Read Glantz' Zhukov's Greatest Defeat for starters. Since the Soviet Union collapsed a great deal more accurate information about the war in the East has come to light. Much of it puts a far bleaker picture on the competence of Soviet operations.
I can only go with what you put up here. If your paper was longer or had more citations and references I would not have known it.

Zhukov was only one of a number of Soviet marshalls and generals that showed a reasonable level of competence during the war. He is hardly responsible single-handedly for defeating the Germans. A great deal of credit goes to the Germans themselves for that cause.

Stalin's, and STRAVKA's most valuable input was after their initial defeats in 1941 not making too many further major blunders. Zhukov's operations Mars and Saturn of early 1942 were blunders. The Red Army lacked both the material and competence to carry these offensives out and it shows in how Zhukov was handed his ass for them by the far more tactically and operationally competent Germans.

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