Stories with Russian special forces in Ukraine strike me every time. And not at all because Russia constantly renounces its prisoners. This is just normal. If you are going to serve as a saboteur, you must understand that from now on you - left yesterday, you are not there, you are nobody, went on vacation.
No, it's different.
The day before yesterday in Lugansk region a soldier of the 22nd brigade of the GRU special forces. The sabotage and reconnaissance group went to the exit, lit up, ambushed, surrendered. Group of six people. Two machine guns.
Before that, as we remember, under the Happiness two more fighters of the GRU special forces were taken prisoner: Captain Erofeev and Sergeant Aleksandrov. They advanced for additional exploration to the TPP area, it turned out that the position of the APU, which they considered abandoned, was not left, fell under fire, were taken prisoner.
Every time I read such news, I do not understand them. It would seem that it's time to get used to it, but still I am surprised every time how a gymnast.
In the sixties, when a separate, ninth, training company was created on the basis of the Ryazan Airborne Training School, which was engaged in the training of spetsnaz officers (the GRU abbreviation was not used then, it was simply "special forces", because there could in principle only be one special task force) Secretly, even school leavers did not know that such a company existed at all and that there was such a thing as special forces - it issued officers with a diploma of referent-translators of the language of one of the possible opponents: English, German, French or Chinese. Later, they were added Farsi or Pashto. Only one company was issued per year.
Then, on the basis of this skeleton, teams of special forces began to form. At the moment, as far as can be judged from open sources, the GRU GSH consists of seven brigades and one regiment. The exact number is unknown, but Wikipedia says that between six and fifteen thousand people.
Division of Special Forces!.
If you have a special forces division, this can only mean one thing - you do not have special forces at all. Rambo - commodity piece. And dear. Division Rambo can not be. A-priory.
The training of the special forces officer was always higher than even the training of the paratrooper officer, but the main rate in the special forces was always made on brains. My friend, who fought in Afghanistan as an officer of special forces, said that he had a group of people with education below the secondary special was not. And this is a regular, regular ordinary.
About ten years ago, while doing an interview with one of the spetsnaz officers in the Tambov brigade, I was thinking only that he could not connect two words without a mat. About the quality of conscripts I generally keep quiet. What is the language of a likely enemy. When I listened to Alexandrov, I could not help thinking that it was a child. Infantilism, as it was said.
At some point, when all the nafig fell apart, the bet on the brains stopped and began to bet on the amount of muscle. Special forces began to recruit ordinary bulls, according to the principle "the more the bank, the better". Now, looking at the physical preparation of the next prisoners - and all the same Captain Erofeev - I understand that this period has also passed.
One of the heads of a psychophysiological laboratory of the KGB once said to me:.
- It is not difficult. If you want, I can teach you. You will sleep 4 hours. Fully recover. And after that, you can increase your pain threshold. I can teach you how to endure torture. To a certain limit, of course, but nevertheless. How to behave in captivity. In hostages.
That is a real special forces, it's not only brains, not only physical, combat, diversion training, but also psychophysiology.
According to the Charter of Internal Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, "a serviceman captured by an enemy in captivity during the interrogation has the right to inform only his surname, first name, patronymic, military rank, date of birth and personal number".
And here we live on air we see how two soldiers of the GRU special forces, elite elites, are captured and in the very first minutes, whitewashed with fear, they give up everything and everything, with all the guts, nagora throwing out everything they knew.
Damn, even me, when I was captured in a captivity to a loss of consciousness - even I, a civilian mabout, the rat of the rear, a scribbler - behaved more worthy.
Special Forces GRU GSh are subversive units designed to detonate the launching silos of enemy missiles, acting autonomously in the deepest rear. They are taught sabotage. They are only taught this and that. They are trained to do this. Years. Well, theoretically. Must, at least. This is special forces.
And then we see again and again how first one group of special forces is put forward for additional exploration, see if there is anyone in the boiler room (a copter of twenty thousand in any store is standing, the camera is five, the twenty-first century is on the street), stumbles upon the enemy, declasses, Throws two wounded (!), Who then deal with the giblets all they know - then the second group goes into the raid as a walk, declasses immediately on the way out, and, having two machine guns and one sniper for four, goes straight into ambush and surrenders.
A reconnaissance group (!) Of a detachment of special (!) Purpose of the main (!) Reconnaissance (!) Control!.
Saboteurs. Deep exploration. Elite elites.
Approximately with the same results, I went to Grozny to a neighboring high-rise building. Only I was a mahore, an infantry plague, and with zero training.
There is nothing in this country. This country is a fake. Fake full and absolute. From start to finish. From top to bottom.
They begin a holy war against fascism for the village of Lopyrevka of the Lugansk region, lead it as if it is another Great Patriotic War, develop such propaganda as even Ehrenburg in the forty-first envied, build a police militaristic state leading aggressive wars, and trillions into the army , They seize neighboring countries, start another war on the second front, send an aircraft carrier to distant shores - and then it turns out that the elite of the elite in their new Great Patriotic War are fighting twenty-year-old infantry Who only three months as a contract have concluded and do nothing other than pontoon photos with the flag of reconnaissance, are unable to do, the aircraft carrier loses a course in the middle of a glorious march, two aircraft fall overboard, as the aerofinisher cable has become unusable, and Putin shows Stone the film About the attack of American "Apaches" with the voice acting of Ukrainian pilots.
A non-existent country that is fighting a non-existent special forces in a non-existent war against a non-existent fascism and is proud of its nonexistent grandeur.
Someday all this will surely collapse.
There are no other options.
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