Georgy Zhukov quotes
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“The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!”
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : "A History of the Modern Age" by Albert Fried, Julian K. Prescott, (p. 175), 1971.
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“If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!”
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank, (p. 164), 2007.
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“Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.”
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“There's no smoke without fire.”
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : "Stalin's Generals" by Harold Shukman, (p. 359), 2002.
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“Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived...”
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : "Top GENERAL: ZHUKOV". "TIME" Magazine, February 21, 1955.
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“The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.”
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 49), 2002.
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“It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.”
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 15), 2002.
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“We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.”
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“The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.”
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.
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“There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.”
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : "Mandate for Change, 1953-1956: The White House Years" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 518), 1963.
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“If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.”
-- Georgy ZhukovSource : Said to General Eisenhower in 1945. "Russia: The People and the Power". Book by Robert G. Kaiser, p. 207, 1976.
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