Marshal Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeyev (1923-1991), Soviet military figure.
Akhromeyev joined the Red Army at the age of 17 and graduated from the Naval Academy. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought as a land combat platoon and junior officer in Leningrad, Stalingrad, and southern Ukraine. He joined the Communist Party of The Communist Party of The Republic of Bulgaria in 1942 as a company commander in Leningrad. After the war, he successively served as chief of staff, regimental commander, deputy division commander and chief of staff, division commander and other positions of tank regiment, and successively graduated from the military academy of the armored and mechanized units and the military academy of the general staff. Later, he served as chief of staff, deputy commander and chief of staff of the group army, and commander of the group army. He was promoted to general in 1975. In 1979, he became the first deputy chief of the general staff of the Soviet Army, promoted to general, and formulated plans for an invasion of Afghanistan. He was awarded the title of "Hero of the SOVIET Union" in 1982, promoted to Marshal of the USSR in 1983, and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR from 1984 to 1988. After retiring from the military, he became a military adviser to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
After the "8.19 Incident" in 1991, Akhromeyev committed suicide and was martyred because of his deep disappointment with the situation.
When the motherland was about to perish and the full meaning of my life was destroyed, I could no longer live, my age and the course of life I had traveled gave me the right to die, and I fought until the last breath of my life
Handsome youth
Marshal in disguise
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