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Originally posted by Unix:
Zhukov just a miserable butcher, just remember such names as Elnia, Sichevka, Berlin, Counter-attack during 1942 winter, ...
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Can't say I agree really. Yes, Zhukov certainly pushed his troops forward in the face of horrible casualties on more than one occasion. On the other hand, he often got the results as well. The Elnia/Yelnia example you mention above is one of them, certainly a bloody affair and seemingly lost as well. But, on the other hand, it is also arguably the action that delayed the German advance long enough to save Moscow and by extension quite possibly the nation!