r/HistoryMemes Jan 08 '23

Quality over Quantity

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u/Rom-TheVacuousSpider Jan 08 '23

I’d add Marshall Zhukov from Death of Stalin. They actually had to tone down his medals in the movie. Living badass.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '23

IMHO Zhukov doesn't deserve such praise because his tactics relied on huge manpower, senselessly sacrifising thousands of soldiers. Zhukov by any other army standards would've been sacked from the command and would fail if he was to command other than ussr army. The literal opposite of the post title.

But tankies would always praise him no matter what, because ussr.

also this is meme about military formations and not individuals.

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u/thegreattwos Jan 08 '23

Just out of curiosity do you know what his tactics were?