WI: Zhukov defects during Barbarossa?

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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?
 
Why would he?He wasn't on Stalin's shit list, he wasn't dissatisfied with his position and not under particularly strong threat of execution/prison.
 
What if Zhukov alone (and his immediate family) defected to the German side sometime during Operation Barbarossa? (Andrey Vlasov style)
Why should he defect in first few weeks of border incidents? ;)

However, Vlasov didn't defect. He was captured and only afterwards agreed to cooperate with Germans.
 
Totally out of character for him. Even if he wasn't a communist, which he was, he still was an ambitious man with a chance to be one of the leading generals of the century. I would vote him the soviet general least likely to defect.
 
This isn't a plausibility question...:rolleyes:

Simply a what if
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.
 
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