Genuinely just curious as to what people think would have happened had he retained power or had his coup against Kruschev been successful

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    It wasn't a coup against Khrushchev but a restoration of democracy against Khrushchev's coup against the Politbureau, whom then relied of Zhukov's threat to massacre them and anyone who got in his way with the then depoliticized red army to finalize his bureaucratic coup against the Soviet government.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Brilliantly skilled, preening self-justifying opportunist, rationally and resourcefully brave. Critical support for Zhukov as a hero of the Soviet Union, I still think he should have been put on trial and faced a death sentence for treason and undermining the peoples democracy.

      • binman [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        He defeated a full-scale Japanese invasion in 1939. It's forgotten today, but he was at Nomonhan, having barely escaped the purges with his life. Without him, the Japanese would have probably gotten all the way to Lake Baikal and there would have been no Pearl Harbor.

        Zhukov repeated his tactic at Stalingrad and it worked equally well.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          where would you suggest I read more about this, interested in knowing more about Zhukov

          • binman [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Really hard to do without chud sources. I'm scared to get my account nuked.

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              how bad are we talking here, stormfront? I think archive links are okay but we could check with the mods