What if Zhukov alone (and his immediate family) defected to the German side sometime during Operation Barbarossa? (Andrey Vlasov style)
Let's say the PoD occurs during Stalin's weeks in seclusion.
How would this effect the rest of the invasion?
What sort of defection is this?Does he bring the units under his command along?
Why should he defect in first few weeks of border incidents?What if Zhukov alone (and his immediate family) defected to the German side sometime during Operation Barbarossa? (Andrey Vlasov style)
Then nothing. As OTL some kind of ROA is formed when for Germans is anyway to late and Soviets would find some other ambitious General. After all they had few good field marshals on level Zhukov, and some even better then him - not such a butchers to their own men. Zhukov would in 1945 either put bullet to his head or end up as Vlasov did. Hang, by the balls, I read in some book by some Russian historian published in 1989 or early 90-ties.This isn't a plausibility question...
Simply a what if