Here the soldiers are running

On December 3, sixteen guards from the Taman division fled to Moscow to seek protection from the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers. The fugitives wrote statements where they indicated the company commander of the senior lieutenant Gasilin as the main evil, which forced them to look for salvation outside the unit. Applications, as usual, were transferred to the military prosecutor's office. In particular, the Alabinsk garrison, where the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Taman Division is deployed. The military prosecutor immediately opened a criminal case on the fact of abuse of powers. The efficiency of military justice and the obviously strong bunch of "Committee of Soldiers' Mothers are the Military Prosecutor's Office" are pleasing. From the units near Moscow, they also run because they know where to run. The case, which is taken for control of the mother, is difficult to dull, it is difficult to lower it on the brakes.

The first reaction: what about the Fathers-Commanders themselves, the prosecutor’s office itself with its raids and checks-blinking? Do not see what is happening under their nose? The 1st motorized rifle regiment, from where the servants, is, by the way, in some hundred meters from the building of the Alabinsk military prosecutor's office. But to accuse of blindness and deafness the command of the division would be unfair. Say, only for one August of this year, 122 cases of offenses - Mordoboy, evasion, self -confidence, drunkenness, etc. were opened in the division. All these cases are involved in non -systemic relations. Moreover, the hazardous relations are not only "hazing", but also the bombing of officers. That is, even up to mothers in Tamanskaya, they knew how harmful to health the climate developed in military groups. And they knew, of course, always, since this elite division has been sausages for several years - for almost ten years Tamanskaya has been holding the championship in the district for all kinds of disciplinary violations.

Last summer, two soldiers came in the border.ru who escaped from the location of the same Taman division and even from the same regiment. Now they are "demobilization", if not on a civilian. And then they were saved from night beating, from daytime humiliation and other "hardships" of military service. By the way, they first turned to the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers. They found understanding there, but they were afraid to return to the unit than death, and the order of the commander of the Moscow Military District ordered the fugitives to put the fugitives to the place where they started. The City.ru then launched all their army ties and, in the end, soldiers were sent from the national point of Moscow to the unit, located hundreds of kilometers from the elite Taman division. True, I had to promise the chiefs of the MVO that history would not get to the site, would not receive public publicity. Well, yes, you can step on the throat of your journalistic song if there is a chance to really alleviate the fate of the guys.

Actually, the fugitives did not tell us anything fundamentally new. Nothing that today did not know about the barracks of lawlessness even the most far from the army. At the heart of the history of first -doors - beating. It began, in fairness we note, not immediately. By good tradition, newcomers were presented with "three Taman nights." On the fourth they began to beat. With fists, legs, cuttings from shovels, belts twisted into bundles with wet towels with knots at the ends. For offenses (it is easy to catch a recruit on anything), but most often just for prevention. They sent it to the Subolka for vodka (of course, they didn’t give money - begging, steal, at least sell boots, and imagine a liter to the “grandfathers”). And what about the fathers-commanders? There was no platoon (undercurrent). The company commander appeared once a day. The rest of the time solved the problem of replenishing the family budget in utility work outside the part. The battalion commander was drunk. The pedagogical talents of the regiment commander can be judged by the following educational reception. When he was returned to the escaped (according to the orders of the commander of the MVO), he forced them in front of the entire regiment to crawl in Plastun from the headquarters to his barracks - several hundred meters. Of course, they fought from time to time with the "grandfather". For example, the officer built all the "grandfathers", ordered them to put on gas masks and forced them to run along the steep stairs of the barracks from one floor to another. In the heat, the procedure gave a special effect. There were cases when only medicine helped out at the last moment (perhaps his subordinates recalled something like that to the senior lieutenant Gasilov).

A year and a half has passed since then, and the soldiers are running. And the statistics of offenses in the division are growing. Which, by the way, does not interfere with its commanders - and since 1993, five has already changed - to receive general ranks and go to increase. So the current Major General Andrei Glushchenko prophesies a glorious career.

However, strictly speaking, neither Glushchenko, nor his predecessors, nor the Komsomol with a rank lower by the main defendants for the deplorable state of the once glorified Guards Division. They only meet the conditions in which they ended up. And far from his own free will. The Taman division is only one of the many units of the armed forces, which, like a mol, devour the turnover of officer personnel that are eager (especially at the age of 35) to a citizen, a chronic lack of everything (something state did not give, and what they reached, then their own) and the wordobalism of military leaders who condemned the entire military reform ultimately to return to the regimental banner Five -pointed stars.