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The usual business
In uniform
The usual business
January 26, 2006 Alexander Golts
Honestly, I am surprised by the outrage of some of my colleagues in the way the Minister of Defense reacted to the news of the soldier from the battalion of providing the Chelyabinsk Tank Institute, crippled by colleagues. The minister, who is in the foreign room, said RIA Novosti , said: "There is nothing very serious there. Otherwise, I would have knew about it." Sergei Ivanov told the true truth: for him in this case there is nothing extraordinary. Moreover, the words of the chief of the General Staff of Yuri Baluevsky, who hastened to express a deep indignation of what happened, seem to me not too sincere. And I really can’t believe in the righteous anger of the chief military prosecutor Alexander Savenkov, who told reporters that he did not encounter anything like this over thirty years of service.Complete. What happened at the Tank School of Chelyabinsk , the case for the Russian army is quite ordinary. Several soldiers of the old -timers with the connivance of the officers were laughing for several hours over his colleagues. Either they raped, or just beaten. The unfortunate ordinary Sychev was mutilated so that he started gangrene legs. After that, military doctors did not provide him with any help, and somewhat later they sent him to a civilian hospital, where the doctors had to amputate both legs.
Of course, according to official statistics , the incident from the ordinary out of the ordinary. Indeed, according to statistics, out of 1064 cases of the death of military personnel in 2005, only 16 deaths are associated with the "Deling" as a result of crimes and incidents. However, the story with the ordinary Sychev could not get into any statistics. The Ministry of Defense prudently does not indicate the number of dead and became disabled as a result of diseases. Namely, this category wanted to record Sychev Fathers-Commander. The school command first insisted that there were no bullying at all, and the soldier developed Gangrene as a result of the “disease”. And from civilian doctors, they strictly demanded to keep a secret. And, if they had fulfilled this requirement, the ordinary would simply commissome due to illness.
Any serviceman, what is a soldier there, any resident of Russia firmly knows that the Minister of Defense is lying when he says that there are no “hazing” in 80 percent of military units. The fact is that “grandfather”, no matter how high military bosses curse, is a wild, barbaric way of maintaining discipline in the Russian army. In the absence of professional sergeants, who ensure the maintenance of discipline in the barracks in any normal army, Russian officers have responsible for the order in the “grandfathers” unit.
The Ministry of Defense deliberately sabotes the creation of a professional sergeant corps. After all, the junior commanders appeared in the Russian barracks, the question would immediately arise of what the officers - commanders of the departments should deal with. A cardinal reform of the entire system of military education and the service of officers would be required. Togo and look, a serious struggle against the barracks hooliganism would have turned into a demand for the decisive reform of the army. Which, I recall, the minister announced the completed two years ago.Therefore, there is no serious struggle with the "grandfather", except for formidable and quite meaningless orders, is not conducted. And the commanders spend the main efforts on hiding such cases. I am sure that the heads of the tank school will be punished for not being able to classify the beating of a soldier, and not at all for the fact that they allowed this beating. So Sergey Borisovich was not shouted in his soul when he said that nothing serious in the Chelyabinsk tank school happened. The health and life of an ordinary soldier have never been something important for domestic bosses.
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