overdue credit by the West, since he is the Field Marshal who faced them in the West, first in North Africa and then in France. Manstein and Guderian achieved much more
CubanColonel 2 years ago
no I have researched this--Stalin admired Zhukov--but after the war it seems Stalin was ill--it was that monster Beria!
I disagree about Rommell he never fought on such a vast scale
vivascargill 2 years ago
he sure put those arrogant germans in their place
DirtbikingFREAKS1 2 years ago
he defeated german generals in moscow,kursk & stalingrad..he defeated paulus,von manstein & guderian..these are great generals..zhukov is more greater than these germans..
vadimchang99 2 years ago 2
zhukov the best of his time in the red army
vadimchang99 2 years ago 17
И. Бродский
"На смерть маршала Жукова"
Вижу колонны замёрзших внуков,
Гроб на лафете, лошади круп.
Ветер сюда не доносит мне звуков
Русских военных плачущих труб.
Вижу в регалии убранный труп -
В смерть уезжает пламенный Жуков.
fantozzi80 2 years ago