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The last commander of the Warsaw Pact – Victor Kulikov passed away
30.05.2013
The famous Soviet commander Viktor Kulikov died in Moscow at the age of 91. He was one of the last three surviving Russian marshals who passed all the way from a simple soldier in the Red Army during World War II, to the most senior military commander.
He commanded all kinds of regiments in the Soviet Army, including the battalion of Soviet troops in Germany; he was the first deputy defense minister and one of the main military experts of the Soviet political leadership. For 12 years - from 1977 to 1989, he was the chief of the forces of the Warsaw Pact. In recent years, he was a member of the Supreme Council of Pro-Putin party "United Russia". He was also known as a strategist who was not a slave to ideological dogmas, but a professional soldier with a pragmatic and realistic thinking.
In June 1995, Marshal Viktor Kulikov visited Bulgaria at the invitation of the President of the Atlantic Club Solomon Passy. In the Central Military Club he delivered a great lecture to the members and supporters of the club. The main thesis of the Marshal was that decent opponents must be respected.
During his visit, the marshal visited the former First party and state leader Todor Zhivkov, who was under house arrest in Boyana at that time. There, he was first greeted by the then bodyguard of Zhivkov – Boyko Borisov.
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Source: http://www.24chasa.bg/
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