DEGREES OF COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES In English, as in Russian, ...
12/12/2012 /12:35/ This issue is increasingly being discussed on the Internet. It is discussed by politicians, political scientists, experts, analysts, etc. etc. Opinions vary greatly. Some believe that Caucasians, like all citizens of Russia, should be drafted into the army. Others, apparently based on their personal dislike for the Caucasians, are categorically against their service in the ranks of the Russian armed forces.
In a situation where the issue of conscription into the army is acute in the country, the number of draft evaders is growing, the desire to serve in the army of healthy and strong guys, logically, should be welcomed in every possible way, and not discouraged from their desire to serve the Motherland.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia does not have a clear answer to this question either. And the policy of forming the armed forces along ethnic lines borders on discrimination and can have extremely negative consequences for the state.
Give some "state" figures the will, they would not only forbid the Caucasians to join the army, but in general would drive all of them into the ghetto.
There are a lot of so-called patriots of Russia among those.
A considerable part of these “patriots” for the state have villas over the “hillock”, a well-established business and accounts with funds stolen from the people with many zeros in offshore. Of course, they do not need the Russian army to protect them...
What kind of “dogs” were no longer broadcasting to Caucasians. Although it has long been obvious to a sane person that the whole of Russia is sick and what we have in the regions is metastases of an all-Russian disease. All Russian society needs to be treated.
And in such a sick society, a priori, there can be no healthy army.
Some "experts" say that the mass conscription of Caucasians will lead to hazing in its worst form - on an ethnic basis. This is despite the fact that humiliating drill, executions and violence against soldiers in the Russian army are its birth disease and Caucasians have nothing to do with it.
All this is said as if in military units, where there are no Caucasians, no hazing and violence.
In general, a strange situation is developing around the conscription of Caucasians into the army. When conscription is limited in the North Caucasian republics or it is suspended in the media, a fuss begins - that, they say, "everyone serves, but these are special." A call for military service begins, heated discussions begin again on the topic of whether they are needed there or not.
Conscripts from the Caucasus are accused of illiteracy, unwillingness to obey the military regulations, that they refuse to perform household work unworthy of men; they are accused of establishing their own rules and even of their lack of concepts of military discipline, honor and duty.
Thus, according to some "experts" and "analysts", an increase in the number of conscripts - Caucasians will undermine the combat effectiveness of the Russian army. Thus, they talk about everything, but not about the real reasons for the lack of order in the army.
By the way, I’ll note that conscripts from the Caucasus have nothing to do with the emergency situation in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation ...
Unlike many of their more "literate and advanced" compatriots, Caucasians did not sell their homeland for yachts and imported sausages. And the concepts of duty, honor and manhood in the Caucasus do not require artificial inoculation, they are absorbed here with mother's milk. The army is not demoralized by Caucasians, but by corruption that has permeated the Ministry of Defense, the negligence and carelessness of a certain part of the officer corps, aimed at extracting personal gain, and not at serving the Fatherland. What are the efforts of only officials from the "defense service" or designers from "Yudashkin" worth, through the fault of which the entire army has been freezing for many years ...
The army is a place where a man should learn martial arts, and not polish the headquarters corridors to a shine. After all, it's not a secret for anyone that a soldier for a certain category of senior officials is a free labor force. And there is nothing surprising in the fact that, because of their religious and mental characteristics, Caucasians refuse to clean pigsties or rebuild generals' dachas.
There are no problems with Caucasians where service is properly established. On the contrary, officers give them excellent service records. So the point is not in the Caucasians, but in the army itself.
Problems arise where the soldier is accustomed to be treated as a silent "creature", where the soldiers are left to their own devices and are busy with anything but combat training.
It is not young conscripts who set the rules in military units, they find themselves in an environment where there are already long-established "traditions" that determine the behavior of newcomers.
Speaking about the mental characteristics of the Caucasians, for some reason they lose sight of the fact that other peoples have their own characteristics, which are not entirely pleasant for the representatives of the Caucasian peoples. If for some, for example, swearing is the norm, then for a Caucasian it is wild and, naturally, a conflict situation develops in such an environment.
And here again the point is not in the Caucasians, but in the inability of some commanders to work with personnel. After all, the whole world knows that Caucasians make excellent warriors. And to say the opposite is to make the world laugh.
There is another important reason for the difficult adaptation of Caucasians not only in the army, but also in the ordinary, civilian environment - this is an off-scale level of xenophobia, or, more precisely, Caucasian phobia in Russian society. In isolated groups, this disease manifests itself especially acutely. In particular, quite a few servicemen, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs participated in the hostilities in the North Caucasus, and this, of course, leaves a certain imprint on their attitude towards conscripts from the North Caucasian republics.
To solve the problems of the Russian army, in particular, the problem of conscripting young people from the republics of the North Caucasus into the army, it is necessary to have in the army a sergeant and command staff appropriate to the time.
A good example of such a setting of service and work with conscripts is the North and South battalions of the Russian Ministry of Defense stationed on the territory of the Chechen Republic.
Today, all hope is that the new Minister of Defense, as a person with vast experience in working with people, able to identify problems and quickly solve them, will create the necessary prerequisites for solving the problems of the modern Russian army.
Commissioner for Human Rights in the Czech Republic,
Chairman of the Human Rights Commission
Public Council of the North Caucasus Federal District N.S. Nukhazhiev
16/12/2010
I had the opportunity to serve for 2 years side by side with the guys from sunny Dagestan. This is the most multinational state in the world - there are Avars, Lezgins, Laks, Tabasarans, Nogais, Dargins, Kumyks, Rutuls, Aguls, Tsakhurs and others ... and they are all Dagestanis.
E There is such a legend that my Dagestan army friend Ibrahim told me that God walked around the world with a bag and handed out languages to the peoples. In the region of Dagestan, the Lord dozed off and the bag overturned, from which more tongues were spilled into a small territory than it should be.
I served in the Skovorodinsky border detachment. Even then I was perplexed - why are Caucasians sent to serve us? Do they have problems with the place of service there? So, then we were told to the non-fired training fighters that when the call of the Dagestanis came, their group of 15-20 people would “hold” the entire training center. We then boasted, they say, but this cannot be ... You know, that's what happened. They always kept together and were ready to help each other, regardless of whether their compatriot was right or not.
But the Russian guys could not boast of the same cohesion. True, we had Captain Akhromeev, the head of the training frontier post, who visited hot spots. And the sergeants do not miss. In general, in order to repulse the Dagestanis, who could open the doors of units with their feet, we had a new orderly command: “Dagi!” When we heard, no matter what part of the location we were in, everyone ran to the bedside table of the orderly, grabbed the Dagestnats by the arms and legs and threw them out the door. Quietly, we discouraged uninvited Caucasian guests from visiting us. But that was just a tutorial.
Other orders reigned in the garrison, or rather, the Dagestanis reigned there. In each unit there were 4-5 people, but this was enough to keep the entire unit in submission. When I moved to the garrison, I also found demobilizations, who, according to rumors, "feeded" not only the detachment, but also Skovorodino, near which the unit was located. As soon as night fell, they changed into tracksuits and engaged in racketeering. Therefore, when they were demobilized, both the civilian security forces and the leadership of the detachment breathed a sigh of relief.
Yes, what can I say, when the Dagestanis are together, a tendency to crime immediately manifests itself. No, I'm not talking about everyone - there were guys among them who were above all this, but this is more of an exception. And I had to face it, as they say, on my own skin. It happened after I was transferred from the commandant's company to the sapper's. In the first one, I still had Amur friends, in the new unit - no one and a bunch of Dagestanis. The very first salary that we received in the office of the head of the company, they tried to grab it from me. Everyone who left the office with money was invited to the toilet room to “talk” by the representatives of Dagestan. I decided for myself to hold on to the last. There were threats and “pressure on a sore spot”, but I left the toilet with my denyuzhka in my fist ... went out into the street - lit a cigarette out of annoyance. I understood very well that I needed to serve with them for another 1.5 years ... My heavy thoughts were interrupted by some soldier who shouted out: go quickly there, our Amur people stuck in for you ... It turns out that someone informed our commandant's office company that they tried to "press" me. When I started going up to the 5th floor of the engineering company, I saw my commandant comrades... The fight never happened then - alas, I did not fulfill the role of leader assigned to me, who would shout: “Beat, dagov!” But after this story, they began to respect me.
Over the years of service, I saw how cruel and merciless the Dagestanis can be ... I will not draw terrible pictures here, and the atmosphere is so electrified by the events in Moscow. I want to say that I was able to find a real friend among the Dagestanis... Unfortunately, later, under pressure from his brothers, he suddenly stopped communicating with me. But what he told me was enough to understand something about this people.
From the stories of Ibrahim, I understood why the sons of the mountains dislike us:
1. Disunity a la my hut on the edge, the lack of mutual assistance among Russians;
2. Cowardice, lack of courage;
3. We throw bread on the ground;
4. Abortions of our women and, in general, not wanting to have many children;
5. Availability of our women;
6. Drunkenness of men until the loss of pulse;
7. And much more...
It is clear that it is possible to compile a no smaller list of Caucasians from the position of the Russians. But the thing is different - we need to do something ourselves to be respected. To form public opinion - to demand from the government the stimulation of national projects and other things. But the most important thing is that we should be respected - we need to start respecting ourselves ... And this will not work without God's help. It turns out that the only accessible national idea is spiritual uplift through Orthodoxy. It is through the faith of our ancestors that we can be united, courageous in Christ, respect other people's work, continue our family in many descendants, be chaste and know the measure in drinking. Dostoevsky said to the point that a Russian peasant without God is rubbish. Can you stop being a jerk?
It seems like he named banal things, but we have a program for action ... At least on the bus, when someone offends someone - after all, we can intercede, and not hide our faces out the window? Otherwise, things won’t move further than kitchen patriotism again ... And you shouldn’t go to extremes either ... I’m talking about those innocent guys who were kicked to win back ... After all, this is a real problem when we empathize with violence .. After all, according to the word of St. Basil the Great, who looks at evil without disgust, will soon look at it with pleasure. What kind of Christians are we after this? ?
The increased quota for citizens of Dagestan is, perhaps, all that distinguishes the current spring call for service in the Russian army from the previous ones. The quota was increased six months ago by the decision of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, which he adopted after a conversation with the former president of Dagestan, Magomedsalam Magomedov. The quota was increased not to tens of thousands, as in Soviet times, but only to a modest 734 people. Very soon, young Dagestan conscripts will be distributed among Russian military units. But are they waiting there? Nationalists and mothers of conscripts are afraid of an increase in Caucasians in the Russian army, and the military leadership is in no hurry to solve the problem. OK- inform figured out: what is the role of the army in Russian society, does our country need Caucasian soldiers, and what can be done to avoid the so-called "ethnic hazing" in the ranks of the armed forces?
The best tool for socialization
The economy of Dagestan is the 35th among the subjects of the Russian Federation in terms of gross regional product. But the entire economic growth falls on the capital of the republic. The areas closest to Makhachkala are much poorer. There is no work there, there are frequent conflicts around certain land plots.
Considering that Dagestan is one of the most "giving birth" regions, one can understand Magomedov's position. Young people who are “superfluous” for the economy should better go to the army than to the Islamist underground.
In addition, the army in Russia has always been used for socialization.
So, in the Russian Empire, the backbone was registered Cossacks. They practically did not distinguish between life and service. Subdivisions were formed on the basis of villages and settlements. Colleagues knew each other from childhood. But such an army was not suitable for new types of warfare, it did not accept innovations well, fought with old-fashioned methods and did not lend itself to centralized training.
The Soviet army is an army of workers, residents of large cities. A worker from the Putilov factory in Petrograd and a worker from Kazan served in the same units.
The undoubted advantage of this approach is that in the event of separatism, the army does not go over to the side of the rebels. She generally remains loyal to the federal government. The rebels can recruit their own units and train them in their camps. But these will be illegal gangs. Destroy them prescribes international law.
Consolidate or disperse?
But now the army as a mechanism of socialization is starting to fail. This is due to the deepening economic and socio-cultural gap between Russia and the Caucasus.
The main reason should be sought in the bankruptcy of the mountainous regions of the Caucasian republics. Young people from impoverished villages descend to the plain and cause many problems for the local Caucasians. Lacking sufficient horizons and erudition, the highlanders are easily led by the speeches of preachers of aggressive teachings.
Today, a number of experts are proposing a variant in which Caucasians will serve "with their own people" in their own republic. In fact, this is a return to the practice of "wild divisions". A Caucasian serves with Caucasians not far from his native home, being in a special position.
Special conditions for Dagestanis would set a precedent for other regions, including Russians.
However, this practice is dangerous in perspective.
First, it is the destruction of the process of socialization. If suddenly the situation in Dagestan deteriorates sharply, those whom Russia taught to hold weapons in their hands will turn these weapons against her (having previously stolen them from Russian warehouses).
Secondly, special conditions for Dagestanis would set a precedent for other regions, including Russians. Governors will begin to raise the question: "Why should Omsk/Irkutsk/Murmansk citizens serve far away, and not a stone's throw from their home?" It's not that the governors are worried about the conscripts. They just start collecting. thus, political capital and votes to the detriment of the country's defense unity.
Another popular expert opinion is to disperse Caucasians as much as possible among all military units. The conflict will be divided into a series of small scandals and trials in different parts. True, with an increase in the number of Caucasians in parts of these conflicts, there will be more, and they will be more resonant.
Conscripts will be allocated guarantors
The confrontation between the ethnic majority and the ethnic minority in the army is not a purely Russian problem. Many countries have faced it.
The ideal solution: a fully professional army. The contractor can always defend his interests as an employee, in the priority order of legal proceedings. It is clear to the violent daring that dismissal from the ranks of the armed forces means loss of income. And since this is, as a rule, the eldest son and breadwinner, he will not allow himself boorish behavior.
The army is a closed institution, unable to solve the problem of hazing.
Another option: public control. The army itself is a closed institution, unable to solve the problem of hazing, neither between soldiers of different years of service in the past, nor between Russian and non-Russian soldiers in the present. Moreover, the Caucasian diasporas willingly go to meet the public. Recall how a year ago Ramzan Kadyrov fired the deputy plenipotentiary of Chechnya under President Tamerlan Mingaev after his son threatened StopHam activists to “cut out their entire family”. The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, has repeatedly stated that he will "careerly" punish the families of those who violate the laws in the Russian part of Russia. After a mass brawl involving Caucasians in the Frunzensky district in February, the diaspora organized an urgent departure of relatives to take the fighters from St. Petersburg.
Recently, as part of the idea of public control of the army, the leadership of Dagestan proposed the creation of an institution of guarantee. At each military registration and enlistment office in the republic, commissions can be formed from clerics, elders, representatives of municipal and regional authorities. Each conscript will have his own personal guarantor, who will play the role of mediator and peacemaker.
Video recorders in the barracks and generic responsibility
There are other possibilities of public control. For example, video recorders in the barracks, on the parade ground and in the corridors of the unit. This is no more expensive than the installation and subsequent dismantling of video cameras at polling stations. Permanent fixation of what is happening will allow you to identify the perpetrators of hazing and discipline the soldiers.
Another promising method is the practice of collective tribal responsibility for the misconduct of a serviceman. As the Caucasians themselves put it politically correct, "responsibility for actions unworthy of a true Muslim." The leaders of the North Caucasus are already using this practice against the unbridled children of officials.
The most obvious solution is the establishment of a hotline under the control of the plenipotentiary for the North Caucasus Federal District with the ability to promptly process incoming applications, including anonymous ones.
It would also not hurt to finally establish a military police, the creation of which was suspended after a corruption scandal involving the team of former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.
Expert opinions
Marina Ivanova, employee of the Department for Youth Affairs of the ZATO Administration in Severomorsk:
There are a lot of southerners in the Northern Fleet. Every second. And it always has been. Usually they are sent as far from home as possible, so the southern guys go to the Northern Fleet. Sailors-conscripts are all the same. They are equally glued to the girls if they go to the city on leave. Equally skinny. They are equally badly fed. Sleep equally. There are no differences. I don't know about the rest of the army. But, in my opinion, nothing special needs to be done, they are the same people as the Russians. The same boys, cut off from the family and abandoned God knows where against their will.
Andrey Klyuchevsky, military psychologist:
In some parts, lawlessness is going on, and Caucasian officers without pants are thrown out into the street at night. But our officers forgave a lot of Caucasians: if they drink, if they do something wrong. They have their own pens in their heads. Because of this, they unite in groups and try to subdue others, the unorganized majority. However, if one such person is appointed to a leadership position, he will go out of his way, but will make his unit the best in the part. Their tribal honor does not allow them to be worse. You just need to know how to work with them.
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Compatriots stand apart among immigrants from the Caucasus - "Caucasians" in the terminology of the Soviet army. In our time, they are usually united in the troops by the common name "Dagestanis" or "Dags". It is fundamentally important that people from the Caucasus unite under any conditions and can even organize a rebuff to their grandfathers, as well as the actual and official leaders of the unit. Moreover, Caucasians are united not only within the framework of one unit, but the entire part as a whole. At the same time, in any conditions, they rush to help their own, which is a manifestation of the national mentality (more about it can be found in the chapter "Army in the Caucasus").
With a small number of Caucasians are relatively harmless, at least they do not violate the unity of the team, do not destroy the established hierarchy of hazing or ustavshchina. Their grandfathers are afraid of them, and keep them at some distance, or include them among the privileged members of the unit. In any case, whether they are among the chosen ones or simply left to their own devices, Caucasians are characterized by excessive and often senseless cruelty towards others. They have only two psychological models of behavior: they either recognize others as higher than themselves in status, or lower; In principle, they do not consider representatives of other nationalities as equals.
When there are too many Caucasians in the unit, the situation gets completely out of control. Caucasians completely subjugate hazing, ceasing to maintain relative neutrality with grandfathers, and deal a serious blow to the hazing by introducing their excessive cruelty into relations in the unit. Needless to say, they completely replace grandfathers in the worst sense of the word and turn the young into personal slaves. And if, under hazing, such slavery is based largely on a voluntary beginning, on the understanding that oppression will pass with a lifetime of service, then when Caucasians dominate, all representatives of other nationalities are doomed to a subordinate position until the very end of their service. Inequality thus takes on particularly striking forms, without the admixture of social justice, when respect comes with service life.
It comes to the point that the officers themselves treat Caucasians with apprehension, shun them and do not take any measures to restore order. There is a strong belief in the army that a Caucasian is capable of any extreme, including simply stabbing an offender with a knife, regardless of his status. Such a belief did not arise from scratch, it is associated with the general "recklessness" in the extreme situation of Caucasians, especially Chechens. They simply blow the roof, and they cease to be guided by reason, completely surrendering to the instincts of a fighter. So, Slavic patience is not characteristic of Caucasians in principle, and they turn out to be foreign inclusions in the Slavic army at its core.
The only way to deal with Caucasians can be found only if the unit has a Caucasian grandfather, a contract soldier or an officer who immediately builds the most severe hierarchy among his own. Also, among the Caucasians, a strong de facto leader can stand out, who will also build a rigid hierarchy, only it will be even more difficult to introduce him into the official hierarchy than grandfathers.
Now they say a lot of flattering words about the white movement and officers of the times of the Russian Empire, however, they forget one interesting moment in the social practice of our feudal ancestors: balanced nationalism. The vast majority of the officers of the Russian Empire were of Slavic nationality, the inclusion of Jews among them was an exceptional phenomenon. There were special qualifications in educational institutions on a national basis, moreover, these qualifications were aimed at limiting the penetration of foreigners into Slavic educational institutions, while the Soviet qualification, on the contrary, aimed to put people from national republics in a privileged position.
But another aspect of the imperial national policy is important to us. Indigenous peoples (including the Samoyeds) of the Urals and Siberia, residents of Turkestan, foreigners of the Trans-Caspian Territory, Muslim peoples of the North Caucasus (paid tax instead of service), residents of Finland (the state itself paid for them a fixed deduction to the treasury of the Russian Empire). Cossacks close to Caucasians in spirit served only in special Cossack troops. And this is not the whole list. Here we can say that, they say, the Russian top leadership did not trust some of the conquered and constantly rebellious Caucasian peoples, but how then to explain the exemption from conscription of a number of foreigners and Samoyeds? It can only be explained by a historically developed clear understanding that people who undermine the combat effectiveness of the Russian army have no place here. Too much at that time depended on the army (see the chapter "Some interesting touches on the organization of the army of the Russian Empire").
Thus, in the policy of the Russian Empire, which did not take representatives of a number of Caucasian, Asian and Trans-Ural peoples into the army, even under conditions of universal military service, there was a sober calculation and a balanced national policy. Now all this is gone, and army personnel officers are forced to proceed from the officially accepted postulate of ideology about the need to create all conditions for the national republics to the detriment of national Russian interests. According to the official position of those in power, we do not have the same people as the Russians with a special mentality. In this regard, the authorities continue the policy of the USSR, which partly led to its defeat in the Cold War.
