Hazing in the Russian army or a torn ass in the American: what to prefer? Cruel gesture. Torture and bullying in the Russian army Violence of soldiers in the Russian army

Below is another fresh article about brutal violence against young people in the Russian army. A simple enumeration of these facts, to which there is no end and edge, does not give an answer to the question - why does the state need this, which organizes this violence? Mikhail Kononenko, a freelance journalist, answers:

Why does the state need physical and psychological violence in the Army

“It is strange that in the numerous comments on the egregious case of hazing army savagery there is no one - in my opinion objective - reason for such a filthy phenomenon as non-regulation.

For some strange fate, it was from an article on this topic many years ago that the path of one then still officer in journalism began. And for obvious reasons, I had to sign then her pseudonym. I have not kept a copy of that newspaper, and it is easier and faster to re-state the logic and meaning of that old publication here. Meaning is important.

The essence of the idea is that Russia (then still the USSR) is a totalitarian state. Naturally, it prefers to see slaves as its citizens without exception. But for this, the state must have appropriate “institutions”.
Meanwhile, the legal existence of such structures - even in the conditions of generally recognized totalitarian - is counterproductive. That is why they existed illegally. A lot of papers have been written on the topics of non-Ustavshchina in the army, in educational institutions, in the penitentiary system.

In order to understand the essence of the phenomenon, it is enough to understand that almost 100% of the male population of the country passed through the army under the conditions of UNIVERSAL military duty. Moreover, the draft age falls precisely on the period of the final formation of personality, character, and the so-called. man's self.

In fact, we should talk about almost the last period in the formation of a man, when there is still an opportunity to break the man himself in him - independent, proud, worthy and, most importantly, independent. And this - not more, not less - but the skeleton of any state democratic system. In fact, a full-fledged citizen, a BEARER AND OWNER OF CIVIL RIGHTS, is killed in a man. They have already been taken away from him by unrequited humiliation - non-regulation. And no matter how much you protect his civil rights with the most wonderful laws, he will voluntarily give them up anyway, in case something happens, because he DOES NOT BELIEVE in them after the experience of non-regulation. (similarly: no matter how much you call the ruble a currency, it is still “wooden”)

And the tool for educating a slave is UNRESPONSIBLE humiliation, which is, first of all, in its purest form non-Ustavism, through which - to one degree or another - 100% of young people inevitably go through, called as an "honorable duty" "to pay their debt to the Motherland."

It does not take seven spans in the forehead to understand that any man is a potential head of the family. What do you think, what non-alternative model of a man in any of his incarnations is seen by future husbands, fathers, wives and mothers? And they simply don't know anything else. Because there is a PAPA in the world.

... And the concern for the upbringing of a slave by the state has already been solved by more than half. A totalitarian state needs a controlled economy and appropriate, so to speak, management, where obedience is guaranteed to prevail over common sense. And after the Soviet Army, the problem of such “management” is solved not only naturally, but in an inevitable and guaranteed way.

Our state - I heard - fights crime? What is the accompanying and obligatory attribute of non-Ustavism? Circle bond? On a mass and 100% scale? Shall we puzzle over its causes?

Don't you think it's interesting to see that selection of girls, girls and women- in situations where they have to make a moral choice - statistically and observationally it turns out much more often more faithful than the choice of the stronger sex? I mean the MORAL CHOICE. I think that everyone has encountered such an abnormal phenomenon in life.

The reverse side of this phenomenon is no less “productive”. Having passed the stages of "spirit" and "pheasant", the "man" - according to the laws of the genre - becomes a "grandfather". And not just becomes, but he is OBLIGED according to the existing unwritten concepts to become one. And again, mutual responsibility here also does not fail. If the “initiation” into grandfathers is not passed - and it consists in obligatory non-statutory in relation to the “young” (in fact, this is a single “rite”, although it is customary to talk FOR SOMETHING about only one of its components), then the old-timer who has not passed it is guaranteed becomes an outcast in the midst of his call.

We wonder - why do we have such a mentality? And we don't understand why? - right, we don’t guess ourselves, but there’s nowhere to read it. FOR SOMETHING.

As an officer in my “former life”, I authoritatively declare that this shameful phenomenon could have been put an end to even under Brezhnev. And even those “dead” laws were quite enough for this. It was enough just to give the go-ahead for them to work.

So it’s not about those “officer criminals” on whom the authorities are trying to turn the arrows, although it is hardly reasonable to deny their existence - in the existing state system, their absence would simply be illogical. I judge from my own experience that it was worth an incredible effort (and in the overwhelming majority it was simply impossible) even to put such a scoundrel on the “lip”.
Maybe something has changed in this regard since then?

Are you still asking yourself the question - why is the army reform “going” with such a terrifying creak? And why are there so many good reasons to explain her sabotage?

So judge - is it really beneficial for the state to fight non-Ustatism and is this issue traditionally considered in the same plane as it should? Maybe it's still a matter of ideology?
By the way, this problem, or rather how it is being solved, is a good indicator of where we are going.

Or we roll...

Let me remind you that now “in power” in the country there is still a generation from “that” time. How long this can go on is theoretically easy to calculate, although it largely depends on us. Will wait?

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Explained on stools
St. Petersburg recruits find different ways not to serve: from AWOL to suicide

Let the starting point be the official position of the military: everything is fine in the 138th motorized rifle brigade (these are three units in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region). Fled, following the arithmetic of the district command, two conscripts. But not otherwise than out of youth, out of stupidity. Moreover, one has already returned ...

Numerous and cruel facts argue against this starting point. The Soldiers' Mothers claim that at least four fugitives have turned to them for help in the last two weeks alone. During this time, at least two soldiers died. One fell from the balcony of the hospital and crashed, the other fired a machine-gun burst into his forehead. Complaints from the rank and file, called in May and left the unit before the oath, lay on the table to the military prosecutors of the Leningrad Region. And the commander of one of the units of military unit 02511, Vladimir Smirnov, will soon appear before the court on charges of beating juniors in rank ...

"You will be a rag"

“He was beaten every day. My boy is strong. He was engaged in martial arts, - the mother of one of the escaped recruits, Tatyana Zavadina, shows photos of her son. - Only Artyom understood: if he strikes back, he might not wake up in the morning. And it's all written off. They will say that it is. And then nothing will be proven.

Artem Doga, an 18-year-old conscript from the Pskov region, was proud, his friends and relatives say, that he was in a reconnaissance platoon. I wanted to make a military career. His career did not work out - Artem served in military unit 02511 near Vyborg for exactly a month. Here, contract soldiers serve side by side with conscripts. According to the latter, cruel customs reign in the unit.

Private Doga told Novaya Gazeta about one of the episodes of the merciless service:

- At the end of May, we went to the firing range for the first time. I was waiting for my turn. Sergeant Kolpakov, the commander of my squad, fired first. Started cleaning the machine. Calls me: "Give me a rag!" Can you imagine what a landfill is? Grass in full growth, sand, targets. Where can I get a rag? I tell him: "No rag." For this he me - with the bolt carrier of the machine gun on the head.

Escape as salvation

“They beat me for running slowly, crawling badly, dressing for a long time, putting on my slippers crookedly… The worst thing,” Doga continues, “is not finding money for the old-timers. I and others also constantly had to give money and buy tea, sugar, cigarettes, beer. And if you don't have money and you don't know where to get all this, they beat you up. I saw my colleague sent for 8 cans of beer. He found only 4, and the nightstand was broken on him. I was once forced to eat a collar.

They kicked me in the back, in the stomach, beat me on the head. Most often they struck in the neck area - this is called "kolobakhi". From the first blow, I usually fell to my knees, then I felt a dull pain.

Especially, according to Artyom, four contractors were zealous, whose names and the names of their patron officers Doga indicated in a complaint that he sent to the military prosecutor's office of the district on June 15.

Artyom arbitrarily left the unit on June 3. "That's why I stayed alive"- not a second does not doubt his mother. He was the first recruit from this spring draft to go on the run. But not the last.

Alarming calls from conscripts seconded to units of the 138th motorized rifle brigade began to arrive on the "hot line" of the St. Petersburg organization "Soldiers' Mothers" in May. And since the beginning of June, military unit 02511, according to Soldiers' Mothers, has left four recruits. The soldiers of the brigade themselves speak of seven fugitives.

“But we are talking about facts,” emphasizes the chairman of the human rights organization, Ella Polyakova. - We were approached by four: Artem Doga from the Pskov region, Sergey Fomichev from Kostroma, his countryman (now in hiding) and one Muscovite (left home with his mother).

The leadership of the Leningrad Military District denied the information about the mass escape of soldiers near Vyborg.

- On June 12, two conscripts left the military unit without permission, one of them was returned, - Yury Klenov, assistant to the commander of the LenVO for public relations, told Novaya Gazeta.

All the fugitives (Soldiers' Mothers have information about them) served no more than a month and had not yet had time to take the oath. One of them actually returned to the place of service. Private Sergei Fomichev was brought back to the unit by his father, a former officer in the Russian army.

Artem Doga is currently being examined at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Doctors after the first examination stated that he needed urgent hospitalization.

Queue to the head

The next day after the soldiers escaped from military unit 02511, bad news came. At about 6 pm on June 13, serviceman Rinat Gokaev (22 years old, has a higher education, was drafted from Dagestan in December 2008) fell from the balcony of the second floor of the garrison hospital and fell to his death. According to Andrei Gavrilyuk, Assistant Military Prosecutor of the Leningrad Region, the circumstances of the death have not yet been established in detail. The military prosecutor's office has been checking this fact since June 15. Results are expected by the 25th.

On June 16, at 17:00, another emergency happened in the unit. Novaya learned the details from Yuri Klenov:

The soldiers cleaned their weapons and went to hand them over. One of them lingered in the room, and after a while several shots were fired. The young man fired a machine-gun burst into his forehead.

25-year-old Petersburger Anton Grechko took his own life, having served six months of military service and signed a contract for three years. In part, he was a machine gunner. Before serving in the army, he received his higher education at the Forestry Academy. A suicide note on three sheets was found on the deceased, it was handed over to the military prosecutor's office.

What happened is a crossbow, and a deliberate one, the command of the Leningrad Military District insists. Military prosecutors are investigating the circumstances of the incident. What conclusions they will draw is unknown. But in part, a commission from the district prosecutor's office is already working. According to unofficial information, the LenVO command is preparing a purge of officer ranks, up to the dismissal of the commander of the 138th motorized rifle brigade.

Meanwhile, the trial of Vladimir Smirnov, the commander of the very unit where Artem Doga served, will soon begin in the Vyborg garrison court. According to the materials of the investigation, two soldiers of military unit 02511 suffered at the hands of an officer. The criminal case against Smirnov was initiated in April 2009. The other day, he was charged.

Help "New"

The 138th Guards Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, stationed in the Vyborgsky District of the Leningrad Region, was ordered to carry out peacekeeping functions in hot spots. Therefore, the brigade is in constant combat readiness. In 2003, the 138th was one of the first in Russia to switch to a contract basis for service.

Chronicle of arbitrariness

February 2001 - Aleksey Andryushchenko, an ordinary military unit 33568 in the village of Kamenka (Leningrad Region), was found hanged in the hospital.

April 2004 - on a tactical field, near the village of Kamenka, a heavily decomposed corpse of an unknown person wrapped in a raincoat was found. The identity of the deceased was established: 19-year-old conscript Maxim Romanov.

August 2004 - 29-year-old Petersburger Alexander Fedrushkov, called up for military training in Kamenka, was found hanged during an evening round.

July 2005 - Dmitry Pushkarev disappeared from the unit in Kamenka, still has not been found.

September 2005 - Maksim Plokhov, an ordinary soldier of military unit 02511 in the village of Kamenka, died in the hospital, beaten by one of his colleagues.

August 2006 - Artem Mustyatsa disappeared from the unit in Kamenka, has not yet been found.

October 2006 - a soldier Yuri Gushchin disappeared from the unit in Kamenka two months before the demobilization, has not yet been found.

In the fall of 2006, 22-year-old Vitaly Maltsev arbitrarily left military unit 67661 in Kamenka and went missing.

According to the St. Petersburg human rights organization "Soldier's Mothers", in total for 2007-2008. more than 100 people fled from a motorized rifle division in the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region.

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- Why not? Want! Private W. had been serving for half a year and, knowing local customs, was not surprised at the offer. Car drivers passing by the military unit often treated the soldiers to fruits and cigarettes, knowing that military service was not very sweet.

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We all know how hard it is in the Russian army because of the hazing that exists there. Someone was simply beaten half to death, and someone was even driven to suicide. Grandfathers mock recruits and the saddest thing is that all this happens with the permission of the officers. Also, the situation with hazing is aggravated from year to year due to national hatred within the army. Read on for the creepy stories of soldiers who were victims of hazing. Not for the faint of heart.

Anton Porechkin. Athlete, member of the Zabaikalsky Krai weightlifting team. He served on Iturup Island (Kurils), military unit 71436. On October 30, 2012, at the 4th month of service, he was beaten to death by drunken grandfathers. 8 blows with a sapper shovel, little was left of the head.

Ruslan Aiderkhanov. From Tatarstan. Drafted into the army in 2011, he served in military unit 55062 in the Sverdlovsk region. Three months later, he was returned to his parents like this:

Traces of beatings, an eye was knocked out, limbs were broken. According to the military, Ruslan caused all this to himself when he tried to hang himself on a tree not far from the unit.

Before the army, Ali Rasulov studied at a medical school, so he decided to practice on Dmitry as a doctor: he cut out cartilage tissue from his nose with nail scissors, damaged during beatings, sewed up tears in his left ear with an economic needle and thread. “I don’t know what came over me. I can say that Dmitry annoyed me by not wanting to obey me,” Rasulov said at the trial.

Dmitry annoyed him by not wanting to obey...

Taking into account the fact that Rasulov conducted sadistic experiments on the victim for 1.5 months and tortured her to death, the sentence of the Russian court to the sadist should be considered ridiculous: 10 years in prison and 150 thousand rubles to the parents of the murdered. type compensation.

Alexander Cherepanov. From the village of Vaskino, Tuzhinsky district, Kirov region. Served in military unit 86277 in Mari El. In 2011, he was brutally beaten for refusing to deposit 1,000 rubles. on the phone of one of the grandfathers. Then he hanged himself in the back room (according to another version, he was hanged dead in order to simulate suicide). In 2013, Jr. would have been sentenced to 7 years in this case. Sergeant Peter Zavyalov. But not for murder, but under the articles "Extortion" and "Exceeding official powers."

Nikolai Cherepanov, the father of a soldier: “We sent such a son to the army, but they returned him to us ...”
Nina Konovalova, grandmother: "I began to put a cross on him, I see - he is covered in wounds, bruises, bruises, and his head is all broken ...". Ali Rasulov, cutting cartilage from Dima Bochkarev's nose, did not know "what came over me." And what happened to Peter Zavyalov, who for 1000 rubles. scored another Russian guy in the army - Sasha Cherepanov?

Roman Kazakov. From the Kaluga region In 2009 a recruit of the 138th motorized rifle brigade (Leningrad region) Roma Kazakov was brutally beaten by contractors. But apparently they overdid it. The victim lost consciousness. Then they decided to stage an accident. The soldier, they say, was asked to repair the car, and he died in the garage from exhaust gases. They put Roman in a car, closed it in the garage, turned on the ignition, covered the car with an awning to guarantee it... It turned out to be a gas wagon.

But Roman is not dead. Poisoned, fell into a coma, but survived. And after a while he spoke. For 7 months, the mother did not leave her son, who became disabled ...

Larisa Kazakova, mother of a soldier: "In the prosecutor's office, I met with Sergei Ryabov (this is one of the contract soldiers - ed.), and he said - I was forced to beat recruit soldiers. Battalion commander Bronnikov beat off my hands with a ruler, I have a criminal record, my conviction was not canceled until 2011, I could not act otherwise, and had to follow the order of the battalion commander ".

The case was closed, information about hematomas disappeared from the soldier’s medical documents, the car (evidence) suddenly burned down a month later. The contractors were fired, the battalion commander remained to serve further.

Roman Suslov. From Omsk. Drafted into the army on May 19, 2010. The photo below was taken at the train station before boarding the train. He had a son of one and a half years. I did not get to the place of service (Bikin, Khabarovsk Territory). On May 20, he told his family in SMS about bullying on the train by an officer and an ensign who accompanied the conscripts. On the morning of May 21 (on the second day in the army) he sent an SMS: "They will kill me or leave me disabled." May 22 - hanged himself (according to the military). There were marks of beatings on the body. Relatives demanded a re-examination of the causes of death. The military prosecutor's office refused.

Vladimir Slobodyannikov. From Magnitogorsk. Called up in 2012. Served in military unit 28331 in Verkhnyaya Pyshma (the same place in the Urals). At the very beginning of the service, he stood up for another young soldier who was being bullied. What caused the fierce hatred of grandfathers and officers. On July 18, 2012, after 2 months in the army, he called his sister and said: "Valya, I can't take it anymore. They will kill me at night. That's what the captain said." That same evening he hanged himself in the barracks.

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200th motorized rifle brigade. Two Caucasians mock a Russian guy.

Unlike Caucasians, Russians, as always, are atomized. Not in solidarity. Rather, they themselves will mock the younger conscription than help someone in the lawlessness of national minorities. The officers also behave as they once did in the tsarist army. "Dogs and lower ranks are forbidden entry" signs hung in the parks of Kronstadt and St. Petersburg, i.e. the officers did not seem to consider themselves and the lower classes as one nation. Then, of course, the sailors, without regrets, drowned their nobles in the Gulf of Finland and cut them to pieces in 1917, but what has changed?

Vyacheslav Sapozhnikov. From Novosibirsk. In January 2013, he jumped out of the window of the 5th floor, unable to bear the harassment of the Tuvan community in military unit 21005 (Kemerovo region). Tuvans are a small people of the Mongoloid race in the south of Siberia. The current Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Shoigu S.K. - also a Tuvan.

Ilnar Zakirov. From the Perm region. On January 18, 2013, he hanged himself in military unit 51460 (Khabarovsk Territory), unable to withstand many days of bullying and beatings.

For bringing to suicide, sergeants Ivan Drobyshev and Ivan Kraskov were arrested. In particular, as the military investigators reported: "...Junior sergeant Drobyshev in the period from December 2012 to January 18, 2013 systematically humiliated the human dignity of the deceased, repeatedly used physical violence against him and made illegal demands for the transfer of funds."

Systematically humiliated the human dignity of the deceased. The system is like that, so what can you do. The army is just a special case of the general lack of rights in the country.

It’s for sure that Zheludov’s mother dragged him to the USA in order to hang back from the Russian army with its notorious hazing.

And this Zheludov went to the US Army because he had read on the Internet that hazing is a shameful phenomenon that is inherent only in a fucking rashka. In the civilized professional armies of cultural countries, it is absent.

And it would be better if he got into the Russian army. There, maybe they would have knocked him on a pumpkin and forced him to squat with a stool, but at least they wouldn’t have torn his ass. For the grandfather of the Russian army, although cool, but the grandfathers are not pederasts (and if there are any among them, they carefully hide) and they do not like pederasts in the army.

And you can always complain to the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers.

Which glorious committee in the USA is not kept as superfluous.

The army is civilized and, moreover, professional - just a liberal's dream!

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“A shameful page in the history of the American army is becoming public - the rape of male colleagues. In particular, the magazine Newsweek reports on events that happened in 2009, but the number of rapes of men in the army in recent years has been increasing overall.

Shortly after immigrating to America, Greg Zheludov, who was then 35 years old, decided to join the American army, according to an article cited by the site. InoPressa.ru . He wanted to serve his host country and also use his military service to advance his career.

In May 2009, Zheludov arrived at Fort Benning, Georgia, for basic military training. Because of his Russian accent and New York address, his military colleagues began to call him a "socialist with champagne" and a "pi ** rum communist." The author of the article tries to justify the xenophobic moods by the then raging economic crisis.

Less than two weeks after his arrival, Zheludov was gang-raped in the barracks by men who who said they were showing him who's boss in the US. When he complained to the command of the unit, he was told: "It must be your own fault. You must have provoked them."

For the military, male-on-male sexual abuse is an ugly secret, denied by the authorities and concealed by shamed victims. Meanwhile, last year the US Department of Veterans Affairs identified nearly 50,000 male retirees who had experienced "sexual trauma in the military." In 2003, this figure was just over 30,000.

The frequency of rape among women in the military - now for a woman who serves in the US military, the likelihood of being raped by a fellow soldier is higher than the likelihood of dying in combat - has drawn attention to the rapes of men.

Meanwhile, in the history of the US Army, for a long time there were no terms denoting sexual violence against colleagues, nor a system to deal with such incidents. “It wasn’t until 1992 that the Pentagon even acknowledged that such incidents were taking place, and initially only women were recognized as victims. But last year, more than 110 men—nearly 3 times more than in 2007—confided that they had been raped by others. men. The true number of victims is definitely much higher," the author writes, explaining that even among civilians, a large number of rapes are not reported to the police.

The Pentagon itself estimates that even in the case of female soldiers, less than 20% of the actual number of rapes is recorded. Another study, released in March, found that only one in 15 men in the Air Force who had been raped would choose to report it. By comparison, one in five women who have been raped will complain.

One might assume that rape is committed by closeted homosexuals, but experts believe that most co-worker rapists are heterosexual. As in prisons and other male communities, in the army, sexual violence against other men is not a sign of homosexual orientation, but a lust for power, intimidation and domination. The victims are usually the most vulnerable - young men and women of low rank. "The purpose of rape is not sex, but violence," explains Mick Hunter, author of The Honor Betrayed: Sexual Crimes in the American Army.

In February, Zheludov and 16 other retired and active servicemen filed a class-action lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld, accusing them of "leading institutions where criminals were promoted /.../, and plaintiffs and other victims were subjected to open retaliatory measures." Since it is not the police that deal with allegations of such crimes, but the command, then, according to the Pentagon itself, last year only 15% of allegations were brought to justice. Often, commanders do not take any measures at all so as not to be fined before their own superiors.

Even gay rights organizations try to avoid discussing the issue, said Aaron Belkin, an expert on homosexuality in the army. "We don't like to talk about it, because rape then starts to look like an issue that affects only homosexuals. The army doesn't like to talk about it, because as shameful as cases of rape of women by men, rape of men is even more shameful! The very fact The fact that rape by men is possible in the army - men mean that in our army there are soldiers who cannot stand up for themselves," he explained.

But inaction means that there could be more victims. Jamie Michael Harding claims he was repeatedly raped by a sergeant at boot camp at age 17. Harding tried to complain, but the statement was ignored. The sergeant rose to the rank of officer and retired. Almost 20 years later, this man was arrested for numerous rapes of underage cadets, pleaded guilty and is now in prison. Harding suffers from mental problems, which he says are the aftermath of the rape.

Shortly after Zheludov's incident, the rapists threatened to send him "back to Russia half-hearted" and the commanding officer told him to sign a document stating that he was a practicing homosexual. Zheludov was then fired from the army in accordance with the law in force at the time, which forbade openly homosexuals from serving in the army. Now his wife has left him, he is unemployed and suffering from emotional problems. Doctors prescribed him a dozen psychotropic drugs for post-traumatic stress, insomnia and depression. Zheludov's veterans' benefits are meager compared to the full set - that's why he is so eager to prove the fact of rape.

Immigrants are not the only ones subjected to such humiliation. In January 2001, Blake Stevens joined the army, having graduated from school shortly before. Verbal and physical abuse began pretty soon, and all the commanders subjected him to such. Once, for example, a bottle was pushed into his anus, and then he was thrown from a lift onto the hood of a car backwards. When he reported what had happened, the sergeant told him, "You're the problem. It's because of you that this is happening," and refused to do anything. As Stevens himself explained, the worst thing is the feeling of hopelessness. "You are actually given to understand that you must continue to serve with these people day after day, night after night," he explained, adding that his colleagues threatened to shoot him after being sent to the Iraqi front. "They also told me they were going to have sex with me the whole time they were in Iraq," he added. Since then, Stevens has tried to commit suicide twice, the incident affected his psyche, and his marriage fell apart. In June 2003, Stevens' mother wrote to Senator Barbara Boxer describing her son's "ongoing humiliation". The senator admitted that she was not able to protect the soldier. In August of that year, Stevens was discharged from the army for health reasons.

Not all victims of violence submit complaints to the authorities about what happened.

The main reason rape victims refuse to defend their rights is the fear that it will ruin their careers. For example, in 2010, the Pentagon conducted an anonymous survey of military personnel who had been sexually assaulted, during which they had to explain the reasons for their silence. Among the men who answered the questions, almost half said they did not want anyone to know about what had happened, a third said it was unlikely that a complaint would help, and almost 30% said they feared retaliation or official punishment.

Recall that sexual scandals have not bypassed the Russian Armed Forces. June 2010 reported about the conclusions of the UN International Commission on Combating the Sexual Exploitation of Human Beings, according to which Russia has become one of the leaders in involving soldiers in prostitution and the porn business. And in 2005, an industry source called Russia is "the most favorable country for sharp army sex."

Fuck, oblique!

I have always said that in our so-called Russian media it is impossible to kick the beacon of democracy twice without kicking your native fatherland. This is the essence of the democracy of the press - in keeping the balance.

I don’t know who from the UN served in the Russian or Soviet army, but in our army, where both I myself and my son served, there was a lot of things, besides prostitution and even more so the porn business.

Apparently, Zheludov, with his ass torn in the service of his new homeland, reads and consoles himself that his ass was torn, but at least he was not involved in the porn business. The tea was not served in a shithole.

And you read and console yourself.

The army in Russia has long turned into a school of pederasty and sadism. Hazing has killed more soldiers since the early nineties than two Chechen wars, but the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation continues not to see it, and the opinion is cultivated in the Russian elite that the mockery of grandfathers over a soldier makes a man out of him.

All this is aggravated by national hatred within the army, Caucasian and other communities. Partly because of such an army during Putin's rule, more than 1 million people (mostly Russians) left Russia forever. And they took their children with them.

Ruslan Aiderkhanov. From Tatarstan. Drafted into the army in 2011, he served in military unit 55062 in the Sverdlovsk region. Three months later, he was returned to his parents in a coffin. There were signs of beatings everywhere on the body, an eye was knocked out, limbs were broken. According to the military, Ruslan caused all this to himself when he tried to hang himself on a tree not far from the unit.

Dmitry Bochkarev. From Saratov. On August 13, 2012, he died in the army after many days of sadistic bullying by his colleague Ali Rasulov. The latter beat him, forced him to sit for a long time on half-bent legs with his arms outstretched forward, striking him if he changed his position. Also, by the way, Sergeant Siviakov mocked Private Andrei Sychev in Chelyabinsk in 2006. Sychev was then amputated with both legs and genitals, but he remained alive. Ali Rasulov went further. Before the army, he studied at a medical school, so he decided to practice on Dmitry as a doctor: he cut out cartilage tissue from his nose, damaged during the beatings, with nail scissors, sewed up tears in his left ear with a utility needle and thread.

“I don’t know what came over me. I can say that Dmitry annoyed me by not wanting to obey me,” Rasulov said at the trial. Taking into account the fact that he conducted sadistic experiments on the victim for 1.5 months and tortured her to death, the sentence of the Russian court to Rasulov should be considered ridiculous: 10 years in prison and 150 thousand rubles to the parents of the murdered. type compensation.

Nikolai Cherepanov, father of a soldier: “We sent such a son to the army, but they returned him to us ...” Nina Konovalova, grandmother: “I began to put a cross on him, I see that he is covered in wounds, bruises, bruises, and my head is all broken ... " Ali Rasulov, cutting cartilage from Dima Bochkarev's nose, did not know "what came over me."

But Roman is not dead. Poisoned, fell into a coma, but survived. And after a while he spoke. For 7 months, the mother did not leave her son, who became disabled ...

Larisa Kazkakova, a soldier’s mother: “In the prosecutor’s office, I met with Sergei Ryabov (this is one of the contract soldiers - ed.), and he said that they forced me to beat recruit soldiers. 2011, I could not do otherwise, and had to follow the order of the battalion commander.

Pechenga, Murmansk region 2013
200th motorized rifle brigade. Two Caucasians mock a Russian guy.

They are.

Ilnar Zakirov. From the Perm region. On January 18, 2013, he hanged himself in military unit 51460 (Khabarovsk Territory), unable to withstand many days of bullying and beatings.

Systematically humiliated the human dignity of the deceased. The Russian system is like that, so what can you do. Of course, the wadded army is only a special case of the general lawlessness in Mordor.