Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov

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Nikolai Ivanovich Krylov (April 29, 1903–February 9, 1972) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union (from 1962). He was the commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces in 1968, when the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia. He was one of few men in the Strategic Rocket Forces who did not fear that Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles would seriously endanger Soviet national security.

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