Russian army today - the thoughts of the general
And if tomorrow is war? ...
And what is the current Russian army? This is another army, another quality. This is the army of the bourgeois state, it is designed to protect the power of capital, the interests of its protégés. The army received the first baptism of fire in the war with its own people and the execution of the Russian parliament. The Russian military machine is an organism, seriously ill, and does not provide security for our country.
The former power as a result of the reforms is in a landslide state. Would we have won the Great Patriotic War if there had been such a negligent attitude of the authorities towards the country's defense capabilities, if industry had been so ruined? Is a capitalist economy capable of performing such a miracle, when during the war years 2593 industrial enterprises were evacuated from the western regions to the eastern! Of which 1523 large enterprises aviation industry, which allowed by November 1942 to eliminate the superiority of the fascist bloc in the production of basic weapons.
Is it possible to defeat the enemy, if the share of state ownership in the most important large industrial monopolies is essentially zero? Is it possible to defeat the aggressor if the military-industrial complex is steadily collapsing and given into private hands? Is it possible to survive in the modern war, when food security depends entirely on the West? Would we have won the war if the country's energy system, along with the breaker, railways, oil, civil aviation were in the hands of Chubais? There are a lot of questions like this.
The attitude of the ruling regime towards the army has also changed. And this began when the destroyer of the USSR and the tormentor of Russia, Yeltsin, in one of his speeches called the military loafers sitting on the neck of the state. The military swallowed it, were not even indignant, and then it went and went. In cooling down the army, especially officers, all the internal enemies of Russia practiced. Apart from the odious personalities such as Sobchak, Gaidar, Chubais, Nemtsov, and representatives of the media, who in reporting on the hostilities in Chechnya called the Russian troops a derogatory word: "federals" also succeeded. The deliberate collapse of the armies inherited from the Soviet Union and Fleet to please the West. Former Prime Minister Kasyanov frankly stated the goals of the government - that “our priorities are the protection of private property, not the interests of the state.”
The prevailing point of view of the authorities was the conclusion that Russia does not need an army to defend Russia, since Russia has no enemies. The fate of our country did not interest them. They are closer to the interests of the comprador bourgeoisie, which practically includes all the oligarchs, who, if "the thunder breaks out," will not in the best case be on the side of the Russian people. Their main capital is in foreign banks and, consequently, they work for the economies of other countries, and they themselves squeeze out the utmost of those natural riches that they got by the will of Gorbachev — Yeltsin — Chubais. During the 15 years of reform, the government did not engage in the defense complex, did not rearm the army and actually financed its biological existence. The situation has not changed under the Putin presidency.
The rampant character of the army stabilized, and only appeared patriotic rhetoric, words of thanks addressed to war veterans, recognition of the right of defenders of the Motherland to a decent life and promises to improve the situation. And that's all, but there is no serious matter. Under Putin, Russia surrendered military bases in Cuba and in Vietnam, and is now preparing to hand over two more important radar facilities in Mukachevo and near Sevastopol. Flooded station "Mir", dominated in space. At the root, undermined the military-industrial complex.
In 2005, 2200 remained from 600 defense factories, but their fate is problematic. Lost professionals of high qualification. Over the 15 years, thousands of scientists from 200 have left Russia, including those from the defense industry. The Moscow factory “Banner of Labor” assembles the entire 12 MIG-29 per year, and then for China. Russia has been ousted from Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Its place is occupied by the USA (NATO). The pro-Western regimes of Georgia and Ukraine are in a hurry to join NATO. Meanwhile, Russia is pushing away the fraternal Belarus from itself.
Unlike the USSR, Russia no longer has “buffer” allied states that would cover the territory and give time for mobilization in the event of a military threat. The army failed not only to protect its people, but also itself. The situation in the Armed Forces is alarming. There is no daily serious combat training in the troops; it does little to increase the combat skills of warriors. The equipment of the new military equipment is essentially not produced, so the new equipment comes in single copies.
Much of the weapons developed their resource and is not ready for combat use. As for the military-industrial enterprises, which have not yet gone bankrupt despite the evil will of the ruling officials, they, as a rule, work and supply foreign countries with new technology. Due to payment of these orders they live. A television show created by domestic designers of individual samples of the latest military equipment, sailing a separate ship or an airplane flight on a long-distance route and other blissful images only create the appearance of concern for the country's Armed Forces and do not change their state of combat readiness.
For example, as already reported in the press, if in the famous Tsushima battle in May 1905 Russia lost 26 ships and ships, then only surface ships lost during the so-called "reforms" were approximately 30 Tsushim. The ship and the numerical strength of the Navy has decreased significantly. Especially hit naval missile aviation. The ship repair base of the Navy was reduced by more than 4 times. A similar situation in other types and types of troops. Take the problem of preparing young people for military service. Nobody does this. Although the experience of Soviet power shows how to implement the Constitution of the country and its demands for the protection of the Fatherland.
Especially as in the current Yeltsin Constitution of the Russian Federation it is written in article 59 that the defense of the Fatherland is the duty and duty of a citizen of the country. However, young people with poor health, no secondary education, even chronic alcoholics, drug addicts, persons with mental disabilities, and a criminal past, enter the army.
Many recruits are rejected for health reasons (up to 40%), and the Ministry of Health does not bear any responsibility. A significant number of conscripts come to the troops, speaking scientifically, with a shortage of body weight, or more simply, dystrophics. The XXI century is in the courtyard, and many illiterate people are being drafted into the army. Where did they learn to write and read, if 2 million youths do not go to school! Today, 10% of the population is illiterate. Again, the people's government in the future will have to begin the struggle for the elimination of illiteracy.
Nowadays, the efforts of statesmen, deputies, military leaders led by Putin are reduced to shortening the term of fixed-term service to one year and transferring the army to a contract basis, to serving volunteers for high fees, including foreigners. With the simultaneous cancellation, though not immediately, conscription. With the reduction of military service to 12 months, it will be difficult for the army to meet its mission. The refusal of a mass army is, in my opinion, a serious mistake, and it will eventually affect in the event of hostilities. Now, concepts such as the defense of the Fatherland, the sacred duty of every citizen of the country, and universal conscription have gone to history. With the current army, we would not have won the Great Patriotic War, nor would we have won a modern war.
Well, where is the strictly regulated military order provided for by military regulations, with its mutual assistance and friendship, without which the army organism ceases to be a combat unit, without which victory in battle is impossible? The reduction of concern for the state of his department led to the fact that with the destroyed harmonious system of training and education of soldiers, which was in the Soviet Army and Navy, the officers and commanders disappeared zeal, indifference appeared in the performance of their duties. Young officers ask themselves the question: “who should you serve, whose and which Russia? The one where the officer’s work is not appreciated when the army is turned into the protection of a money bag, and the officers themselves are kept on a starvation ration? ”This kind of Russia today officer serves without any desire.
The social security of the military was much worse than civilian officials. This indicates a lack of understanding of what military work is. Firstly, the military people are also civil servants and must go through the list under the number XXUMX, ahead of civilians. And secondly, is it possible to compare the work of an official with military service, full of danger, risk, hardship and deprivation, with irregular working hours, frequent moves to a new place of service, including unoccupied places, services, full of anxiety? And these service people, the power keeps on the poor rations.
Officers, moreover, often serve in such garrisons where their wives cannot get a job because of the lack of jobs. Apparently, laws and decisions relating to military construction and the life of military personnel are taken by those officials who never served in the army and do not know what military service is, have not experienced even a hundredth of the deprivations experienced by the defenders of the Fatherland. Many officials themselves are mired in corruption, hung with privileges and privileges and are not disturbed by the fate of the army.
If, under Soviet power, the commanding staff of the army was one of the highest paid in the country, now many officers have been reduced to a beggarly state. Although Putin says beautifully surprising words about officers, and even not so long ago he said about the existence of a military danger for Russia, he has just the opposite of words and deeds. He sometimes throws the military to their salary for a couple of hundred rubles, but he takes care of his faithful support — the bureaucracy thoroughly, endowing him with high salaries, not comparable with the salaries of military people. But at all times in Russia, the Army and Navy were allies of power.
And then Putin took and took away the benefits they deserved from the military - the title “military service veteran” essentially disappeared from circulation, the law “On the status of military servicemen” lost its force. A lot of officer families broke up due to lack of money, how many of them did not take place for the same reason! Young officers are afraid to start a family because of the inability to adequately maintain it. The following fact also speaks about the attitude of the ruling regime towards its army. The official salaries of servicemen of the Russian army are ten times less than in the armies of other foreign countries, although the money in Russia is now in bulk as a result of barbarous exploitation of oil and gas reserves.
Because of their inability to dispose of them, they are sent abroad to Uncle Sam's banks. Isn't it a shame when keeping a dog in a kennel in Moscow is more expensive than the cost of a combined ration. Today, the current international situation remains explosive as a result of aggressive US actions. The aggressive NATO bloc is expanding; it surrounds more and more closely. The United Nations is relegated to the role of a silent witness of what is happening in the world. The military danger for Russia has become a reality. If Russia has not yet become the object of attack, it is not because the aggressor is restrained by powerful Armed Forces, but because of our nuclear weapons. Bush-Putin friendship and partnership is a temporary phenomenon. Policy arrangements are respected as long as they benefit the strong side. The United States did not like it - and they withdrew from the ABM Treaty, regardless of anyone.
The US military budget in 25 times more than in Russia. The surprisingly cynical decision of the authorities to allow the stay of NATO troops in Russia cannot be ignored either. Apparently, fearing the wrath of the people, the current government no longer hopes for the defense of its army and internal troops. In the Russian army and the Navy, the act of sacrilege continues, a crime is committed against Russia, its glory, its history. By decision of the ruling regime, military units are freed from the battle-banners covered with glory, symbolizing the heroic past of the country and its Armed Forces, depriving our army of honor, dignity and traditions, handing over banners to the archive.
Instead of them, the costumes with eagle and cross, alien to the Russian army, are introduced with an expenditure of millions of rubles into 130, not overlaid with any victories, without asking opinions of military people, the Russian people. Military reform naturally caused the internal needs of the country, the circumstances of the external order and features of the current stage of development of the Armed Forces. For the first time, military reform was talked about during the Soviet era, in 1989. She was already ripe. But the Defense Ministry believed that the Armed Forces fully met the requirements of the time and did not show much activity in its conduct. Yes, and Gorbachev was not up to it. Well, then came the Yeltsin period of the collapse of the Armed Forces.
But the regular needs of military reform made themselves felt, and even those who had never served in the army and did not know what it was spoke about the military reform. I mean Nemtsov, Khakamada and other “experts”. Their intervention brought only harm. Talk about military reform continued under Putin’s rule, but there was no concrete case. Previously, there was no money in the country, and when they appeared, the talk of military reform began to calm down. Now there is no mention of her.
Thus, she, not having been born, died. Although S. Ivanov, being Minister of Defense, announced in 2003 about the completion of military reform. Although neither the country nor the Armed Forces did not feel this. There are several reasons for this. First of all, the substitution of the concept of “military reform of the state” by “reform in the army”, carrying out individual changes in the organizational structure of the army and the principles of its recruitment, reducing its number. So, for example, from 1993 to 2000 year, that is, in 7 years, the Armed Forces of Russia decreased from 4,8 million people to 1,1 million, but the number of generals in the army grew steadily and exceeded their number in the Soviet Armed Forces. Apparently, this was done with a specific goal: to turn the top of the army elite into obedient defenders of capitalism.
As a result, a number of generals ran from the CPSU to the party "United Russia", initiated anti-Soviet actions (events with the Victory Banner), became perjurers, participants in the execution of the Russian parliament and other unseemly deeds. The fundamental problems of improving military construction and strengthening the country's defense capability remained intact. This approach is not only erroneous, but also harmful. It was essentially the collapse of the Armed Forces. Military reforms were carried out by Ivan IV (the Terrible) in the middle of the XVI century; under the leadership of Peter I in the first quarter of the XVIII century; in 1890 — 1970 under the leadership of the Minister of War, DA Malyutin as part of the bourgeois reforms in Russia 60 — 70-s. XIX century; then in 1905 — 1912. and finally, in 1924 — 1925. - this reform was associated with the name of M.V. Frunze.
Each of these reforms led to significant changes and a new quality in the Russian military system. For example, military reform in 1924 — 1925. implemented a system of major measures to improve the military organization and strengthen the country's defense. It influenced all areas of the Armed Forces. The unity of command was introduced, the troop supply system was reorganized, a clear procedure for military service and the preparation of conscript troops was established, the training of fighters was improved, new military regulations and manuals were developed. The technical re-equipment of the troops was initiated, the system of personnel training was changed, the military command and control bodies were improved. All these measures have increased the organization of troops and their combat effectiveness.
The recognition of the existence of a military threat raises extremely tough questions in order to take measures to protect national interests. Attitudes toward national security issues should be prioritized in order for the Armed Forces of Russia to be able to deter any aggressor from the temptation to attack our country. And it must be borne in mind that between the appearance of new types of equipment and its serial production and the arrival in the army is a huge distance, during which the equipment passes state and military tests. Veterans of military service and patriots, the current officers for their army, are experiencing anxiety and resentment. History will strictly ask the perpetrators of the collapse of the army, no matter how they cover themselves with verbal juggling and patriotic rhetoric.
To change the attitude of the state and society towards the army, one must not only in words, but in deed constantly take care of it, understand its prestige. All authorities in the current international situation to consider military issues as a priority. To stop mass media blackening the Armed Forces, to popularize them in every way, to promote pride in mastering the heroic profession “To protect the Motherland”. And, of course, increase the salaries for officers is twice as high as for corrupt civilian officials. But this apparently cannot be done without changing the bourgeois nature of the existing system.
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