"The longer the war drags on, more and more civilians are getting killed."
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Quoted in "Iraq Rebuffs Iran on Peace Initiative", pA01, February 11, 1991, Rick Atkinson and Barton Gellman, Washington Post.
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Sergei Akhromeyev
Sergei Feodorovich Akhromeyev (May 5, 1923 – August 24, 1991) was a Russian military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982), Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983), who was Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces 1984-1988, and committed suicide after the 1991 August Coup.
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