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Eastern Front / Re: Who was the best commander in WWII?

« on: January 14, 2009, 04:53:23 AM »

Zhukov, that's simple. Because he's the winner and he's the one who captured Berlin and did it with lower casualties than the enemy (which is almost impossible to make). End of story.

Most of the german army had already surrendered to the western allies trying to get away from the soviets :p Zhukov had incredible trouble getting through the Seelow Heights, and sent hundreds of men to their deaths in frontal attacks. Not the mark of a good general, in my opinion. The defenders of Berlin were mostly young or old men with very little equipment and almost no armored assets, not to mention the fact that berlin had been bombed to hell and gone by the time the russian army got there... and personally any general who can't keep his soldiers under control enough to stop wholesale rape and murder of a conquered populace doesn't get my respect to begin with. Nearly the entire female population of berlin was raped, some dozens of times.

No, I don't respect Zhukov.