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Awww......so cute how they had t-shirts printed up, and everything....for their CHEAT scheme.

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В Москве скончался последний министр обороны СССР Евгений Шапошников https://t.co/uq1Xap6vVJ— Радио Свобода (@SvobodaRadio) December 8, 2020

Translated to English.

The last Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union, Air Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov died in Moscow in the 79th year. This was reported by the "RIA Novosti" agency with reference to the chief of staff of the "Club of military leaders" Nikolai Deryabin.

Shaposhnikov was born in 1942, since 1959 he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR. He was a navigator of the regiment, commanded a squadron, a fighter aviation division.

Since the 1970s, he has held command posts in the Carpathian Military District, in the Odessa Military District. Then he commanded the 16th Air Force.

In July 1990, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force - Deputy Defense Minister of the Soviet Union. Since August 1991, Shaposhnikov is the last Minister of Defense of the USSR. In the same year he was awarded the title of Air Marshal.

From the beginning of 1992, he was the commander-in-chief of the CIS Armed Forces, and in June-September 1993 he served as secretary of the Russian Security Council. Later, he represented the President of Russia in the state-owned company Rosvooruzheniye, which was engaged in the export and import of weapons and military equipment.

In 1995, Evgeny Shaposhnikov became the head of Aeroflot. In 1997 he was appointed Assistant to the Head of State for the Development of Aviation and Astronautics.

Yevgeny Shaposhnikov will be buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery in Mytishchi.

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