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'''Georgy Zhukov'''
== Biography ==
▲Georgy Zhukov was born on December 1st 1896 and is a marshal of the [[West Russian Revolutionary Front]]
'''<big>Early Life</big>'''
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After Zhukov unifies West Russia, there will be a struggle between the Social Democrats, Communists and Socialist. If you favor one, the others will not revolt against you, so no need to worry.
== Trivia ==
In OTL, Zhukov was instrumental in the defeat of the Third Reich, having participated in the planning and execution of the war's major battles on the Eastern Front. This includes the Battle of Moscow, Rzhev, the defence of Stalingrad, the relief of Leningrad, and famously the Battle of Berlin.
Chosen by the Soviet Administration to personally accept the German Instrument of Surrender in Berlin, Zhukov would become the first commander of the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany. After the war, Zhukov would be sidelined by Stalin, through his reassignment to the Odessa Military District, and then to the Urals. He would be recalled to Msocow in 1953, just as Stalin suffered his fatal stroke.
After Krushchev's rise to Premier of the Soviet Union, Zhukov would rise to become Defence Minister of the Soviet Union. It was in this post that Zhukov demanded that the political agencies in the Red Army report to him before the Party, he also demanded an official condemnation of Stalin's crimes during the Great Purge, supporting the political vindication and rehabilitation of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Grigoriy Shtern, Vasily Blyukher, Alexander Yegorov and many others of his colleagues that were executed in the Great Purge.
His second fall from the Party was more sudden and public even than his first. On 4 October 1957, he left on an official visit to Yugoslavia, and Albania. He returned to Moscow on 26 October, straight to a meeting of the Presidium, during which he was removed from that body. On 2 November, the Central Committee convened to hear Zhukov being accused of 'non-party behaviour', conducting an 'adventurist foreign policy', and sponsoring his own personality cult.
He was expelled from the Central Committee and sent into forced retirement at age 62. The same issue of the ''Krasnaya Zvezda'' that announced Zhukov's return also reported that he had been relieved of his duties. Subsequently he stayed away from politics, instead writing his memoirs and indulging in his hobbies of fishing, having been sent fishing tackle by his American counterpart, General Dwight D. Einsenhower.
Zhukov was famous for having been awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union 4 times and the Order of Victory twice, and countless other decorations through his long career in the Red Army.
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