Andrei Grechko
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Andrei Antonovich Grechko was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as the Soviet minister of defence from 1967 to 1976.
Grechko in 1960
Grechko (center), commander of the 1st Guards Army, at the Árpád Line (1944)
Grechko (far right) with East German leader Walter Ulbricht (center) and Soviet Minister of Defense Marshal Rodion Malinovsky (far left) (1961)
Marshal Andrei Grechko
On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four fellow Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, a
Andrei Grechko
…three years later he also became the commander of the Warsaw Pact forces. In 1967, Grechko was appointed Minister of Defence, and oversaw the subsequent Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and violent border clashes with China. He helped modernize the Soviet Army and was responsible for continuing the Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe…
From left to right, top to bottom: Prague students walk past a burning Soviet tank with a national flag · Hippie drawings on a Soviet truck · Crowd of Prague residents surround a Soviet tank · "Home!! Go home!" graffiti on an armored personnel carrier · Funeral of Jan Palach · Refugee camp in Austria · Protesters near burning Soviet tanks · Street fighting · Graffiti with Soviet and Nazi symbols under the inscription "ᛋᛋСР" (SSSR)
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Polish leader Władysław Gomułka in East Berlin, 1967
Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, and East German leader Walter Ulbricht in Moscow
Nicolae Ceauşescu (right) visiting Czechoslovakia in 1968; here, with Alexander Dubček and Ludvik Svoboda