That created a problem for one of the most revered Soviet military leaders, marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, who oversaw many of the USSR's greatest victories against the Nazis.

Mariana Bezuhla, a Ukrainian member of parliament, this week called Colonel General Syrsky the Ukrainian Zhukov – a reference ...

On a summer afternoon in 1945, an American newsman asked a visitor to Moscow, “What do you think of Zhukov?” Answered Five-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Georgy is a very decent fellow.