About this, by the way,
Zhukov told the executive editor of the Red Star, David Ortenberg.
In the midst of the Moscow panic, Stalin suddenly ordered that the city's defense be entrusted to Zhukov,
and he called Ortenberg himself with instructions to print a portrait of the commander.
Then Ortenberg writes:“I thought that Stalin wanted to show
the Muscovites what a decent person is protecting the city, and Zhukov told me:“ You are naive. He wanted to show who will answer for the surrender of the city, if that happens.”.