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I, as a descendant of military personnel (most of the men on my father's side are/were officers) can tell you how the Gorbachev period influenced the army.Originally Posted by Rumata
Gorbach tried hard to damage our country. He even lowered his own status of the ruler of a great country bellow the level of an American pizza producer. All according too his duty of course.
Spoiler!
I do not appreciate the late USSR in general for refusing to develop its own vision of the future and smoothly preparing to enter the West (as resource colony) by deliberately vilifying the socialist path with the help of unpopular or frankly stupid reforms that broke the Stalinist socio-economic system.
That is, the disorder in the army has already begun to develop before Gorby.
Before Gorbachev, the main task of the Army was to create the appearance of well-being, high discipline and the high results of combat training. It was necessary to portray such figures so they not to be too high and caused for a revision and not have problems for fraud, but not too low, so as not to lose the post. Don't care about reality. The main thing is not to anger, upset or disturb anyone older in rank. The soldiers learned perfectly well that the commander would grit his teeth and hide everything, so as not to spoil the indicators. And this is on the example of tank troops, where traditionally since the time of the Red Army there has been a relative order.
At first, they did not react to Gorbachev's arrival - nothing has changed. And suddenly instructions came from above - to stop the fraud, to show everything as it is and not to be afraid of anything! The wave of revisions and self-revisions has assumed the scale of a nuclear chain reaction. The financial statements were particularly striking. They knew, of course, that there would be big problems, but to SUCH an extent. But they did not fall into despair. Now it was possible to deal with both discipline and combat training, and punish the bastards, and get a real result of the work.
But then the zampolits rose up. Possessing a professional instinct, they immediately realized that their time had passed, and as before, deceiving the leadership, they would no longer be able to live. Strong pressure began on the command staff - to return everything as before. Blackmail, threats, promises - everything is put into action. Most officers did not succumb to blackmail and persuasion, but many broke down and left the armed forces.
At first it seemed that things were going uphill.
Then came the incomprehensible. Crash after crash, failure after failure. The material support for combat training has fallen to zero. Feeding the soldiers is a problem. Dressing, shod family is a problem. Instead of combat training, the military went to earn money for food. Officers - some went to the guards, others to the bandits. About what was going on in the country - it's scary to pick up a newspaper, it's scary to turn on the TV. And what kind of persecution of the Army was spread by the media on the order of the Democrats. In some regions, it was dangerous to go out in military uniform.
At first, the military comforted themselves that these were the difficulties of the transition period. Then the panicked withdrawal of troops from the Western groups - a real flight, we abandoned all the most valuable things there. Then the speech of Sazhi Umalatova and other deputies. An open letter from Nina Andreeva. For a long, very long time, no one could call a spade a spade - we were so accustomed to trusting the military-political leadership that it seemed impossible to break this faith.
And the climax is the statement of Margaret Thatcher: "Finally, the USSR has a leader with whom you can deal." Here the veil fell from the eyes - TREASON! And everything became as simple as three rubles.
What happened next, we know.
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