At the age of 95 years died a Marshal of the USSR, Dmitry Timofejevič Jazov. Most famous for the unsuccessful coup against Mikhail With. Gorbachev. Then had to retire. In the years 1979-1980 he was commander of the occupation troops in Czechoslovakia. In the period from 1987 to 1991 he was minister of defense of the USSR and in 1990 was promoted to marshal. In 1994, he was together with other pučisty amnestied Boris N. Yeltsin and in 2014 he was awarded the Vladimir In. Putin procedure for "feats in beneficial social activities".
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