Telecast How it was (2001) 20.02.2001
Part 1
0:35:09How it was 20.02.2001 (2001)
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Resignation of Marshal Zhukov, 1957.
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov is an outstanding commander of the twentieth century, a living symbol of our Victory.
His fame was so great that it seemed that nothing and no one could overthrow him from this pedestal of national love and respect.
But in 1957, at the October plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, the marshal was charged with underestimating the party-political work in the army, with a pro-Western approach to the construction of the armed forces, and by Khrushchev's personal order Marshal Zhukov was removed from the Central Committee and relieved of ministerial duties.
Since the late 50s, historiographers have stopped mentioning the name of the disgraced marshal, the press was silent about him.
The leadership of the country did everything to put the name of the great commander into oblivion.
Chief of Marshal's personal security Sergey Markov, Marshal's daughter Ella Zhukova, military historian Georgy Kumanev are visiting the program.
The chronicle was used in the preparation of the issue: Zhukov's funeral on June 21, 1974; the plenum of the CPSU Central Committee on October 29, 1957; Eisenhower, Khrushchev and Zhukov at talks in Geneva in July 1955.
Personnel:
Zhukov G.K. - Soviet commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, four times Hero of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defense of the USSR (1955-1957). Stalin I.V. is a revolutionary, political, state, military and party leader. Voroshilov K.E. - revolutionary, military commander, statesman and party leader, participant in the Civil War, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor. V.M. Molotov (Scriabin) - revolutionary, political and statesman, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, Honorary Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Beria L.P. is a revolutionary, Soviet statesman and politician. Khrushchev N.S. - Soviet statesman and politician, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor three times, 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1953-1964), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1958-1964). Brezhnev L.I. - statesman and party leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1966-1982). Gromyko A.A. - Soviet diplomat, statesman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1957-1985), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1985-1988), Doctor of Economics. Mikoyan A.I. - revolutionary, statesman and politician, Hero of Socialist Labor. Suslov M.A. - Soviet party and statesman, Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1947-1982). Kirilenko A.P. - Soviet party leader, twice Hero of Socialist Labor. Konev I.S. - Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, veteran of the Civil War and the Second World War. D.D. Eisenhower is an American statesman and military figure, army general, 34th President of the United States (1953-1961). G.A. Kumanev is a Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Military Sciences.
Calendar: 1940s 1955 1957 1974