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WWII hero died at 103

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Alexey Botyan, a legendary Soviet-Armenian intelligence agent who rescued Krakow during the 1945 Nazi occupatiom, has died at age 103 in Russia. He passed away around 1:30 on Thursday, TASS news agency reports, citing the Foreign Intelligence Service.
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"...Colonel Alexey Botyan was a career intelligence officer. His contribution to saving Krakow from the Nazis is that he helped destroy a warehouse where they kept explosives meant to blow up the city center. Only in 2007, 62 years after the end of World War II, Botyan was decorated as a Hero of Russia for his role saving the Polish city."
 
Last Soviet Union Marshal Dmitry Yazov dies at 96
Yazov held the post of the Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991
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Yazov fought in the Great Patriotic War, where he was injured twice. Between 1942 and 1945, he led an infantry squad, and later a company at Volkhov and Leningrad fronts. He took part in the defense of Leningrad, and Soviet offensive in the Baltic and the Army Group Courland blockade.
On May 30, 1987, Yazov was appointed as the Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union. On April 28, 1990, Yazov was promoted Marshal of the Soviet Union, becoming the last Soviet military commander of this rank.
 
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