On February 25th, 22, the last marshal of the former Soviet Union, Dritte Mi Yazov, died at the age of 95.
As a marshal of the former Soviet Union, military service is his love for the country and loyalty to the Party.
In the world, he is a hero against fascism and a general with both wisdom and courage.
But it was this marshal who witnessed the strength of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Military horse's hectic life ushered in the last time in the treacherous political waves.
In the interview, Yazov made comments on Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin respectively.
why should the interview be made public after his death? What's the meaning behind this?
in January 1923, yazov was born in yazov village, Omsk region, Russia.
The poor family and the early death of his father made this 11-year-old child learn to take responsibility and work hard.
in 1941, at the age of 17, Yazov resolutely joined the Soviet Red Army, which started his 5-year military career.
"Smells like gunpowder" is an evaluation of Yazov's archives.
During the Great Patriotic War, Yazov, the platoon leader of the 483rd Infantry Regiment, fought fiercely with the Germans in Volkhov near Leningrad. He defeated the enemy many times, but suffered heavy losses due to his negligence of the enemy.
at that time, yazov was only 18 years old, but he joined the army for one year, but he was like a veteran. After he was promoted to the platoon leader of the central defender, he began to sum up the war experience and lead the whole platoon in hard training.
In the repeated battles, I accumulated experience and eventually grew into an excellent military talent.
At that time, there were many very old soldiers in his platoon. They called the young platoon leader "a hairy boy".
But this is not contempt, but respect and love. With excellent military talent, indomitable fighting spirit and strong leadership, more and more soldiers can't help calling him "Comrade Lieutenant".
"Brave in combat and pioneering spirit" is the comment of the colonel.
even in his later years, President Putin praised him as "an outstanding military commander and frontline soldier with extraordinary courage and strength!"
yazov's wisdom is not only reflected in his military talents, but also in his management talents.
at the end of 1942, after the promulgation of the new infantry fighting regulations, Yazov actively studied and applied them flexibly.
He is well aware of the importance of "going from top to bottom", so he is more strict with himself. He can not only recite the rules by heart, but also take the initiative to study in the Military Academy of the General Staff Department.
Meticulousness is his working attitude, and he even made severe criticism when the deputy commander slacked off the ideological education in the army.
He also personally led soldiers in training, and even quoted the novel Mexicans by Jack Lunjiao to guide soldiers to establish correct ideas.
in the minds of soldiers, yazov is an officer with temperature.
heating in winter must be guaranteed, so as to solve the problem of children's schooling for soldiers and increase their cultural entertainment ...
For Yazov, these jobs, which look like "big mommies", are never tired.
it is precisely because of his outstanding military talent and superb leadership that Gorbachev was appointed as the Soviet defense minister shortly after he took office.
The Soviet military community was not surprised by this result, but it was precisely because of this that Gorbachev, a veteran who devoted his whole life to the motherland and building the motherland, felt helplessly:
We were wrong about Gorbachev ...
If instructing the rank of Marshal is an affirmation of Yazov's military talent and a recognition of his contribution to the Anti-Japanese War, then being appointed as the Soviet Defense Minister by Gorbachev is.
but he never imagined that he would witness the disintegration of the Soviet union from this high position, but there was nothing he could do.
as a military power, army building has always been the core of Soviet national construction, but it is a fact that the backward economic level has seriously restricted the development of the Soviet Union.
in 1985, Gorbachev proposed at the April plenary session of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union that "by making use of the achievements of the scientific and technological revolution and by making the socialist economic management form consistent with the contemporary environment and requirements".
as a result, a great wave of reform was set off in the Soviet military.
There are two different attitudes towards Gorbachev's military reform in the Soviet Union.
one thinks that economic development has nothing to do with the army, while the other thinks that although it increases the burden of soldiers, it also helps to improve the equipment and efficiency of the army.
after the plenary session in April, military party organizations began to strengthen their own construction.
however, a month later, Marshal A. Sorokin, the first deputy director of the General Political Department of Lu Haijun, the Soviet Union, said that the military political organs did not respond to the spirit of the April plenary session.
The military reform has turned into a farce with much thunder and little rain.
for this reason, Gorbachev believes that "what we need now is energetic leaders who can command and communicate, and people who show their sense of competition and initiative in their work."
Then, on May 3th, 1987, faced with the German plane that suddenly landed in the Kremlin, Yazov, who was 63 years old at that time, was appointed as the new defense minister of the Soviet Union.
in 1978, yazov published an article on the qualities that a commander should have in Red Star.
Since then, he has also published articles on military reform and military training.
In the article, he has no qualms about saying that corruption in military discipline is the dereliction of duty of the Youth League.
It also mentioned the need to keep close relations with the soldiers and the need for commanders to be fully responsible for the troops, which obviously coincides with the spirit of the April plenary session.
Surprisingly, Yazov is a supporter of the reform.
just as he attached importance to the training of soldiers in military exercises and the satisfaction of spiritual needs, Yazov's leadership and political foresight, as well as his accumulated military talents over the years, made him keenly aware that the Soviet army must be reformed.
not only that, the senior military leaders also realized the necessity of military modernization, so they no longer strongly resisted the reform of economic system and the weakening of the military.
This is a good situation, and both the military and political circles are looking forward to the results of reducing the glitz of the army and improving the overall efficiency of the army.
but I never thought that this actually started the clock of the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Unlike Brezhnev, Gorbachev's dependence on the army was obviously greatly weakened.
He even thinks that nuclear weapons are very dangerous, and thinks that there is no need to strengthen the Sino-Jordanian Coalition forces.
All these changes in attitude may be inextricably linked to his meeting with Margaret Thatcher.
When asked if Gorbachev had any connection with the western special organs, Yazov made it clear that, according to his own knowledge, Jakovleff and KGB general Oleg Kalutin studied in the United States and were recruited as the fifth column thinkers, and Gorbachev's change was intrinsically related to Yakov.
yazov believes that Gorbachev has been "worked".
That's why Gorbachev tried to destroy nuclear weapons in exchange for the trust of the United States.
When asked about his attitude towards Gorbachev's political reform, Yazov said:
Obviously, although Yazov agrees with military reform, he does not agree with Gorbachev's reform strategy.
He thinks that this not only harms the interests of China, but "our country is becoming' puffy'".
With the advancement of Gorbachev's military reform, the military strength of the Soviet Union was weakened again and again, which eventually led to the emergence of rebel forces in the Soviet Union and accelerated the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
In an interview with the media, Yazov said: "We have overlooked Gorbachev ..."
"Our country is very complicated, with many nationalities, a huge army and a vast territory. He has no ability to lead such a country. "
As the leader of a military power, Gorbachev has the ambition of being a powerful country, but he does not have the ability to realize this ambition. It is Gorbachev and his cronies who push the Soviet Union to ruin bit by bit.
Yazov doesn't like Yeltsin. In Yazov's view, a person in power who loves power and wealth can't bring happiness to the Russian people.
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev stepped down.
Yeltsin, like a "speculator", moved into the Kremlin smoothly in the chaos.
Gorbachev is Yazov's "Bole", and he is also kind to Yeltsin. He took him to Moscow and appointed him as the party secretary of Moscow.
This undoubtedly provided a broad platform for Yeltsin's political ambitions to show his strength.
Also because of the reform, Yeltsin and Gorbachev broke up completely in 1987.
But after the disintegration of the two men who were managers of Moscow one second ago, Yeltsin showed no courtesy to his former chief executive and Bole in his official career.
He forcibly took over the Kremlin without even giving him a chance to clean up his office.
In order to restore Russia's economy as soon as possible and make up for the trauma caused by disintegration, Yeltsin adopted Gaidar's idea to start "shock therapy" aimed at making every Russian own stocks, villas and cars.
However, the fact has further aggravated the collapse of the Russian economy.
under the "shock therapy", some capable people quickly mastered more resources, privatization sprouted and grew rapidly, wealth gathered, the gap between the rich and the poor widened, and oligarchs rushed to be born.
The people are getting poorer and poorer, and their lives are miserable. By 1996, only 3% of the people in Russia voted for Yeltsin.
As Yazov commented on Yeltsin, Yeltsin, who "loves power and wealth", not only allowed the former Soviet Union, which was originally a socialist country, to rapidly ferment and expand into a capitalist country after its disintegration.
Yeltsin became an oligarch's umbrella, and used his presidency to protect the interests of oligarchs and western countries.
There is no denying that Yeltsin has a keen sense of power.
He is like an ambitious wolf, constantly accumulating his own experience and hiding his ambitions. When the time is right, he leaps onto the platform of wealth and power.
Yazov rated him as an "unscrupulous careerist" who sacrificed the happiness of the Russian people for his own desires.
On the occasion of his 9th birthday, Yazov received deep sympathy and care from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Alexander Nevsky Medal, which represents the highest honor of military personnel.
this is not only an affirmation and praise of Yazov's military contribution, but also an affirmation of his contribution to the country and people.
In 22, after Yazov's death, Putin also sent a message of condolence, praising Yazov's extraordinary courage and strength.
This is Yazov's evaluation of Putin. It can be seen that Yazov likes the then Russian president very much.
he has the heart and ability to be a powerful country.
He loves Russia and the people of this land. Yazov appreciates his toughness and is gratified by his efforts in national defense construction.
as soon as Putin came to power, he personally flew the Su-27 across the Chechen war zone, and he solved the Chechen problem cleanly.
at the front, Putin ordered that "where there are rebels, they will be resolutely destroyed", and even more, he used the tactics of air force cooperating with airborne special forces to suppress them with strong firepower and won the second Chechen war.
this is a classic blitzkrieg with fewer to win more.
Perhaps many people don't know that learning from China was Yazov's suggestion to Putin.
on may 3, 1991, yazov, then the defense minister of the Soviet union, was invited to visit China for a four-day visit.
this is the first Soviet defense minister to visit China, and the friendship between Yazov and China has also become attached.
Facing the development of China, Yazov lamented the correctness of the nationalization of natural resources, and thought it was a sharp weapon to fight against oligarchs, so he proposed to Putin to take the road of China.
on December 31st, 1999, on the eve of the Millennium, Yeltsin suddenly announced that he would take the initiative to step down.
At that time, Putin served as Russia's leader, and the following year he officially became the president of the Russian Federation, which also started Putin the Great's iron fist political career.
Dramatic reforms were carried out, and the rotten sores and malignant tumors of Yeltsin's reign were quickly cut off, and the domestic and international political and economic environment of Russia was thoroughly sorted out.
and as a result, as we can see now, under the leadership of Putin, Russia has been built better and better.
Such domineering remarks made terrorists feel scared when they heard the name of Putin.
with the gradual stabilization of the domestic environment, Russia's national defense construction began to be put on the agenda.
As a military power, it is also a powerful country that can compete with the United States in arms. Putin realizes that Russia's national defense construction is the key to ensuring and stabilizing Russia's international status. Only by building a professional and elite force, applying nuclear power to the extreme, and keeping up with the pace of the United States in the fifth-generation aircraft technology.
only in this way can we maintain an invincible position in the struggle against western countries with the United States as the core and maintain the precarious international balance.
in the face of oligarchs, Putin is even more merciless.
The reason why Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor was actually approved by oligarchs, especially berezovsky.
He mistakenly believes that "Putin is a puppet who can obey orders like Yeltsin, so he can safely carry such a" soft persimmon "to be president."
However, the World War I in Chechnya made oligarchs feel on pins and needles, and berezovsky even made unreasonable demands to get involved in politics.
In this regard, Putin said that you can continue to make money, but don't touch politics; You are rich now, but the government is poor.
It implies that berezovsky should behave himself and be a good businessman who pays taxes according to law.
On August 12, 2, the explosion of the nuclear submarine Kurkos made berezovsky think that it was a step on Putin.