In uniform

64 billion support

December 19, 2011 Alexander Golts

Everything is like in a classical tragedy. Unity of place, time and action. Last December 15, Putin Show, employees of the same enterprise offered Putin their support in the dispersal of Moscow rallies, but demanded in return to dismiss the Minister of Defense, the initiator of the only progressive reform for all the years of the Putin regime. Honestly, in this world nothing is by chance.

In direct connection with the National Directorate, as many as three employees of OJSC “Scientific and Production Corporation Uralvagonzavod” named after F.E. participated Dzerzhinsky. " And it could not be otherwise. We are talking about the truly “nuclear” electorate of the nationalist. First, in the past of a noble worker, and now a State Duma deputy named Yakushev put forward in order to smooth out the unpleasant question of Alexei Venediktov regarding the rally on Bolotnaya. The veteran did not fail and “in a simple way”, “in a worker” thanked Putin V.V. For care: “We,“ Uralvagonzavod ”, are loaded with work, as they say in Russian, by the ears. And next year there is already a deposit that we will work, and work more than ever. Once, in those communist times, we made 20-21 thousand wagons, for yesterday we made 24 thousand wagons. ... next year we have a big order again. That is, people see the prospect of work and are calm ... I just now turn to everyone Russians, I turn to everyone. The question is that there is no need to bring trouble to Russia. ” In a word, a piece of bread is guaranteed what to protest.

It would seem that the client worked out the number, drove. But it turned out that either no one except the employees of Uralvagonzavod was going to support the prime minister in Russia, either the Putin political technologists stopped catching mice at all. Because an hour after the passionate speech of the veteran in the Moscow studio, the transfer moved directly to Nizhny Tagil, where it turned out that the Uralvagonzavod was ready to produce no wagons. Uralvagonzavod is the only tank manufacturer in the country. And then it turned out that things at the plant were not brilliant. If the Russian state -owned companies buy Moscow, then the military are articulated and stubbornly do not want to purchase tanks. It didn’t even help that the Nationalist himself climbed into the T-90C tank this summer and seemed to express satisfaction with the high quality of the combat vehicle. But the military did not take under the visor (which the factory chiefs clearly counted on). The very next day, the head of the General Staff, General Makarov, said that the tank has a huge number of shortcomings and that the military department was not going to buy it.

If the leaders of the Ministry of Defense are cunning here, then only a little bit. The situation is the same as with the "Kalashnikov", the purchase of which the military department refused. The truth is that over the past decades, no breakthroughs in the field of tank equipment (as well as in the field of small arms) have occurred. Moreover, the significance of tanks in those wars, which is supposed to wage our army, is not as decisive as when the Soviet tank wedges had to rest on the banks of the La-Channel in a week of military operations. Times have changed. The country does not need new tanks. Enough those that were glued over the past years. New will not increase the combat potential of the armed forces. But with this it is impossible to reconcile with those whose well -being depends on whether the Ministry of Defense will order new tanks or not. Anyone who says otherwise, they will certainly declare the enemy of the people.

Which, in fact, occurred during the Putin show. The word was taken by a certain Oleg, the test driver of Uralvagonzavod: “We are ready to make equipment better, to master new technologies. But it involuntarily gets the impression that the Minister of Defense is not needed. The military produces overhaul of junk. The new is not ordered. In general, you chase this Serdyukov, Makarov with his statements. Appoint a normal minister. " Just start paying money for the armored crap, which we rivet. And for us, dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, does not rust. Already, we, manufacturers of tanks that no one needs, continued the head of the tank collection workshop, come to Moscow and disperse these vile Muscovites, who, unlike us, learned how to feed ourselves.

After all, the welfare of the Uralvagonzavod, which the worker-deputy Yakushev, arose so joyfully, arose miraculously, arose from state documentations-2 billion rubles last year and 64 billion, personally promised by Putin, in this. Thanks to the direct line with Putin, we saw his “nuclear electorate” - people who are accustomed to make a good state take care of them. And for this they allow the bosses to do everything they want: to fill out the ballots in the elections, to appoint each other in the highest positions, to distribute tasty pieces of property to friends and acquaintances.

And now, dear readers, a question of backfill. Where do you think, in the 80s of the last century, the chairman of the board of directors of Uralvagonzavod, Yevgeny Mikhailovich Schoolov, worked? According to the seal, in the Dresden residence of the KGB, along with a certain Putin V.V. I said pure classicism - the unity of place, time and action ...

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