Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Not even close. That was on Stalin, and Stalin alone. Zhukov was fired as Chief of Staff for suggesting that Kiev was a trap, and should be evacuated. Also Marshal Budenny (who no one has ever suggested was a great general) saw that Kiev was a trap, and pleaded to be allowed to evacuate, only to have Stalin refuse.
Nonsense. Rzhev was classic Zhukov, the only reason he's not hailed for it is that it didn't work. It's the same strategy from Khalkhin-Gol and Moscow: build up superior numbers, then throw them at the enemy and when you lose as many as they do, you still have men standing and they don't. Zhukov's career is a laundry list of examples of total disregard for human cost and abuse of the Soviet Union's superior numbers in the most brutal way possible. He was not a great strategist, he got lucky and had the chance to make his brutish plan work more times than it failed, and in ways that impressed Stalin enough while no one else was producing results so as to secure his lasting fame even when things went horribly wrong.