• Valentin Varennikov was born to a poor Cossack family in Krasnodar.
  • To the end, Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov was a believer in an uncompromising Communist Russia under firm rule at home and a feared superpower on...
    • Valentin Varennikov: A Soviet General and Russian Politician
    • World War II and the Berlin Campaign
  • Varennikov reports on problems with the Afghan forces, including excessive demands for additional weapons and equipment and the unreliability of Afghan troops.
  • Valentin Varennikov, who has died aged 85, was the epitome of a generation of diehards who refused to accept the changes to the Soviet Union introduced by...
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  • Valentin Varennikov was the Soviet general who led the abortive coup to overthrow President Gorbachev in 1991.
  • Valentin VARENNIKOV, army officer Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1944.
  • Valentin I. Varennikov, who plotted to overthrow President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and called the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest catastrophe of the...