Georgy Zhukov famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Battle #Use #Lasts
If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use!
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Giving #Rubbish #Use
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.
-- Georgy Zhukov

#War #Hero #Successful
There's no smoke without fire.
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Fire #Gossip
Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived...
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Military #Moving #Decision
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Military #Responsibility #Encounters
It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Strong #War #Goal
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.
-- Georgy Zhukov

#History #Tanks #Steel
The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Use #Weapons #Possibility
There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Russia
If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.
-- Georgy Zhukov

#Infantry

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