The almost total sanding of Russians, which began after the death of Stalin in 1953 and sharply accelerated after Khrushchev’s “exposure of the cult of personality” in 1956, led to their demoralization and depassionarization and ultimately culminated in the self-treacherous Russian Holocaust of 1991. All these processes took place before my eyes; I was especially impressed by the mass intercourse of Russian girls with dark-skinned southerners at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957, and as a reaction to the spreading epidemic of selfishness, my text “Charter of Morality” (1965) should be considered, because for which they began to consider me a “fascist” and expelled me from the ranks of the CPSU and from politics. But I just see further than others and sound the alarm. At one time, the ancient Jews, led by Moses from Egyptian captivity, also, after the departure of their stern Leader, gave in to the selfish temptation of the Golden Calf of consumerism and would also have perished, like the Russians now, if Moses had not returned and carried out the Great Purge in the Jewish camp and had not returned would the people take the true path of God's chosenness (Exodus 32). It’s bitter to admit, but today’s rare Russian youths are able to stand up for themselves. But the Caucasians and partly the Mongols (Kalmyks, Buryats) have retained their readiness for self-sacrifice, without which the people are generally unviable, and cannot help but dominate the sanded and therefore scattered Russian soldiers in Russian army. Therefore, many Caucasian young men perceive conscription as a gift - they go into the army with the confidence that they will not disappear, but will experience the joys of domination (not to mention good allowances and tributes from their Russian colleagues). It is not officers or priests who will save Russian youth from their current pitiful fate, but only (as has always been the case everywhere in history) a few united organizational members of the “long will,” aimed at establishing order in the country and at global expansion (analogous to the “New Moses”). - The original was taken from pohabij_oplueff to the army - for a bribe

Bribes in military registration and enlistment offices are commonplace. But there is a nuance: if throughout Russia the families of conscripts collect money to make an offering to the military commissar in order to “get their child off the hook” conscript service, then in the Caucasus it’s the other way around. Relatives take a bribe to the military registration and enlistment office to send the conscript to the army. But they don’t hire them to serve! This is not the first year. No, at home, in the Caucasus, some young people still do military service. And they remain for the emergency - remember, during the Five-Day War with Georgia there were such battalions “East” and “West”? Worthy warriors served in them. But Caucasians are not invited to serve in the units stationed throughout Russia. Why? Reading the news: Recruits from the regions North Caucasus will not be drafted into the Russian army in 2012 due to the fight against hazing and fraternity, a senior Russian Defense Ministry official told reporters on Monday (from here). Yes, I served in the army in the late eighties, and I can confirm that a few Chechens or Dagestanis in a unit are a headache for officers and physical pain - from regular beatings - for a significant part of the soldiers. “Countrymen” behave more often recklessly than loyally. If a highlander respects his officer, there will be order. But if not, they can break him so hard that the stars fly out of his shoulder straps. I know what I’m talking about, I’ve seen this more than once in a construction battalion near Moscow. It is very difficult to serve with the Chechens and Dagestanis. But even those Caucasians who are not taken into the army to pay their debt to their Motherland are our. Citizens of Russia. But defending the Fatherland is not a citizen’s privilege. This is his sacred duty. In fact, there are a lot of options. If you want to be guaranteed to avoid hazing, you can create special units of mountaineers with highlander officers at the head - and send them either to Siberia or to Far East. The guys will go and won’t refuse. You can... yes, a lot more can be invented using Russian historical experience. It’s just that the Ministry of Defense either can’t do this or doesn’t want to. They say that the recruitment of recruits from the Caucasus will be resumed next year. This is not the first time they have been saying something like this. They promise. But they won’t resume it. Forgetting at the same time that the habit of paying military duty to their Motherland - Russia among the mountain peoples may atrophy as unnecessary. I don’t want to croak about the possible consequences of such atrophy...

Caucasians in the army

One of modern problems our society is Caucasians in the army. Conscripts from the southern regions of our Motherland are completely resistant to discipline and education. They remain isolated, hostile, and radically disposed towards representatives of other nationalities.

It's no secret that modern Russian society divided into several camps according to ethnic views. Some Russians believe that the cohabitation of peoples with different cultures and religions is quite acceptable, subject to generally accepted norms of behavior in society. Many are wary of neighbors who speak a different language or profess a different faith. And the views of the many thousands of neo-Nazis of various stripes, who do not accept people with a different culture and a different religious view, living in the country are completely radical.

Parting with family, changing the usual routine and stressful situations, all conscripts without exception go through this. But on what basis do they arise? ethnic conflicts in the army?

The history of ethnic conflicts in the army

The wave of national hostility experienced a particular aggravation in the late 80s. The country's Ministry of Defense deliberately hid statistics on conflicts (cases of hazing) specifically with national overtones that took place in the army. According to informed sources, there was particular harshness among Caucasians in the army At the end of the USSR period, the Dagestan, Ingush, Chechen and Armenian diasporas were distinguished. In units where dozens, hundreds of conscripts of the same age from the southern regions united, an unspoken “supreme power” was established - the southerners unitedly suppressed, ousted, beat and staged bloody showdowns with any representative of a different ethnic group, regardless of religion. It was then that the expression appeared that “ chumps in the army“It’s uncontrollable evil.”

It is known that even Azerbaijani conscripts were often tortured and beaten by fellow Muslims - Dagestanis and Chechens. Thus, the issue of Islamization of informal “deniers” from the southern latitudes disappeared - these were community in the army, communities determined by a certain highlander code.

But due to the relatively strict order in the armed forces of the USSR, widespread parochial communities were of a focal, spontaneous nature. There were protracted conflicts on ships where they served in military service for a period of 3 years (service life in the USSR Navy was reduced to 2 years only in 1990). Also in remote garrisons and areas with a predominance of the local population, representing the “titular” nation of conscripts in the unit - in Dagestan, the Chechen-Ingush Republic, in Armenia.

Since the beginning of 1992, when the formation of a separate, exclusively Russian army began, such communities began to be identified less and less, since the Ministry of Defense developed a special plan for conscription and military service for representatives of the southern republics - they were allowed to perform military service directly in the region of residence. An exception was made only for Dagestan, from where Northern Fleet Up to 3 thousand conscripts were and are being called up annually.

Measures to counteract such manifestations

I would like to add that now such behavior is unacceptable in the modern armed forces of the Russian Federation. Thorough checks are carried out, daily physical examinations of military personnel are carried out, and strict judicial punishments are carried out, including convictions for hazing. There is an unspoken directive to limit the number of conscripts for military service from some southern regions in general.

In Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, Ingushetia, educational work among young people of military age. They explain that ethnic conflicts and hostile attitudes towards fellow soldiers disgrace these nationalities.

If you want to be truly respected by both your colleagues and commanders, behave like a human being, demonstrate your intelligence, honor and decency, then and a “chock” in the army you won't be named. A real, worthy man should not behave in a way that is close to bestial or gregarious behavior.

This is the right approach, considering that without a military ID, a good job cannot be found in these republics.

Lawlessness of Caucasians in the army video. program on NTV.

Zhirinovsky - ethnic conflicts are easily resolved - how? Look.


IN Soviet army, where unlike the army Russian Empire, everyone was called up, Caucasians also stood out in the general army of military personnel. Some modern experts, for example, Alexander Khramchikhin, call Caucasian soldiers in the SA “representatives of problematic nationalities.” Due to the high birth rate during Soviet Union the number of Caucasians in the construction battalion, railway and motorized rifle troops grew, and fraternities were added to the usual hazing.

Today, the topic of conscripts from the Caucasus, especially from Dagestan, is more relevant than ever; it is one of the hottest and always in demand expert and journalistic topics.

If representatives of the rest of Russia avoid the army in every possible way, then for Caucasian youths service is still considered the most important element male culture. I was surprised by one of my acquaintances, Jafar, who had just defended his diploma with “excellence” at the Moscow State University legal academy. Good prospects open up for him both in Moscow and at home, but he firmly stated that he wants to serve in the Airborne Forces. "The army is an occupation, worthy of a man. I want to join the Airborne Forces because it elite troops. “I don’t have any fears or doubts,” Jafar told me, answering my question whether the Caucasian phobia that exists in the army worries him. “They don’t like Caucasians in Moscow either, but that didn’t stop me from studying here.”

The birth rate in the republics of the North Caucasus is much higher than in the country, which, combined with the factor of perception of service as part of what is called “being a man” in the Caucasus, leads to a constant increase in the proportion of people from the Caucasus in the ranks of the Russian army.

Caucasians, as even the most skeptical military experts admit, are, as a rule, excellent soldiers; they take service more seriously than colleagues of other nationalities.

But if Caucasians form a fraternity in a unit, then the unit very quickly loses controllability and, accordingly, combat effectiveness. However, in fairness, we must remember that several years ago two Dagestani contract soldiers (Sergeant Mukhtar Suleimenov and Sergeant Abdula Kurbanov), who served in the border troops, at the cost of their lives destroyed one of the most famous leaders Chechen militants Ruslana Gelayeva.

Recently, several conflicts on ethnic grounds have erupted in the Russian army. In 2009, an incident occurred in the Baltic Fleet with the participation of Dagestani conscripts - the Dagestanis laid out the word “KAVKAZ” with the bodies of the sailors.

A year later, there was a mass brawl involving immigrants from the Caucasus in a military unit near Moscow. A similar incident happened in Perm region, where 120 military personnel from the North Caucasus republics disobeyed the order. In the military town of the village of Kryazh in the Samara region, a Dagestan demobilizer and his fellow countrymen staged a raid on the barracks of a reconnaissance company. Two dozen Caucasians beat and robbed 18 conscripts. The Muslim clergy was involved in resolving some conflicts.

The number of such episodes can be continued. It got to the point that in March, the head of the military prosecutor’s office, Sergei Fridinsky, directly stated that today “national gangs are establishing their order” in the barracks, meaning primarily soldiers from the Caucasus. And in April the military commissar Chelyabinsk region Nikolai Zakharov made a sensational statement that now people from the North Caucasus republics will not be drafted into the ranks of the Russian army in order to reduce interethnic tension in the army. At the same time, the official referred to the corresponding order from the General Staff. Although the Ministry of Defense has publicly distanced itself from Zakharov's statements, it is clear that the Chelyabinsk military commissar may have reflected echoes of what is being discussed at the top.

It would be ridiculous to deny interethnic conflicts in the Russian army. And today the question of whether the army can become an instrument that forms loyalty among conscripts from the North Caucasus has long been no longer idle, but shouting.

On the one hand, the army is a reflection of what is happening in the state. The conscripts repeat the type of attitude towards Caucasians that already exists - this is either outright Caucasophobia, or the position of “letting everything take its course.” As a result, the power vacuum is filled by compatriot communities that cultivate hazing relationships in which force replaces law.

How to integrate North Caucasian conscripts? How to restore order in the barracks? How can we return to the army the reputation of a social elevator that it had for our fathers in the 1950s and 1960s?

Muslim soldiers of the Russian army at prayer. Photo from the site http://www.islamnews.ru/news-28372.html

Moreover, after military reform 2008 and shorter term military service up to one year, experts predict that main problem hazing in the army will not be hazing, but fraternity.

This requires difficult, painstaking and tedious work, which alone can overcome the isolation of individual Dagestan, Kabardian, Ingush or Balkar units. It is clear that the topic of creating mono-ethnic Caucasian formations disappears immediately - it will generally call into question the institution of the army as a mechanism that integrates the inhabitants of one country into a single whole. Quite a lot has also been written about the danger of rebellion in such units, even those stationed far from the Caucasus.

It seems to me that two simultaneous areas of work are possible - staffing the army with professional officers and contract soldiers, as well as taking into account the peculiarities of the mentality different nations, whose representatives will serve together. The experience of the Russian Empire, with all its costs, but experience that took into account primarily the confessional (and not national) aspect, in this case would be invaluable... By the way, since the end of 2010, an innovation has been in effect in Adygea - for Muslim soldiers military units, stationed in Maykop, are allowed to visit the Cathedral Mosque in Maykop on Friday to perform collective prayer. An agreement on this was signed between the RA Muslim Spiritual Directorate and the KK and the command of these units.

Preamble
You can't make a dog out of a wolf (words from a Caucasian song)

The well-known and very respected publicist Pyotr Akopov wrote an article entitled "The Russian army is capable of raising a new elite of the Caucasian republics". Here is the original address: http://vz.ru/politics/2016/4/12/805011.html. This is the only time so far that I disagree with him, at least with the title.

My opinion on this matter is this.

The Russian army will not be able to make the elite of the Caucasian republics something fundamentally different, more correct or “bigger better,” just as neither the Soviet nor the imperial armies succeeded. It is one thing when we are talking about certain responsibilities in terms of being called up for active service, it is another thing when someone hopes for something in connection with this. It’s absolutely not worth inventing the hope that after serving in the army, “Caucasians” will become more pro-Russian or begin to respect Russia and Russians a little more. This is due to the fact that the methods of a secular nation state do not work in a tribal society of the Islamic persuasion.

Methods from the nation state do not work in a tribal society

My personal experience Being in the Caucasian information environment confirmed me in the idea that the Islamic peoples of the North Caucasus are not going to abandon the archaic structure of their society, they are not going to change in any way “in the Russian manner” (they prefer the “Arab style”). They are satisfied with their current special position in Russian state and this psycho-ideological state is beneficial to them, both mentally and materially. The special status of “those who cannot be touched because they will kill or maim” and “the diaspora will smear me anyway” is what the “Caucasian” majority needs.

If anything can seriously influence Caucasian societies, it is long-term work in agriculture or in industrial production.

The less half-robber, half-bandit, half-warrior, half-athlete in a “Caucasian”, the better.

"Caucasian" - worker - good, "Caucasian" - warrior - bad

Proximity to weapons, life according to the military model, the aura of a warrior - all this panders to the very same prevailing among the mountain peoples at the end of the 19th century, and this complicates integration processes, changes the course of social trends and influences the vector of formation of meanings. Only cohabitation and joint peaceful, everyday work with Russians can seriously influence better side on today's "Caucasians", but this is exactly what is not being done today, and one or two years of service in the army does not change anything.

On this moment, “Caucasians” are very well aware that they are an annoying social problem in Russia, that the state follows their whims and horror stories and is trying to squeeze dividends out of this to the maximum. Being, in essence, hooligans on a national scale, they have learned to squeeze out “goodies” through intimidation tactics and a strategy of eternal discontent. This works out especially well in Chechnya, which is the leader of public opinion in the North Caucasus, which is secretly envied by the mountainous national republics surrounding Chechnya, and whose deliberately demonstrative “swimming in gold” and “boyish foiling of the Kremlin” inspires hope that it will be so freely and - Gorski will be able to live with any “Caucasian”.

“Caucasians” in Russia owe everything, everyone owes it

Dissatisfaction and resentment are regularly and very competently maintained in the Caucasian blogging community through LiveJournal and Facebook. Among “Caucasian” bloggers, there is a special breed of writers who keep their society in a tense state. There are people who daily, methodically and purposefully “spud” this topic, create fake accounts, form an imaginary public opinion, are engaged in collective processing of the minds of those “who have strayed from the path of a true Caucasian.”

Specific public opinion and religion
many times stronger than an abstract state or national idea

Any “Caucasian” who has served in the army, has become a little Russified, will almost instantly be reforged back into a “proper Caucasian” under the influence of the mood in his information environment. Therefore, one should not hope that the new Russian army will create new “Caucasians” or, finally, make image mountaineers out of “Caucasians”.

In chapter

Against the background of increasingly frequent incidents throughout the country with a pronounced ethnic overtones, in early July a statement was made by the Khanty-Mansiysk Military Commissariat Autonomous Okrug about the growth of Wahhabi sentiments among conscripts from the North Caucasus. While acknowledging numerous problems with conscripts from the region, the military reported that the troops had received unspoken instructions to limit conscription from some national republics. “Our Version” looked into how acute the national issue is in the army.

One of the few decisions for which the army is grateful to the previous Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov is the refusal of conscripts from the North Caucasus. The military department tries to avoid commenting on the fact of the ban on their service, since the Constitution does not allow officially ending conscription in any subject of the Federation. However, the de facto conscription campaign in the Caucasus is somewhat recent years it is only imitated: registration of conscripts is kept at military registration and enlistment offices, commissions operate, but only a few manage to get into the troops. So, last fall, for example, only 179 people were drafted from the most populous southern republic - Dagestan.

The mountaineers openly refused to obey the officers

Meanwhile, in recent years the problem with the shortage of conscripts has sharply worsened. Today, even in permanent readiness units, the shortage of soldiers is up to one third. The new leadership of the Ministry of Defense is feverishly looking for ways to correct the situation. One of the options is the resumption of mass conscription from the republics of the North Caucasus. A huge conscription resource is truly concentrated there. Until 2010, 15–20 thousand people were drafted into the army every year from Dagestan alone. However, the necessity of the presence of these conscripts in the troops was then strongly doubted. Such a strong concentration of Caucasians in the troops led to an incredible aggravation of the crime situation, the army was agitated whole line hazing incidents. The mountaineers openly refused to obey the officers and actually kept entire garrisons in fear.

As Alexander Perendzhiev, an expert at the Association of Military Political Scientists, told Our Version, it is fundamentally wrong to restrict the right of Caucasians to serve in the army, especially in a situation where the country has a huge shortage of conscription resources, and they even want to attract women and foreigners to serve. According to the expert, it is unacceptable to create a precedent when people are not drafted based on their nationality.

Apparently, the new Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu partly agrees with this. At the end of last year, the leadership of Dagestan reported that they had managed to reach an agreement with the Ministry of Defense that the number of conscripts from the republic would be sharply increased. According to some reports, it was planned to conscript about 5 thousand people this spring. A trend towards an increase in the number of Dagestani conscripts in the Russian army is indeed visible, but on a much smaller scale. This year the republic received an order for 800 people.

In other North Caucasian republics the situation is even worse: about 400 people are being drafted from Ingushetia, and the last large-scale draft in Chechnya was carried out more than 20 years ago. Most likely, the military has not yet fully decided on this issue. For comparison: from neighboring Russian regions the number of conscripts is an order of magnitude greater - from Krasnodar region this year more than 5 thousand people are preparing to be sent to the army, more than 2 thousand from Stavropol region.

Dzhigits are eager to join the troops

It should be noted that the leadership of the Caucasian republics is concerned about the opportunity to serve for their conscripts, although not only and not so much out of patriotic motives. For example, after the actual end of conscription in the republic, Dagestan youth began to have problems finding employment in law enforcement agencies (where almost every young horseman strives to get into) and where they are not hired without military experience.

As a result, today there is a unique desire of young people from the Caucasus to join the army. For the last few years, there has been a tendency for people to pay a bribe of 20-150 thousand rubles for conscription in Dagestan. Some conscripts move to other regions and register there so that they can be called up at the place of new registration.

In order to achieve an additional quota for conscripts, local military commissars promise that they will send only the best to the army, most of whom will be from higher education, and also intend to introduce a guarantee system into the work of military commissions, in which diaspora leaders will be personally responsible for each soldier.

Meanwhile, the leadership of the North Caucasian republics self-critically admits that their youth are unsuitable for military service: a considerable part of the hot-blooded Caucasian guys are poorly managed. Moreover, the situation is aggravated by modern realities in society: if earlier the elders in the family taught the younger generation that in the army it is necessary to unquestioningly obey commanders, now the main emphasis in the instructions is the need to first of all observe religious canons.

You can’t argue with the facts - cases of open disobedience to the orders of commanders and opposition of national customs to military regulations are far from isolated. True Muslims refuse to participate in household work, dumping hard labour on your colleagues. Sometimes it reaches the point of absurdity: Caucasians refuse to shave their beards, undergo examination at a psychoneurological dispensary and examination by a surgeon. All these whims lead to the erosion of discipline, aggravation of contradictions and become the cause of conflicts. In addition to this, some have a craving for the dangerous ideas of radical Islamism (Wahhabism).

What affects the hotheads of the southerners?

As the commander of one of the military units of the Southern Military District told Our Version, commanders at all levels prefer not to accept people from the North Caucasus into their units and, under any pretext, try to get rid of their presence in the units. The officer notes that today, when conscription service has been reduced to a year, commanders literally do not have time to understand the worldview of each soldier.

It must be said that in the Soviet army the situation with Caucasians was not completely cloudless. The main way to fight the fraternity was to distribute the highlanders evenly across all parts of the large army; their “critical concentration” was not allowed. But the main instrument of influence on southern hotheads was public associations, such as the Komsomol, and strict control over sentiment among military personnel.

Unfortunately, the optimal levers for ideological and propaganda work in Russian Armed Forces has not yet been invented. The situation became even more complicated with the collapse of the institute of political workers and was aggravated by the abolition of the guardhouse.

POINT OF VIEW

Alexander PErendzhiev, expert of the Association of Military Political Scientists:

– The emerging critical situation with representatives of the Caucasus shows the weakness of the military command system, especially its educational component. Essentially, the Armed Forces lack mechanisms that can influence this category of military personnel. No matter how offensive it is to admit it, today the state ideology and the system of military-patriotic education cannot counteract the very ideas of Wahhabism, which are actively spreading among Muslim youth. There is a feeling that the army is giving in to this problem rather than trying to solve it. Perhaps the leadership of the Ministry of Defense does not even know how to do this. I myself commanded a construction company, in which 60 immigrants from the North Caucasus served. Of course, managing such personnel was difficult, but possible. In my opinion, conscripts from these republics have not changed, they have become neither better nor worse, but the methods of working with them have been forgotten. For example, previously Muslims were drafted mainly into construction or railway units, where they served without weapons. Officers were purposefully trained to work with problematic national minorities. And today, to work with Caucasians, it is also necessary to select the most prepared, strong-willed, knowledgeable of national characteristics and better trained officers and sergeants. At the same time, it does not hurt to closely interact with Muslim religious organizations - for example, contact was previously established with the Council of Muftis of Russia.