It is true that Caucasians do not serve in the army. The army will not cope with the mass conscription of people from the North Caucasus. What affects the hot heads of southerners

The autumn conscription campaign has begun in Russia. However, not all Russian citizens who have reached military age will be able to give their "civic duty" to the Motherland. For several years now, people of "North Caucasian" nationality have not been drafted into the army. The reasons are called different - hazing, extortion, desertion, propaganda of religious extremism.

Hazing, bullying "young" conscripts, fellow countrymen and other negative manifestations in the army were always present. But why did they stop conscripting Caucasians into the armed forces right now? In my opinion, the point is not at all how the North Caucasians behave in the service, whether they mock their colleagues, before that, in the army, by and large, no one cares.

Most likely, this is due to the religion of people of the North Caucasian nationality. As you know, the size of the Russian army is declining, and will be declining in the future. Persons of the "North Caucasian" nationality have been happy to join the army at all times, even now in Dagestan they give bribes to be drafted into the army. Throughout the rest of Russia, the picture is the opposite - bribes are given so that they are not drafted into the army. They write pamphlets and books on how to legally avoid military service in the Russian Armed Forces, millions of “advice” on the Internet on how to avoid the army. Against this background, the desire to serve, it would seem, should be welcomed, encouraged, set as an example, and so on.

No! They keep silent about this, these wonderful impulses of the North Caucasian youth are ignored, hushed up. But lezginka performed on the streets Russian cities, discussed in all the media, lezginka has become a kind of insult to the culture of non-Caucasian citizens, a violation of public order and peace of Russians.

What could be the consequences of non-conscription of people of North Caucasian nationalities in Russian army? What is behind this?

Article 59 (Constitution of the Russian Federation)
1. Defense of the Fatherland is the duty and obligation of a citizen Russian Federation.
2. A citizen of the Russian Federation bears military service in accordance with federal law.
3. A citizen of the Russian Federation, in the event that his convictions or religion is contrary to the performance of military service, as well as in other cases established by federal law, has the right to replace it with alternative civilian service.

As we see from the Constitution, the protection of the Fatherland and service in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is the duty and obligation of a Citizen. All citizens of Russia have equal rights and obligations, no one can be infringed on their rights for any reason, be it racial differences, religious beliefs or anything else. Everyone is equal before the law. But the facts say otherwise - Caucasians are not needed in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, they do not have the right to repay their debt to their homeland, they will not be able to give a worthy rebuff to an external enemy, since they have not completed military service and are not trained in military affairs. Consequently, in the event of war, they will become "cannon fodder", which can be sacrificed at the right time.

Our generals are not going to do war time without persons of North Caucasian nationality? It is no secret that Caucasians served in the Russian army for hundreds of years, served the Motherland without sparing their lives, legends were made about their courage and heroism, they received orders and high ranks. And what will it look like? General Mobilization is announced, "except for persons of the North Caucasian nationality"!

Or are there other tasks before the military? For example, do not draft Caucasians into the army, because they are potential enemies, you should not teach military affairs to someone who can use this knowledge against you. It turns out that someone has already decided for sure: who is a friend and who is an enemy. We conclude that soon a war may begin in the North Caucasus and the army, which will have to lead fighting, should not consist of people from the given region. Since they will not go against their people, relatives and friends, this is unambiguous.

Or will the North Caucasus be separated from Russia? In this case, the conscription policy of military officials also becomes understandable. In any other case, this is a gross mistake, if not a crime, with unpredictable consequences.

Based on today's realities: increasing anti-Caucasian sentiments in society, demands to stop feeding and separate the Caucasus, not providing Caucasians with work in public institutions, refusal to call for active military service, refusal to provide land for the construction of mosques, courts that decide in the cases of Caucasians according to "public resonance", attempts to create Cossack formations in the regions, which are designed to put things in order with the influx of the North Caucasian population into one or a different region, all this speaks of a purposeful policy of the authorities different levels keep the peoples of the North Caucasus within certain national boundaries.

In fact, depriving them of their constitutional rights: the right to free movement and residence in any region of Russia, the right to serve in the Russian Armed Forces and defend, if necessary, their Fatherland. In addition, young people of military age cannot legally get a job, since they are required to present a military ID when they apply for a job. And if someone wants to go to work in the police, to become a regular military officer? It is surprising that this issue is practically not discussed anywhere, as if no one cares about it, behind the scenes decisions are made that can become life-changing for the whole country. There should be no divisions on the basis of nationality or religion among servicemen. Army problems must be solved by other methods.

The issue of military service is so serious that it needs to be given Special attention, since the integrity and unity of Russia, interethnic harmony and peace in Russian society depend on the correctness of the solution of this issue.

“Highlanders should not be drafted into the army…”: in other words, the abolition of mobilization and conscription into the army of the North Caucasian peoples (1942-1943) still raises many questions to this day.

The beginning of the war

Simultaneously with the gradual removal of barriers to military service for politically alien elements, the authorities carried out completely opposite measures in relation to non-Slavic citizens of the USSR. In 1941 - 1942 A number of top secret decrees of the State Defense Committee and directives of NPOs were issued, limiting the conscription and service in the army of a significant number of peoples of the USSR, among which were several Transcaucasian peoples and all North Caucasians.

On September 19, 1941, the Transcaucasian Front was ordered to stop conscription into the army and dismiss from its ranks representatives of some peoples related to the population of neighboring states - Iran and Turkey. This category included the Adjarians, Khevsurs, Kurds, Svans of the Keda, Khuloy, Zemo-Svaneti, Kvemo-Svaneti regions and the "highlanders" of the Kazbegi region and the Khevsur village council of the Dusheti region of the Georgian SSR (Mokhevtsy). Soon, natives of a number of village councils in the Kobuleti and Batumi regions of Adjara were included in this category. In 1942, a one-year deferment from conscription and mobilization was extended to all Adjarians (Decree of the Military Council of the Transfrontal Front No. 077 of September 16, 1942).

Exemption from mobilization

In February 1942, those liable for military service in the Kazbek district military commissariat of the North Ossetian Republic were exempted from re-registration (and hence from further mobilization into the army). On July 26, 1942, GKO Decree No. 2100ss announced a nationwide campaign to call up “completely all citizens” born in 1924. A few days later, on July 30, NPO order No. 0585 introduced a clarification: “until special instructions” to prohibit the conscription of mountaineers into the army, i.e. indigenous nationalities of Checheno-Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan, as well as nationalities not drafted in the Transcaucasus.

The conscription of Karachays, Circassians and Circassians into the army ceased naturally after the occupation of these regions by the enemy in August 1942.
It should be emphasized that no restrictive measures were taken against the North Caucasians, who were already at the front at that time. having passed the battle path until Victory Day.

Deportations

Unfortunately, statistics on this score could not be found. The exception was representatives of those North Caucasian peoples who were deported from historical homeland in 1943 - 1944 They were fired from the ranks of the Armed Forces simultaneously with the repressive actions in their homeland.
Measures to limit conscription for socio-political and national reasons were distinguished by totality and uncompromisingness, leaving tens of thousands of healthy and often trained men overboard. Only in the North Caucasian District (excluding North Ossetia and Dagestan) as of February 1, 1942, there were over 75 thousand conscripts who were not drafted into the army for political, moral and national grounds. In terms of interests active army these activities are not logical.

Citizens of the USSR by nationality Turks, Greeks, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Germans, Poles, Finns, Baltics and Bulgarians were not subject to the next call. In one of the official documents, these nationalities are incorrectly defined as "non-Soviet". Georgian Turks, Iranians and Muslims have joined this category of "non-Soviet" because of their ethnic and/or confessional kinship with hostile Turks.

Volunteering

Volunteering in the North Caucasian republics should be seen as compensation for the abolition of compulsory conscription. His goal was to recruit patriotic highlanders into the army. The scale of volunteerism in a particular republic demonstrated the level of tolerance of the local population to the Soviet political system. Therefore, local authorities made every effort to stimulate it. Often this resulted in the use of coercive measures against potential volunteers, which caused sharp opposition from the population.

In 1943, the ban on conscription of the North Caucasian highlanders acquired a new connotation. It formed the basis of measures aimed at the most complete identification, accounting and concentration in settlements persons of nationalities scheduled for deportation. Until the end of the war (in the case of the Balkars, Karachais, Chechens and Ingush - until the day of deportation), representatives of the North Caucasian peoples were accepted into the army exclusively on a voluntary basis.

“Voluntary mobilization immediately turned into another call,” Colonel Bronzov stated. The very term "mobilization", which was used in most cases in the documentation, had a coercive semantics, instead of the more appropriate "recruitment" for volunteering. The republics were issued with an outfit for volunteers. For the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, a detachment of 3000 people was installed to replenish the 30th cavalry division. Rough administration, indiscriminate methods (hostage taking, armed escort of "volunteers"), inattention to future fighters and their families (for example, the only breadwinner was often taken from the family, while several adult men remained in neighboring families) only repelled the highlanders.

military commissar Chelyabinsk region Nikolai Zakharov at a press conference dedicated to the beginning of the spring conscription said: from now on, Caucasians will not be taken into the army. According to him, such an order was given General base in order to reduce national tension and at least partially solve the problem of hazing and fraternity. “Russia is a multinational country, and everyone should serve, law speaks clearly of this. But the decision of the higher leadership is also a law for us, so we comply with it,” the talkative military commissar expressed his attitude to the innovation.

Why talkative? Because the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation immediately refuted Zakharov's soldierly directness: they say, he misinterpreted the directives of the high command that were voiced at a recent meeting in Moscow. There are no oral instructions from the leadership regarding any specific "limited contingent" of Russian citizens. They promised to hold a “preventive” conversation with Zakharov, so that in the future it would be discourteous to divulge “military secrets”.

But the Chelyabinsk military commissar, most likely, just "disclosed". At least the Vedomosti newspaper, in confirmation of the fact that the directive - "do not shave" Caucasians - still exists, cites data from the military commissariat of Dagestan: this year, the spring draft for the republic was reduced from 2000-4000 to just 400 people, t i.e. 5-10 times. Why all of a sudden such "generosity"?

As they say, what is on the mind of the General Staff is on the tongue of the military commissar. And not only him. At an expanded meeting of the Collegium of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP), Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky stated: there is a sharp surge hazing - in the barracks, "national" gangs establish their own rules. “A change in recruitment approaches with the connivance of individual commanders leads to the fact that servicemen of various ethnic groups they are trying to impose their own rules on military collectives,” Fridinsky said. Conscripts from the North Caucasus are especially “successful” here, who form clan communities even at the stage of being sent to the unit. Subscript cry - "Something must be done urgently with this!" - heard by many

Indeed, the situation with the "friendship of peoples" among conscripts is terrible. Here are just a couple of the most resonant cases that hit the media. In the Baltic Fleet, Dagestan conscripts made the weather for a long time. According to the materials of the criminal case, sailors Vitaly Shakh, Hajibakhmud Kurbanov, Arag Eminov, Sirazhutdin Cheriev, Naib Taygibov, Islam Khamurzov, Jamal Temirbulatov beat 15 colleagues, and then forced them to lie on the ground so that the word KAVKAZ was formed from their bodies. Before this crime, the Dagestanis repeatedly robbed and beat their own - the hand does not turn to write - “comrades”. Now six defendants in this case have been sentenced to real terms of imprisonment - from 1.5 years to 1 year and 9 months. The seventh defendant received a suspended sentence. As many as 38 people were injured. Whether Russia needs defenders who could not defend themselves with superior forces is a separate question.

Another state of emergency does not climb into any gate at all. Last autumn, the media reported on a real rebellion of Caucasians in the Perm Territory. According to journalists, at the air base of military unit 40383 stationed near the Bolshoye Savino airport, 120 soldiers called up from the North Caucasus refused to obey the command. The commander of the rebellious unit, Colonel Dmitry Kuznetsov, was forced to seek help in restoring order to the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Kama region. Moreover, the reason for the “rebellion” was by no means wormy meat, as on the textbook battleship Potemkin, but an attempt to establish elementary discipline in the unit and gird the unbelted Caucasians. Under the tsar, the scoundrels would definitely not have been persuaded, in the Red Army they would not have thought of turning to the muftis either, but now times are different. Try to be strict - in an instant you will become a nationalist, or even the Nazis will be enrolled. The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers will get excited, human rights activists will drag them to the courts, fellow countrymen will come to help. Officers need such problems like fish need an umbrella, and they will only be happy if the General Staff rids them of the mountain conscripts for good.

There are different opinions on how to fundamentally solve this issue. For example, to complete special military formations according to the ethnic principle, that is, to create such "wild divisions" with Caucasian commanders. But, God forbid, if there is any conflict, no one will undertake to predict in advance against whom such units will turn their weapons and whose orders they will carry out - Moscow or a certain regional elite.

As the military commissar of the Chelyabinsk region, Nikolai Zakharov divulged "military secrets" at a press conference.

The military commissar of the Chelyabinsk region, Nikolai Zakharov, at a press conference dedicated to the beginning of the spring conscription, said: from now on, Caucasians will not be taken into the army. According to him, the General Staff gave such an order in order to reduce national tension and at least partially solve the problem of hazing and fellow countrymen. “Russia is a multinational country, and everyone should serve, the law clearly speaks about this. But the decision of the higher leadership is also a law for us, so we comply with it,” the talkative military commissar expressed his attitude to the innovation.

But the Chelyabinsk military commissar, most likely, just "disclosed". at least a newspaper

Vedomosti, in confirmation of the fact that the directive - "do not shave" Caucasians - still exists, cites data from the military commissariat of Dagestan: this year, the spring conscription order for the republic has been reduced from 2000-4000 to just 400 people, i.e. in 5-10 times. Why all of a sudden such "generosity"?

As they say, what is on the mind of the General Staff is on the tongue of the military commissar. And not only him. At an expanded meeting of the board of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP), Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky stated: there has been a sharp surge in hazing in the army - "national" gangs are establishing their own order in the barracks. “Changing approaches to manning with the connivance of individual commanders leads to the fact that servicemen of various ethnic groups are trying to impose their own rules on military collectives,” Fridinsky said. Conscripts from the North Caucasus are especially “successful” here, who form clan communities even at the stage of being sent to the unit. Subscript cry - "Something must be done urgently with this!" - heard by many

What peoples of Russia are not drafted into the army?

Service in the Armed Forces is a rather important, responsible and obligatory stage for every citizen. Thanks to constant modernization, the army can provide a young person not only with general military training skills, but also learn many interesting professions. However, not everyone is destined to get into the troops, because due to the peculiarities of the draft campaign, citizens who belong to small nations are not subject to conscription.

What nations are not drafted into the army?

In the territory modern Russia about 140 million citizens live, while among the total population there are small peoples with an average number of people of about 10,000 - 100,000 individuals. A small group of peoples include: Ingush, Yakuts, Lezgins, Avars, Maris, Kumyks, Chuvashs, Chechens, Dargins and Kabardians. The general list includes the indigenous people of all remote areas, in particular Taimyr and Evenkia. Most domestic military registration and enlistment offices do not call up Dagestanis either, with the exception of individual cases when a citizen independently applies for the purpose of service and further employment.

The main reasons for the lack of conscription

The absence of military conscription among the listed groups of peoples is due to the fact that citizens live in fairly remote areas where there is virtually no infrastructure and administrative management. It is problematic, and sometimes simply impossible, for representatives of the military registration and enlistment offices to organize a draft campaign. For example, in order to register all young men in Yakutia, it is necessary to equip special points for medical examination and paperwork. The northern military registration and enlistment offices do not have such funds, because any recruiting activities are, first of all, large financial costs.

However, lack of money is not the only reason. For example, in Chechnya, in fact, there is no conscription into the army just because there is no tuned system of military registration in the republic. Moreover, not all districts have military registration and enlistment offices. In addition to the reasons listed above, the absence of conscription among small peoples is facilitated by the adoption of a provision in the Constitution in 1993, which clearly states that each conscription is regulated by federal laws, and the number of people for service is set by the president. At the same time, specific regions from where recruitment should be carried out are not indicated.

Why don't Chechens serve in the Russian army?

Not so long ago, at the end of 2014, the Chechen people were delighted with the news about the start of conscription into the Russian army. The last time Chechens were called up for military service in the Russian Federation was 20 years ago. However, in the spring of 2016, conscription from Chechnya was again suspended.

The essence of the problem

According to the liberal press, not a single citizen of Chechnya was called up for military service in the Russian army last year. About 7,000 potential soldiers were left behind. According to the same sources, in all the other republics of the Caucasus, everything is strikingly different with conscription. It was also noted that the decision not to draft Chechens comes directly from the top leadership.

Dubious Privilege

In 2017, residents of Chechnya will again have to miss spring call, as reported by the Republican Commissariat. The decision was made in connection with the desire to minimize the risk of clashes within military units, which, alas, are taking place. Most often, conscripts from the Caucasian lands form the so-called fraternities in parts, provoking conflicts on cultural and national grounds.

There is another version of this decision: the General Staff does not want to train future Chechen fighters. It's no secret that many residents of Chechnya are, albeit distant, but still relatives of real militants. There is no point in teaching military science to your enemies. At the same time, it is practically impossible or too costly to implement a thorough selection among Chechens on the principle of "loyal/disloyal".

Prospects for solving the problem

If we consider the statistics of 2014, when for the first time in 20 years Chechen soldiers then she wears quite positive character. The dynamics of the service of conscripts from Chechnya is characterized in an optimistic way: about 181 servicemen from the North Caucasus region returned home with letters of thanks. 100 of them were promoted to junior commander. From this we can conclude that in the near future the conscription of Chechen residents may resume. In addition, from the point of view of state policy, such an approach is at least unacceptable, and at the maximum it can lead to interethnic strife. After all, not all Chechens are militants. Plus, today there are solid databases for every family in Chechnya, which allow you to automatically receive information about each conscript.