SPEECH L.Ya. ROKHLIN AT THE SESSION OF THE STATE DUMA "ON VIOLATIONS IN RUSSIA'S SUPPLY OF ARMS TO THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA" Dear deputies! In accordance with your decision, I conducted an investigation into the illegal transfer of weapons to the Republic

SPEECH BY DEPUTY L.Ya. ROKHLIN AT THE PLENARY SESSION OF THE STATE DUMA ON THE CAUSES OF SUICIDE IN THE OFFICER ENVIRONMENT OF THE ARMED FORCES OF RUSSIA I receive daily letters resembling front-line reports. In peacetime, people die. Some die on their own

APPEAL OF GENERAL L.Ya. ROKHLIN TO THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND MILITARY SERVICES OF RUSSIA Mr. Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation! Comrade military personnel! In accordance with the instructions

APPEAL OF GENERAL LEV ROKHLIN AND MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE CREATION OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN MOVEMENT "IN SUPPORT OF THE ARMY, DEFENSE INDUSTRY AND MILITARY SCIENCE" The reason for my first known Appeal to Supreme Commander and military personnel, as well as the creation

SPEECH L.Ya. ROKHLINA AT A rally in Moscow on May 9, 1998 Dear comrades, veterans of the Great Patriotic War and the Armed Forces! From the State Duma Defense Committee, on behalf of the participants in the Movement "In support of the army, defense industry and military science"

5.4. The failed rebellion of General Rokhlin One of the most striking examples of this trend is the seemingly unexpected problem with General Rokhlin. An abscess tends to periodically open up. The same thing happened with the problem of the Russian army. IN

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Not only during his short life, but also after his death, General Rokhlin attracted the close attention of the people. Mine life path it took place in the aspiration and struggle aimed at improving the quality of life of the whole country. Strong army, advanced science, stable economy - all for the benefit 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 Rokhlin 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 hard work. This allowed him to receive further education, the future general received in the higher combined arms command school 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. According to the distribution, he fell into the group 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 started as a regiment commander, but in his second year of service there was a division under his command. He personally took part in the battles and was seriously wounded several times. Nevertheless, the command decided that he had not coped 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.

The end of 1994 - the beginning of 1995 fell on the service in the Chechen region. He led 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 during the years of service, General Rokhlin refused the title of "Hero of the Russian Federation" for participation in the battles in Grozny.

Not resting on his laurels, he begins work on his political career. Already in 1995, he was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the second convocation. In 1996, General Rokhlin joined Our Home is Russia. This tandem brought him a position in defense.

September 1997 was a turning point in the general's career. He makes the fatal decision to create his own political party. This was one of the strongest opposition leaders of that time, who was 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 to remove Boris Yeltsin from the post of Russian President led to the fact that Rokhlin was removed from his post.

On the night of July 3, 1998, a politician died in a country house located in the suburbs. His wife, Tamara, was charged, but who killed General Rokhlin is not exactly established.

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

Some facts regarding 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.

In the Prionezhsky district of the Republic of Karelia, a monument to General Rokhlin was erected. For all the time he deserved more than one fair award, celebrating his courage and selfless service for the good of his homeland.

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 called up from the ranks. Soviet army. In 1970, he became a graduate of the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School, graduating with honors, however, like everyone else. educational establishments. After that passed military service in Germany, in the 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 concrete facts and naming names. He also publicly accused Boris Yeltsin of being responsible for the collapse of 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.

Exactly political career rebellious general and became the cause of 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 so long term.

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, also disappeared from his house. State Duma.

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, had a severe wound and was 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. Having served the due term, he returned to his native land and entered, like his older brother, in military school Tashkent in 1967. When submitting documents, Vyacheslav and Lev Rokhlin either deliberately concealed, 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. Four years later, he entered military academy them. 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 big 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 on certain death in the headquarters surrounded by rebels, and he shamefully fled 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. During the flight over the area where they passed fighting, 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 general 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 specifically 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 into this supreme body authorities, joined 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. Besides, new strength demanded from the authorities to 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 politicians 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 too long pre-trial detention, as well as deliberate delay judicial trial. Her claim was granted and paid monetary compensation. 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.