April 1st started spring call into the armed forces Russian Federation. And we again offer an up-to-date list of reinforced concrete medical contraindications for military service.

As a rule, only people with obvious and severe pathologies, such as mental retardation, schizophrenia, blindness, deafness, missing limbs, etc., are completely unsuitable for the army.

In other cases, the question is either about treatment (then a delay is given and then a re-examination is required), or about the degree of dysfunction of certain organs.

Severe dysfunction (slurred speech, urinary and fecal incontinence, heart failure, etc.) is a reason for transfer to the reserve. In controversial cases, the decision remains with the medical commission.

Severe infections

Active pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis, HIV infection, leprosy - people with such diagnoses are not accepted into the army. Tuberculosis and syphilis can be cured, after which additional examination will be required.

Intestinal infections, bacterial and viral diseases transmitted by arthropods, rickettsiosis, gonococcal, chlamydial infections, some mycoses (diseases caused by fungi) and other infections, when initially detected at a medical examination, will be the reason for sending for treatment. If the infection cannot be treated, the conscript is considered unfit for service.

Neoplasms

Malignant and benign neoplasms are a contraindication to military service if the tumor cannot be radically removed, there are metastases or significant dysfunction of any organs.

In addition, those who refused therapy for a tumor will not be accepted into the army. Persons undergoing treatment for neoplasms will be given a deferment and will be subject to re-examination in the future.

Obesity

Persons with obesity of 3 and 4 degrees are not suitable for military service. They are asked to undergo treatment, during which they are given a deferment. If treatment does not help, upon re-examination a conclusion is made about unfitness for service.

Diabetes

WITH diabetes mellitus of any form and any degree of severity, even in the absence of complications, are not accepted into the army. The disease cannot be cured, but metabolic disorders must be corrected in conditions military service does not seem possible.

Other endocrine diseases

Diseases of the thyroid gland, pituitary gland, adrenal glands, parathyroid and gonads, nutritional disorders, hypovitaminosis, gout are also contraindications for military service if they are accompanied by dysfunction of the relevant organs and are not amenable to replacement therapy. If thyroid disease (goiter) prevents you from wearing military uniform, the conscript is also declared unfit for service.

Underweight (BMI)<18.5) будет причиной для направления на дополнительное обследование у эндокринолога и лечение (that is, apparently, for fattening, if this is not cancer cachexia - approx.) .

Mental disorders

Mental retardation, personality disorders, schizophrenia, psychosis, delusional and other mental disorders (regardless of the cause of injury: trauma, tumor, infection, etc.) are contraindications for military service, which the conscript’s parents will be informed about by the psychiatrist who has him observed.

Drug and alcohol addiction

Addictions are a contraindication to military service, even in the absence of mental manifestations and symptoms. The diagnosis must be documented after examination in a hospital. In this case, the conscript must be registered and treated at a drug treatment clinic.

Epilepsy

All forms of epilepsy, except symptomatic, that is, those in which convulsive seizures are caused by some kind of brain damage, are a contraindication for conscription service. In case of symptomatic epilepsy, the examination is carried out according to the underlying disease.

Pathologies of the nervous system

Multiple sclerosis, paresis, paralysis, diseases and injuries of the brain and spinal cord, as well as the peripheral nervous system with consequences in the form of disruption of their functions of any degree - the reason for putting “unfit” in the column on military duty.

For temporary disorders of the central or peripheral nervous system, for example after an acute illness, exacerbation of a chronic disease, injury or surgical treatment, a deferment of 6 or 12 months is given. Then a re-examination is required.

Eye pathology

Retinal detachment and tears, glaucoma, severe pathology of the eyelids, conjunctiva, lens and other elements of the eye, strabismus in the absence of binocular vision, severe vision loss, severe farsightedness or myopia and, of course, blindness - all these are contraindications for military service. If the pathology does not cause a significant decrease in vision, the conscript is considered “fit with limitations.”

Hearing and vestibular disorders

Chronic otitis (bilateral or unilateral), bilateral persistent perforation of the eardrum, deafness or persistent hearing loss - these are not allowed into the army. Pathologies that can be cured are sent for treatment, and in the future a re-examination is necessary.

Vestibular disorders of any degree are contraindications for service, but this does not include seasickness and motion sickness in transport.

Heart pathologies

Heart failure (2, 3 and 4 functional classes), rheumatic heart lesions, heart defects, persistent conduction disorders and artificial pacemaker, coronary heart disease are one hundred percent “medical exemptions” from military service.

In case of heart failure FC 1, the conscript is considered “fit with minor restrictions.”

Hypertension and vascular pathologies

If a conscript is found to have an increase in blood pressure above 150/100, he is given a deferment and referred to a hospital for diagnosis. In the future, hypertension of 2 and higher degrees will serve as a medical exemption from service.

With grade 1 hypertension, the conscript is eligible with minor restrictions. With persistent vegetative-vascular disorders and hypotension, the conscript may be considered unfit for service.

In vascular pathology, the degree of disruption of the blood supply and the function of the relevant organs is assessed. If they are not there, the conscript is eligible with restrictions. Hemorrhoids are a contraindication when the process is severe.

Respiratory pathologies

Severe difficulty in nasal breathing, fetid runny nose (ozena), purulent sinusitis with frequent exacerbations, damage to the larynx or trachea, lung diseases with severe or moderate impairment of respiratory function - these will not allow you to join the army. If the breathing disorder is not severe, it is “fit with minor restrictions.”

Bronchial asthma

A conscript with bronchial asthma will be sent to the reserves. Moreover, regardless of the severity of the disease, frequency and severity of attacks. Once a diagnosis is made, it is also not removed.

Pathologies of teeth, jaws and digestive system

Absence of 10 or more teeth in one jaw, severe periodontitis and periodontal disease, jaw pathologies with impaired respiratory, olfactory, chewing, swallowing or speech functions; severe forms of colitis, enteritis, fistulas, all pathologies of the esophagus and intestines, accompanied by a violation of their function - all this will give at least a deferment from the army for the duration of treatment, or even force the medical board to write you off as a reserve.

Stomach ulcers and other digestive tract disorders

Peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum is a contraindication for military service. With gastritis, a conscript is fit with minor restrictions. In case of hepatitis and pancreatitis, the issue of the severity of the dysfunction is resolved. If a hernia is detected, surgical treatment is proposed, and then re-examination.

Psoriasis and other skin diseases

Psoriasis, systemic lupus erythematosus, common forms of alopecia or vitiligo, chronic urticaria, photodermatitis, scleroderma, ichthyosis, recurrent eczema will save you from military service. With atopic dermatitis, the issue is resolved depending on the frequency of exacerbations.

Curvature of the spine and other bone pathologies

Chronic diseases of the joints and spine, arthritis, osteo- and chondropathy with impaired joint function, scoliosis starting from degree 2, osteochondrosis with damage to 3 or more intervertebral discs, defects of the bones of the cranial vault, defects of the hand and fingers with impaired hand function - all these are reasons to dismiss you in reserve.

With spinal curvature, the question of suitability will depend on its shape, severity and severity of clinical manifestations.

Flat feet

The fate of a conscript with flat feet will depend on the severity of flat feet (its degree) and the presence of concomitant pathologies: arthrosis, contracture, exostoses.

Deformations of the arms and legs (including their significant shortening), which make it difficult to wear military uniforms and shoes, will cause transfer to the reserve.

Developmental defects

Congenital malformations will cause “unfitness for service” if there is a dysfunction of a certain organ (polycystic kidney disease, abnormal development of the genital organs, etc.). If the developmental anomaly does not affect the function (for example, doubling of the kidney while maintaining its function or microtia (congenital underdevelopment of the external ear), the conscript is considered eligible.

Lack of physical development

Height below 150 cm and weight less than 45 kg is a reason to send the conscript to an endocrinologist in order to find out the reason for such a severe lag in physical development. Then treatment and re-examination will be carried out.

Enuresis

Bedwetting is a reason not to join the army. However, the diagnosis requires multilateral medical confirmation: a therapist, urologist, neurologist, dermatovenerologist, psychiatrist.

Stuttering

Stuttering and other speech disorders in which it is difficult to understand or completely incomprehensible to others is a reason for dismissal from the reserve. The severity of stuttering is assessed during long-term dynamic observation in various situations, as well as on the basis of characteristics from the place of work or study.

Consequences of injuries

Injuries to any organs that cause disruption of their function, foreign bodies in the cranial cavity, eyes, mediastinum, abdominal cavity, extensive scars that limit movement in joints and wearing a military uniform, consequences of burns and frostbite - with such a pathology they will not be accepted into the army.

Food allergies

If there is a food allergy to the main foods included in army rations (such as flour products, cereals, potatoes, butter), the conscript is transferred to the reserve. In this case, the presence of allergies must be confirmed by skin tests and a relevant medical history.

Pathologies of the kidneys and reproductive system

Any kidney disease with impaired kidney function, with renal failure.

In case of pathology of the genital organs, the conclusion of the medical board will depend on the severity of the clinical manifestations. If symptoms are mild (for example, one testicle is missing), the conscript will be “fit with minor limitations.” Conscripts with infertility are fully fit for military service.

On the centennial anniversary of the creation of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, we decided to remember exactly what historical events the date February 23, the current Defender of the Fatherland Day, is tied to. And, if we remember the era of the October Revolution and the Civil War, then we wanted to find out: how the Bolsheviks managed, out of practically nothing, in a state of severe political uncertainty, to create a military machine, the number of which in some periods reached five million people, and with its help to crush their numerous both foreign and domestic enemies? We addressed these questions to Konstantin Tarasov, a researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

It should be noted right away: the Red Army, whose birth we are accustomed to celebrating on February 23, is not at all the same Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (RKKA), which won the Civil War, and then became the basis of the military power of the Soviet state and, having gone through a series of pre-war transformations, war and post-war times, existed until the collapse of the USSR. But in order to understand historical dates and their real meaning, it is necessary to remember what happened in the last months of 1917 - the first months of 1918, when the question of who would defend the power of the Bolsheviks was decided.

No peace, no war

During the October Revolution in Petrograd, and then in other cities, the Bolsheviks came to power and managed to retain it largely due to the fact that they were supported by soldiers, in whose lives revolutionary changes had already played an important role. It all started back in February - after the start of the first revolution of 1917, soldiers’ committees arose in many combat and rear units of the army that fought in the First World War. Thanks to the introduction of this essentially democratic instrument into the lives of soldiers, many issues began to be resolved by voting, on the principle of self-government, and the order of the old, tsarist army, with its unity of command and unconditional subordination of ordinary officers to officers, weakened in many ways and in some places even ceased to exist. The rank and file were interested in strengthening this “soldier’s democracy.”

Therefore, immediately after October, the Bolsheviks thanked the soldiers for their support, significantly expanding the range of democratic changes in the army. At that moment we were talking about the “final”, that is, complete, democratization of the army.

What did this mean in practice? The fact is that self-government in the troops after the February Revolution was still not complete. The officers sought (albeit not always successfully) to limit the functions of the soldiers' committees exclusively to economic issues. Accordingly, the election of command personnel in the first days of February was carried out in person, that is, roughly speaking, the army was purged of the officers most disliked by the soldiers. But in fact, officer positions in the army continued to be occupied by those former tsarist officers whom the soldiers trusted. At this stage, a soldier or non-commissioned officer could not become, say, a regiment commander. At best, a private could lead a company - and even under Kerensky, such people immediately received the sergeant major or other highest non-commissioned officer rank, simply so that it corresponded to their position.

What happens after October? Soldiers' committees received full power in their units and the right to complete self-government. The election of command personnel has become common practice. The word “officer” no longer existed; from now on, any person for whom the soldiers voted could apply for any position. A decree was even issued to equalize the rights of all military personnel. All insignia, shoulder straps, stripes, and so on - everything was abolished in November 1917. In fact, the Bolsheviks equated an officer with a private. The institution of commissar management also became part of the soldiers' democratization - representatives of the central government appeared in the troops, whose task was to develop initiative from below and push soldiers to actively participate in the life of the army.

At the same time, the Bolsheviks, speaking about their armed support, assumed that it would not be the old tsarist army, but the new Red Guard, consisting of workers - essentially an armed militia like a local police, which would rather keep order in cities, and in the event external danger will also be able to take part in hostilities. From Lenin's works of that time it is clear that, according to his plan, the new army was to be formed on class principles. Lenin dreamed of an army of workers, proletarians.

By the way, the idea of ​​universal armament and the widespread creation of police units at that time belonged not only to the Bolsheviks; it was supported, for example, by moderate socialists. No one cared about the regular army. The fact is that many were then under the influence of a kind of euphoria caused by the October Revolution. Let us remember that among the first decrees issued by the Bolsheviks was the Decree on Peace. It stated, in particular, that a democratic peace would be concluded between all the warring parties at that time, and that it would spread to all countries participating in the First World War. It was assumed that Germany was also on the threshold of a socialist revolution, which is why Lenin rushed his supporters to carry out a coup in Russia.

It is important to understand: the threat of continuing the war with Germany in the first days of November was not taken seriously. It was believed that a revolution was about to begin in Berlin, and this would be the prologue to the world revolution, and perhaps the revolutionary guard units of Russia and Germany would unite for mutual support against the imperialists. No one expected a full-scale war, or holding a huge front. That is why the Bolsheviks thought that they would have enough Red Guards who would become the support of the new state. Few understood that in the context of the essentially unfinished World War I, such an idea would not work.

But it quickly became clear that only Germany was ready to respond to the proposal for universal peace. And then, when the infamous negotiations began in Brest-Litovsk, it turned out that Germany was putting forward rather harsh conditions, demanding the separation of significant territories of the former Russian Empire. Therefore, the main tactic of the Bolsheviks at these negotiations was to delay time - waiting for the start of the revolution in Germany.

But since no one really believed in the continuation of the war, demobilization of the army began. According to the famous memoirs of Paul von Hidenburg, the commander-in-chief of the German army on the Eastern Front, who drove past the front line of the Russian army during the Brest-Litovsk negotiations, the trenches were half empty everywhere. Many soldiers by this time had actually deserted. Someone in the front-line zone helped the peasants implement another Bolshevik decree - “On Land”. That is, the soldiers actually became involved in the political life of their country and no longer thought about the enemy.

Are you among the volunteers?

It was only when the delegation from Brest-Litovsk returned to Petrograd in December, during a break in the negotiations, that the idea of ​​creating a new Red Army arose. And not only workers, but also peasants. It was understood that reinforcements to the front would come in the form of detachments of Red Guards and reserve battalions, which were also considered the most revolutionary-minded, since they underwent political indoctrination throughout 1917. But the Bolsheviks actually did not have time to do any of this.

A particular difficulty was that the army had to be created in conditions where the soldiers did not want to fight, and the Bolsheviks had just won the support of the army thanks to promises of a speedy peace. And it was decided that the Red Army would be built on volunteer principles: let everyone who considers the ideas of socialism correct and is ready to defend the revolution with arms in hand, join the Red Army.

The decree on the creation of the Red Army was signed on January 15, 1918, so, in theory, we should be celebrating exactly this date. However, the bureaucratic machine was still rocking for some time, and in fact, enrollment in the new army began only in February. True, it should be recalled here that January 31 in the Russian Republic and the day following it began to be considered immediately February 14.

Meanwhile, negotiations in Brest-Litovsk reached a dead end. Trotsky proclaimed his famous formula: “We are not making peace, we are disbanding the army,” and returned to Petrograd. And then the Germans went on the offensive. The fact is that, according to the terms of the negotiations, if the parties fail to reach an agreement by a certain date, hostilities can be resumed. The German army's offensive on Petrograd began in February 1918, after all deadlines had passed and a peace treaty with Russia had not been concluded.

True, on the night of February 18-19, the Council of People's Commissars sent a message to the German headquarters that Russia was ready to make peace on any terms. However, the Germans did not stop the offensive. Up to a certain point, as long as they could move forward, they developed their success. Accordingly, those parts of the Russian regular army that still remained on the front line began to retreat deeper into the country. Somewhere they tried to organize resistance, but rarely, and in the northern direction the retreat under the pressure of the Germans reached Pskov.

And so, in this convulsive situation, when the question of life and death arose for the Bolsheviks, the need for the creation of the Red Army became acute. The first recruiting centers in Petrograd were opened on February 21. The famous decree “The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger,” written on the same day and issued on February 22, urgently called on everyone to enlist in the Red Army to repel the German threat. On February 23, active rallies began in Petrograd, at which soldiers and workers were also encouraged to enroll in detachments and go to the front.

However, the response was insignificant. We must remember that significant forces of the Petrograd garrison - the first red detachments - at the end of 1917 headed to the front against Kaledin, against the Ukrainian Rada, in Finland, where by this time the Civil War had already begun. Therefore, now only a few from various military units enlisted in the Red Army. The Petrograd garrison and other units stationed in Petrograd numbered almost 150 thousand people, but the Bolsheviks, with great difficulty, persuasion, and through pressure from the commissars, managed to scrape together six thousand volunteers. On the night of February 23-24, this reinforcement departed for Pskov, where the Germans were already present.

In official Soviet historiography, one can find two explanations for the fact that February 23 became Red Army Day. The first says that it was on this day that the Red Army underwent a baptism of fire near Narva and Pskov. True, on the 23rd there were no hostilities yet, and when they began, they ended unsuccessfully for the Red Guards - both Narva and Pskov shamefully surrendered to the Germans.

The second, more ceremonial, explanation refers to the decree “The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger” and those rallies at which mass enrollment in the Red Army allegedly took place, although historical data does not confirm any enthusiasm from volunteers. Already in the late perestroika press one could find another version: supposedly the date of celebration was set a year later, in 1919, and it fell on February 23 for a prosaic reason, for convenience - it was Sunday. And then they continued to celebrate on this day simply according to tradition.

In any case, one must understand that the Red Army, which was created in the twentieth of February and entered into battle with the Germans near Pskov and Narva, was an army of a revolutionary type, consisting of volunteers who were held together by common ideas.

In the Red Army there will be bayonets and tea

Despite the victory at Pskov, the Germans never took Petrograd. Firstly, they did not have truly large forces in this direction. The German army was also not in the best condition, they also had to hold a huge front, and besides, the advancing units were advancing quickly, and this always creates additional logistical difficulties. Secondly, on the approaches to the city, in the Luga area, the remnants of the regular Russian army and new Red Guard detachments still managed to organize some kind of resistance. And on February 24, the Germans, without stopping the offensive, agreed to negotiations. The offensive only stopped when Trotsky arrived in Brest-Litovsk and on March 3 signed the shameful peace agreements that marked Russia's defeat in the First World War.

But it was after this that Trotsky headed the Military People's Commissariat and energetically set about building a new army, immediately and decisively abandoning all previous revolutionary ideas - the volunteer principle of recruitment, soldier self-government, democratic freedoms won by the February Revolution. In essence, he proclaimed the idea of ​​a regular centralized army, the basis of which was conscripts. And, no less important, he turned to the help of military specialists, former tsarist officers, who agreed to serve the Bolsheviks.

Leon Trotsky - Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army

Everything happened very quickly. Already on March 4-5, literally the next day after the conclusion of the Brest Peace, Trotsky canceled all democratic innovations in the army. In mid-March, the formation of new leadership structures began. Trotsky made all decisions virtually single-handedly, or more precisely, with the support of those party leaders who initially did not support the creation of a volunteer army. On the contrary, as a result of the February failure, supporters of such an army lost positions in the leadership of the country, including quite large ones - for example, former military commissar Nikolai Podvoisky or Pavel Dybenko, who led the sailors near Narva and was defeated along with them.

Thus, universal conscription was introduced in person, by order of the military commissar, on the basis of the same January decree of the Council of People's Commissars on the creation of the Red Army - a very declarative one, which did not contain any clear instructions on the principle of recruiting the army. At the same time, the first volunteer detachments of the Red Guards were still somewhere on the fronts of the Civil War, and somewhere they continued to form - this revolutionary idea was not completely killed. But still, from March 1918, the backbone of the Red Army became different, and a new stage of its existence began.

It was this army, not an army of volunteers, that won the Civil War. True, the conscription age was significantly reduced in comparison with the requirements of the First World War - a significant part of the male population over 30 years of age was not called up for service during the Civil War. Nevertheless, the Bolsheviks managed to mobilize significant masses of people. And the volunteers were increasingly criticized: “atamanism”, “partisanship”, that is, not a normal army, from Trotsky’s point of view, but some kind of gangs that obey no one knows who. This criticism was partly fair.

The new units of the Red Army were primarily territorial; they were formed in the provinces by revolutionary organizations. At the same time, the Bolsheviks adhered to the class principle and were very suspicious of former officers. Subsequently, when the Red Terror began, they, like other class enemies, were used as hostages. The elite of the Red Army were the workers, especially the Petrograd workers - they were valued and tried to attract first of all, these were people with a heightened sense of class.

It was more difficult with the peasantry. None of the peasants at this time wanted to fight. The desire of the soldiers of the Russian army to go home, which was felt already in 1915-16, reached its peak with the advent of the “green” formations, which were detachments of peasant self-defense: the peasants resisted any power that came. The desertion of peasants conscripted into the army on both sides was significant. In principle, the majority of the population never participates in civil wars, because they are peaceful and do not want to fight. A minority is ready to kill each other. The tragedy of the Civil War in Russia was that its main victim was the peasant population, who did not want to fight, but was forced to do so under pressure from the Reds or the Whites.

White Army, Black Baron

However, it cannot be said that the side that was able, through greater cruelty, to recruit more soldiers from among the peasants, won the Civil War. Still, the ideological component cannot be discounted. Moreover, the dominant role was played not so much by the idea of ​​socialism as by the idea of ​​justice. On the one hand, in some places the Soviet regime was enthusiastically overthrown, but when they learned what white power and the return of the landowners meant, sympathies returned to the side of the Reds. From a political point of view, the Bolsheviks turned out to be the only force that represented the interests, first of all, of workers and, albeit to a lesser extent, peasants.

A revolution is never carried out under pressure. In Russian society of that time there was great class antagonism, there was stratification in the countryside, which caused conflicts that manifested themselves during the Civil War. For example, this situation manifested itself very clearly in the North Caucasus, where the division into reds and whites, in fact, was not even a class phenomenon, but a continuation of the centuries-old enmity between the Cossacks and the highlanders. If the Cossacks are for the whites, then the local highlanders are for the reds, if the Cossacks are for the reds, then the highlanders are for the whites. The civil conflict mobilized many such local divisions, and both sides exploited them.

Ultimately, the ideological question turned out to be key. The white movement was united by one main idea: the Bolsheviks are German spies, so we are continuing the First World War, we are fighting the henchmen of the German elite who seized power. The conclusion of the Brest Peace Treaty only increased the influx of officers and other units of the old army loyal to the Provisional Government into the camp of opposition to the Bolsheviks. The conditions of peace were such that many were finally convinced of the betrayal of the Bolsheviks and decided to join the ranks of Kornilov’s formations in the south of Russia, where the Cossacks also rose up and where opposition to Soviet power was concentrated.

But when the First World War ended at the end of 1918, general peace was concluded and German troops left the occupied territories, the question arose: who are the Bolsheviks then? So, they are no longer supported by German bayonets? These questions essentially split the White movement and pushed many border territories that were subject to foreign intervention towards the Reds. It turned out that it was the Whites who were calling interventionists into Russian territory, and the Reds who were defending it. The memoirs and diaries of white officers clearly show how they began to understand what they were actually fighting for, who the real patriots were here. And someone began to join the Reds for purely patriotic reasons.

It was a difficult, complex situation. There were ideological opponents or supporters of the Bolsheviks, but there were fewer and fewer of them, because they were the first to die in the battles of the Civil War. Some gradually took one side or the other, others did it situationally. For example, the famous general Alexei Brusilov, who ended up in the ranks of the Red Army and became a symbol of the joining of old officers to the new government, had a son who was tortured to death by the Reds. If we analyze the reasons why former tsarist officers joined the Red Army, then simple logic that can be reduced solely to class antagonism will not be found there.

Dmitry Ivanov
Based on an interview with Konstantin Tarasov

Stalin invites Ribbentrop to drink to the Fuhrer's health

In the Yandex search box, the word “offers” immediately clings to the word “deny”. A chain is automatically built: “the deputy proposes to ban.” In this combination, the name Mizulina immediately pops up as one of the options - 171 thousand Internet links.

What else is prohibited?

The list of prohibitions proposed by Elena Mizulina, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, is very diverse. From the taboo on showing adult cartoons during the daytime to the promotion of same-sex love and oral sex (at any time). From restricting abortion and divorce to denying higher education to nulliparous women.

“Studying and doing science is not a woman’s business at all,” the deputy believes. “It’s a woman’s job to give birth and raise children.” We need Orthodox healthy girls, not pale feminists...

58-year-old Elena Mizulina is absolutely right. After all, she is responsible in the Duma for childbirth. And children are not born from oral sex - this is a medical fact. As for pale feminists, what kind of offspring can they produce? The same pale, “sick, later”...

Another deputy’s name, which Yandex instantly produces, coupled with various variants of the word “ban,” has also been around for a long time. This is Irina Yarovaya, co-author of the bills “on libel,” “against rallies,” and “on foreign agents.”

As the chairman of the Duma Security Committee, Irina Anatolyevna proposes to introduce criminal liability for criticism of the Red Army and, in general, “the activities of the anti-Hitler coalition troops” during the Second World War.

According to Ms. Yarovaya’s idea, “dissemination of knowingly false information” about the coalition should be punishable by fines from 300 to 500 thousand rubles or imprisonment from 3 to 5 years.

It's a pity that this 46-year-old woman was born so late. In times of war, she could protect the Red Army. And all of it.

But the armored train left, and now Irina Yarovaya, at best, can only protect the good memory that the Red Army left about itself - “from the taiga to the British seas.”

Rude saying " Neither the star nor the Red Army" will probably be illegal. And for two reasons at once. Firstly, it implies an obscene word. And secondly, one of the participants in the anti-Hitler coalition is mentioned in a bad context.

Almost our entire bitter history of the 30s and 40s may also be outside the law. And then Stalin’s textbooks will return, where it will be said that small but evil Finland tried to enslave the Soviet Union in 1939. That there was no occupation of the Baltic states, and our troops entered there at the fervent requests of the working people of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. And the Red Army, together with Hitler, captured Poland solely for the sake of peace on earth, and it entered Bessarabia because the Romanian clique oppressed the local population.

And yet I would like to clarify the boundaries of the truth. In particular, the term “anti-Hitler coalition” itself is confusing. Are these only those who fought with Germany, or with its allies too? Explain, is it possible to criticize, say, the United States for the atomic bombing of Japanese cities?

Also, chronology is important. What period of history is this referring to? If we take the fall of 1939 as the starting point - the beginning of World War II - then the participants in the anti-Hitler coalition were England, France, Poland, and Canada. Australia, finally. The list is long - even New Zealand is there. But the Soviet Union is just not there. For a very simple reason: the USSR at that moment was a member of a completely different coalition – Hitler’s. And while the Wehrmacht was destroying Western Poland, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was finishing off Eastern Poland. The “comrades in arms” celebrated their common victory with a joint parade.
All these are well-known facts. Another thing is whether they are known to Mrs. Yarovaya and that handful of deputies who decided to stand up for the honor of the Red Army?

Let's drink to the Motherland, let's drink to the Fuhrer

Stalin did not hesitate to publicly voice plans for cooperation with Hitler on the division of Europe. Back on August 19, 1939, Joseph Vissarionovich stated: “The first advantage that we will derive will be the destruction of Poland up to the very approaches to Warsaw, including Ukrainian Galicia... Germany gives us complete freedom of action in the Baltic countries and does not object to the return of Bessarabia to the USSR.” .

On August 23, 1939, Foreign Minister of the Third Reich Joachim von Ribbentrop flew to Moscow for negotiations with Stalin. The negotiations were so successful that the red leader became emotional and raised a glass to the Fuhrer’s health.
While the “father of nations” sipped his wine, Ribbentrop watched him, coming close. The minister was carrying out a secret order from Hitler - to carefully examine what kind of ears Stalin had. If the earlobes are pressed tightly to the skull, he is probably a Jew. If not much - Aryan. Too protruding is also bad: although he is not a Jew, he is a degenerate. The Fuhrer, who had put the whole of Europe on its ears, was very worried about this. He was a suspicious person.

Returning from Moscow, Joachim entered the boss’s office and the first thing he did from the threshold blurted out: “ They are not pinned down!»

As proof, the Reich Minister presented a close-up photo of Stalin: normal ears, small, hairy. Hitler was very happy. True, he didn’t slam his drink back, but he did send a friendly telegram to Stalin.

This is how the Fuhrer, obsessed with stupid prejudices, chose his allies. His colleague was much more practical in this sense.

Protocol of the “two wise men”

Speaking on the Soviet-German Pact at an extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Vyacheslav Molotov said:

– August 23 should be considered a date of great historical importance. This is a turning point in the history of Europe.
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich looked into the water.

Having heard from Molotov that now the USSR and Germany “ceased to be enemies,” the people’s representatives, without knowing it, unanimously voted for the start of World War II. They didn’t even realize that there was a short, four-point appendix to the agreement - a secret additional protocol.

The protocol that decided the fate of Europe was so secret that the Soviet government itself refused to recognize it. And she recognized it only just before her death - in 1989. Only then did they find the original document in the archives of the Politburo of the Central Committee, the contents of which had long been known in the West. And in the Soviet Union it was considered a vile fake. At that time, they also gave a sentence for spreading “slanderous fabrications,” and even longer than what Deputy Yarovaya is offering today.

Yes, there was something to hide! The Additional Protocol is direct evidence of a criminal conspiracy between two aggressors - Stalin and Hitler. With the infliction of particularly grave damage to the world and humanity.

According to the protocol, the accomplices did not disdain “dismemberment.” Europe was butchered like a beef carcass. Stalin got Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, part of Romanian territory and half of Poland. We also agreed on the future border - along the line of the Narva-Vistula-Sana rivers. In addition, the red leader essentially received carte blanche to start a war with Finland (Suomi, according to the protocol, fell into the “sphere of interests” of the USSR).

Stalin did not object. In December 1939, he sent a telegram to Hitler: “ The friendship of the peoples of Germany and the USSR, sealed by blood, has every reason to be long and strong" By the way, Stalin, as befits an ally, did not forget to congratulate the Fuhrer both on the invasion of German troops in Norway and on the occasion of the capture of Paris - “a fair victory over French imperialism.”

Who's throwing a barrel at us?

In June 1940, units of the Red Army stationed in the southwest received a directive from Moscow on political work during hostilities: “The bourgeois-capitalist clique of Romania, preparing provocative actions against the USSR, concentrated large military forces on the border with the USSR, increased the number of border guards pickets up to 100 people..."

100 people on the border is, of course, cool! It was necessary to take some measures against the insolent Romanian military, which loomed menacingly over the peaceful Soviet homeland.

Our cause is just, and the German allies naturally approved of it: “ The German government fully recognizes the rights of the Soviet Union to Bessarabia" True, Ribbentrop suddenly became stubborn - for some reason he remembered about tiny Bukovina, which the Russians also decided to take over. “We didn’t agree like that! “- the minister was capricious.

But Stalin grinned in response. They say that you and I are dividing up Europe on a large scale, and here you are interfering with some insignificant Bukovina.

What kind of Bukovina could it be if the Southern Front had already deployed its battle formations and avalanches of Red Army soldiers, supported by tanks, began to move? Comrade Ribbentrop realized it too late!

Romania was also an ally of Hitler (another paradox of history), who strongly advised it not to resist.

She didn't resist. There was, however, one daring attempt to stop the Red Army. Having ignited a barrel of diesel fuel, the Romanians wanted to set fire to the border bridge. But due to technical backwardness, they did not succeed in this either.

Having extinguished the only source of resistance in the form of a barrel, the red tankers pushed back the Romanian military and began to liberate foreign territory.

Soon, thousands of liberated residents of grape Moldova, as well as the Chernivtsi and Akkerman regions, were loaded into 29 trains and transported to Komi, Siberia, and Kazakhstan.

The results of the deportation were reported to Stalin in a document written in dry accounting language: “ The total number of unwanted items seized was 29,839.».

Some will die along the way. Others “seized” will die in the first severe winter.

Fair and free elections will be held among those who will not be sent to Siberia. 95-99 percent will vote for Soviet power.

Songs will be composed about the reunited peoples of the fraternal “twin republics”: “ And each twin is happy and joyful: their mother is the Constitution, Stalin is their father».

Goat in the garden

But at first the Balts did not understand their happiness; they rejected Stalin’s “fatherhood” and did not strive to join a brotherly family.

Stalin was again helped to resolve this delicate issue by his powerful ally Adolf Hitler. In fact, the Germans also had their eyes on Lithuania, but as a result of negotiations they agreed to exchange it from the Soviets for the Warsaw and Lublin Voivodeships. On September 25, 1939, the parties entered into a corresponding agreement “On Friendship and Borders”.

Meanwhile, on the border with the Baltic countries, rifle divisions and motorized brigades of the Red Army were already in full swing. It was a kind of “invitation” to peace negotiations.

Estonia was the first to surrender, signing a “mutual assistance pact” with the Soviet Union (again, on advice from Berlin). Praising the Estonian delegation of negotiators for their compliance, Stalin honestly said:

It could have happened to you like with Poland. Poland was a great power. And where is Poland now?

After these words, spoken with a kind smile, the Latvians and Lithuanians surrendered. Red Army soldiers entered the Baltic countries, and the cruiser Kirov entered the port of Liepaja.

As they say, they let the goat into town. But he didn't stop fighting.

By the way, back in April 1940, Germany printed maps where the Baltic states were painted in the colors of the USSR. The Germans knew everything in advance...

On June 14, 1940, Stalin presented an ultimatum to Lithuania, and two days later - to Latvia and Estonia. New demands: the creation of pro-Soviet governments in the Baltic states and the introduction of additional contingents of the Red Army.

The Balts agreed. Although this was no longer a concession, but a complete capitulation. But there was no need to wait for help: France was defeated, England was being bombed, and Germany was on the side of the Soviets.

Only one Lithuanian - President Smetona - tried to call for resistance. But he didn’t call anyone. But he managed to escape and thereby save his life. The heads of Latvia and Estonia, Ulmanis and Päts, were less fortunate; they fell into the clutches of the NKVD.

Before the arrival of the Red Army, there were about three hundred communists in the entire Baltic region. Nevertheless, in the elections held on June 14, 1940, the pro-communist blocs of the “working people” won in these three states. It's simple: other blocs were not on the electoral lists.

Stalin didn’t really worry about the cries about election fraud, he didn’t say - go to court and prove it. He himself was the court - the highest and fair.

On July 21-22, 1940, “people's parliaments” proclaimed Soviet socialist republics in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. On August 3-5 they were accepted into the USSR.

And where is the Baltics now? In the same place as Poland.

Wherever the liberators came, arrests and deportations immediately began. More than 10 thousand people were expelled from Estonia, 17.5 thousand from Lithuania, and about 16 thousand from Latvia.

And after the Germans were kicked out of the Baltic states, a new wave of deportations swept here. In 1949, during the punitive operation “Surf”, another 100 thousand Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians were driven to Siberia.

The Baltic partisans - the “forest brothers” - were destroyed only in the early 50s.

Except Suomi

Only one country resisted the red aggressor - small but brave Finland.

The fate of Suomi, which, according to the secret protocol to the agreement between Hitler and Stalin, belonged to the “sphere of interests” of the USSR, seemed to be predetermined. Finland was offered the same scenario: conclude an agreement with the Soviet Union, allow the Red Army into its territory, hold “fair elections,” create a “people’s government,” and only then, as usual, begin executions and “seizure of undesirable elements.”

As a “cover story,” the Kremlin again used words about peace and security, which were boldly threatened by the Finnish military.

“We can’t do anything about geography,” Stalin joked (in fact, he could do anything). – And since Leningrad cannot be moved...

We need to move Finland! More precisely, its borders. Take away the fortified territory, at the same time create bases for the Red Army and Navy in Suomi.

Agree! And stop thinking! " Don't provoke a military conflict“, Vyacheslav Molotov warned the Finnish delegation.

Even the iron Marshal Mannerheim trembled, declaring in parliament that a compromise had to be sought - the regular Finnish army would hold out for a maximum of two weeks.

But the Finns did not want to compromise with the rapist, but instead mobilized reservists and deployed their entire powerful army, including 30 tanks and 130 aircraft. This is against Stalin’s 2,200 tanks and 2,5 thousand aircraft.

On the afternoon of November 30, 1939, incendiary bombs were dropped on the heads of civilians in Helsinki. On the first day, about 200 people died.

On December 1, the creation of a “people's government” led by the Kremlin puppet Otto Kuusinen was announced in occupied Terijoki. The goal is to “bring freedom to the oppressed workers” of Suomi. And bring it - on the bayonets of the Red Army. For the Red Army soldiers they immediately composed a song that sounded very paradoxical: “ Your homeland has been taken away more than once - we have come to return it to you».

« Suom residents"They didn't like these words - they responded with their song" No, Molotov!"and the "Molotov cocktail", which burned hundreds of Soviet tanks.

According to Khrushchev’s memoirs, Stalin sincerely believed that “if you only fire a cannon once, the Finns will raise their hands up.”

They didn't pick it up. On the contrary, they perked up. They launched a people's liberation war against the Soviet aggressors. As a result, although Stalin pinched off a piece of the Finnish pie, this piece was bloody. The 750,000-strong Red Army suffered heavy losses: 150,000 killed and died from wounds, 325,000 wounded. Finnish losses – 19.5 thousand killed, 43.5 thousand wounded (“History of Russia. 20th century”).

Finland never became a Soviet socialist republic. Moreover, we have acquired a potential enemy who will take revenge on us in a new war that was already on the threshold.

The inglorious Soviet-Finnish campaign had another consequence, truly fatal. It was based on the results of the “Winter War” that Hitler concluded about the weakness of the Red Army and the Soviet Union (“a colossus with feet of clay”) and made the final decision to attack the USSR.

Poisoned Bait

Two predators - Hitler and Stalin - claimed the main role in the food chain. Therefore, their collision was inevitable. The whole question was how to find the right, strategically advantageous moment to attack first.

Poland, the Baltic states, and Bessarabia played the role of a kind of poisoned bait in front of the fox hole. By and large, Stalin gained nothing from their capture. On the contrary, digesting these territories, I lost valuable time. By the way, Churchill was cunning and understood this very well. He also understood the fact that in any European war of the twentieth century the winner is known in advance. This is the United States of America.

But our “great strategist,” alas, let us down. The Soviet people paid a bloody price for his crazy adventures. And although many still consider Stalin to be a brilliant politician, in fact he was a clinical maniac obsessed with the idea of ​​world revolution: “ To the grief of all the bourgeoisie, we will fan the world fire!»

In this fire, fanned from both sides at once, millions of human lives were burned.

On a warm summer night I happened to drink vodka in a park in the middle of Old Square.

Two famous film playwrights Vitaly Moskalenko (“Shirley Myrli”) and Yuri Perov (“Truckers”) did me the honor of inviting me as the third... And in the midst of a dispute about the relationship between what is necessary and what is sufficient in politics and art, a young long-haired “poodle” suddenly approached, clearly not taught to eat politically correctly and muttered: “Grandfathers! Actually, you have to pay to rent the territory!” Vitaly instantly jumped up from the grass, commanding “Circle!” turned the “guest” back to himself and gave the sufferer a powerful kick. After which the young man flew a decent distance away, barely able to stay on his feet...

Yura and I chased after the others.

When the “poodles” were gone, our conversation came down to the fact that, perhaps, the main thing is to give a kick to an aggressive opponent in time.

Look, life will get better!

All summer, TV channels regularly regaled us with touching stories about meetings of the Guarantor of the Constitution with young people. They say that the “crows” from the liberal media are vilely slandering our impeccably raised children, saying that the children are supposedly fighting for some kind of “radical changes.” They are good guys and tomboys and, first of all, they think about how to quickly make a career. The only thing they need from the Guarantor is to help them break through by creating a unit in the “vertical of power” that guarantees a Bright Tomorrow even for those whose “ancestors,” alas, are not members of the Security Council or even analysts from court research institutes, who have connections then there is nowhere except MGIMO and the Higher School of Economics!

The kids know for sure that Russian reality in every step does not correspond to the declared laws. That new owners of what was once “national property” are still being appointed. And Khodorkovsky’s mental anguish over the conspiracy that was PriKhvatization, which he shared with Vedomosti on September 22, 2014 (allegedly the oligarch “did not realize that a huge number of people simply could not use the opportunities that it seemed there were them too”) nothing more than senile coquetry.

The fugitive oligarch admits that the elites are dissatisfied with the president and are allegedly even looking for a possible replacement for him... But the “inner circle” is extremely heterogeneous. And he really doesn't like risk.

The oligarch recalled that “in the late 80s and early 90s, power was demolished by the hands of hungry people.” But now the elite is “starving”

A businessman who took part in the election of the President of the Russian Federation is ultimately deprived of the opportunity to acquire contracts and partners in the West, and “the authorities,” the oligarch believes, “are not ready to provide their adherents with money for the rest of their lives.” Supposedly smart people began to distance themselves from decision-making.

The intensity of the oligarch’s feelings is well characterized by the remark that, they say, “if the people rally a little more around the leader, they will strangle him.”

According to Khodor, the opposition needs to “show the West that Russia does not end with the Kremlin,” and the Russians that problems in foreign policy can be resolved not after many decades, but tomorrow or the day after tomorrow by specific people.”

The philosopher Berdyaev liked to repeat that the world is not a struggle between good and evil, but a struggle between good and good. A wolf is chasing a hare: if it catches up, the hare will die; if it doesn’t catch up, the wolf cubs will die of hunger. This collision permeates the entire existence of nature and man.

But it’s somehow painfully disgusting to feel like a hare in your own homeland, desperately trying not to fall into the wolf’s jaws of a cosmopolitan oligarch!

And the fact that the mouth is supposedly “democratic” does not make the fangs any less sharp.

In order to at least slightly spoil the image of Putin that had already formed in the souls of Russians, they even shook off the dust from the fugitive KGB general Oleg Kalugin, who gave a huge interview to Kyiv(!) journalist Dmitry Gordon.

The fugitive general (our president once began his service in the KGB directorate for Leningrad, which was led by Mr. fugitive!), will face a 15-year imprisonment for high treason in his homeland.

"Courtesy for courtesy"

His Excellency has been taken out of mothballs and he is trying very hard to be interesting. Although I could only read or hear about many things from not always truthful sources.

Encroaching on the image of the president as an intelligence officer, beloved by millions, the general claims that Putin allegedly “never served in intelligence.” And his work in Dresden was just an internship in the GDR, which was never considered “abroad.”

They say, a poor loser, who did not show himself to be a normal professional in Dresden, returned from a business trip with an inferior Trabant car and earned his living as a private driver. He couldn’t even find the previous position he held before his internship in the GDR. On behalf of Mayor Sobchak, he famously exchanged oil for food for St. Petersburg. This allowed him to move to Moscow to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, where there were almost no such professionals.

And a little later, it was allegedly Putin who organized a video recording of how “a man who looked like the prosecutor general” was engaged in the most pleasant activity with naked sex workers.

If the video had not been shown on TV in Russia and on Western TV channels then, we would have “woke up in another country.”

Parliament demanded that prosecutor Skuratov be removed.

And Yeltsin allegedly said, “What a man!

And Putin became president, from time to time reminding young people “They don’t leave a sick mother’s bedside!”

And the specialists keep leaving and leaving!

So how do you order to form in young minds a willingness to serve the country that was once saved by the “grandfathers” and disappeared on August 19, 1991?! To the accompaniment of speeches about readiness to “love and protect the inheritance inherited from heroic grandfathers”, delivered mainly on May 9?!

And what exactly do you order to “love and protect” if the Constitutional Court recognized that any foreigner has equal rights to land in the Russian Federation with a citizen of indigenous nationality?! They say that the foreigner today is not the same, non-aggressive, there are only “partners” all around.

We've seen such “partners”!

Once at the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School, guests from First Med came to the Department of Computer Science with a proposal to create a mathematical model of a person. In the conference room they hung posters with a cross-section of the human body and began asking guests questions: “If this organ shuts down, how will this and that organ behave?!” And if this one passes out, what will happen to the others?!”

“Oh, we study each organ on its own!”

And when the “organs” function on their own (this has always been the case with us!), a “color” revolution simply cannot help but happen. “Color-blind people” from the “power vertical” simply won’t notice it.

Just like “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, which declared the capital riots of August 1991 as “First Colored”.

Supposedly completely selfless.

“They didn’t notice” the “singing revolution” in Estonia, which happened before the Moscow party at the White House and was paid for in dollars from the Tallinn branch of Vnesheconombank of the USSR on orders from Moscow. 15 years before Yulia Tymoshenko mastered the prepayment of the Maidan, banker Valentin Porfiryev personally handed out briefcases stuffed with currency to the leaders of the first Popular Front in the USSR...

Revolutions cannot be made without money!

And if “at the dawn of foggy democracy” George H. W. Bush’s assistant Condoleezza Rice approved ministerial candidates in the Russian government, it would not be too much of a slander to suggest that the money for the change of power in Moscow in August 1991 also came from Washington, or at least by order of this city...

In any case, so far no one has even tried to refute Alexander Korzhakov, who divulged that the sponsors of the 1996 presidential campaign were Clinton and Kohl, and Berlusconi even donated a billion “as a sign of ardent sympathy for Boris.”

This is possible only with an established “investment” mechanism and a firm conviction that the money invested will give a “predictable gain.”

The old people, who in 1996 went to the polling stations as if into battle and chose (as Mr. Medvedev once let slip, not Yeltsin at all!), fought not only with the schemers from the Electoral Commission, but with the entire colossus of World Capital.

It’s just a pity, the old people are almost dead, and there’s no one to replace them.

But to the long-tired dreams out loud that supposedly “the dollar is about to collapse,” sweet dreams about a civil war in the United States that is quite capable of breaking out before ours have just been added. Having fifty states each with its own legislation, it is easier to tear a country into pieces than having eight Federal Districts!

True, this could distract the overseas uncompromising knights - fighters against corruption - from the readiness declared in the fresh Law on Anti-Russian Sanctions to force the oligarchs and officials of Russia to unite and remove Putin from the Kremlin.

Under the threat of confiscation of everything acquired through backbreaking labor.

For many years it was drummed into our heads that any attempt to take away what was stolen from the “foremen of Perestroika” would result in a sea of ​​blood and a full-scale civil war. Therefore, you need to endure everything!

But when YUKOS was sawed up, the home armies of its owners did not even try to overshadow their benefactors.

And in any part of the country they will gladly show you entire cemeteries with beautiful monuments to “those who were not overshadowed.”

The Americans are again ready to see us only through a gun. Despite the fact that they are passionately fighting for comprehensive democracy under their noses, tearing down monuments to one civil war and fanning the flames of a new one. It turned out that, despite the outward prosperity and decency in the “Great White Country”, since the war between the North and the South, no one has forgotten or forgiven anyone.

There are also many experts in our country who believe that the Civil War in Russia, which began in 1917, continues to this day, only changing its appearance. And a series glorifying the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of Red Russia, who throughout the Civil War had more power than the Council of People's Commissars and the Politburo, is being filmed at a rapid pace.

“By order of Comrade Trotsky!”

"Eat!" - turned and disappeared quickly.

And only on the naval tape

After the revolution of 1917, the tsarist army completely ceased to exist. In February 1918, the creation of the Red Army began. There was no shortage of volunteers. Fiery communists from the people signed up in hundreds of thousands to join the new military formation. Already on February 23, the Red Army gave its first battle near Pskov.

However, ordinary peasants and factory workers did not have proper training. Most of them did not know how to handle weapons, and in general, few were knowledgeable in military strategy and tactics. The Red Army needed well-trained officers with combat experience.

Lack of professional commanders

Before the events described, Russia had already taken part in the war for about 4 years. There was no shortage of highly qualified military personnel in the tsarist army. In the post-revolutionary years, the Red Army was replenished with 56 thousand White Guard officers.

8 thousand of them, imbued with the ideas of communism, joined the armed workers’ and peasants’ formations voluntarily. At the end of 1920, there were 5 million people in the ranks of the Red Army. However, 56 thousand officers for 5 million was not enough.

The command of the Red Army came to the conclusion that it was necessary to attract White Guards who had so far fought on the side of the enemy to serve. In the spring of 1920, there were 20,000 white officers from the armies of Denikin and Kolchak in captivity of the Red Army, whose main forces had already been defeated by that time. This whole mass of well-trained military personnel could be useful to the young Red Army.

Attracting White Guards to serve

A request for permission to recruit captured Kolchak soldiers to serve in the Red Army was sent to the Vseroglavshtab and granted back in June 1919. On April 8 of the following year, a new resolution of the Revolutionary Military Council was issued. It spoke of recruiting White Guards to serve in Red Army units in the Caucasus.

Despite the critical situation of the new army, leadership personnel were selected carefully. The Revolutionary Military Council rejected as ideologically alien elements officers who had previously served in the General Staff of the Russian Army, people who came from the clergy, as well as military personnel of Polish origin.

The last category of persons was included in the prohibited list not by chance. The Poles were categorically against Soviet Russia. However, the realities of life overcame all precautions. During the Soviet-Polish War, White Guards with Polish roots began to be enrolled in the Red Army. At that time, 100 thousand former tsarist generals, majors and other ranks already served in it.

After the war

The end of the Civil War led to the need to reduce the army, which had been bloated to incredible sizes. If initially its strength was about 5 million, then in peacetime only half a million fighters were required. The 130,000-strong command staff had to be cut to 50,000.

Naturally, first of all, they began to lay off “politically unreliable” personnel - former White Guards. By the beginning of 1925, only 397 people remained in the ranks of the Red Army. After numerous checks, these people were entrusted with the military education of the Red Army soldiers. During the period of Stalin's purges, they were all destroyed.