Georgy Zhukov was the man who helped save the world from the tyranny of Hitler. He was a marshal in the Red Army, saved Leningrad and Moscow and against all the odds defeated the Germans at Stalingrad. It was Germany’s first and most significant defeat in World War II. Stalingrad changed the war
After the war he was badly treated by both Stalin and Khrushchev. Banished, rehabilitated, and banished and rehabilitated again.
Geoffrey Roberts Stalin’s General The Life of Georgy Zhukov writes: “What Stalin really objected to was Zhukov’s independent streak and his tendency to tell the truth as he saw it, a quality that had served the dictator well during the war but was less commendable in peacetime when Stalin felt he needed no advice except his own.”
It’s not just dictators, who behave in such a way, living in bubbles surrounding themselves with sycophants.
It happens in democracies too, and in the churches. It happens everywhere, right in front of our eyes.
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