General Rokhlin: life and death. The mystery of the mysterious death of Lev Rokhlin has not been solved General Rokhlin Lev Yakovlevich

Who killed General Lev Rokhlin and why?

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Around the mysterious death of General Lev Rokhlin there are a lot of gossip, rumors, versions. This is understandable: a fighting general who was a political rival to the Kremlin was killed under very strange circumstances. After a short time, an unknown Putin becomes the director of the FSB, and then takes over the Kremlin. Are these events connected with each other and who is behind the assassination of General Lev Rokhlin, who intended to remove Yeltsin from power? This will be discussed in the article.

We also bring to your attention "CONFESSION OF GENERAL Rokhlin"

The recording was made shortly before the murder.

On July 3, 1998, at 4 o'clock in the morning, at his own dacha in the village of Klokovo near Naro-Fominsk, the chairman of the All-Russian movement "In support of the army, defense industry and military science" (DPA), State Duma deputy General Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin, was shot dead.

The media immediately rushed to voice everyday versions: “the killer is the wife of Tamara Rokhlin” (“NG”, 4/07/1998), “he was killed by a 14-year-old son” (!) And “the fingerprints on the PSM pistol coincided with the fingerprints of his wife "(Izvestia, 4/07/1998, - in fact, the traces were washed away!)," A swindle with gold "(" Kommersant-daily ", 4/07/1998)," a half-Jew got along with a near-Black-Hundred public "(" Today ”, 4/07/1998), etc.

Lev Yakovlevich loved a common man and strove for him to become the master of his life, his country and the future of his children. That is why he enjoyed fantastic popularity in civilian life and in the army, where he was lovingly called Batya. He organized the Movement in Support of the Army, Defense Industry and Military Science (DPA), openly calling on Yeltsin to voluntarily step down as president. In response, the whole country sounded: "We will sweep away these Rokhlins! ..".

His wife Tamara Pavlovna was immediately accused of killing the rebellious general. For a long year and a half she was hid in a pre-trial detention center. What for? If there is evidence, take the case to court. But the sick woman was rotted away in overcrowded stuffy cells, while at home the sick son Igor, a lifelong invalid of group I, suffered without affection and care. Do you want to see him? Write a "confession" and we will spare you. But she stood her ground: "I did not kill." 18-month prison pressure did not break her spirit.

Who was harboring the killers?

And did he pull the trigger of the pistol at the general's temple on that fateful morning? Fearing the truth and revelations, the authorities made the “everyday process” closed from the public and the press.

In her last speech at the trial on November 15, 2000, this tormented woman made a sensational statement about her support for her husband's aspirations "to peacefully throw the Kremlin temporary workers off the neck of the mutilated people."

Lyova believed, she said, that such actions are consistent with the UN Charter, which even approves of the uprising of the people against the tyrannical state. Whether my husband was right or not, considering Yeltsin and his government tyrannical, anti-people, let the Russian people judge. I personally supported him. In the face of my inevitable death, I now declare once again - I believe that my husband, General Lev Rokhlin, was right.

My husband was killed, but not by the services and people of Yeltsin, but by his own guards. Now this is obvious to me. A huge amount of money collected from all over Russia by Lyova's associates to finance the campaign to liberate the country disappeared from the dacha immediately after the murder of her husband. And his bodyguard, Alexander Pleskachev, is soon announced in a new capacity as a “new Russian” with a Moscow residence permit, the position of chief of economic security, and even studies at a higher educational institution and does not hide from the court that the General Prosecutor’s Office helped him in everything. The chance helped the enemies of my husband: an ordinary criminal Pleskachev and his accomplices did “for them” a vile deed ... ”.

There are plenty of reasons for such statements. Three "bodyguards" (the general's guard, the soldier - the dacha watchman and the driver) were still unable to answer the elementary questions of the lawyers. For example, "What were you doing on the night of the murder, and how could it happen that you did not hear the two shots that thundered in the rooms of the dacha?"

All three dodged, got confused and lied so that their involvement in the assassination of the DPA leader became more and more obvious. The defendant's arguments that three masked men killed her sleeping husband, and then beat her and threatened to kill her if she did not "take the blame", remained uncontested.

I followed this process from beginning to end, was at the court sessions and once wrote that the "Family", already not expecting repentance from the sovereign defendant, was taken aback and regarded her speech as a rebellion. For me, there is no doubt that it was on her order that the judge of the Naro-Fominsk City Court, Zhilina, sentenced Tamara Pavlovna to 8 years in prison. At the same time, she did not present any evidence of her involvement in the murder of her husband.

Already in the “zone”, this unbroken woman, with the help of her lawyer A. Kucherena, filed a complaint with the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights, which caused a stream of caustic comments in the media. However, the latter, having considered the case "Rokhlina v. Russia", acknowledged the correctness of her complaint and ordered to recover 8 thousand euros from the Russian authorities in favor of the plaintiff as compensation for non-pecuniary damage for illegal criminal prosecution.

After all the protests on June 7, 2001, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation issued a verdict: the verdict against the convicted T.P. Rokhlina was canceled as illegal, unfounded and unjust, and she was released on recognizance not to leave. Return all case materials to the Naro-Fominsk court for reconsideration by a different composition. This decision could be interpreted unequivocally: the general's widow is innocent, it is necessary to look for his real killers.

On the same night when General Rokhlin was killed, there was an attempt on the life of his colleague, the head of the law firm Profit, Yuri Markin, who was involved in the theft of oil by a number of large companies. Soon, not far from Klokov, in the forest near the village of Fominskoye, 3 severely burnt corpses of men of strong constitution, 25-30 years old, with bullet wounds were found (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 7/07/1998). The Russian press more than once quoted the statement of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on 18/11/2000 that he “warned General Rokhlin about the impending assassination attempt in two days”. A day before the murder, the FSB's external surveillance of Rokhlin's house was suddenly removed (Novye Izvestia, 8/07/1998). The deputy chief of the FSB DSP B. Neuchev then said: “We have every reason to assert: the death of General Rokhlin is not connected with his political activities” (“Argumenty i Fakty”, 13/07/1998). On November 27, 1999, Mikhail Poltoranin made a sensational confession in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda: “I know who killed Rokhlin. It was not my wife who did it ... ”. In her last speech at the court on November 15, 2000, Tamara Rokhlina openly supported her husband's plans "to peacefully throw off the Kremlin temporary workers to get off the neck of the mucked people."

According to Rokhlina, "a huge amount of money collected from all over Russia by her husband's associates to finance the action to liberate the country disappeared from the dacha immediately after the murder." In 2001, when on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin was offered a pardon to her in the Mozhaisk colony, the general's widow rejected this deal with her conscience, considering it a betrayal of the cause for which her husband fought and gave his life. In the early 2000s. For the first time, the media heard versions about the involvement of the newly elected President Vladimir Putin in the elimination of Lev Rokhlin. And in his 2010 book, Poltoranin first named all the participants, about which he said at a press conference: “I could not say directly that Putin organized the murder of Rokhlin, they would immediately sue and demand proof. However, the entire set of reliably established events and facts around this murder show that this is by no means my “guess” or a free “guess”. The decision to murder, I know for sure, was made at the dacha in their narrow circle of four people - Yeltsin, Voloshin, Yumashev and Dyachenko. At first they wanted to entrust Savostyanov, the head of the Moscow FSB, but then settled on a security officer "with cold fish eyes" capable of anything ... , in just 20 minutes, were forced, in accordance with the Presidential Decree, to transfer their powers to the newly appointed V. Putin. And this concerned the most powerful special services in the world! For what merits? And is it all by chance? " General Rokhlin was shot dead on July 3, 1998. And on July 25, an unknown Putin was appointed by President Yeltsin as director of the FSB ...

According to Poltoranin, the real power in the country is in the hands of the "pakhanat" headed by the ruling Medvedev-Putin tandem. In his book, Poltoranin touched upon the newly minted Russian oligarchs who made fabulous fortunes by robbing public property, in particular, the Yeltsin banker Abramovich owns numerous enterprises, mines and mines, including the most profitable of them in Mezhdurechensk, and even the whole port of Nakhodka. Moreover, all companies of this oligarch pay taxes on income at the place of their registration in Luxembourg. Putin, knowing this well, pretends that everything is in order. Not surprisingly, this is exactly what other Russian oligarchs, who long ago prepared "landing sites" for themselves in the West, as well as top government officials, do the same. According to Poltoranin, Putin and Medvedev have become even more than Yeltsin, servants of the oligarchy: “Both the president and the prime minister keep their money in Western banks ... When they come to the G8 or G20, they are directly and unceremoniously threatened loss of their money if they do not do what is beneficial to the West.

Lieutenant General and State Duma Deputy Lev Rokhlin, who at one time renounced the title of Hero of Russia for the "civil war in Chechnya", developed in 1997-1998 such a violent opposition activity that he frightened the Kremlin and other oppositionists with this. "We will sweep away these Rokhlins!" - Boris Yeltsin threw in the hearts, and the deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation contributed to the removal of the rebel from the post of head of the parliamentary defense committee.

The military general who stormed Grozny in the first Chechen campaign ended up in the State Duma on the lists of the quite official movement “Our Home is Russia”. But he quickly parted with the weak party of power in his views (Rokhlin, the head of the People's Democratic Republic of Russia, Chernomyrdin, in the circle of his associates, called nothing but a "spider"), left the faction and created the Movement in Support of the Army, Defense Industry and Military Science (DPA).

The organizing committee of the movement included former Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, former Airborne Forces commander Vladislav Achalov, ex-KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov, and a number of no less remarkable retirees with noticeable influence and connections among the security forces.

Then there were trips to the regions, a personal plane helpfully provided by one of the leaders of the military-industrial complex, meetings with governors, rooms packed to capacity in large cities and the most remote military garrisons.

- I was with Rokhlin on several business trips - in Kazan, other places, - General Achalov recalled, - I heard speeches, saw how they perceive him. He expressed himself extremely harshly. Hearing such a thing today from a federal deputy is unthinkable. And then everyone was afraid of him - not only the Kremlin, but also the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party ...

- There were moments when we gathered in a very narrow circle at his dacha, there were literally five or six people, - continued Achalov. - Of course, initially there were no plans for an armed seizure of power, an armed uprising. But then the life situation pushed me to this. Because the leapfrog in the state was gaining momentum, it grew just catastrophically. Do you remember 1998? Since spring, the boy Kiriyenko has been the prime minister, and in August there was a default. So just imagine what would have happened if Rokhlin had not been killed in July. The option of involving the army was not at all excluded.

Achalov did not talk about any additional details. Dropping, however, that Rokhlin "could rely on the Volgograd 8th corps in any matters." Rokhlin commanded this corps since 1993. With him he went through the "first Chechen". And even when he became a deputy, he paid special attention to him: he regularly met with officers, personally oversaw the issues of rearmament and equipment of the corps, turning it into one of the most efficient formations.

“About two years after Rokhlin’s death, I talked with the officers of this Volgograd corps, they told me something, and, based on these stories, something could really work out there,” the head of the “Union of Officers” Stanislav Terekhov also assures us at one time included in Rokhlin's entourage.

Rokhlin's movement, whose founding congress was held in 1997 in Moscow, so quickly acquired such a scale that proposals were heard in military units to start a massive action to take part of the commitments of loyalty to General Rokhlin at officers' meetings, calling on him to lead the movement of servicemen, workers of the military-industrial complex of the country and other citizens of Russia, in accordance with the constitutional norms of the Russian Federation, to save the state from destruction.

Rokhlin's supporters believed that if these legal actions of citizens become widespread and affect up to 70 percent of the personnel of the most important parts of power structures, social movements and organizations, then the country will have objective prerequisites for passing a vote of no confidence in the policy of the country's leadership in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation. With such organized support from the people, the Federal Assembly will be able, without experiencing pressure from the executive branch, to remove the president from power and hold new presidential elections. Lev Rokhlin could become the president of Russia, because time itself should have nominated such a leader who would lead the policy of rebuilding the destroyed country. In this sense, Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin - a man with a Jewish surname, Jewish blood and a true patriot of Russia - was sent to the country by God himself - his rule would not have had those dubious deviations that the reign of President Putin suffers, who is ultimately forced to act in the interests of restoring the destroyed country. However, behind Lev Rokhlin, unlike most Russian politicians, there was no one but honest people. He was not a henchman of any of the bandit clans.

Rokhlin was killed, and the "democratic" press, unable to come up with a single significant accusation to the general, tried to do everything to banish his name from the memory of people. Let's remember Lev Rokhlin with a kind word.

Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin(June 6, 1947, Aralsk - July 3, 1998, Naro-Fominsk district, Moscow region) - Russian political and military leader, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 2nd convocation, chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee (1996-1997), general lieutenant.

Biography

Born as the youngest of three children in the family of a participant in the Great Patriotic War, political exile Yakov Lvovich Rokhlin. In 1948, 8 months after the birth of his son, Yakov Lvovich was arrested and, apparently, disappeared in the Gulag. Mother, Ksenia Ivanovna Rokhlina (nee Goncharova), raised three children alone.

After 10 years, the Rokhlin family moved to Tashkent. There Rokhlin studied at school number 9 in the Old City, on Sheikhantakhur. After graduating from school, he worked at an aircraft plant, then was drafted into the army.

In 1970 he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School, like all subsequent educational institutions, with honors. Then he served in the group of Soviet troops in Germany, the city of Wurzen, 242 mr 20 guards. mfd. Entered the Academy. Frunze, after graduation he served in the Arctic, as well as in the Leningrad, Turkestan, Transcaucasian military districts.

In the war in Afghanistan

In 1982-1984 he served in Afghanistan, was wounded twice (the last time - in October 1984, after which he was evacuated to Tashkent). He was the commander of the 860th motorized rifle regiment. In April 1983, Rokhlin was removed from office for an unsuccessful, in the opinion of the command, military operation, and was appointed deputy commander.

Less than a year later, Rokhlin was reinstated in office. Then he commanded a regiment, a division. Graduated with honors from the Academy of the General Staff in 1993. Since June 1993, he was the commander of the Volgograd 8th Guards Army Corps and the head of the Volgograd garrison.

In the war in Chechnya

From December 1, 1994 to February 1995, he headed the 8th Guards Corps in Chechnya. Under his leadership, a number of areas of Grozny were seized, including the presidential palace. On January 17, 1995, Generals Lev Rokhlin and Ivan Babichev were appointed by the military command for contacts with the Chechen field commanders with the aim of a ceasefire.

For participation in the Chechen campaign, he was nominated for the highest honorary title of Hero of the Russian Federation, but refused to accept this title, stating that "he has no moral right to receive this award for military actions on the territory of his own country."

Political activity

September 3, 1995 at the II congress of the movement "Our Home - Russia" Lev Rokhlin took third place in the list of the NDR. In December 1995, Lev Rokhlin was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 2nd convocation on the federal list of the electoral movement "Our Home is Russia". In January 1996 Lev Rokhlin became a member of the faction "Our Home - Russia". Was elected chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee.

On September 9, 1997, he left the movement "Our Home is Russia", at the end of September he left the NDR faction.

After that, in September 1997, the general creates his own political movement: "Movement in support of the army, defense industry and military science" (DPA). The organizing committee of the movement includes the former Minister of Defense Igor Rodionov, the former commander of the Airborne Forces Vladislav Achalov, the ex-head of the KGB Vladimir Kryuchkov.

He is considered one of the most active opposition leaders in 1997-1998. The magazine "Russian Reporter" stated, with reference to colleagues and friends Rokhlina that the general was preparing a conspiracy to overthrow the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin and the establishment of a military dictatorship.

On May 20, 1998, he was removed from his post as chairman of the Defense Committee, and not only pro-government factions voted for his removal. but also the Communist Party faction.

Murder

On the night of July 2 to July 3, 1998, he was found murdered at his own dacha in the village of Klokovo, Naro-Fominsk District, Moscow Region. According to the official version, his wife, Tamara Rokhlina, shot at the sleeping Rokhlin, the reason was a family quarrel.

In November 2000, the Naro-Fominsk City Court found Tamara Rokhlina guilty of the premeditated murder of her husband. Tamara Rokhlina appealed to the ECHR, complaining about the lengthy pre-trial detention and the protracted trial. The complaint was upheld, with an award of pecuniary compensation (EUR 8,000). After a new consideration of the case, on November 29, 2005, the Naro-Fominsk City Court again found Rokhlina guilty of her husband's murder and sentenced her to four years' suspended imprisonment, also assigning her a probationary period of 2.5 years.

During the investigation of the murder in a forest belt near the crime scene, three charred corpses were found. According to the official version, their death occurred shortly before the general's assassination. However, many of Rokhlin's associates believed that they were real murderers who were eliminated by the Kremlin's special services, "covering their tracks."

Buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery

Awards

He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Red Star (including for participation in the Afghan war), the Order For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd degree, medals, as well as Afghan awards: the Order of the Red Banner and a medal. According to the journalists of the Vlast newspaper, Lieutenant General L. Ya. Rokhlin was nominated for the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for his participation in the Chechen campaign, but refused to accept this title, stating that he had no moral right to receive this award for military actions on the territory of their own country.

Memory

In the village of Vilga, Prionezhsky district of the Republic of Karelia, there is Lev Rokhlin street. A memorial plaque has been installed on the house number 1 on this street to Lev Rokhlin.

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Jewish sword of Russia

Lev Rokhlin In the spring of 1964, the echelon of my battalion unloaded at the Aral Sea station. Having built a column, I led her to the military town "Aralsk-5". It was located south of Aralsk itself, so I had to go through the city. The regional center of Kizil - Orda region, Aralsk made a depressing impression. Dusty gray huts, unpaved roads, almost complete absence of greenery. Rare dull pedestrians, also some kind of gray. We drove up to the gates of the military town and, as they say, they turned us around. They were allowed to set up camp on a vacant lot a couple of kilometers away.

It turned out that Aralsk-5 is the mysterious "Ural" - a closed center for testing bacteriological weapons, which one had heard about. Actually, the tests were carried out on the island of Vozrozhdenie, in the middle of the Aral Sea, where the bird doesn’t come - they will be shot down on the fly. And there was no smell of the sea here - it became shallow and went for fifty kilometers. And Aralsk, a former port and fishing center, became a small town on the edge of Kizil-Kumov. What did its inhabitants do? Before the degradation of the Aral Sea, which occurred in the second half of the 20th century, the main occupation was fishing and fish processing. And then, of course, they did not prosper.

According to the officers from the "Ural", it was difficult to find a family in Aralsk with a more or less decent income. A few days later we moved across the desert in the direction of the Caspian Sea. And the impression I have of Aralsk is the most unattractive, perhaps. I did not know at that time that a boy was born here, who in a few decades will become famous, as they say, to the city and the world. By the way, there is still no clarity in the circumstances of his birth. And even the seemingly hundredfold verified data in the officer's "Personal file" are still far from reality. In general terms, they read: Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin was born on June 6, 1947 in Aralsk. He was the third child in the family - elder brother Vyacheslav and sister Lydia.

8 months after the birth of his son, his father, a Jew by nationality, left his family, and Leo was brought up by his mother Ksenia Ivanovna (nee Goncharova). Everything. Who was this father, how he ended up in Aralsk, where did he go later - not a word about this in the personal data and numerous journalistic materials. Meanwhile, there are the memoirs of Grigory Alexandrovich Pustynnikov, now an Israeli.

Actually, his surname is Pustylnik, and his name and patronymic is Gedaliy Abramovich.

In October 1941, the division in which he fought was surrounded, and most of it was captured. On the very first day, the Germans, having lined up the prisoners, ordered the Communists and Jews to break down. They were shot right there in front of everyone. Gedaliy, a tall, blue-eyed youth, outwardly unlike a Jew, remained in the ranks. He escaped death by giving a new surname, first name and patronymic. Nobody gave him away.

In July 1944, Grigory and several other prisoners managed to escape to the partisans. And in April 1945 he returned to his native Odessa. But he did not feel much joy: all the former prisoners were put in the camp behind barbed wire to be checked by the SMERSH authorities. There he met Victory Day, and in July he was sent to a testing and filtration camp in Kyrgyzstan, to uranium mines in the village of Mailisu.

He was lucky: he was assigned to work not in the mine, but in the department of the chief mechanic for the installation of diesel power plants, in his pre-war specialty. The campers lived in adobe barracks, 500 people in each, slept on two-story bunks with cotton mattresses infested with bedbugs. Those who worked in the mine were often sick, wither and die. No one knew what the comrades were dying from: either from hard work, or from malnutrition, they fed here almost as if in captivity. In fact, they died from radiation: uranium ore was mined in Mailis, from which, by the way, the charge for the first atomic bomb was made.

Yasha Rokhlin from Kazakhstan ended up in the camp. They became friends and soon learned everything about each other. Yasha Rokhlin was especially close to him. In captivity, he, who was fluent in the Tatar language, called himself Yakub Rakhmatullin. This explained the circumcision, and his appearance was atypical for a Jew. He told Grigory that he was married, had a son and a daughter, whom he yearned for, and if he was destined to survive, he would go to Kazakhstan. Rokhlin worked in a mine and once, in a conversation with Grigory, admitted that he could barely keep his feet and asked to put in a word for him to his superiors - maybe they would be transferred to ground work, otherwise he would die. Grigory succeeded in this, and Yakov was transferred to the kitchen as an auxiliary, he began to recover.

In 1946, first Grigory and then Yakov were released and they parted. Grigory, having learned that the Germans had shot his parents, went to visit his relatives in Moscow, and Yakov, as he had intended, to Kazakhstan. Somehow in the 90s, Grigory came across a portrait of General Rokhlin. I looked and saw in him his friend, Yakov, - one face! And when it turned out that Lev Rokhlin was born in 1947 in Kazakhstan, he assumed that he was the son of Yakov.

According to the latest research, Yakov L. Rokhlin, born in 1920 in Kiev, graduated from Kiev University, a linguist, was arrested in 1933 on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda and, after serving 3 years in prison, was exiled to Aralsk. He worked there as a teacher, married a local native. They had two children, a son and a daughter.

In 1942 Jacob was drafted into the army, fought as an ordinary Red Army soldier and in 1943 was captured. His further fate fully coincides with the memories of Grigory Pustylnik. Returning to the Aral Sea, Yakov found his family in the same hut, where he left, leaving for the front. He was not accepted for his previous job at the school, and he moved to a fishing artel. In 1947, a second son was born, named after his grandfather, as it should be according to Jewish traditions. However, Yakov did not have to live a peaceful life; in 1948 he was arrested and, apparently, disappeared in the Gulag.

About 10 years later, the mother's relatives helped the Rokhlin family move to Tashkent. There Leva studied at school number 9 in the Old City, on Shahantaur. After graduating from school, he worked at an aircraft plant, was drafted into the army and, following the example of his older brother, entered the Tashkent military school. As you understand, Lev Rokhlin hid the fate of his father - or maybe he did not know when he entered this school in 1967.

His older brother Vyacheslav probably did the same. Otherwise, they would not have seen the lieutenant's shoulder straps. They were recorded by Russians, they did not know their father, a Jew, and even such an origin at that time was not suitable for normal career advancement. A curious detail, Rokhlin's elder brother in the 80s served as the head of the political department at the same Tashkent school, then he was the chief of staff of the Republic's Civil Defense. And when I saw him, I was struck by the resemblance to my younger brother. He smiled and said: “Yes, we are very similar, although not twins. And both are one face with the portrait of their father. " We agreed to meet and talk about their family. But he soon fell seriously ill and died. Lev studied excellently and graduated from college in the first category.

I could very well get to know him, because in 1970 I served at the headquarters of the Turkestan military district and then was sent to the graduation ceremony of officers from the Tashkent school, as a representative of the headquarters. A whole battalion was graduated, but in the first category - less than ten cadets, and they were the first to receive honors. Among them, of course, was Leo. By then, he had been married for almost two years. His wife, Tamara, was a nurse. Rokhlin was sent to the Group of Forces in the GDR, and after 4 years he entered the Frunze Academy. Frankly, this rarely happened, apparently, Lev was an outstanding junior officer. He graduated from the Academy in 1977 and also in the first category. Then he served in the Arctic, in other places, and in 1982 ended up in the "Afghan war".

He commanded the 860th motorized rifle regiment, stationed east of Faizabad. He participated in many military operations. He was distinguished by decisiveness, courage and resourcefulness. However, in April 1983 he was removed from his post as regiment commander and sent down to another regiment. The battalion of his regiment fell into a trap set by the Mujahideen in a mountain gorge. And then the regiment commander decided not to continue the battle in unfavorable conditions for himself, in order to save people, ordered to blow up the blocked vehicles and retreat. As a result, the battalion suffered minor losses, but Rokhlin was demoted and became deputy commander of the 191st separate motorized rifle regiment. And in this regiment he fought with dignity.

In January 1984, his commander was put on trial. He, leaving his subordinates to death, fled by helicopter from the regiment's command post surrounded by the rebels. Rokhlin took command and took the command post out of the ring. He again became the commander of the regiment. Under him, the regiment acted quite successfully. The most successful operation was the capture of the rebel base in the area of ​​the district center of Urgun in October 1984. For Rokhlin, however, this operation was the last, as a helicopter was shot down, on which he flew around the area of ​​hostilities.

Rokhlin survived, but his legs were broken, his spine was injured, etc. For a long time he was treated in Kabul and Tashkent hospitals. The doctors' conclusion was unequivocal - to dismiss from the ranks of the armed forces. But Rokhlin could not imagine himself without the army, and he managed to achieve a change in the conclusion of the doctors. By the way, Tamara got a job as a nurse in the hospital and was with her husband all the time. I was treated in the hospital at the same time and met the Rokhlins. In 1986, Rokhlin was appointed deputy division commander in Kizil - Arvat, a garrison, even heavy by Turkestan standards. The Rokhlins already have a daughter and an eight-month-old son, who in Kizil-Arvat fell ill with encephalitis, which subsequently affected the general development of the child.

Tamara Pavlovna could no longer work, spending a lot of time in hospitals with a child. Two years later, Rokhlin was transferred to the same position in Azerbaijan. There he becomes a participant in the suppression of the Baku nationalists who perpetrated the massacre of Armenians in Sumgait. After the collapse of the USSR, Rokhlin returned to Russia, entered the Academy of the General Staff and graduated with honors in 1993. He becomes a major general and in June 1993 - the commander of the 8th Volgograd Guards. housing.

From December 10, 1994 to February 9, 1995, the corps took part in hostilities in Chechnya. Service information: “... The North-East grouping on the night of January 1, 1995 included units of the 8th Guards. AK under the command of General Rokhlin: the 255th motorized rifle regiment, the combined detachment of the 33rd motorized rifle regiment and the 68th separate reconnaissance battalion, in total: 2,200 people, 7 tanks, 125 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 25 guns and mortars ... "In essence , it was just one full-time motorized rifle regiment, reinforced by two battalions and a company of tanks. It is very important to take into account its composition, because the army corps has 15 times more personnel, guns and armored vehicles.

The journalist Pavel Sviridov, an eyewitness to these actions, spoke well about General Rokhlin's actions in Grozny: “Rokhlin's detachment, only nominally called the 8th Guards Corps, under his command, not only turned out to be one of the most efficient, but also suffered the least losses. Because it was commanded by a talented and skillful military leader. In peacetime, they say, Rokhlin was even called a "tyrant", since, in the opinion of some, he paid too much attention to combat training. And in the end it turned out, as the great Suvorov used to say, "hard in training - easy in battle."

The general went into battle with his soldiers in Grozny, which became the city of death. When they asked why, he wondered: “What would they think of me then: in peacetime he squeezed the juices out of us, demanded that they prepare for war, but now he didn’t go with us? I knew that I would save the lives of many people. And so it happened. "

Rokhlin met New Year 1995 in Grozny. Of the 2,200 residents of Volgograd, 1,928 soldiers were presented to the Rokhlin for awards, but only half received them. Rokhlin himself refused the awards, stating: “In a civil war, commanders cannot gain glory. The war in Chechnya is not Russia's glory, but its misfortune. ”Elected to the State Duma, Lev Rokhlin almost immediately became in opposition to the Yeltsin regime. The general's opposition path was short and swift. He challenged the regime, broke with it, in his own words, "burned all the bridges." The immediate motives of his action are indignation at the fact that the army, the brainchild of the country, is being destroyed, and the state is being destroyed.

Rokhlin created the social and political Movement in Support of the Army, Defense Industry and Military Science (DPA), which called for the resignation of President Yeltsin as the main conductor of the destructive policy. “We are not opposed to the Constitution, but against President Yeltsin and his destructive course,” he said in the pages of the Economic Gazette. Its correspondent, who was talking to him at the time, wrote later: “... With disgust I now remember the vile whisper that roamed the opposition at the beginning of Rokhlin’s arrival in it:“ set up ”,“ zion ”...

The chatter came from false patriots who measured each of us by blood type ... General Rokhlin was truly a Russian person, rich in nature and breadth of soul, that is, one for whom, regardless of nationality and even more interethnic mixtures, his historical homeland was only here , only in Russia ... Rokhlin said: "... We have lost seventy-ninety percent of the industry in five years. Impeachment!"

Frightened by him, Yeltsin announced to the whole country: "We will sweep away Rokhlin!" Rokhlin contemptuously threw out then: "Even when shells and bullets whistled nearby, I did not fall on my knees." But he underestimated the reality of the president's threat. On the night of July 2 to 3, 1998, General Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin was shot dead.

Political observer Alexander Graverman wrote: “He was killed by the Yeltsin government, having well designed and planned the action staged as a family scandal, which is not difficult for Russian killers (the best in the world). General's widow accused of murdering her husband Tamara Pavlovna Rokhlina spent 6 years in prison until she was acquitted by the Strasbourg court.

At the trial, Tamara said: “... In front of indignant Russia I am being executed - insolently, cynically, unceremoniously. They are being executed because my husband wanted to rid the muzzled, robbed, humiliated Russia from a gang of ruling marauders. Those who still run the satanic ball in a fragmented country are afraid of my husband even when he is dead. The wording of my accusation has changed for the umpteenth time, and each time the next one is more absurd than the previous one. This time, it turns out, I killed the only breadwinner of my sick son, a lifelong disabled person of the first group, the only support of my family ... ”.

Alexander Rokhlin was, to put it briefly and succinctly, exactly the person in whom the country badly needed then. The undisputed leader, quickly growing into the leader of the nation. Behind Rokhlin's shoulders is service from the islands of the Arctic Ocean to the Transcaucasus, two wars that were unusually difficult for the Russian army. Alien bombs, shells, bullets spared him. They did not spare their own.

There is, however, one more, important aspect of the life and work of Lev Rokhlin - ethnic. And in this regard, I think, it is worth citing statements that I have chosen from various Russian media, print and electronic: - ... Lev Yakovlevich, either a Jew or a semi-liquid, wanted the authorities as passionately as the Jewish commissars wanted the authorities in 1917 year ... - ... Rokhlin is really a Jewish surname. To be convinced of this, it is enough to analyze the names and surnames on Internet sites. So his name and patronymic are not "Christmastide". But he was a good military man and a good man ... - ... The people already know who killed the patriot Lev Rokhlin .... We don't need to think that a Jew is not a Jew.

Patriots have no nationality, they have a huge human soul ... - ... The deceased was painfully insane, forgive me for a bad word. Another untimely departed general, A.I. Lebed is credited with a wonderful phrase about Rokhlin: "It connects three incompatible qualities - a general, a Jew and a fool." He apparently knew how to lead troops, but in politics he was a real child ... - ... Lev Rokhlin could become the president of Russia, because time itself should have nominated such a leader who would lead the policy of restoring the destroyed country.

In this sense, Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin - a man with a Jewish surname, Jewish blood and a true patriot of Russia - was sent to the country by God himself ... - ... I would not risk calling Lev Yakovlevich a Russian (?) Patriot (for the sake of justice). I have nothing against Jews as such, many of them deserve kind words, but there is a rule (albeit rude-sounding) - this is to determine nationality not by a passport, but by a face ... - ... I consider Rokhlin as he is considered himself. If a Jew, then a good Jew, if a Russian, then a good Russian ... - ... By virtue of the above, if the Jew Rokhlin is ranked among the patriots of only the Russian people, then we make him a traitor of the Jewish people. First of all, he is a patriot of his Russian Jewish people, glorifying this people with his deeds, his devotion, his patriotism. Rokhlin is the pride of all peoples, but, above all, of the Russian Jewish people, of which he is his own son ... Well, one can agree with the last statement.

ALEXANDER RUTSKOY

Even according to the strict canons of Halakha, Alexander is a Jew, because his mother Zinaida Iosifovna is Jewish. His father, Vladimir, is of purely Russian roots, a military man, a front-line soldier. Alexander was born in 1947 in the city of Kursk. According to Wikipedia: “... I spent my childhood in military garrisons at my father’s place of service. In 1964-1966. worked as a mechanic, assembly fitter at an aircraft plant, worked in the flying club at the pilots' department ... ". Drafted into the army in Kansk in 1966 and served as an air gunner-radio operator. In 1967 he entered the Barnaul Higher Military Aviation School of Pilot-Engineers, from which he graduated in 1971. Rutskoi's first wife was Nelli Vladimirovna Zolotukhina. They got married in 1969 in Barnaul, when Alexander Vladimirovich was a cadet, two years later, on the day Rutskoy graduated from the school, the eldest son, Dmitry, was born. He lived with Nelly Rutskaya for 15 years. In 1971-1977. he served at the Borisoglebsk Higher Military Aviation School named after V.P. Chkalov. In 1977-1980. studied at the Gagarin Air Force Academy. 1980-1984 - served on the territory of the GDR in the guards regiment of fighter-bombers. The last position is the chief of staff of the regiment. As you can see, the path of Alexander Rutskoi in the Soviet Army is quite successful, perhaps also because in the 5th column of his "Personal file" it is indicated - Russian. Because at the age of 33, graduating from the academy and ending up in the GDR as chief of staff of an aviation regiment - a Jew would never have succeeded in any weather. And in 1984 Rutskoi became the commander of a separate air assault regiment in Afghanistan. The regiment was part of the 40th Army of the Turkestan Military District. Journalist Vl. Shurygin writes: “... Rutskoi commanded a regiment of SU-25 attack aircraft - the most modern and powerful front-line aircraft at that time. From the first months of his stay here Rutskoi became a legend. His "rooks" - as our soldiers and officers called the SU-25 - performed real miracles. In a short time, under the guidance of their commander, the pilots mastered the conduct of combat operations at night in the mountains. Rutskoi's night pilots became the terror of the mujahideen. The regiment did not lose a single pilot in a year of fighting. But in 1986, during the attack on the mountain fortress of Javara, Rutskoy was shot down. This was the first use of the Stinger anti-aircraft missile, which appeared among the dushmans. The plane exploded in the air. The pilot was saved by chance. But salvation does not mean life yet. The diagnosis was hopeless - a wound in the arm, a fracture of the spine. The doctor who treated him honestly warned: “Get your wheelchair ready. They don't get up with such injuries. " What happened next can be called a miracle: the “hopeless” Rutskoi not only got back on his feet, but, having completely restored his health, returned to duty. In 1987, Colonel Rutskoy again took to the skies. And a year later he returns to Afghanistan. Now the deputy commander of the aviation of the 40th Army. And again, with his arrival, the actions of the stormtroopers are becoming more daring and effective. But Rutskoi not only led, but also flew. The Stingers could not get it. Then the hunt for Rutskoi was led by Pakistani intelligence. He was tracked down, and in June 1988, in the Khost area, Rutskoi's attack aircraft was attacked by a pair of Pakistani fighters. Two missiles hit the attack aircraft at once. And again he was saved by a miracle. After the detonation of the first rocket, the catapult charge detonated, and the second rocket exploded already in the empty cockpit. He fell to the ground unconscious. And when he came to his senses, he realized that the wind had carried him over the mountain ridge, to the territory of Pakistan ... For five days Rutskoi made his way to the border. He was taken just 5 km from the state border near the village of Parachinar north of Peshawar. Then there were the torture chambers of Pakistani counterintelligence. However, on August 16, Rutskoi was exchanged for one of the leaders of Pakistani intelligence - a cousin of the then President Ziya Ulhak, who was detained by Afghan counterintelligence officers ... Rutskoi became one of the most famous pilots in Afghanistan. For three years, he performed 428 sorties. In 1988 he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. And in the same year he entered the Academy of the General Staff, which he graduated with honors in 1990. A year later he was appointed deputy commander of the air army and became a major general. By the way, Rutskoi is the last Soviet Jew to receive the rank of general. And again, if the fifth column had a halachic record, he would not have seen stripes as his ears. But he was General Rutskoi for a little over a year. Because it was at this time that the Soviet power collapsed, and with it the Soviet Army. Under the new Russia, he also followed the official path, but civil. And he rose to the highest degrees: he even visited the Russian president ... for several days! But - in order. Since the end of 1988, Alexander Rutskoy began to actively engage in political activities. In the spring of 1990 he was elected People's Deputy of the RSFSR and became a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. On May 18, 1991, Boris Yeltsin invited Rutskoi to run with him as a candidate for the post of vice-president of Russia, and on June 12 he was elected to this post. During the August putsch, Rutskoi was one of the organizers of the defense of the White House. And after the collapse of the USSR, Rutskoy remains in the post of vice-president of the Russian Federation, heads a number of departments. However, after the constitutional crisis in March 1993, Boris Yeltsin naturally lost all confidence in Alexander Rutskoi. A political struggle began, which resulted in a bloody drama in the fall of 1993. The most reliable and laconic story about these events comes from journalist Andrei Sheremetyev: “... In September 1993, General Rutskoi took up his usual business: he began to defend the White House. On the day when the people he called on to fight to defend Russia and democracy defended and died, the vice president, seeing that things were heading for collapse, called a press conference and showed a machine gun in grease: they say he did nothing wrong , did not even fire a single shot ... If Rutskoi's authorities had not been imprisoned, they would probably have forgotten about him. And so, he was soon released as a sufferer. And I got a second chance to do big politics. A former communist and then a former democrat joined the ranks of the patriots and founded the Derzhava movement. But, having received his part, it was unimportant to solo. "Power" began to fall apart, Rutskoi, in order to stay afloat, began to move in the wake of the communists ... ". On October 20, 1996, by the votes of the communists, Rutskoi was elected governor of the Kursk region, gaining 78.9 percent of the vote. However, his tenure in this post, judging by the reviews of the Russian media, he did not mark with any positive achievements. Moreover, they accuse Rutskoi of not fulfilling election promises, of abuse of power. And the most important, perhaps, the accusation is nepotism, more precisely: the Kursk governor used his powers to enrich his family members. It is difficult to say how true these accusations are. The fact, however, is that Rutskoy was simply removed from re-election in 2000. Of course, without Putin's knowledge, they could not have taken him out of the game. And they brought him out in a very interesting way: having found fault with the fact that he allegedly did not indicate the Volga car among his personal property in his declaration, the regional court removed Rutskoy from the distance a few hours before the vote. As a result, the current head of the region, who had every chance to easily win the elections from the very first round, was struck off the electoral lists and ballots, and the elections were eventually won with difficulty, but the first secretary of the regional organization of Russian communists, Alexander Mikhailov. There is no doubt that this was done on the direct orders of the Kremlin. The reasons are quite clear. Rutskoi did not differ in the accommodating nature necessary for a politician. Of course, Alexander Vladimirovich did not go into an open conflict with the central government: the lesson of 1993 was enough for him. But the "Muscovites" through the efforts of the governor at once lost practically all levers of influence on the economy of the grain southern region. According to the local opposition, the most attractive pieces of regional property after Rutskoy's victory ended up in the hands of the governor's relatives and friends. Such cases, according to the established tradition, the Center forgives only “its own”. And Rutskoi did not belong to this category of regional leaders. Significantly, the new governor, immediately after his election, launched a powerful campaign against his predecessor. And the main aspect of this campaign is anti-Semitic. Yes, yes, oddly enough, anti-Semitic! It is very important for a conscientious story about Rutskoi - he never denied his Jewish origin. Exactly - he did not deny, although he did not conduct discussions on this topic unless absolutely necessary. But after being removed from the gubernatorial elections, he was simply forced to join the fight against defamation. It began with the fact that Mikhailov in his very first interview said: “... Do you know who Rutskoi is? I am a Russian person, Vladimir Putin is also. And if anyone does not know, Rutskoi's mother is Jewish - Zinaida Iosifovna ... Removing Rutskoi from power is only the first step in the implementation of Putin's plan to cleanse Russia of Jews ... ”. Rutskoi reacted to this statement by initiating a lawsuit. He explained to the journalists: “I am filing a lawsuit against Mikhailov for inciting ethnic hatred - this is how I assess his statements. As a person, I am ready to punch him in the face, but as an official person I will sue. Moreover, Mr. Mikhailov declares that in the Kursk region there was a struggle not with me, but with a whole Jewish conspiracy. " The trial, however, ended in nothing. But he gave rise to a downright "anti-ruts" campaign in the press, in which all the ins and outs of Alexander Vladimirovich and his relatives were investigated. It would seem that divorces and marriages are a private matter for everyone, and the newspaper has nothing to do with these matters. Moreover, the second wife, Lyudmila, is a fashion designer, president of the firm Valentina Yudashkin, and is friends with the wife of Yuri Luzhkov. But whoever got it in full was Rutskoi's mother, Zinaida Iosifovna. Indeed, it is she who is the "sinister" bearer of the Jewish principle in the Rutskikh family. So she was accused of sins, earthly and "otherworldly". I quote: “... She is very rich, since her numerous offspring have a habit of bringing her good gifts. According to rumors, he is not averse to contact with the "evil" force ... ". Attempts by Rutskoy to somehow return to power structures were steadily suppressed. In March 2001, he announced his participation in the by-elections of the State Duma deputy in the single-mandate constituency # 79. Rutskoi managed to pay a deposit of 100 thousand rubles, but even before the official registration refused to participate in the elections, realizing the futility of this venture. However, in 2003 he tried again. And he was not admitted to the elections - his registration as a candidate was canceled by the Supreme Court in connection with the provision of incorrect information about the place of work to the election commission. As you understand, all these failures on the approach to the election campaign were inspired "from above". In the light of the foregoing, the personal qualities of a person who have replaced such a series of hypostases are of legitimate interest. One listing of them amazes: a pilot who was captured by the Islamists, a Hero of the Soviet Union, an aviation general, a statesman of the highest rank, a regional governor. There can be no doubt that he is an extraordinary person. Let's see, however, what they write about him. Marina Shakina from the newspaper Novoye Vremya: “... Rutskoi is extremely efficient - he can work eighteen hours a day. Learns new things quickly. Has a desire for self-education. According to some reviews, he drinks a little. Uncorrupted. Weak to flattery. The key question: is Rutskoi smart? Many - mainly from among the "highbrow" democrats - tend to assess the intellectual potential of the former vice president low. But in fairness, it should be noted that people who know him and work with him testify that Rutskoi is undoubtedly a very capable person - two military academies with honors. Perceptive, grasping everything on the fly ... ". Vladislav Shurygin The Day: “... Alexander Vladimirovich cannot be denied in willpower, perseverance, and pressure. This is a strong and whole person. The difficulties he faces only inflame his character as a fighter. Possesses the charm of a leader, being able to inspire others to believe in himself, to carry him along. Rutskoi's weakness is in his pragmatism. Not trusting anyone, he is not capable of being a strategist and playing a multi-step political game ... ”. And what is Alexander Vladimirovich like as a person, in everyday life, in a family? After leaving big politics, from administrative activities to private life, only a few journalists managed to penetrate into this life of Rutskoi. And the information presented by them is modest and laconic. Here are some of the publications. The fullest, perhaps, was written by Sergei Tkachuk, the correspondent of Novye Izvestia, who met with Rutskoi in his house on Rublevka. I will quote some of the statements of Alexander Vladimirovich: - To be honest, I do not like that I am too free. After all, I have a work book since I was 16. He worked all his adult life, served the Fatherland. And not so long ago, by chance and, one might say, meanly was knocked out of the saddle. And overnight I was among the unnecessary. And it’s very hard to feel unnecessary. - I have a big family - two adult sons. The third son on April 22 will be six years old. My daughter will be 12 years old in May. The elders in life have already decided and are working, but the younger ones need to be raised, educated, so the responsibility lies high on me - two more, as they say, need to be brought to their senses. - As for my free time, here I am not original - I read a lot. Recently I re-read Stanyukovich, Dickens, Mark Twain, Dostoevsky again. Why exactly them? Because you need to somehow be distracted from what is happening in today's life. - I have great respect and love for my wife, for my children, so I’m going nowhere without them. Even when I drive around Moscow, my wife is always there, because I can't live without her. Sad and dreary. - Today the strongest drink for me is non-alcoholic beer. For seven years now, I practically do not drink anything except beer. Only sometimes I allow myself to raise the stack, remembering those guys who did not return from Afgan. It is a sacred thing to raise a glass and remember the boys. - I have never been a deeply religious person. But remember how Igor Talkov sang: "At the last line you always remember God." So, the Lord God must always be present in the soul and head of a normal person. Do not sin, do not do anything bad to people, nature, animals - this must always be remembered ... It seems that for the limited area of ​​the sketch, Rutskoi's personality is outlined quite vividly. A brave pilot, twice a prisoner, an extraordinary politician, an active participant in two putsches, a typical Russian governor and a typical retirement pensioner. But at the same time - a Halachic Jew. Does he recognize his belonging to a long-suffering people? It seems to be conscious. While in Israel, he said that he could become its citizen at any moment. Has the right. And then an insidious thought creeps in: “Well, how would a Major General, Hero of the Soviet Union, an Israeli citizen, and would be elected Prime Minister of Israel? Surely he would not stand on ceremony with his enemies, who beat the same mercilessly in his time ... ".

... The war hero, Lev Rokhlin, who refused to take the highest award for participating in the unleashed civil war, as he said, banged his fist on the table with all his might, making the whole country hear himself. He literally broke into big politics as a lone hero, but very quickly realized that it was impossible to help the army, the military-industrial complex and science without changing the situation in the country. Not being a professional politician, Rokhlin nevertheless knew how to fight and accurately, in a military manner, formulate the slogans of the moment. There can be no strong army in an economically weak state. Simple, simple words. True, in every word there is an absolute lack of desire to show off. The people saw this and believed him. Rokhlin, in fact, headed the entire Russian protest movement, and by the summer of 1998 the country was rearing up ... A huge wave of protest arose, which should and could then sweep away the rotten Yeltsin regime. The people then saw in Rokhlin the leader they had been waiting for - brave, honest, incorruptible.

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He was the third child in an ordinary Soviet family, who did not know his father from an early age, and had to earn his own living from a young age. Having chosen the army, he did not blame fate, honestly served both in the distant Arctic and in hot Turkestan. He went through three wars - in Afghanistan, Transcaucasia, Chechnya. To earn the love of soldiers not just anywhere, but in war is above any reward. "Daddy" - the soldiers called him. Behind him there were heated battles, the capture of Grozny, a broken spine in a downed helicopter, heart bypass surgery. He became a member of the State Duma from the movement "Our Home - Russia" and even the Chairman of the Defense Committee. From the height of his new position, he was horrified to see the scale of the whole trouble.

Rokhlin said: "During the five years of the war, the USSR moved its entire industry to the East, put women and children behind the machines and lost only thirty percent of the industry. In five years, we lost seventy to ninety percent of the industry." "Impeachment!" - Lev Rokhlin finished his analysis, and he was the first who boldly, openly said it. It was he who exposed the multibillion-dollar scam selling enriched uranium to America. Frightened by him, Yeltsin announced to the whole country: "We will sweep away Rokhlin!" Rokhlin contemptuously threw then: "Even when shells and bullets whistled nearby, I did not fall on my knees."

The soldiers saw off the "father" on his last journey with tears in their eyes, remembering hundreds of people like them who were saved by him in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

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Being by nature a man with a sharpened conscience, possessing great authority, General Rokhlin created the DPA ("Movement in Support of the Army") movement, and people followed him.

Lev Rokhlin: "When you see what you served honestly, gave your life, did not spare it, was ready to die, and looked for this death when it was extremely difficult for your subordinates, and suddenly everything collapses, while it collapses treacherously, thoughtlessly. .. I knew very well that my reports on corruption, my reports on the deaths in Chechnya, where I accused the government, the president of having created such a situation, about the situation in the North Caucasus, about the situation with the CIS countries, the report on the supply of weapons - that is, all this is where I revealed the essence as a specialist, who saw the true state of affairs not from the outside, not from the office, not from a warm corner, but who went through all this, saw these mistakes, revealed them, I thought it was criminal, that it shouldn't be, that it needs to be corrected. Millions, tens of millions of dollars in the same leadership of the Ministry of Defense are plundered, and no one says a single word. Of course, I, a person who went through all this, worried about my subordinates, could not deal with it."

... The "Movement" created by Rokhlin, as a center of crystallization, began to attract all the healthy patriotic forces of the army. The authority, influence of the "Movement" and its leader were gaining strength in military units, at defense enterprises, military research and development institutes. Everyone in the active army knew Rokhlin - from general to warrant officer. It seemed that it was only necessary to take one step, and an avalanche of popular anger would roll, sweeping away the corrupt Yeltsin regime on its way.

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Rokhlin was a great citizen of his homeland. Having chosen the profession of an officer, he went through all the stages of service, not choosing detours. Fate threw him from Germany and the sands of Asia to the Far North. During the war in Afghanistan, Rokhlin commanded the 191st motorized rifle regiment, one of the best in the contingent of Soviet troops. There he showed the best fighting qualities inherent in Soviet officers, was wounded, showed great courage, learned to look death in the face. For military work he was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner and the Red Star. He was the first high-ranking general to speak openly about the losses and the fact that it is not bandit formations that are fighting against the federal troops in Chechnya, but a well-equipped army. Later, after returning from the war, the general learned that since 1992 and throughout the war, the latest weapons and ammunition, without which our troops were suffocating near Grozny, were traveling in echelons and flying transport planes to Armenia. He understood how the newest armored personnel carriers BTR-80 and BTR-90, which were not yet in service with our army, ended up with Dudaev. It was with these monsters that the general met in an unequal battle. He was not a politician. He believed in Russia as a poet, served her faithfully and exaltedly. He had a heightened sense of duty to his soldiers, to their mothers, to all our people. A great property of the soul that makes a great person out of a simple soldier.

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The general's widow Tamara Pavlovna Rokhlina was convicted on a slanderous charge of murdering her husband. A seriously ill child, their son Igor, was left without a mother for almost two years. The media were silent about their fate, so that their names would quickly disappear into oblivion. When Lev Rokhlin threw himself into battle in an unusual area of ​​politics, self-sacrificingly and openly, his wife was his support and companion. She did more than a simple woman can do - taking care of her sick child, she did not forget about other people's children, what she could, gave to orphans in orphanages, throughout the war she helped mothers whose sons fought in Chechnya, did not forget about her husband - not even minute. On December 31, when the capital's so-called "elite" was having fun under the jokes of court jesters, pouring champagne on the parquet floors of palaces and television studios, Rokhlin called his wife: "Pray for us ...". The connection was interrupted. The troops went to storm Grozny. She prayed throughout the war - like the previous one, in Afghanistan - and after the war she did not fence herself off from her husband's struggle, did not hide, although they threatened both her and the children.

They have experienced a lot in life: in Afghanistan, the helicopter, in which Lev Rokhlin was, was shot down by dushmans and fell on the rocks; Rokhlin's spine and both legs were broken. The wife received the news that he was dead. And then there was a heart bypass operation. She spent days and nights with him.

General's wife Tamara Pavlovna Rokhlina is an example of civil courage. The pressure didn't break her. They could not force her to slander herself and her husband, and the sentence passed on her is a sentence to all patriots of Russia. With great difficulty, it was possible, given her illness and the need to care for a sick child, to achieve her return to the family. In the ongoing process of destruction of the state, its defenders are destroyed in the first place. Combat General Lev Rokhlin, who passed through Afghanistan and Chechnya, fought to save Russia. Slander and lies, with which they want to entangle the hero, recede when you hear a recording of the speech delivered at the trial by Tamara Pavlovna Rokhlina:

"In front of indignant Russia I am executed - brazenly, cynically, unceremoniously. Executed because my husband wanted to save mundane, robbed, humiliated Russia from a gang of ruling marauders. Those who still run the satanic ball in a fragmented country are afraid of my husband The wording of my accusation has changed again, and each time the next one is more ridiculous than the previous one.This time, it turns out, I killed my only breadwinner, my sick son, a lifelong disabled person of the first group, the only support of my family, so that my children live better! I will not comment on this new invention of the Prosecutor General's Office. Let Russia comment on it. My task before death is to clarify the essence of what is happening around the personality of Lev Rokhlin. My husband considered the Yeltsin regime to be guilty of the collapse of Russia. He believed that the tyrannical Yeltsin entourage would never allow the people countries to hold fair elections. viks of Russia, in order to force the Kremlin temporary workers to get off the neck of the mucked people by decisive demonstrations. He believed that such actions are consistent with the UN Charter, which even approves of the uprising of the people against the tyrannical state. Whether my husband was right or not, considering the Yeltsin government tyrannical, anti-people - let the people of Russia judge. I personally supported him. In the face of my inevitable death, I declare once again: I believe that my husband, General Lev Rokhlin, was right. He chose the only correct path at that time and for this he was killed. The chance helped my husband's enemies. And my husband had many enemies. Among them, the most powerful are Russian uranium traders worth hundreds of billions of dollars, illegal suppliers of arms and ammunition to Transcaucasia worth billions of dollars, those who ordered the murder of Dmitry Kholodov, and corrupt officials in the highest echelons of power. All of them were brought out to clean water by my husband. On many of them, criminal cases were prepared under pressure and under the control of Leo. The deputy, General Lev Rokhlin, passed away with pain about unhappy Russia, without betraying anyone, having done everything in his power. Yeltsin once said in panic: "We will sweep away Rokhlin." And they sweep away - they keep me in a prison cell for a year and a half, torment me with threats to suppress and remove me in prison. My husband was killed. I live for him, I suffer for him, I am ready to die for him with pain for my trampled Motherland - Russia. I have no request for a court. I ask the Russians, in the event of my death in prison or outside the prison walls, to take care of our sick son, marked by God - Igor.

Tamara Rokhlina, widow of General Rokhlin ".

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The role of the individual in the history of the Russian state is enormous. When the situation in the country has matured to the point that it is impossible to resolve the contradictions tearing it apart, when the country is sliding faster and faster into the abyss, objective conditions arise for the emergence of a leader, a leader. And he appears. He knows what to do, where to go, and he leads first the vanguard of the people - the passionaries, then the whole people. And not only saves the country, but also raises it to a higher level of development ... The people who believe in the leader and follow him become invincible. But for the emergence of a real leader, the conditions must ripen completely, the cup of the people's patience must be overflowing. If this does not happen and the appearance of a hero-personality is ahead of its time, this person cannot become a national leader and most often perishes.

So in the troubled time of the seventeenth century, when the Polish invaders and various robbers had not yet completely devastated Russia, the star of the Russian commander Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky, the liberator of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and Moscow, shone. He became a popular favorite, a hero in whom hopes were pinned. And he was poisoned. So General Rokhlin, apparently, was ahead of his time, began to raise the people, people believed him, but the situation had not yet reached the limit. The general was killed. An honest and courageous warrior, General Lev Rokhlin will forever remain in the memory of the people of Russia as a hero. We will not forget those who ordered and organized this murder. And when real, and not fake, patriots finally come to power in Russia, retribution will inevitably await the murderers.

Lev Rokhlin
Alex Snake 22.01.2006 08:07:17

Lev Rokhlin commanded in Afghanistan 191 separate motorized rifle regiment, which was based in Ghazni province, and not 860 (there was no such regiment in Afghanistan).

about L.Ya. Rokhlin
Vic 02.07.2007 05:59:45

This man is a true Hero of Russia. It is very sad that even on his anniversary 6.06.07- (he would have turned 60 years old) there was not a single publication in our and theirs "independent" media. What to say: go to the website of Radio Liberty and ask in the Search / even in the archive / "Lev Rokhlin" and you will find more than a hundred pages with Lev Ponamorev ... Papa Leo ... etc. It's a shame for the purchased journalists!

Not only during his short life, but also after his death, General Rokhlin attracted the close attention of the people. He went through his life in striving and struggle aimed at improving the quality of life of the whole country. A strong army, developed science, a stable economy - everything for the good of mankind.

Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin was born on June 6, 1947 in Kazakhstan. The mother raised the future general, like his three brothers, alone. Rokhlin's father was detained for political reasons shortly after the birth of his son. In the 10th year of Leo's life, the Rokhlins family moved to Tashkent. It was there that the future famous general spent his youth.

Starting from school, Rokhlin was distinguished by high academic performance and efficiency. This allowed him to receive further education, the future general received at the Higher Combined Arms Command School in Tashkent, and higher at the Academy. Frunze, as well as at the Academy at the General Staff.

Having received a combined-arms qualification, the young officer refused the prescribed leave and immediately went to work. By distribution, he ended up in the group of Soviet troops in East Germany. The service threw Rokhlin from the Arctic to the Turkestan district.

From 1982 to 1984, the future General Rokhlin served in Afghanistan. He began as a regiment commander, but in his second year of service he had a division under his command. He personally took part in battles and was seriously wounded several times. Nevertheless, the command decided that he could not cope with one military operation and, as a result, in 1983 he was removed from his post and appointed deputy commander of a motorized rifle regiment. But for impeccable service in less than a year, the general is restored to his previous position.

Late 1994 - early 1995 served in the Chechen region. He headed a separate corps on the territory of the republic, participated in a number of operations to capture the regions of Grozny and in campaigns organized for negotiations with the militants. Having numerous awards received over the years of service, General Rokhlin refused the title "Hero of the Russian Federation" for participation in the battles in Grozny.

Not stopping at what has been achieved, he begins work on his political career. Already in 1995 he was elected to the State Duma of the second convocation. In 1996, General Rokhlin joined Our Home - Russia. This tandem earned him a position in defense.

September 1997 was a turning point in the general's career. He makes the fateful decision to create his own political party. He was one of the strongest opposition leaders of the time, who worried about the fate of the army and the country as a whole. However, the conversations of Rokhlin's colleagues and associates that a coup was being prepared in his person in order to remove the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin from the post, led to the fact that Rokhlin was removed from his post.

On the night of July 3, 1998, the politician died from in a country house located in the Moscow region. The charge was brought against his wife, Tamara, but who killed General Rokhlin is not exactly established.

As a result of lengthy trials, Tamara Rokhlina, who refuses to admit her guilt, was sentenced to 4 years of suspended imprisonment and 2.5 years of probation.

Some facts concerning the life and death of the general remain in question. Whether he wanted to make a coup, who killed L. Ya. Rokhlin and for what purpose - this worries the inhabitants of Russia to this day.

A monument to General Rokhlin has been erected in the Prionezhsky region of the Republic of Karelia. For all the time, he has earned more than one fair award, celebrating his courage and selfless service for the good of his homeland.

More than 17 years have passed since the time when a hitman's bullet cut short the life of a State Duma deputy, a military general and just a wonderful person Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin. He fought in Afghanistan, went through the First Chechen War, was seriously wounded and was shell-shocked, but still survived. And he was shot in peacetime, in bed, at his own dacha in the suburbs. What was Lev Rokhlin like and what did he want? The life and death of the general, as well as the versions of his death - read about all this below.

The beginning of the way

He was the youngest of three children. His father, Yakov Lvovich Rokhlin, went through the Great Patriotic War and, returning home to Aralsk (Kazakh SSR), could not get a job at the school where he worked before the war, he had to be hired in a fishing artel. On June 6, 1947, his second son was born, who, following Jewish traditions, was named after his grandfather. In 1948, when Leo was not even eight months old, his father was arrested, and since then nothing is known about him. Most likely, he died in the Gulag, like thousands of Soviet illegally convicted citizens. Mother, Ksenia Ivanovna, was forced to raise three children alone.

About ten years after the aforementioned events, the mother's relatives helped the Rokhlins move to Tashkent. Here Lev Yakovlevich graduated from high school and went to work at an aircraft factory, from where he was drafted into the army. After serving the due time, he returned to his native land and entered, like his older brother, at the military school in Tashkent in 1967. When submitting the documents, Vyacheslav and Lev Rokhlins either deliberately concealed or did not know that their father was Jewish. since they themselves were listed as Russians according to the documents. If they had told the truth, the brothers could no longer count on a good promotion, since such an origin was not welcomed in those days.

Military career

The future general Rokhlin graduated from the Tashkent school with honors in 1970. He was in the top ten cadets. By that time, Lev Yakovlevich had been married for two years. He was immediately assigned to serve in a group of Soviet troops stationed in the GDR, in the city of Wurzen. After 4 years, he entered the military academy. Frunze. He, like previous educational institutions, graduated with honors in 1977. After that, Rokhlin served in the Turkestan, Transcaucasian and Leningrad military districts, as well as in the Arctic.

Afghan period

In 1982, the future General Rokhlin went to fight in Afghanistan. There he commanded one of the motorized rifle regiments stationed east of Faizabad. It is worth noting that he took part in many military special operations conducted on Afghan territory, and was always distinguished by courage, determination and resourcefulness.

But in April of the next year, Rokhlin was removed from his post, demoted and sent to another regiment. His fault was that he made, in the opinion of high command, the wrong decision. The fact is that one of the battalions of his regiment was ambushed by the Mujahideen in some mountain gorge. Then the regimental commander realized that his soldiers were in a disadvantageous position for themselves and would not be able to continue the battle without suffering heavy losses. To avoid unnecessary casualties, Rokhlin gave the order to blow up the blocked equipment and retreat. As a result, the battalion emerged from the trap with the least losses.

After that, Lev Yakovlevich served as deputy commander of the 191st motorized rifle regiment, located in the town of Ghazni. In the winter of 1984, his boss is put on trial for having left his soldiers to certain death in a headquarters surrounded by rebels, and he himself ignominiously escaped using a helicopter. Meanwhile, Rokhlin took command and led his subordinates out of the death ring. After this incident, he was reinstated. Under his command, the regiment fought very successfully. Take, for example, the operation carried out in the fall of 1984. It consisted in the capture of the rebel base located in the Urgun region.

Severe injury

This operation was the last one carried out by Lev Rokhlin on the territory of Afghanistan. While flying around the area where the fighting took place, his helicopter was shot down. This time the death of General Rokhlin was spared, and he survived. However, the injury turned out to be serious: his spine was injured, his legs were broken, etc. At first he was treated in Kabul and then in Tashkent hospitals.

The doctors' verdict was disappointing: to be expelled from the army for health reasons. But since Rokhlin did not represent all the ranks of the armed forces with his life, he somehow managed to get a different wording from the doctors and still remained in the service. By the way, his wife, Tamara Pavlovna, was a nurse. She got a job at the hospital where her husband was treated, and was by his side throughout the course of treatment.

Further service

After being discharged from the hospital, Rokhlin was appointed deputy division commander in the Turkestan garrison of Kizil-Arvat. By that time, he had a daughter and a son, eight months old, who soon fell ill with encephalitis, which immediately affected his general development. After that, Tamara Pavlovna had to leave her job and run around hospitals with a disabled child.

Two years later, Lev Rokhlin was transferred to serve in Azerbaijan, where he became a participant in the suppression of the rebellious Baku nationalists who provoked the massacre of Armenian families in Sumgait. When the Soviet Union collapsed, he decided to return to Russia. In 1993, Rokhlin entered the Academy of the General Staff and, as usual, graduated with excellent marks. After he became a major general, he was offered the post of commander of the 8th Volgograd corps.

First Chechen war

From December 1994 to February 1995, Lev Yakovlevich and his fighters took part in hostilities on the territory of Chechnya. The facts speak about how General Rokhlin, whose biography was full of military exploits before that, led his subordinates. The actions of his 8th Guards Corps were among the most productive and, moreover, suffered the least losses. This said only one thing: their commander was a skillful and talented military leader.

Before the war, Rokhlin was considered by some to be a tyrant, since he paid much attention to combat training. As time has shown, he was right, and the well-known dictum of Suvorov "hard in training - easy in battle" fully justified itself. In Grozny, General Rokhlin fought on a par with his soldiers. Together with them, he met the New Year 1995. Of the 2,200 Volgograd residents who fought with him in Chechnya, 1,928 soldiers were presented to them for awards, but only about half of them received. Rokhlin himself considered it right to give up the title of Hero of Russia. He explained his act by the fact that he could not accept the reward for the shed blood of his fellow citizens.

Political activity

I must say that General Lev Rokhlin fought not for the sake of some career achievements, and he received his awards, not sitting in the rear and pleasing his superiors, but carrying selfless service for the good of his country. Fighting in Chechnya, he realized that the Russian army itself is in dire need of protection, and above all - from insatiable officials and incompetent authorities.

In 1995, on the eve of the elections to the State Duma, one of the parties called "Our Home is Russia" took advantage of his unlimited authority. It was then that his career as a politician began. He entered this supreme body of power, entered the NDR faction and was soon elected chairman of the Duma Defense Committee. It took him very little time to understand the main thing - the government headed by President Yeltsin is deliberately destroying the army. Therefore, two years later, he leaves his party, and then the NDR faction.

New movement

In 1997, General Rokhlin became the initiator and main organizer of a new political force. It began to be called a movement in support of the army, defense industry and science. The purpose of this organization was not only to protect, but also to revive the Armed Forces of the state. It was very difficult to do this in the conditions of that time. The task of this movement was to ensure that all citizens of Russia, without exception, strictly observe the Constitution, and the authorities, in turn, undertake to ensure in full all the rights and freedoms spelled out in it. In addition, the new force demanded that the authorities carry out democratic reforms.

Quite quickly, the movement grew into a national front, which openly opposed the then Yeltsin regime. Rokhlin himself turned from an ordinary military general into one of the most famous and influential political figures in Russia. This movement openly frightened the entire government leadership. Its leader began to be called a provocateur, pushing the army to carry out a military coup in the country. But, despite this, Rokhlin's authority grew every day, and not only in army circles, but also among the population. He was rightfully recognized as the most active opposition politician in 1997-1998.

Elimination of an unwanted general

The intensity of passions was brewing. The climax was the night from 2 to 3 July 1998. The next morning, the news announced that General Rokhlin had been killed at his dacha, located in the village of Klokovo near Moscow. According to the official version, his own wife, Tamara, shot him asleep, and the reason for this was a banal family quarrel.

In late autumn 2000, the Naro-Fominsk City Court found the wife of General Rokhlin guilty of the death of her husband. Tamara Pavlovna appealed to the relevant authorities with a complaint about the too long period of pre-trial detention, as well as the deliberate protraction of the trial. Her claim was satisfied and monetary compensation was paid. Five years later, a new trial took place, where she was again found guilty of murder and sentenced to four years probation.

The real causes of the tragedy

There are still several versions of how the murder of General Rokhlin happened. As mentioned above, the first and official one is a family quarrel. But how can you believe this? General Rokhlin's wife, Tamara Pavlovna, who had been following him all these years without fail through the military garrisons where he had to serve, and raising two children, one of whom is disabled, suddenly, for no reason at all, kills her husband because of an ordinary family quarrel ... Although the woman was convicted, no convincing evidence of her guilt was ever presented.

The second version of the murder is political, in which the Russian special services are involved. In this regard, there is information that in the GRU and the KGB there were special departments dealing with the direct elimination of people who became objectionable or dangerous to the authorities.

The second version is also supported by the fact that not a single fingerprint was found on the murder weapon - a pistol, including the general's wife. This suggests that it was professionals who acted, and not an ordinary woman who had once again quarreled with her husband.

In the case of Rokhlin's murder, there were two sufficiently strong evidence that there were strangers in the house. The first of them is the closed front door before the murder and open after it. The second proof - in a forest belt not far from the general's dacha, three charred corpses were found, and, according to the testimony of local residents, they were not there before the murder of Rokhlin. This means only one thing: they appeared there immediately after the murder of Lev Yakovlevich. The conclusion suggests itself that the bodies in the forest belt could belong to Rokhlin's killers, who were removed after their crime.

Protecting the honor and dignity of the family

The life and death of General Rokhlin is still heard. Information about the customers and organizers of the murder was never made public. And, as time has shown, over these 17 years nothing has changed in the vertical of power. The same Yeltsin formula is still in effect: about the Rokhlins, either badly, or nothing. Therefore, no one was surprised when another dirty article about their family appeared in Express-Gazeta.

This time, the daughter of General Rokhlin, Elena, filed a lawsuit against the corrupt media for the protection of honor and dignity. In court, the authors of the libel dodged as best they could, having absolutely no evidence regarding their fabrications. In addition, they took their time in every possible way without showing up for meetings. As a result, the court ordered the newspaper to publish a refutation. But for this to happen, the daughter of the general had to walk around the offices of bailiffs for a whole year and a half!

Conclusion

It should be noted that after Lev Yakovlevich, an equal opposition leader in Russia did not appear. And this is not surprising, because no one else had such popularity among the civilian population and the military. He enjoyed what is called real authority among the people.

This was Lev Rokhlin. The life and death of the general should serve as an example for modern pseudo-patriots who are engaged in inflating a non-existent problem concerning Russia's so-called "enemies" without taking any concrete action. It must be remembered what this man did for the Russian army and for the country as a whole. And also try to bring to life and even increase everything that was defended and for which General Rokhlin was killed.