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On Sun. 19 Apr 1942 General Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov committed su.....

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General Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol as his Soviet 33rd Army was on the brink of total destruction at Vyazma, Russia.

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