"Экс-министр обороны СССР Маршал Советского Союза Дмитрий ЯЗОВ: «Руста специально послали на Красную площадь, чтобы дискредитировать наше военное руководство. Может быть, даже по договоренности с Горбачевым»" (12 August 2008)
Soviet minister of defence (1924-2020)
Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (Russian: Дми́трий Тимофе́евич Я́зов) (8 November 1924 – 25 February 2020) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August Coup, four months before the fall of the Soviet Union. Yazov was the last person to be appointed to the rank of Marshal on 28 April 1990 and the only Marshal born in Siberia. His death in 2020 marks the end of the line of surviving Marshals of the Soviet Union.
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Russian and foreign historians and politicians said this for me. In their unanimous opinion, the main event of the twentieth century is the Second World War. In it, in the Great Patriotic War, we won. This is the main thing. Although the Americans wrote very different results, for them, the collapse of the Soviet Union was the main event of the past century. There is no more powerful state. The world has become unipolar and it is beneficial for them.