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

Pavel Grachev
Pavel Grachev
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.
"These 18-year-old youths [Russian conscripts in Grozny] died for Russia, and they died with a smile."
"We shall respond to every Chechen shot with thousands of our own."
"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."