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Georgy Zhukov is generally thought of as either one of the best commanders of WW2 due to winning it on the Eastern Front or just the lucky guy to get the credit for being the guy in charge during the win and wasted a lot of live unnecessarily. Certainly his record is somewhat mixed, but he was the guy that Stalin would listen to and he did certainly have victories to his credit, including taking Berlin. So what if he was out of the picture, say he ran afoul of Beria and got purged in the late 1930s. What happens without him? Who replaces him as Stalin's fire-fighter and what happens with the border clashes in Mongolia in 1939? Could the Soviets win without Zhukov?
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