On this day, 36 years ago, October 27, 1989 (September 28, 1989, the Soviet Union destroyed all medium and short-range missiles. At 9 a.m. Moscow time on October 27, 1989, the Soviet Union destroyed the last of the 957 medium-and short-range missiles it possessed at the Sareozek test site in the Republic of Kazakhstan. When announcing the above news to Tass reporters, General Omelichev, the First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Soviet Army, said that the last medium and short-range missile destroyed on the 27th was what the West called the SS¡¤23 missile, with a range of 500 kilometers. It was deployed in the early 1980s.