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Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (died 2012)

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Sergei Sokolov (marshal)

Defense Minister of the Soviet Union

Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov was a Soviet military commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, and served as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 22 December 1984 until 29 May 1987.
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Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)

Soviet government minister

The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union refers to the head of the Ministry of Defence who was responsible for defence of the socialist/communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1992.
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