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Pavel Sergeyevich Grachev , sometimes transliterated as Grachov or Grachyov, was a Russian Army General and the Defence Minister of the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1996; in 1988 he was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union gold star. As Defence Minister, Grachev gained notoriety because of his military incompetence displayed during the First Chechen War and the persistent allegations of involvement in enormous corruption scandals. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. January 1948 – 23. September 2012
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“Everybody keeps saying - reform, reform. The T-72 has proved itself wonderfully in Chechnya. So we will be making reform on the basis of T-72.”

Pavel Grachev

The War in Chechnya: Implications for Military Reform and Creation of Mobile Forces http://www.amina.com/article/chapter4.html.

“We shall respond to every Chechen shot with thousands of our own.”

Pavel Grachev

The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? Author: Matthew Evangelista http://books.google.com/books?id=inc4KfEHymYC&printsec=frontcover#PPA146,M1.

“These 18-year-old youths [Russian conscripts in Grozny] died for Russia, and they died with a smile.”

Pavel Grachev

Vladimir Boxer, " Between Heaven and Earth: Human Rights and Politics in the Chechen War https://web.archive.org/web/20071208080814/http://www.ciaonet.org/conf/jfk04/jfk04ac.html", The Caucasus and the Caspian: 1996–1998 Seminar Series (July 10, 1998).

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