What army does Russia need today?
Twenty years have passed since the complete and final collapse of the Soviet Union. For twenty years, Russia has been compelled to independently respond to new challenges without the help of the so-called "fraternal" republics. And during these twenty years, Russia has already felt the pressure from the West, painful injections from its neighbors, and the pressure of the media. Against the background of these events, there are often cries that the army in Russia is insignificant, that it does not fulfill the duties assigned to it, that it is time to reform it in general so that her mother could not recognize her. These statements are also mixed with whiny exclamations of "patriotically" inclined population strata. They say that we don’t need an army, we ourselves will somehow solve the issues of our security: we will give a bribe to a fierce enemy, he will be left behind.
And how painful it is to look at how two-meter-high children from the army “mow down”, inventing non-existent diseases together with doctors. Today we can confidently say that the Russian army has again become a worker-peasant. Why? Because children of businessmen, politicians, pop stars and other “elite” are not going to serve their Fatherland for at least a good old age. Will, you know, the soloists of the Roots group and the rest of Nikita Malinin run in body armor in the Tver swamps? Do they need it? Better these guys snot pour on the screen - pops. So the children of collective farmers, mechanics and cleaners go to the army. And what do these guys have to do? By the way, most of them are not even going to evade service.
Yes, if you look at historythen this state of affairs in our army took shape a long time ago. Does our society really think that the whole young male generation was eager to fulfill the “international duty” in Angola or Afghanistan? Certainly not! If we analyze the lists of dead soldiers during the Afghan war, an obvious picture emerges: about 90% of the dead soldiers in military service are children from all the same working families who did not have to choose. They had neither the thought nor the opportunity to bribe the local military registration and enlistment office of the local “tsarka” with a pair of big stars on their shoulder straps to stay at home.
It turns out that the Soviet, Russian army was with a certain percentage of rotten. If you want to serve - please, you do not want - too, please - you can and agree. Not for nothing, we have a lot of low-paid medical workers and lovers of easy money among the staff of the military commissariats. In our time, rotten only became more.
If you ask a simple question to cadets of military schools, as they say, without cameras and witnesses about why they enrolled in a military college, the overwhelming majority will answer: to get an apartment and retire earlier. It is strange to hear from young people about retirement. This is somehow not human. About the honor of the uniform, the valor of the Russian officer, it is even funny for current cadets to speak or, as they say now, "dumb." Such a lieutenant will get to the troops, and how he is going to raise the morale of the soldier. Perhaps with his stories about his bright future with a certificate for a two-room apartment or a military pension. Yes ... From this perspective, the soldiers certainly will rise from the trenches and rush to the enemy ...
Paraphrasing the words of a famous commentator, let's say: “We don’t need such an officer ...”
The state persistently speaks about increasing the monetary allowance of servicemen, about increasing the number of benefits for their families, about other benefits. But in many military units the conditions of service are close to medieval. When the toilet is located on the street in 50 m from the barracks, and the one that is in the barracks, has been clogged for several months and exudes a terrible stench, then it is not necessary to talk about combat readiness, but about personal survival at the station's location. From the television screens we are told that there is a large-scale rearmament of the Russian army, but in fact we do not even have qualified pilots, tank crews and other representatives of military professions who can weapons to manage. And if there is, then they have no place to carry out advanced training, because training continues on the old technology with the old military dogmas.
Why are there combat readiness when the soldiers are fed with canned dog food, and the commanding fathers put dollar packs in their pockets. What kind of rearmament, if instead of the new machine guns supplied to the troops, our soldiers are given a weapon with which their fathers and even grandfathers took the oath. I remember an episode from the movie “9 company”, when a soldier was handed a machine gun with a curved barrel, the owner of which, they say, “heroically died”.
Here you need not to fall into tearful tantrums, but together look for and find a way out. If the army has no core at all, and even the most meager public control is absent, then anything can be expected from such an army, but not protection. The modern army does not need contract rescuers to whom the enemy can pay a large amount and they will go over to his side, armies need public support and real public control. Let us not sprinkle ashes on our heads, but rather try to return the image of the real defenders of the Fatherland to the image of the Russian soldier and Russian officer.
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