[2banana]

Zhukov is known for being a damn good commander and beating the Nazis. Not for being a communist.

[mrmeyer]

He joined the Communist party during the revolution and was a politburo member later in his life.

[pierrem15]

I talked to a Russian coworker about Zhukov once: many Russians view Zhukov as a butcher who sought to please Stalin by sacrificing tens of thousands simply to meet political deadlines for offensives, such as retaking a city by May Day or some such.

Look at his performance at the Seelow Heights, where the preparatory bombardment turner the Oder river bank into a sea of mud almost impassable to Soviet tanks and he ordered desperate frontal assaults simply to keep up with the Ukrainian Front commander's assault from the south.