General killed by his wife. General Rokhlin: life and death. The real causes of the tragedy

On June 6, Leo Rokhlin was supposed to turn 65 years old. But, unfortunately, he did not live up to this time. Nevertheless, his memory lives on, and his experience of fighting the regime has begun to gain popularity in our days.

The future General Lev Rokhlin was born into the family of a political exile, the hero of the Great Patriotic War, Yakov Rokhlin, and was the third child in the family. In 1948, when little Leo was not even a year old, his father was arrested and exiled to the Gulag, where he disappeared. Mother, Ksenia Ivanovna, had to raise three children alone.

10 years later, the family moved to live in Tashkent, where, after graduating from school, Lev went to work at an aircraft factory, and then he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet army. In 1970, he became a graduate of the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School, graduating with honors, however, like all other educational institutions. After that, he did military service in Germany, in a group of Soviet troops. After graduating from the Frunze Academy, he served in the Arctic, as well as in the Turkestan, Leningrad and Transcaucasian military districts.

During 1982-1984 he fought in Afghanistan, where he was wounded twice, and then evacuated to Tashkent. He held the position of commander of a motorized rifle regiment, but in 1983 he was removed from it due to an unsuccessful operation and was appointed deputy commander. But less than a year later, Rokhlin was reinstated. After that, he also commanded a regiment and a division. In 1993 he graduated with honors from the Academy of the General Staff, and in the same year he was appointed commander of the Volgograd 8th Guards Corps and part-time head of the Volgograd garrison.

In 1994-1995 he was the commander of the 8th Guards Corps in Chechnya. It was under his leadership that a significant number of operations to capture Grozny, including the presidential palace, were carried out. Lev Rokhlin - the hero of the first Chechen war. He refused to accept the title of Hero of Russia, arguing that he had no moral right to receive awards for the murders of citizens of his own state. He managed to survive the war in Chechnya, even though his life was in mortal danger countless times. Here is one such example. The consolidated regiment of his corps was forced to defend against the attacks of ten times superior enemy forces. In total, in this battle, the regiment repulsed 11 attacks in a row.

Rokhlin was not attracted by either career achievements or political activity. He received all his awards and medals not at all for the ability to guess the desires of his superiors or being in the rear. No, he selflessly served his state, took a direct part in hostilities.

The war in Chechnya proved that the Russian army needs protection first of all. But the military general, who was far from the government, did not immediately understand that it was necessary to protect her first of all from the authorities. But soon, however, this realization came.

In 1995, the Our Home - Russia party decided to take advantage of his authority, and at the same time his active political activity began. First, he took third place in the lists of the Our Home is Russia party, and in December of the same year he was elected to the State Duma from this party. In January 1996, he became a member of the NDR faction, and was also elected to the post of chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee. It is noteworthy that even during this period of time, being a member of the party and a deputy of the Duma, Rokhlin never campaigned for the party itself. All his speeches were reduced to the problems of the army and the state as a whole.

After a short period of time, the general realized that it was the government that was destroying the army, and that it was doing it on purpose. Therefore, in 1997, he first left the Our Home is Russia movement, and then from the NDR faction.

In the same year, Rokhlin became the organizer of the Movement in Support of the Army, Military Industry and Science, the organizing committee of which included Vladimir Kryuchkov (former head of the KGB), Vladislav Achalov (former commander of the Airborne Forces), and Igor Rodionov (former defense minister). This organization was called upon to revive and protect the armed forces of Russia. But it was difficult to do this under the then existing conditions. The main task of the Movement was to strictly observe the Constitution and provide citizens with all the rights and freedoms prescribed in it, as well as to carry out democratic reforms.

Despite the fact that the DPA acted solely as an organization of the army and the military-industrial complex, in fact, this movement turned into a national front, which entered into opposition to the Yeltsin regime. And Rokhlin himself turned from a simple military general into one of the most famous politicians in Russia.

This movement caused a great resonance among the government elite. He was called communist, and Rokhlin himself was called a provocateur who pushes the army to a military coup.

Rokhlin is rightfully recognized as the most active leader of the opposition forces in the late 1990s. There was information that the general was preparing a military coup against the Yeltsin regime. Vladislav Achalov also spoke about this a few weeks before the “sudden” death of the general.

Everyone who supported Rokhlin's candidacy for the post of chairman of the defense committee very soon regretted it. The general from the parliamentary rostrum was not afraid to say that the high military command was mired in corruption, while citing specific facts and naming names. He also publicly accused Boris Yeltsin of being responsible for the collapse of the Russian army and treason. Therefore, for such statements, at the end of May 1998, Rokhlin was removed from the post of chairman for defense.

However, the removal from office could in no way affect the decisiveness of the general. It should be noted that at that time many well-known scientists, Cossacks, leaders of miners' strikes were part of his movement. In addition, he was supported by many ministers of the church and the civilian population. It is noteworthy that at the same time, under the influence of reflections on the historical fate of Russia, General Rokhlin decided to be baptized.

Organizations that became disillusioned with the policy of the Communist Party began to go over to the side of the DPA. At the same time, the movement was not very popular among the younger generation, as the armed forces were very much discredited by wars and corruption among the generals. Soon his organization became the basis of the non-communist opposition. The force factor in it was the military and security officers, who were highly organized and had strong ties in law enforcement agencies. And if at that time there was a force in the country that could organize and carry out an armed uprising, then it was only Rokhlin's party. The general himself came to the conclusion that it would not be possible to overthrow the existing regime by parliamentary methods.

His political activity in 1997-1998 was so active that it caused panic not only in the Kremlin, but also among other opposition forces. But at the same time, not everyone who knew the general closely believed that he was preparing a military coup. So, for example, N. Bezborodov argued that the military would hardly have been able to decide on an open rebellion against the authorities, because the old generation of officers was brought up in complete obedience to the authorities. And rather, its representatives may commit suicide because of the inability to feed their families, but never take up arms against an objectionable regime. According to the same Bezborodov, Rokhlin was an extremely naive person who believed that politics was quite honest and correct.

It was the political career of the rebellious general that caused his death: in early July 1998, Rokhlin was killed at his own dacha in the Moscow region. In the course of the investigation, the prosecutor's office was more and more inclined to the version that the general was killed from his own premium weapon by his wife Tamara. The reason for the murder was a family quarrel. But how could one believe that a woman who had trouble-freely raised children all her life and followed her husband through military garrisons was capable of doing such a thing? After her husband was killed, the woman spent four years under investigation in a detention center, but her guilt was never proven. Later, when the Rokhlin case lost its relevance, Tamara Pavlovna was released, and the investigation itself was stopped.

In addition to the official version of the involvement of Rokhlin's wife in the murder, there was also a certain number of unofficial ones: political, involvement of special services. If everything is more or less clear with the version about the political background of the tragedy, then it is necessary to dwell on the involvement of the special services in more detail. There is information that in the past there were special departments in the KGB and the GRU, whose tasks included the direct destruction of people who were unfit or dangerous for the authorities.

As for the Rokhlin case, there is strong evidence that there were strangers in the house. Firstly, the proof of the presence of outsiders is the front door, which was closed before the murder, and for some reason turned out to be open after. Plus, not far from the general's dacha in the forest belt, three charred bodies were found. According to local residents, there was nothing of the kind there the day before. So they appeared in this place after the murder...

In addition, it is also known that there were two shots, and no one heard anything. The first shot was supposedly fired from a height of two meters from the floor on the first floor. Of course, it can be assumed that Tamara Rokhlina tried to get a gun from the cabinet, while standing on a chair, and inadvertently shoot. But all the acquaintances say that this could not happen, because the woman knew how to handle weapons well. And even more ridiculous sounds the assumption that after the first shot she could go up to the second floor and shoot her husband.

Causes certain suspicions and the fact that no fingerprints were found on the pistol, even Tamara Pavlovna. But at least the fingerprints of the general himself should have remained on it ....

Thus, it still remains unclear who is the killer of the general after all? Despite such an array of versions, the investigation could not find evidence and establish the truth. But at present, this is hardly possible - after all, not only material evidence has been lost, but the memory of witnesses cannot store the details of the tragedy for such a long time.

It should also be noted that after Rokhlin, the opposition was no longer able to find an equivalent informal leader. And this is not surprising, since no one else had such popularity among the military and civilian population. And there are no more such combat generals who would enjoy real authority among the civilian population in Russia.

Rokhlin's death is yet another vivid example of how easily and with impunity one can get rid of objectionable or dangerous opposition leaders. Another similar example is the death of Viktor Ilyukhin, when it happened "accidentally" precisely at the time when he had incriminating information in his hands regarding representatives of the inner circle of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. By their order, information was fabricated that it was the Soviet troops who were guilty of the mass executions of Polish prisoners of war near Katyn. After Ilyukhin died, all the materials he collected also disappeared. It is noteworthy that after the death of General Rokhlin, information regarding the “uranium deal” with America, which he was going to present to the State Duma, also disappeared from his house.

Somehow, by itself, a certain pattern is noticed in these two tragic cases ...

The fate of General Rokhlin should become an example for those false patriots who are developing populist ideas about the emergence of a large number of enemies of Russia, without taking any concrete steps. Combat General Lev Rokhlin gave his life for the country and its armed forces. We should not forget what he managed to do for Russia, but try to multiply it and bring to life everything that the rebellious general fought for and gave his life for.

More than 17 years have passed since the killer's bullet ended the life of a State Duma deputy, military general and just a wonderful person Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin. He fought in Afghanistan, went through the First Chechen War, was seriously wounded and shell-shocked, but still survived. And he was shot in peacetime, in bed, at his own dacha in the suburbs. What was and what did Lev Rokhlin want? The life and death of the general, as well as 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 get 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 Lev was less than eight months old, his father was arrested, and nothing has been known about him since. 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 prescribed term, he returned to his native land and, like his older brother, entered the military school in Tashkent in 1967. When submitting documents, Vyacheslav and Lev Rokhlin either hid intentionally, or did not know that their father was a Jew, since they themselves were listed as Russians according to the documents. If they told the truth, the brothers would no longer be able to count on a good promotion, since such an origin was not welcome 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. She, 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 carried out on Afghan territory, and was always distinguished by courage, determination and resourcefulness.

But in April of the following year, Rokhlin was removed from his post, demoted and sent to another regiment. His fault was that he had made what the high command felt was 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. In order to avoid unjustified 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 city of Ghazni. In the winter of 1984, his boss is put on trial for leaving his soldiers to certain death in a headquarters surrounded by rebels, while he shamefully escaped using a helicopter. Meanwhile, Rokhlin took command and led his subordinates out of the deadly ring. After this incident, he was reinstated. Under his leadership, the regiment fought very successfully. Take, for example, the operation carried out in the autumn of 1984. It consisted in capturing the base of the rebels, located in the Urgun region.

severe wound

This operation was the last one carried out by Lev Rokhlin in Afghanistan. While overflying the area where the fighting took place, his helicopter was shot down. This time, the death of General Rokhlin was bypassed, and he survived. However, the wound turned out to be severe: his spine was damaged, his legs were broken, etc. 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 his life all the ranks of the armed forces, he somehow got 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 next to him 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 of eight months, who soon fell ill with encephalitis, which immediately affected his overall development. After that, Tamara Pavlovna had to leave her job and run around hospitals with a disabled child.

Two years later, Lev Rokhlin is transferred to serve in Azerbaijan, where he becomes a participant in the suppression of rebellious Baku nationalists who provoked the massacre of Armenian families in Sumgayit. When the Soviet Union collapsed, he decided to return to Russia. In 1993, Rokhlin entered the Academy of the General Staff and already habitually graduated from it with "excellent". After he became a major general, he was offered the position 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 in Chechnya. About how General Rokhlin, whose biography was full of military exploits before, led his subordinates, the facts speak. The actions of his 8th Guards Corps were among the most productive and also suffered the least losses. This spoke of only one thing: their commander is a skilled and talented military leader.

Before the war, Rokhlin was considered by some to be a petty tyrant, since he paid great attention to combat training. As time has shown, he was right, and Suvorov's well-known saying "hard in learning - 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 2200 Volgograds who fought with him in Chechnya, 1928 soldiers were presented to them for awards, but only about half of them received. Rokhlin himself considered it right to refuse the title of Hero of Russia. He explained his act by the fact that he could not accept rewards for the shed blood of his fellow citizens.

Political activity

I must say that General Lev Rokhlin fought not for the sake of any career achievements, and he received his awards, not sitting in the rear and pleasing his superiors, but carrying out selfless service for the good of his country. While fighting in Chechnya, he realized that the Russian army itself was in dire need of protection, and above all - from insatiable officials and mediocre 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 went to this supreme body of power, entered the NDR faction and was soon elected chairman of the Duma Defense Committee. It took him quite a bit of 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 became known as 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 those conditions. The task of this movement was to ensure that all citizens of Russia, without exception, strictly observe the Constitution, and the authorities, in turn, undertook to ensure in full all the rights and freedoms prescribed 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 Yeltsin regime then existing. Rokhlin himself turned from an ordinary military general into one of the most famous and influential political figures in Russia. This movement frankly frightened the entire government elite. 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 objectionable general

The intensity of passions was brewing. The apogee was the night of July 2-3, 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 wife, Tamara, shot him while he was sleeping, and the reason for this was a banal family quarrel.

In late autumn 2000, the Naro-Fominsk City Court found General Rokhlin's wife 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 delay in the trial. Her claim was satisfied and monetary compensation was paid. After 5 years, 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

Until now, there are several versions of how the murder of General Rokhlin happened. As mentioned above, the first and official is a family quarrel. But how can you believe it? The wife of General Rokhlin, Tamara Pavlovna, who has 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 kills her husband for no reason because of an ordinary family quarrel ... Although the woman was convicted, convincing evidence of her guilt was never presented.

The second version of the murder is political, in which the Russian special services are involved. On this occasion, there is information that special departments operated in the GRU and the KGB, which were directly involved in the liquidation 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 professionals acted, and not an ordinary woman who once again quarreled with her husband.

In the case of Rokhlin's murder, there were two fairly strong pieces of evidence that there were strangers in the house. The first of these is a closed front door before the murder and open after it. The second proof is that in the 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 the killers of Rokhlin, who were removed after the crime they committed.

Protection of the honor and dignity of the family

The life and death of General Rokhlin is still well known. Information about the customers and organizers of the murder was never made public. And, as time has shown, nothing has changed in the vertical of power over these 17 years. Until now, the same Yeltsin formula is in effect: about the Rokhlins, either bad or nothing. Therefore, no one was surprised when another dirty material 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 played for time in every possible way, not being at meetings. As a result, the court ordered the newspaper to publish a refutation. But for this to happen, the general's daughter 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 opposition leader equal to him did not appear in Russia. And this is not surprising, because no one else had such popularity among the civilian population and military personnel. He enjoyed what is called real authority among the people.

That was Lev Rokhlin. The life and death of the general should serve as an example for today's pseudo-patriots who are inflating a non-existent problem regarding the so-called "enemies" of Russia, 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 stood up for and for which General Rokhlin was killed.

Around the mysterious death of General Lev Rokhlin there is a lot of gossip, rumors, versions. This is understandable: the military general, who was politically competing with the Kremlin, was killed under very strange circumstances. After a short time, an unknown Putin becomes the director of the FSB, and then occupies the Kremlin. Are these events connected 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 am, 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.

Immediately, the media hurried to voice everyday versions: “the killer is Tamara Rokhlin’s wife” (“NG”, 4/07/1998), “he was killed by a 14-year-old son” (!) And “fingerprints on the PSM pistol coincided with those of his wife ” (“Izvestia”, 07/04/1998, - in fact, the traces were washed away!), “gold scam” (“Kommersant-daily”, 07/4/1998), “half-Jew got along with the near-Black Hundreds public” (“ Today”, 4/07/1998), etc.

Lev Yakovlevich loved the 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 the "civilian" and in the troops, where he was affectionately 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 from the presidency. In response, the whole country heard: "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 hidden in a pre-trial detention center. What for? If there is evidence, take the case to court. But the sick woman was rotting in overcrowded stuffy cells, while at home, without caress and care, the sick son Igor, a life-long disabled person of group I, suffered. Do you want to him? Write a "confession" and we'll spare you. But she stood her ground: "I didn't kill." 18 months of prison pressure did not break her spirit.

Who harbored the killers?

Who pulled 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 desire to "peacefully throw off the Kremlin's temporary workers to get off the neck of the bewildered people."

Leva believed, she said, that such actions are consistent with the UN Charter, which even approves 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 it's obvious to me. A huge amount of money collected from all over Russia by Lyova's like-minded people to finance the action 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 head of economic security, and even studies at a higher educational institution and does not hide from the court that the Prosecutor General’s Office helped him in everything. The case helped the enemies of my husband: an ordinary criminal Pleskachev and his accomplices did a vile deed "for them" ... ".

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

All three twisted, confused and lied in such a way that their involvement in the murder of the DPA leader became more and more obvious. The defendant's arguments that her sleeping husband was killed by three unknown men in masks, and then they beat her and threatened to kill her if she did not "take the blame", remained unrefuted.

I followed this process from beginning to end, was at court hearings and once wrote that the “Family”, which already did not expect 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 provide any evidence of her involvement in the murder of her husband.

Already in the “zone”, this unbroken woman, with the help of lawyer A. Kucherena, filed a complaint with the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights, which caused a stream of caustic comments in the media. However, having considered the case of Rokhlina v. Russia, he recognized the correctness of her complaint and decided to recover 8,000 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 sentence against the convicted T.P. Rokhlina was canceled as illegal, unreasonable and unfair, and she was released on bail. Return all materials of the case to the Naro-Fominsk court for re-examination 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 that General Rokhlin was killed, there was an attempt on his associate, the head of the Profit law firm, Yuri Markin, who was engaged in the theft of oil by a number of large companies. Soon, not far from Klokovo, in the forest near the village of Fominsky, 3 heavily burned corpses of men of strong build, 25-30 years old, with bullet wounds were found (“Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, 7/07/1998). The Russian press repeatedly cited the statement of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on 11/18/2000 that he "warned General Rokhlin two days in advance about the impending assassination attempt." The day before the murder, FSB surveillance of Rokhlin's house was suddenly removed (Novye Izvestia, 8/07/1998). B. Neuchev, deputy head of the FSB CSO, then stated: “We have every reason to assert that the death of General Rokhlin is not related to his political activities” (“Arguments and Facts”, 07/13/1998). On November 27, 1999, Mikhail Poltoranin, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, made a sensational confession: “I know who killed Rokhlin. This is not the wife did ... ". In her last speech at the trial on November 15, 2000, Tamara Rokhlina openly spoke out in support of her husband's plans to "peacefully throw off the Kremlin's temporary workers and get off the neck of the bewildered people."

According to Rokhlina, “a huge amount of money collected from all over Russia by her husband’s like-minded people 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 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, versions were heard in the media about the involvement of the newly elected President Vladimir Putin in the elimination of Lev Rokhlin. And in his 2010 book, Poltoranin named all the participants for the first time, which he spoke about at a press conference: “I could not say directly that Putin organized the murder of Rokhlin, they would immediately sue and demand evidence. However, the totality 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 kill, I know for sure, was made at the dacha in their narrow circle by four people - Yeltsin, Voloshin, Yumashev and Dyachenko. At first they wanted to entrust Savostyanov, the head of the Moscow FSB, but then they settled on a Chekist "with cold fish eyes", capable of anything ... And it is hardly accidental that, in fact, immediately after the murder of Rokhlin, the head of the then FSB, Kovalev, was roused from bed at night and hurriedly , in just 20 minutes, they were forced, in accordance with the Decree of the President, to transfer their powers to the newly appointed V. Putin. And it concerned the most powerful intelligence agency in the world! For what merit? And is it all by chance? General Rokhlin was shot dead on July 3, 1998. And on July 25, an unknown Putin was appointed director of the FSB by President Yeltsin ...

According to Poltoranin, the real power in the country is in the hands of the "godfather" headed by the ruling tandem Medvedev-Putin. In his book, Poltoranin touched upon the newly-minted Russian oligarchs who made fabulous fortunes on the robbery of 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 entire port of Nakhodka. At the same time, all companies of this oligarch pay taxes on their income at their place of registration in Luxembourg. Putin, well aware of this, pretends that everything is in order. It is not surprising that other Russian oligarchs, who have long ago prepared for themselves “landing sites” in the West, are doing exactly the same, as well as top government officials. According to Poltoranin, Putin and Medvedev have become even more servants of the oligarchy than Yeltsin: “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 the 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 refused the title of Hero of Russia for the "civil war in Chechnya", developed such a violent opposition activity in 1997-1998 that he frightened both the Kremlin and other oppositionists. “We will sweep away these Rokhlins!” - Boris Yeltsin threw in his hearts, and the deputies from the Communist Party 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 was included in the State Duma on the lists of the completely semi-official movement "Our Home is Russia". But he quickly diverged from the weak party in power in his views (Rokhlin called the head of the NDR Chernomyrdin in the circle of his associates nothing more than 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 the former Minister of Defense Igor Rodionov, the former commander of the Airborne Forces Vladislav Achalov, the former head of the KGB Vladimir Kryuchkov and a number of no less remarkable retirees with significant 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, halls packed to capacity in large cities and the most remote military garrisons.

Rokhlin and I were on several business trips - in Kazan and other places, - General Achalov recalled, - I heard speeches, saw how he was perceived. He was extremely harsh. It is unthinkable to hear this from a federal deputy today. 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 that we gathered in a very narrow circle at his dacha, there were literally five or six of us, ”Achalov continued. - Of course, initially there were no plans for an armed seizure of power, an armed uprising. But then the life situation prompted this. Because the leapfrog in the state was gaining momentum, it was growing catastrophically fast. Do you remember 1998? In the spring, the boy Kiriyenko was prime minister, and in August there was a default. Just imagine what would have happened if Rokhlin had not been killed in July. The option of attracting the army was not at all excluded.

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

Two years after the death of Rokhlin, I talked with the officers of this Volgograd corps, they told me something, and, based on these stories, something could really work out there, - Stanislav Terekhov, head of the Union of Officers, also assures us, time was part of Rokhlin's entourage.

Rokhlin's movement, the founding congress of which was held in 1997 in Moscow, gained such momentum so quickly that proposals were made in the military units to begin mass action to accept obligations of loyalty to General Rokhlin at officer meetings, calling on him to lead the movement of military personnel, 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 take on a mass character and affect up to 70 percent of the personnel of the most important parts of law enforcement agencies, social movements and organizations, then the country will have objective prerequisites for 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 pressure from the executive branch, to remove the president from power and hold new presidential elections. Lev Rokhlin could have become the president of Russia, because the time itself had to put forward 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 - his rule would not have those dubious deviations that suffer from the rule of President Putin, who was eventually 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 protege of any of the bandit clans.

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

On December 31, when the capital's "elite" had fun under the witticisms 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 hero of the war, Lev Rokhlin, who refused to accept the highest award for participating in the unleashed civil war, as he said, slammed his fist on the table with all his might, making the whole country hear himself. He literally burst 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 way, to 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, led the entire Russian protest movement, and by the summer of 1998 the country was rearing up… A huge wave of protest was born, which should and could then sweep away the rotten Yeltsin regime. The people then saw in Rokhlin the leader they had long 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 childhood, forced to earn his own living from an early age. Having chosen the army, he did not blame fate, he 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 higher than any reward. "Batyanya" - his soldiers called him. He had heated battles behind him, the capture of Grozny, a broken spine in a downed helicopter, a heart bypass operation. He became a deputy of the State Duma from the Our Home is Russia movement 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 all industry to the East, put women and children behind the machine tools, and lost only thirty percent of industry. We lost seventy to ninety percent of industry in five years.” "Impeachment!" - Lev Rokhlin finished his analysis, and he was the first who boldly, openly said this. It was he who exposed the multi-billion 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 "father" on his last journey with tears in their eyes, remembering hundreds of people like them, saved by him in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

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Being by nature a man with a sharpened conscience, having great authority, General Rokhlin created the DPA movement ("Movement in Support of the Army"), 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, and collapses treacherously, thoughtlessly. .. I knew very well that my reports on corruption, my reports on the death 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 arms supplies - that is, this is all 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, opened them, I thought it was criminal, that it shouldn’t be like this, that it needs to be corrected. Millions, tens of millions of dollars in the same leadership of the Ministry of Defense are being stolen, and no one says a single word. Of course, I, a person who has gone through all this, worried about his 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 and influence of the "Movement" and its leader were gaining strength in military units, defense enterprises, and military research institutes. Everyone in the active army knew Rokhlin - from the general to the ensign. It seemed that only one step had to be taken, and an avalanche of popular anger would roll, sweeping away the corrupt Yeltsin regime in its path.

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Rokhlin was a great citizen of his Motherland. Having chosen the profession of an officer, he went through all the stages of service without 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 who spoke openly about the losses and that it was not bandit formations that were 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 moving 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 Dudayev. It was with these monsters that the general met in an unequal battle. He was not a politician. He believed in Russia like a poet, served her faithfully and sublimely. He had a heightened sense of duty to his soldiers, to their mothers, to all our people. A great property of the soul, which makes a great man 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. For almost two years, a seriously ill child remained without a mother - their son Igor. The media kept silent about their fate so that their names would quickly disappear into oblivion. When Lev Rokhlin rushed into battle in an area of politics unusual for him, self-sacrificingly and openly, his support and

wife was a partner. She did more than a simple woman can do - taking care of her sick child, she did not forget about other people's children, she gave everything she could to orphans to orphanages, she helped mothers whose sons fought in Chechnya throughout the war, she did not forget about her husband - not a single thing. minute. On December 31, when the capital's so-called "elite" had fun under the witticisms 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, the Afghan one - and after the war she did not fence off her husband's struggle, did not hide, although she and her children were threatened.

They 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 had a broken spine and both legs. The wife received the news that he had died. And then there was a heart bypass operation. She spent days and nights around him.

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

"In the eyes of an indignant Russia, they will execute me - impudently, cynically, unceremoniously. They will execute me because my husband wanted to save mutilated, robbed, humiliated Russia from a gang of dominating marauders. Those who still rule the satanic ball in a fragmented country are afraid of my husband even dead. The wording of my accusation has changed many times, 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 life-long 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 General Prosecutor'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 guilty of the collapse of Russia. He believed that the tyrannical Yeltsin entourage would never allow the people country to hold fair elections.Therefore, he was preparing mass peaceful demonstrations by force vikovs of Russia, in order to force the Kremlin temporary workers to get off the neck of the muzzled people with decisive demonstrations. He believed that such actions are consistent with the UN Charter, which approves even 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 was killed for it. The case helped my husband's enemies. And my husband had many enemies. Among them, the most powerful are traders in Russian uranium worth hundreds of billions of dollars, illegal suppliers of weapons and ammunition in the Transcaucasus worth billions of dollars, those who ordered the assassination of Dmitry Kholodov, corrupt officials in the highest echelons of power. My husband brought them all to clean water. Many of them were prepared criminal cases under pressure and under the control of Leo. The deputy, General Lev Rokhlin, passed away with pain about unhappy Russia, betraying no one, having done everything in his power. Yeltsin once declared in panic: "We will sweep away Rokhlin." And they sweep me away - they keep me for a year and a half in a prison cell, they torment me with threats to suppress and remove me in prison. My husband is dead. I live for him, I suffer for him, I am ready to die for him with pain about my trampled Motherland - Russia. I have no request to the court. In the event of my death in prison or outside the prison walls, I ask the Russians to take care of our sick son, marked by God, Igor.

Tamara Rokhlin, 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 slipping into the abyss more and more quickly, objective conditions arise for the emergence of a leader, a leader. And he appears. He knows what needs to be done, 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 be fully ripe, the cup of 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 leader of the people and most often dies.

So in the troubled times of the seventeenth century, when the Polish interventionists 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 national favorite, a hero on 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 sham, patriots finally come to power in Russia, retribution will inevitably await the murderers.

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

The recording was made shortly before the murder.

Who harbored the killers?

Besides, he pulled the trigger of a 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.

Leva believed, - she said, - that such actions are consistent with the UN Charter, which even approves 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.

Lieutenant General and State Duma deputy Lev Rokhlin, who at one time refused the title of Hero of Russia for the "civil war in Chechnya", developed such violent opposition activity in 1997-1998 that he frightened both the Kremlin and other oppositionists. “We will sweep away these Rokhlins!” - Boris Yeltsin threw in his hearts, and the deputies from the Communist Party 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 was included in the State Duma on the lists of the completely semi-official movement “Our Home is Russia”. But he quickly diverged from the weak party in power in his views (Rokhlin called the head of the NDR Chernomyrdin in the circle of his associates nothing more than a “spider”), left the faction and created the Movement in Support of the Army, Defense Industry and Military Science (DPA).

- I was with Rokhlin on several business trips - in Kazan and other places, - General Achalov recalled, - I heard speeches, I saw how he was perceived. He was extremely harsh. It is unthinkable to hear this from a federal deputy today. 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 times when we gathered in a very narrow circle at his dacha, there were literally five or six of us,” Achalov continued. - Of course, initially there were no plans for an armed seizure of power, an armed uprising. But then the life situation prompted this. Because the leapfrog in the state was gaining momentum, it was growing catastrophically fast. Do you remember 1998? In the spring, the boy Kiriyenko was prime minister, and in August there was a default. Just imagine what would have happened if Rokhlin had not been killed in July. The option of attracting the army was not at all excluded.

“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,” Stanislav Terekhov, head of the Union of Officers, also assures us. at one time was part of Rokhlin's entourage.