Process

At a recent meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense, Nikita Mikhalkov was present. He was amazed at the atmosphere that reigned there: “The president came out in the grave silence, in the grave silence he made his speech and left the stands. In the same silence, the minister came out and read out the conversation about salaries, apartments, allowances ... Looking at all this, I wanted to go to the podium and ask:“ Guys, what about the money you can give a soldier?! What do we eat him in a spiritual sense?! ”

The director does not specify what exactly struck him - whether the absence of prolonged ovations after the speeches of the head of the state and the head of the military department, whether the topic itself is only about the material and not a word about the spiritual. But already it is already clear: Nikita Mikhalkov, being for several years as chairman of the Public Council of the Ministry of Defense, has been feeling among the military as a marquis at a village wedding. He walked with silk among cloth caftans, patted his bride’s cheek, complained about a lack of spirituality and was that.

It is easy to imagine what the ministerial generals would experience, listening to the director’s exacting speech about spirituality. It was on this collegium that it was about the new parameters of financial support for the army and navy. Against the backdrop of the grand in the failure of the Serdyukovo system of material encouraging officers, growing a stream of those who want to part from the Ministry of Defense after the end of the first contract, a chronic breakdown of housing programs and general irritation in the troops, the slurry of a radical improvement in the financial situation of a military man did not even cause any joy, not the most deprived of the benefits of a group of military leaders. They, who were sitting in this hall, as no one else knows how a shaking is the appearance of full -time well -being in the Armed Forces. And one more “spotlight”, which is launched only two years later, and when it begins to give its fruits and it is completely incomprehensible, it may turn out to be an unbearable burden for a person’s psyche with a gun (yes, by the way, without a gun, too, if we talk about the multimillion -dollar army of long -abandoned military pensioners).

The other day, one senior lieutenant serving at the Strategic Missile Forces facility in the town of Kitlyu (Northern Urals), shared with me his happiness-finally quit the army, now he will work in a Ministry of Justice. The last straw in his bowl of patience was the notorious order of MO number 400, which sets a material reward to officers. As a result, those who received 18 thousand rubles (such as our Starley) gathered near the cash desk once a month, and those who, in the same rank and position, flanous 70 thousand. Offective replicas often poured into a score. The military part of strategic significance began to resemble a communal apartment, where the front line is held by families and clans.

The situation was aggravated by local businessmen, orienting their prices for overheads. Earlier, everyone has accessible taxi to the nearest city became a luxury for two -thirds of officers and their families.

In Moscow, a year after the experiment, we thought better of it and allowed to distribute the premium amount in the field. In the units were appointed overheads, they received money and immediately divided equally between all colleagues. But it soon became clear that some people or personal circumstances do not allow some to share the appointed prize. And Swara again went in a new circle. A considerable money has previously caused normal people. My acquaintance and a dozen more of the same graduates of military schools of five years ago, with such a service, committed, without waiting for stabbing in a friendly officer team.

Just one small illustration of a large picture painted with large strokes by the big artist Nikita Mikhalkov. Ah, how he was not enough in the Kitlya taiga with his pain for the spiritual of the defender of the Fatherland.

The generals were silent, although stunning plans for the quick and reliable enrichment of military personnel were deployed in front of him. I would break off the places in a single impulse, download the hall with a harsh ovation, demonstrate the world and the great director here that there are gunpowder in the powders that the army and people are united and, under the leadership of Dmitry Anatolyevich and Vladimir Vladimirovich, all enemies of Russia will be crushed! That would be, according to the traditions of the Russian army. Not to sit with beechs.

And it is not surprising if the next great film will soon come out of the master’s hands, now about the great reform - “Junior”. If the artist is in the subject, he should not be silent.