"Grandfathers" and "affinity groups"
On November 28, a military court sentenced three sailors of the military unit of the North fleet on charges of torture and beatings of recruits. “As the investigation found out, from February to April of this year, the defendants repeatedly beat soldiers of a later service life,” said Alexander Kuratov, an official representative of the Military Investigation Department for the Northern Fleet.Almost at the same time, the military prosecutor's office began to verify information about new facts of non-statutory relations in the Northern Fleet, this time in the military unit in Severodvinsk. According to preliminary data, several dozen sailors - recruits were subjected to systematic harassment and beatings by the old servicemen. A video shot by a mobile phone camera with a record of the “educational process” of recruits was posted on the Internet. Note that this kind of videos appear on the network regularly. “Grandfathers” cannot but know that the video recording is direct evidence, but the desire to “become famous” outweighs even the fear of punishment.
It should be emphasized that the case described above is far from the most difficult. This year there were much more terrible state of emergency. We mention only some of them.
October 2 in the military unit on the island of Kunashir (southern Kuriles), a conscript soldier Denis Ichetkin committed suicide by throwing himself from the roof of a three-story hut. In the suicide note left by the soldier, the names of the old servicemen were listed, whom he called the perpetrators of his death.
21 August in the village Mulino Nizhny Novgorod region was prosecuted in connection with the violent death of a soldier. 19-year-old soldier Dmitry Bochkarev became a victim of non-statutory relations.
18 July in the territory of the military unit 28331 in Verkhnyaya Pyshma of the Sverdlovsk region was found hanging on his trouser belt 19-year private soldier Vladimir Slobodyannikov.
Needless to say, the problem of non-statutory relations, which has remained unresolved for the past five decades, inflicts on the prestige of the army and military service such damage that no enemy propaganda can cause.
Influenced by the horrific stories of torture and harassment in military units, as well as the numerous videos on the Internet with the “exploits” of “grandfathers” that are open to the Internet, young people consider themselves entitled to shy away from military service. The resonance case in the city of Tavda of the Sverdlovsk Region can be considered indicative in this sense. On July XNUM of this year, a certain twenty-year-old boy accused under the article 24 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation appeared before the court. For two years (from 328 to 2010 years), he declined to be drafted into the Armed Forces, and at the court he stated directly that he was ready to go to jail, but did not want to go to the army.
Perhaps for the first time in all its thousand years history The Russian state is experiencing such a catastrophic collapse of all those enduring values that constitute the foundation of Russian civilization. First of all, this is an unprecedented loss of respect for military service. Once the famous phrase from the movie “Officers” “There is such a profession - to defend the Motherland” served as a benchmark for several generations of young people, and the guys went to the army with a sense of pride. Evasion from service was the rarest state of emergency, not so much because of the punishment according to the law, but because of the indelible disgrace with which the deviant covered himself. Today there has been an amazing substitution of values. “Cutting off” from the army by hook or by crook is today the norm of behavior, which will not surprise anyone. Moreover, such behavior is widely supported by society. What explains such a large-scale revolution in the minds of people?
Let us call things by their proper names: for a long time, a purposeful campaign has been under way in the Russian media to discredit the Russian army.
At the same time, the theme of “hazing” is not viewed as a problem to be solved, but as evidence of the complete disintegration of the Armed Forces. Of course, a huge share of responsibility for the current situation in the army lies with the government. Obviously, the problem of non-statutory relations in the army in recent years has been exaggerated in every way, chattered, but is not solved. Recent corruption scandals in the Ministry of Defense only added fuel to the fire. The result is predictable: from year to year public opinion is agitated by an emergency in military units, similar to the infamous “case of Andrey Sychev” or the “case of Yevgeny Koblov”. Even those mass media that are difficult to attribute to “foreign agents” go beyond the limits of common sense in a revealing rage. Probably affects the specificity of modern journalism. A typical example is the article of the columnist "Moskovsky Komsomolets" Yulia Kalinina "Now every guy is obliged to mow the army": "After what the army has done with the soldier Andrei Sychev, every citizen who has reached the age of eighteen has the full moral right to avoid service by all available means and methods.
It is obvious that this kind of rhetoric only annoys the military, erects a wall of alienation between the army and society and does not at all contribute to a real solution to the problem.
However, there are forces in our country that are waging a full-scale information war against the army and navy, extracting quite specific political dividends from their discredit. Each state of emergency in the army seeks to maximize the use of various “human rights” organizations and various “non-systemic” oppositions as an informational occasion.
So, starting from 2007 in Moscow on the eve of the autumn draft, the “Anti-invocation march” has been held. It is organized by the Yabloko Party, the NBP, the United Civil Front by Garry Kasparov and other “swamp” movements.
A couple of years ago, when activists were handing out informational bulletins about the next “Anti-Calling March” in the Moscow metro, the author decided to take one of these leaflets for review. The first page contained a list of requirements - to completely abandon conscription, cancel the Criminal Code article for evading military service, and "immediately stop mass abductions of people with the aim of recruiting them into the army by illegal methods." On other pages, texts of speeches by activists of the march were printed, among which the main thing was the appeal of a certain Valery Panyushkin to the current government with a demand not to introduce initial military training in schools. On the back of the leaflet was posted detailed, consisting of eleven points of instruction entitled "Actions with a raid with a drive in the military registration and enlistment office". We emphasize that on the Internet there is already enough advertised “legal advice” offering a full range of services for cash — exemption from conscription, exemption from liability for evasion, and so on. And all this brings tangible benefits: the interrelation of such information campaigns, “anti-draft marches”, the massive distribution of instructions on the topic “How to evade military service” with a long-term, still unresolved problem of incomplete military personnel does not cause doubt. Thus, it is, no less and no less, a direct undermining of our country's defense capability.
Unfortunately, over the past four years, the situation in the army could be characterized by the term "progressive deterioration." And not only in terms of the problem of non-statutory relations. The main internal enemy of the Russian army today is no longer "hazing", but an extremely dangerous increase in the level of ethnic tension and a sharp jump in the number of conflicts on ethnic grounds. This new threat was officially announced by the Chief Military Prosecutor Sergey Fridinsky. Recall that 25 March 2011 of the year at the Interfax news agency held a press conference of the head of the GWP, during which for the first time at such a high official level it was stated: ethnic gangs are criminalized in military units.
“Changing approaches to recruitment with the connivance of individual commanders leads to the fact that soldiers of different ethnic groups are trying to impose their own rules on military teams,” was the literal text of the Fridinsky statement.
He backed up his statement with concrete examples. So, on October 15, 2010 in the Perm Territory on aviation A base of 120 troops called up from the North Caucasus refused to obey command. The commander of the military unit, Colonel Dmitry Kuznetsov, was forced to seek help in restoring order to the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Prikamye. According to the commander, the Caucasians, having formed “military micro-collectives” in part, began to engage in extortion and forced co-workers to carry out all kinds of work for them.
In parentheses, we add that this story was continued. The chairman of the Council of parents of military personnel of the Perm Territory, Alexander Vrakina, has denied information about the mass disobedience of Caucasians to the command of the unit. But it made a reservation that Caucasians really tried to impose their own rules: “Since, according to Caucasian customs, a man is considered humiliating to have a floor, Caucasians were forced to do this by colleagues, most often Russians.” Representatives of the Islamic clergy intervening in this matter described the situation as follows. Co-Chair of the Russian Muftis Council Nafigulla Ashirov in an interview with Russian Service News"Stated:" I believe that this situation is greatly swollen and does not have the consequences that are being talked about today. This is again the water to the mill of chauvinists, who today blame primarily the Caucasians and Muslims in general for all the problems of Russia. ” Ashirov further explained that the aggression of Muslims is a response to their humiliation from other nations. “When they try to humiliate a Muslim, he should not allow himself to be humiliated,” the Mufti summed up his interview with such a compelling argument.
We emphasize that the above statement by Sergey Fridinsky about the threatening increase in crimes in the army committed by ethnic gangs, was the first and the last.
A terrible roar followed from above - and from now on the chief military prosecutor could talk about anything - corruption, hazing, drunken debuts of contract servicemen - but not to deal with the problem of ethnic crime. Against the backdrop of “shooting weddings” and the release of Mirzaev, this is not surprising. Everything is clear without words.
However, it cannot be excluded that in a short time the problem of non-statutory relations and ethnic gangs in the army will come out, so to speak, “to a new level”. The fact is that on November 22, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Vladimir Komoyedov made a proposal to extend the conscription service to one and a half years. The meaning of this proposal is clear: in this way it is possible, firstly, to reduce the level of incomplete troops, and secondly, one year of service with modern technical equipment of the army, and especially the fleet, is completely insufficient for training military personnel in the basics of military specialties. But this decision also has a downside: a number of experts express fears that the implementation of Komoyedov’s proposals will cause a new surge of bullying in the army, drawing direct parallels with a similar decision of the USSR leadership in 1967.
It is necessary to mention another significant point: the heads of the North Caucasian republics constantly talk about the "discrimination" of their peoples in the implementation of the conscription. As is known, the former leadership of the Ministry of Defense, trying to reduce the level of ethnic crime among the troops, decided to completely abandon the call of the Chechens and significantly reduce the number of draftees from Dagestan.
The new minister, Sergei Shoigu, immediately came under the pressure of the heads of national republics and an organized campaign in the Caucasian media.
Thus, on November 23, the electronic publication Caucasian Politics published a large article under the notable title “The Armed Forces, having refused to recruit Caucasians, faced a critical shortage of conscripts.” As a result, 29 November already became aware that Shoigu agreed to significantly increase the number of conscription for Caucasians. Moreover, many Russian newspapers are already writing about the consequences of such a decision. In particular, “Izvestia” in the article “Shoigu agreed to increase the call from Dagestan” reported: “Immediately 11 deputies from Dagestan wrote an appeal to Shoigu with a request to increase the call in 2013 to 35 thousand. The press service of the President of Dagestan“ Izvestia ”confirmed the fact of agreement about increasing the number of recruits. The Ministry of Defense refrained from commenting ... The problem of falling quotas on residents of the republic was outlined several years ago. The military explain this informally by the lack of discipline of the Dagestanis, their unwillingness to carry out orders and conflict. The indiscipline of compatriots did not deny the leadership of the republic. Experts explained the decline in the number of Dagestanis in the army by the fears of the Defense Ministry to end up with not militants defending Russia, but militants who, after service, could join the ranks of terrorist structures. ” In this context, we mention the large state of emergency 28 of August of this year: a Dagestani soldier shot seven border guards from a machine gun. The investigation revealed that the criminal was recruited by one of the terrorist cells of radical Islamists operating in Dagestan ...
However, it is already clear that the commanders in the field will have to clear up the consequences of new experiments in the army. In this sense, the example of the 138 th motorized rifle brigade, which only two years ago was considered one of the most criminal in the Russian army, is indicative. However, after the arrival of a new commander in the unit, Colonel Alexander Ivanovich Novkin, the situation changed radically. Colonel Novkin firmly and decisively crushed "hazing", significantly improved the nutrition of soldiers with high-quality and honest use of outsourcing and managed to lead the brigade to the position of the best military unit in the district. May God grant our army more such commanders!
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