Alexander Golts: "Will the Putin Omert will resist the epidemic?"

"The Pskov governor Mikhail Vedernikov arranged a real sensation the other day. He aloud uttered the truth that is known and understandable to everyone. He was extremely clearly explained why the dates of the spring call should be postponed to June. After all, according to the forecasts of the authorities, the peak of incidence in the region will be in the first weeks of May," writes the chef -editor of the "Daily Journal."

"According to Vedernikov, if you do not postpone the terms of call, then this can create a" difficult situation for draftees and residents. "First of all, in the two largest cities of the region: Pskov and the Great Lukes, where the draft commissions should be sat down." People will massively go from the regions ... The prescriptions of the main sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation, the sanitary doctor of the region, the recommendations of the Government of the Russian Federation, " - the recommendations of the Government of the Russian Federation, The governor said at a meeting of the regional draft commission.

He noted that during the period of pandemia, the doctors of the Pskov region, in which the region experiences an acute deficit, cannot be distracted from the fight against the virus: “Now we are doing a lot of work in order to attract (doctors - A.G.) to the front line. In addition, all the conscripts will have to be tested, and this is about 3.5 thousand people called to the draft commissions. Today we can spend about the day. 360 tests.

Exactly at the moment when on March 30, Vladimir Putinsigned a decree on the draft of 135 thousand recruits in the country in an epidemic, it was clear that the attempt of local civil and military authorities to follow the Ministry of Defense to the collapse of the healthcare system inevitably led to the collapse. The Pskov governor extremely clearly explains that the implementation of the instructions of the testing of the testing of coronavirus by all those who appear in the draft commission will fully load all the possibilities of the local laboratory. There will be no opportunities for testing patients.

At the beginning of the month, the St. Petersburg military commissar (whom he immediately shut up the headquarters of the Western Military District) reported the absence of test systems at his disposal. From the promise, Shoigu carefully tried to crawl out the head of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Administration of the General Staff, General Burdinsky, who promised only to measure the temperature of those who arrive in draft commissions.

When the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and the chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov announced their readiness to call on traditional terms, they perfectly understood: the call for the rules and norms declared by them could not be fulfilled. There are no personnel for work in medical board. There are no opportunities to protect conscripts from infection. There is no way to guarantee the safe passage of recruits to the service site.

The calculation was and remains that military bureaucrats will act as usual in alliance with local authorities. That is, carefully winking at each other: well, you understand - to ignore them with loudly declared rules and norms. Most of the governors, whose circumstances are no different from the Pskovsky, took under the visor (the chief boss ordered) and began organizing a draft campaign. Understanding at the same time that they will not be able to organize any testing and, as usual, hoping that maybe they will carry it. And if he does not carry, then no one will know. But the Pskov governor clearly and convincingly explained that the call could not be made in the indicated terms and under the declared rules.

What, obviously, violated the Code of conduct of the Putin bureaucrat. One of the foundations of the current system of power is the Russian version of Omer - the law of the mafia of silence. For twenty years, both officials and citizens have carefully accustomed: an attempt to publicly indicate the problem, the mistake or crime of the authorities will always be tougher than the miscalculation or crime itself. Let us recall how during the secret war in the Donbass military leaders in the same Pskov region, taking their eyes, betrayed their soldiers. They said that they went to fight, taking a vacation. They held the secret funeral of the dead. The wives and mothers of the dead reported in cheerful voices that with their sons and husbands everything is in order.

Putin's Omert led Russian society to a deep moral fall. And now individual officials suddenly refuse to participate in general lies. Some time ago, Sobyanin quite boldly stated that Russian statistics on Covid-19 disease cannot be believed. Today, the Pskov governor says with a broken word that it is impossible to implement a draft campaign in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Defense.

I don’t think that the officials suddenly began to wake up in the spring. The fact is that the virus is not Putin, you can’t deceive him. Creating the foci of the epidemic, conducting a call is more expensive. And ultimately they will ask the governor. Well, not with Shoigu, in fact. In such a situation, the regional bosses are doomed to say unpleasant truth ... "