Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Zhukov, 1962 Georgy Zhukov, 1970s
Field Marshal of the WRRF
Details
Date of Birth	1st December 1896
Place of Birth	Strelkovka, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire
Age at start	65 years old
Nationality	Russian
Role	Field Marshal
Political Party	ZRF
Ideology	Bolshevism

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Georgy Zhukov (born on December 1st 1896) is a Marshal of the West Russian Revolutionary Front and a potential leader of the Front after the death of Marshal Alexander Yegorov.

In Game Description

1960s Description

From the streets of Voroshilovgrad to the shores of Khalkhin Gol, from the outskirts of Leningrad to the forests of West Russia, in every battleground he fought, Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov demonstrated himself as an exceptional leader and stood out as an example to respect and follow from his peers and subordinates alike. Serving the Motherland with dignity and honor since its foundation, Zhukov was among the cohort of Soviet generals who have not surrendered to the advance of the Hun or abandoned their oath to the Soviet Union, and became one of the leading generals of the West Russian Revolutionary Front, the one which almost brought the Reich to its knees.

Even though the Front lost the battle, it did not lose its sacred war against the Fascist horde. The Front will rise anew - but will it learn from its past failures? Marshal Zhukov adamantly believes in the Communist cause and deeply admires the sacrifices the Soviet people took to preserve their country, but at the same time, he often expressed his doubts in the efficiency of the Front organization and went as far as suggesting that the Soviet leadership moved too far away from the working people it claims to represent. Zhukov's too independent position caused some hardliner generals to question his trustworthiness and even his loyalty to the Front for a man of his responsibilities.

The rumors of his political unreliability have not walked past the ears of the Arkhangelsk leadership, but his authority among the Red Army and sympathies from the common people were too significant to even consider merely discarding him. Following several unfortunate confrontations between Zhukov and other generals, he was sent to oversee the extraction of oil in the region of Ukhta, where he could put skills to use while keeping himself busy to affect the politics of the Front. Should the Front face turmoil, however, the marshal won't let himself to be quiet...

1970s Description

Very few expected Russia to be reunited, and fewer still believed that it would be reunited under another Union of Soviets. And yet, despite all odds, Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, the son of a Russian peasant cobbler, General of the West Russian Revolutionary Front, and the heir apparent to Kliment Voroshilov clique, has done just that.

Zhukov rose through the ranks of the Soviet military, his career derailed by the invasion of Russia by the Reich. Joining the Western Revolutionary Front, a rump communist state, he was instrumental in the Western Russian War in the 50s, and while the war ended in loss for the WRRF, it broke Germany's hegemony. Falling out of favor, he was sent to the military district of Ukhta.

But with the German Civil War, his opportunities and fortunes alike expanded. Winning the power struggle against his opponent, Tukhachevsky, he quickly took advantage of the stop in terror bombings to reunite West Russia, and quickly extended this rule over the rest of Russia. His reforms have made the system more stable and prosperous, with the economy recovering from the destruction of the warlord period. Rumors abound Zhukov, however. His health has deteriorated, with many of his underlings within the early days of the clique being labelled as possible successors. And then there is the matter of the border, which in recent months has seen massive amounts of build in materiel and soldiers near the Pakt.

Zhukov has refused to comment on this rumor.

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.