I've been reading up on Georgy Zhukov and man....that was one ruthless sociopathic human being. I'm sorry If I phrased it that way but the guy just had such a horrible human rights record it's hard to see him as anything other than a monster. With him sending millions and millions of people to their deaths, often times needlessly, surely lots of Russian people even today are affected by him directly (fathers, mothers and siblings being killed). He certainly seems like someone who caused a lot of Russians a lot of suffering. What I am curious about though is with how ruthless Zhukov was to his own people how is the man seen by Russians today?

Here in the US we think of our commanders for the most part as good and just and just did what they needed to do to get the job done; Whether or not that's true I'm not here to say. We don't hear stories of Eisenhower or McAurthor shooting people in the head for cowardice (or ordering it), and I'm sure if we did hear stories of that we would denounce them. That clearly seems to be the kind of thing Zhokov did regularly so I am curious how modern Russia thinks of him.