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[[Image:SS Biriuzov 02.png|thumb|We knew well that such distinguished generals as Khomenko and Bobkov would not surrender alive to the enemy.]]

'''[[w:Sergei Biriuzov|Sergei Semenovich Biriuzov]]''' ([[August 21]], [[1904]] – [[October 19]], [[1964]]) was a RussianMarshal of the Soviet Union and Chief of the General Staff. On March 11, 1955, Biriuzov was given the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. Between April 1955 and April 1962, Biriuzov was the Commander in Chief of the National Air Defense Force. After this, he was made Commander in Chief of the Strategic Missile Force, and in 1963, he was made the Chief of the General Staff. On October 19, 1964, Biriuzov was killed in a plane crash on the mount Avala near Belgrade. The urn containing his ashes is buried in the Kremlin.

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* Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.

** Quoted in "Military Procurement Authorization" - Page 347 - United States - 1963

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* Strategic missiles are precisely the weapons which can deliver a decisive blow against the enemy's primary targets — his armed forces, and first of all, his strategic nuclear attack weapons. As a result of such a strike, the political objectives of a war can be attained in the first days of the conflict.

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