Dmitri Timofeyevich Yazov (Язов, Дмитрий Тимофеевич in Russian) (born November 8, 1923) was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union to be appointed before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 1979-1980, Yazov was a commander of the Central Army Group.
During the August Coup of 1991, Yazov was a member of the State Emergency Committee, for which he was prosecuted and acquitted in 1994.
SovietDefense MinisterDmitriyYazov issues an order which says that the armed forces have authority to determine what kinds of monuments can be set up in the Soviet republics.
Defense MinisterDmitriyYazov admits that the Soviet armed forces have bombed monuments in the Baltic States.
On Mikhail Gorbachev's instructions, DmitriyYazov orders special military units to enter Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the stated aim being to ensure that the military draft proceeds properly.
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