Preamble
You can't make a dog out of a wolf (words from a Caucasian song)
The well-known and highly respected publicist Pyotr Akopov wrote an article entitled "The Russian army is able to raise a new elite of the Caucasian republics". Here is the original address: http://vz.ru/politics/2016/4/12/805011.html. This is the only time I disagree with him so far, at least with the title.
This is my opinion on this matter.
The Russian army will not be able to make the elite of the Caucasian republics some kind of fundamentally different, more correct or "bigger better", as neither the Soviet nor the imperial armies did. It's one thing when we are talking about certain duties in terms of active service, another thing when someone hopes for something in connection with this. It is categorically not worth inventing the hope that after serving in the army, the "Caucasians" will become more pro-Russian or start to respect Russia a little more and Russians are categorically not worth it. This is due to the fact that the methods of secular nation state do not work in a tribal society of Islamic persuasion.
Nation State Methods Don't Work in a Tribal Society
My personal experience being in the Caucasian information environment confirmed me in the idea that the Islamic peoples of the North Caucasus are not going to abandon the archaic structure of their society, they are not going to change in any way "in the Russian manner" (they prefer the "Arab manner"). They are satisfied with their current special position in the Russian state, and this psycho-ideological state is beneficial to them, both mentally and materially. special status"those who cannot be touched because they will kill or maim" and "anyway, the diaspora will smear me" - this is what the "Caucasian" majority needs.
If anything can seriously affect Caucasian societies, it is long-term work in agriculture or in industrial production.
The less of a half-robber-half-bandit-half-warrior-half-sportsman in the "Caucasian" - the better.
"Caucasian"-worker - good, "Caucasian"-warrior - bad
Proximity to weapons, life in a military fashion, the halo of a warrior - all this panders to the very one that prevailed among the mountain peoples at the end of the 19th century, and this complicates integration processes, changes the course of social movements and affects the vector of meaning formation. Only cohabitation and joint peaceful, everyday work with Russians can seriously affect for the better today's "Caucasians", but this is precisely what is not being done today, and one or two years of service in the army does not change anything at all.
On the this moment, "Caucasians" are very well aware that they are an annoying social problem in Russia, that the state is following their whims and horror stories and trying to squeeze dividends out of it to the maximum. Being, in fact, hooligans of the national scale, they have learned to wring out the "goodies" through the tactics of intimidation and the strategy of eternal discontent. This is especially good for Chechnya, which is the leader of public opinion in the North Caucasus, which is secretly envied by the mountainous national republics surrounding Chechnya, and whose deliberately demonstrative "bathing in gold" and "boyishly throwing the Kremlin" inspires hope that so freely and according to Gorski will be able to live with any "Caucasian".
“Caucasians” in Russia owe everything, everyone is obliged
Discontent and resentment are regularly and very competently supported in the Caucasian blogging environment through LiveJournal and Facebook. Among the "Caucasian" bloggers, there is a special kind of writers who keep their society in a state of tension. There are people who daily, methodically and purposefully "spud" this topic, create fake accounts, form an imaginary public opinion, and engage in collective processing of the mind of those "who have strayed from the path of a true Caucasian."
Specific public opinion and religion
many times stronger than an abstract state or national idea
Any "Caucasian" who has served in the army, a little Russified, will almost instantly be reforged back into a "correct Caucasian" under the influence of moods in his information environment. Therefore, one should not hope that the new Russian army will create new "Caucasians" or, finally, make highlanders out of the "Caucasians".
Many soldiers and officers testify that it is very difficult to serve together with Caucasians. Highlanders tend to disobey orders and bully anyone who can't stand up for themselves. The military department prefers to keep silent about the "Caucasian yoke" in the Russian Armed Forces until the next emergency.
The Chelyabinsk court recently passed a sentence on private Zainalabid Gimbatov, a serviceman of military unit 69806 (Urals Military District). Private is accused of hazing with colleagues. In addition, a native of the Caucasus is charged with article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, part 2, paragraph "a" ("Incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity, committed with violence").
The military investigation department for the Chelyabinsk garrison established the following. In February 2011, Gimbatov arrived at the medical isolation ward of his unit. At the checkpoint, Gimbatov said that he was going to visit his colleagues. There were indeed several soldiers from his company on treatment in the medical battalion. The serviceman gave their names and ranks and was admitted to the isolation ward.
Gimbatov went to the isolation ward where the sick soldiers lay. Private immediately felt superior to them. Firstly, because he was absolutely healthy, and secondly, because he is a Dagestani. Gimbatov guessed that the "Dags" in his unit were secretly disliked, and decided to get even for it. Gimbatov's gaze swept over the beds and settled on three soldiers of Slavic appearance.
The private ordered the sick soldiers to stand up. They initially refused, but the Dagestani used force. The soldiers reluctantly obeyed. Then Gimbatov got mobile phone and turned on one of the tunes, a combat lezginka. On the recording, the melody of the Caucasian dance alternated with machine gun shots, the howl of wolves and the roar of cannonade. Maybe an ardent Caucasian, listening to her, felt proud, but a Russian person will not listen to such a thing. Moreover, the entry began with the words: "In the name of Allah! Dedicated to the warriors of jihad in the Caucasus."
Gimbatov ordered the sick soldiers to dance. The soldiers refused. Then the Dagestani began to beat them. The sick servicemen obeyed and began to clumsily imitate the Caucasian dance. Gimbatov, sitting on a stool, watched the soldiers. He insulted them in every possible way, and if the soldiers lost their rhythm or did not move as they should, he beat them.
The rest of the soldiers who were undergoing treatment in the medical battalion silently watched the mockery of their colleagues. It seemed that the actions of the impudent Caucasian and the suffering of their comrades did not concern them.
Gimbatov received a year for bullying sick soldiers disciplinary battalion. Disbat in the army is a cruel thing, but it is not known whether it will "cure" Gimbatov. The situation as a whole cannot be corrected by such measures. Because there are hundreds, if not thousands, of such unpunished gimbatovs in the Russian armed forces. Against the backdrop of impudent Caucasians, the "hazing" that everyone scolds seems to be an innocent prank.
The author of one of the online books, who served as an "urgent" in the mid-90s, wrote about military personnel from the Caucasus as a "problem for the army." According to the author, Caucasians, in particular, natives of Dagestan, join the army in order to integrate into the army hierarchy in any way and lead to military units their orders:
“It all starts with “heating up” the “grandfathers”: vodka, a guitar, a promise to identify informers, keep order. They approach officers in the same way. take on the role of commanders for cleaning the barracks, so as not to wash themselves.They also argue that they refuse to wash floors in the army by the fact that faith does not allow them, they must perform namaz (prayer) five times a day, you can only do this with clean hands, I never noticed that they prayed in the army.
If the officers and regulations interfere with the Dagestanis, then they try to get into the part where the power of the officers is not very strong. And here they immediately take everything into their own hands. Dagestanis often try to become sergeants, to take control of such vital facilities in the army as a supply room and a canteen. They usually manage to establish their own rules in military units, where there is no clear authority of officers.
According to the author, gangster lawlessness begins here. When the commander of the unit had a summer vacation, the servicemen from the Caucasus felt they were the only authority. Some of the "dugs" were commissioned, having agreed in advance with the medical unit, the other simply went into indefinite "AWOL". Those who remained immediately got used to the situation and realized that anarchy played into their hands: “The part was destroyed and plundered, there was no bath for three weeks, unauthorized absence was the norm. work in dachas, steal. Officers beat the command of the unit, just as recklessly using soldiers in construction work. "
When the ill-fated unit 52386 was finally disbanded, many soldiers were transferred to military unit 41692. This unit was already "half under the control of the Dagestanis." Despite the fact that the highlanders were at most 15 people. The Dagestanis managed to “build” a unit due to the weakness of the officer power: “The Dagestanis imposed tribute on everyone they could: for example, ten dollars a day from every four people. Whether they steal at the facilities or go to shoot money is their business. The command failed to take any measures against them. It is worth noting that everyone used this type of extortion, only the Dagestanis knew how to do it in a more organized manner.
Where all the personnel were staffed by Caucasians, the officers also began to suffer: "Starley Budko said that when he served in the military unit, the entire personnel of which consisted of Dagestanis, the first thing he saw in the morning, opening the door from the office, is a mop flying at him."
This was in the 1990s. And here is what is happening in our time.
Not so long ago, the Chelyabinsk military commissar (in his tenure) Nikolai Zakharov announced that there would no longer be a conscription of Caucasians in his garrison. The military commissar said that this was not his personal decision, but the order of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, concerning all military districts of the country. Colonel Zakharov then said that the Ministry of Defense was concerned about the dominance of national gangs that terrorize military units. Therefore, in the spring of 2011, all natives of the Caucasus and the Transcaucasian republics will not join the Russian army. In the Central Military District of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Chelyabinsk journalists received the following comment: “There are no oral orders from the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces regarding whether or not to call up a certain contingent of people. Perhaps the military commissar misunderstood something at a meeting in Moscow, with He will have a proper discussion." Subsequently, Colonel Zakharov was relieved of his post as military commissar. And in the means mass media there was news that was directly opposite to the words of the Chelyabinsk colonel. According to a number of media outlets, the Russian military department decided to sharply increase the draft of Dagestanis into the army. The media believed that this decision was caused by a shortage of conscripts from other regions, and the Ministry of Defense decided to plug a gap in the last mass recruitment of the Dagestanis into the army.
Pravda.Ru has repeatedly written about how natives of the Caucasus behave in military units. We recall only the most high-profile incidents that have happened in recent years.
On the Baltic Fleet, Dagestan conscripts mocked their colleagues in every possible way. According to the case file, in August 2009, sailors Vitaly Shakh, Gadzhibakhmud Kurbanov, Arag Eminov, Sirazhutdin Cheriev, Naib Taygibov, Islam Khamurzov, Jamal Temirbulatov beat about 15 colleagues, and then forced them to lie on the ground so that the word KAVKAZ came out of their bodies . Prior to this crime, "grandfathers" repeatedly robbed and beat conscripts.
Compatriots stand apart among immigrants from the Caucasus - "Caucasians" in terminology 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 existing 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 the officers of the times 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 penetration into the Slavic educational establishments foreigners, while the Soviet qualification, on the contrary, pursued its goal of placing people from national republics in a privileged position.
But another aspect of the imperial national policy is important for 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.
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 shaping the armed forces along ethnic lines borders on discrimination and can be 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 in the North Caucasian republics conscription is limited or suspended in the media, a hype begins - 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 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
The almost total skinning of Russians, which began after the death of Stalin in 1953 and accelerated sharply after Khrushchev's "exposure of the cult of personality" in 1956, led to their demoralization-depassionarization and eventually culminated in the self-treasonous Russian Catastrophe-1991. All these processes took place before my eyes, I was especially impressed by the mass mating of Russian girls with dark-skinned southerners at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957, and my text “Charter of Morality” (1965) should be considered as a reaction to the spreading epidemic of selfishness, because for which they began to consider me a "fascist" and expelled me from the ranks of the CPSU and from politics. And I just see further than others, and sound the alarm. At one time, the ancient Jews, brought out of Egyptian captivity by Moses, also after the departure of their harsh Leader, indulged in the selfish temptation of the Golden Calf of consumerism and would also have perished, like Russians now, if Moses had not returned and had not carried out a Great Purge in the Jewish camp and had not returned the people on the true path of being chosen by God (Exodus 32). It is bitter to admit, but today's rare Russian youths are able to stand up for themselves. But the Caucasians and partly the Mongols (Kalmyks, Buryats) have retained their readiness for self-sacrifice, without which the people are generally not viable, and cannot but dominate the skinned and therefore scattered Russian soldiers in the Russian army. Therefore, many Caucasian youths perceive the draft as a gift - they go to the army with the confidence that they will not be lost, but will experience the joys of dominance (not to mention good allowances and exacting tribute from Russian colleagues). Not officers and not priests will save Russian youth from the miserable fate of today, but only (as it has always been and everywhere in history) a few close-knit "long-willed" organizers aimed at restoring order in the country and at global expansion (analogous to the "New Moses"). - Original taken from pohabij_oplueff in the army - for a bribe
Bribes in military registration and enlistment offices are a common place. But there is a nuance: if all over Russia the families of conscripts collect money for an offering to the military commissar in order to “smear” their child from military service, then in the Caucasus it is the other way around. Relatives take the bribe to the draft board in order to send the conscript to the troops. And they don’t take them to serve! It's not the first year. No, at home, in the Caucasus, some young people are still doing military service. And they remain for extra urgent service - remember, during the Five-Day War with Georgia there were such battalions "East" and "West"? Worthy warriors served in them. But Caucasians are not called to serve in units quartered throughout Russia. Why? Reading the news: Recruits from the regions of the North Caucasus will not be called to Russian army in 2012 due to the fight against hazing and community, a senior Russian Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters on Monday (hence). Yes, I served in the army in the late eighties, and I can confirm that a few Chechens or Dagestanis in part are a headache for officers and physical pain - from regular beatings - for a significant part of the soldiers. "Countrymen" behave more often loosely than loyally. If the highlander respects his officer, there will be order. But if not, they can break him in such a way that the stars from the shoulder straps will fly out. I know what I'm talking about, I have seen this more than once in a construction battalion near Moscow. It is very difficult to serve with the Chechens and Dagestanis. But after all, even those Caucasians who are not taken into the army to pay their debt to the Motherland - they our. Citizens of Russia. And the defense of the Fatherland is not the privilege of a citizen. This is his sacred duty. In fact, there are a lot of options. If you want to be guaranteed to avoid hazing, you can create special units highlanders with mountaineer officers at the head - and send them even to Siberia, even for Far East. The guys will go, they will not refuse. You can ... yes, you can think of a lot more using the Russian historical experience. But the Ministry of Defense either cannot do this, or does not want to. They say that the call of recruits from the Caucasus will be resumed next year. Something like that has been said for more than a year now. They promise. But they won't restart anyway. At the same time, they forget that the habit of giving military duty to their homeland - Russia among the mountain peoples can atrophy as unnecessary. I don't want to croak about possible consequences such atrophy.
