Quotes from Georgy Zhukov

The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

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.

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.