born December 1 [November 19, Old Style], 1896, Kaluga province, Russia—died June 18, 1974, Moscow), marshal of the Soviet Union, the most important Soviet military commander during World War II.
Having been conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Zhukov joined the Red Army in 1918, served as a cavalry commander during the Russian Civil War, and afterward studied military science at the Frunze Military Academy (graduated 1931) as well as in Germany. He rose steadily through the ranks, and as head of Soviet forces in the Manchurian border region he directed a successful counteroffensive against Japanese forces there in 1939.
During the Winter War, which the Soviet Union fought against Finland at the outset of World War II, Zhukov served as chief of staff of the Soviet army. He was then transferred to command the Kiev military district and in January 1941 was appointed chief of staff of the Red Army. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union (June 1941), he organized the defense of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and was then appointed commander in chief of the western front. He directed the defense of Moscow (autumn 1941) as well as the massive counteroffensive (December 1941) that drove the Germans’ Army Group Centre back from central Russia.
In August 1942 Zhukov was named deputy commissar of defense and first deputy commander in chief of Soviet armed forces. He became the chief member of Joseph Stalin’s personal supreme headquarters and figured prominently in the planning or execution of almost every major engagement in the war. He oversaw the defense of Stalingrad (late 1942) and planned and directed the counteroffensive that encircled the Germans’ Sixth Army in that city (January 1943). He was named a marshal of the Soviet Union soon afterward. Zhukov was heavily involved in the Battle of Kursk (July 1943) and directed the Soviet sweep across Ukraine in the winter and spring of 1944. He commanded the Soviet offensive through Belorussia (summer-autumn 1944), which resulted in the collapse of the Germans’ Army Group Centre and of German occupation of Poland and Czechoslovakia. In April 1945 he personally commanded the final assault on Berlin and then remained in Germany as commander of the Soviet occupation force. On May 8, 1945, he represented the Soviet Union at Germany’s formal surrender. He then served as the Soviet representative on the Allied Control Commission for Germany.
Upon Zhukov’s return to Moscow in 1946, Stalin assigned him to a series of relatively obscure regional commands. Only after Stalin died (March 1953) did the new political leaders, wishing to secure the support of the army, appoint Zhukov a deputy minister of defense (1953). He subsequently supported Nikita Khrushchev against the chairman of the Council of Ministers, Georgy Malenkov, who favoured a reduction in military expenditures. When Khrushchev forced Malenkov to resign and replaced him with Nikolay Bulganin (February 1955), Zhukov succeeded Bulganin as minister of defense; at that time he was also elected an alternate member of the Presidium.
Zhukov then undertook programs to improve the professional calibre of the armed forces. Because this effort involved a reduction in the role of the party’s political advisers and, consequently, in the party’s control of the army, his policies brought him into conflict with Khrushchev. Nevertheless, when a majority of the Presidium (called the “anti-party” group) tried to oust Khrushchev, Zhukov provided the airplanes that transported members of the Central Committee from distant regions of the country to Moscow, thus shifting the political balance in Khrushchev’s favour (June 1957). As a consequence, Zhukov was promoted to full membership in the Presidium (July 1957). But Khrushchev could not tolerate the marshal’s persistent efforts to make the army more autonomous; as a result, on October 26, 1957, Zhukov was formally dismissed as minister of defense and a week later was removed from his party posts. Remaining in relative obscurity until Khrushchev fell from power (October 1964), Zhukov was later awarded the Order of Lenin (1966) and allowed to publish his autobiography in 1969.
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Maybe this is just me but i feel like if the juices at the bottom of a bag of chicken smell so bad they make a person retch then like idk that chicken should probably be tossed even if it looks fine. Because it's been subjected to the same conditions as the juices, and the juices smell putrid, so, there's probably a good deal of bacterial growth going on in the meat too even if it looks fine
But i've just been a cook for 4 months and the chef said keep it
And the chef isn't an idiot so like idk I guess I'm wrong? Idk.
Knowing this is raw chicken that smelled how you described it, your chef is in fact an idiot. Did the chef smell it themself?
See, the CHICKEN smelled fine, it was the juices pooling at the bottom of the bag. Like it's a big bag in a box with several smaller bags of chicken that give off fluid as it thaws, and those juices smelled rank. But I guess smelling the actual chicken it was fine? I just don't think that that... means it was fine, because if there's bacterial growth in the juices at the bottom I'm sure there's some degree of it in the meat even if the meat isn't smelling rotten yet... but idk
It's raw meat there's for sure bacterial growth that needs to be killed with heat in any case. What you're describing sounds like some pretty unusual odor tho
Chicken smells terrible. It's some kinda chemical thing I was told about before and forget the details but if it's like a sulphury kind of smell that's normal. We cook chicken every 3 days or so and it can smell like that after being put in a container just hours after cooking. It's normal and totally fine to serve.
This was raw chicken tho and it was like the sweetish smell of rot and it made me immediately heave like if i really smelled some spoiled milk or other rotten shit
oh different story there. Yeah, that seems like it should be tossed then. When meat has gone rancid you can really tell. Do these things have dates on them?
The boxes have pack dates and he did look at that before determining what to do but i don't remember what the date was, I kinda went back to doing my own thing
Was the box previously opened? If do did someone pop sn opening date on there?
Raw chicken never smells good...
Raw chicken shouldn't have the distinct sweet smell of putrefaction. It shouldn't really have a strong smell
chef's delight
Bacteria can't enter into the meat they can only exist on the surface. The liquid can have the bacteria all through it so it will carry a higher bacterial load. Salmonella is in chicken flesh naturally but it is completely killed when you cook it. it also doesn't smell.
E-coli and botulism leave toxic spores that can survive significantly higher temperatures If the juices smell bad that smell is e-coli. I'd just give it to my dog because a little rot is good for his guts. I wouldn't cook it but if I had to I'd give it a wash first.