- Pavel Batitsky
Pavel Fedorovich Batitsky (
June 27 ,1910 -February 17 ,1984 ) served as commander-in-chief of Soviet Air Defense from 1963 to 1978, and was appointedMarshal of the Soviet Union in 1968. He is often said to have executed in person (by a single shot)Lavrenty Beria in 1953 (Batitsky was Colonel-General and chief of Moscow Air Defence at the time).
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