Marshal Georgy Zhukov (center) wearing three Hero of the Soviet Union medals and Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky (right) wearing two, meeting British general Bernard Montgomery in Berlin 1945. [1000×1257]
Eleven years later Zhukov would receive his fourth Hero of the Soviet Union medal under controversial circumstances, allegedly for for his participation in the arrest of Beria, Stalin’s NKVD chief of staff, in 1956.
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Eleven years later Zhukov would receive his fourth Hero of the Soviet Union medal under controversial circumstances, allegedly for for his participation in the arrest of Beria, Stalin’s NKVD chief of staff, in 1956.