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In short, acting like Napoleon, or at least from a Marxist perspective. It was/is a term thrown at people, especially military officers, who seek in someway to subvert the revolution/rule by the proletariat. In this case specifically, the accusation, as I said, was that Zhukov was making veiled threats that the military's allegiance was to him and not the state and that he would stage a military-backed counter-coup and place himself in power, or at least as the power behind the throne. There is certainly more complexity to the term as a whole, but I'd leave it to a scholar of Marxism to dissect the finer points.
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