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Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (died 1974)

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Georgy Zhukov

Soviet military leader (1896–1974)

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces under leader Joseph Stalin, and…
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Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)

Soviet government minister

The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union refers to the head of the Ministry of Defence who was responsible for defence of the socialist/communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1992.
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