Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Zhukov (b 1896) commanded the Red Army and all the military forces of the Soviet Union during World War II.

Georgy Zhukov in Worldwar
When the Race's Conquest Fleet arrived in 1942, Marshall Georgy Zhukov was initially forced to make huge concessions of Soviet to the unexpected and far more advanced enemy. However, Zhukov pioneered innovative tactics which overcame the Race's technological superiority through the use of superior Soviet numbers (at tremendously high cost to his army) and increasingly short supply reserves for the Race (this probably saved Zhukov from Joseph Stalin's wrath]]. Zhukov turned the tide, stabilized the front, and began retaking territory from the Race, especially after the Soviet Union developed the atomic bomb.

After the war Zhukov remained Marshall of the Red Army. Following the death of Stalin, he became, along with Lavrenit Beria of the NKVD and Foreign Commissar Andrei Gromyko, one of General Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov's most important advisers. Molotov trusted neither Zhukov nor Beria and attempted to play them off against each other; the two had a deep-seated rivalry between them. However, in 1963, Beria and the NKVD attempted a coup against Molotov, and Zhukov suppressed it. He had a choice between restoring Molotov and making himself General Secretary. He chose to restore Molotov, but Molotov no longer had a counterbalance against him, and Zhukov felt at liberty to use the veiled threat of launching his own coup to influence Molotov's policy decisions. Ultimately, he continued to respect Molotov's authority for the remainder of his career.

Georgy Zhukov in "The Last Article"
After years of fighting, Georgy Zhukov conceded defeat to German forces led by Walther Model in 1946 outside Kuibishev. Model allowed Zhukov a view last words to his troops before he had Zhukov shot.