Stalin&Zhukov´s Operation "Mars": Why Did the USSR and putin Hide the Defeat at Rzhev?

[Litwin]

The short answer is the Mongol - Muscovites hides everything.
ps David Glantz' s "Zhukov's Greatest Defeat" throws more light on Operation Mars.

 

[whitehall]

The Rzhev meat grinder. Historians give far too much credit to Russian general Zhukov but he was on our side so his tendency to get his own troops killed was generally ignored at the time.