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. A strong army, advanced science, a 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 at the Higher Combined Arms Command School in Tashkent, and higher education 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 V 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 could not cope 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 over the years of service, from the title "Hero Russian Federation"General Rokhlin refused to take part 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, 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.
After 10 years, 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 it needs protection first of all Russian army. 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 such popularity among the military and civilian population no one else had. 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.
Who killed General Lev Rokhlin and why?
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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. Later a short time unknown Putin becomes director of the FSB, and then takes over 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 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. For what? 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?
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.
In his last word 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 and 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 moral injury for unlawful 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 Fominskoye, 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 TsOS FSB, then stated: “We have every reason to assert that the death of General Rokhlin is not connected with 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 " civil war in Chechnya”, developed such a violent opposition activity in 1997-1998 that it 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 former Minister of Defense Igor Rodionov, former commander of the Airborne Forces Vladislav Achalov, 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 major cities and the most remote military garrisons.
- 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.
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.
“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.
The Rokhlin movement, whose founding congress was held in Moscow in 1997, gained such momentum so quickly that in military units proposals were made to start a mass action to accept at officer meetings parts of obligations of loyalty to General Rokhlin with a call for 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 true patriot Russia - a country sent by God himself - his rule would not have the dubious biases that plague the rule of President Putin, who is ultimately forced to act in the interests of rebuilding a destroyed country. However, for 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.
Lev Rokhlin’s assistant for DPA, Alexander Volkov, said: “Three months before the death of Lev Yakovlevich his wife Tamara was kidnapped. Right on the street, they put her in a car and drove around Moscow, frightened her, told her that her husband's activities were dangerous both for the country and for the Rokhlin family. Then Tamara Pavlovna was brought to the same place. They were intelligence officers. And before that, Tamara Pavlovna was in a military hospital. They also worked very closely with her.”
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Today marks the 65th anniversary of the birth of General Lev Rokhlin, hero of the First Chechen war, founder and leader of the Movement in support of the army, defense industry and military science, which rapidly gained political strength in 1997-1998.
War Hero of Russia (he was awarded this title, but Lev Yakovlevich refused to accept it, saying that “he has no moral right to receive this award for fighting against the citizens of his own country”) survived. Although he obviously did not spare himself, and many times his life hung literally in the balance. Once, the consolidated regiment of the 8th Guards Corps under the command of Rokhlin had to withstand 11 attacks in a row from a tenfold superior enemy!
But the rapid political rise of Rokhlin was criminally interrupted: on July 3, 1998, he was killed at his own dacha in the Naro-Fominsk district of the Moscow region. According to the prosecutor's office, the sleeping general was shot by his wife Tamara from his award pistol. Due to, they say, a family quarrel. But who can seriously believe that Tamara Pavlovna was capable of this, having been following her husband with her children around military garrisons all her life, many of which were real hot spots? After the “murder” of her husband, she will spend four years in a pre-trial detention center, her guilt will never be proven, and then, when the DPA no longer poses a danger to the authorities, the Rokhlin case will be hushed up, and Tamara Pavlovna will be released...
Well, there was no equivalent replacement for General Rokhlin in the informal post of leader of the real opposition to the authorities. And who, indeed, could compare with him in popularity in the army and patriotic environment? More authoritative generals, namely combat generals, modern Russia doesn't know yet. However, the history of this newest Russia gives many examples of how objectionable, posing a real danger to the authorities, opposition patriotic leaders somehow very “accidentally” passed away. Let us recall the recent mysterious death of Viktor Ilyukhin, which "happened" just when the deputy collected compromising evidence on people from the entourage of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, who, as he was going to prove, falsified secret state archives with the aim of "proving" that it was the Soviets who shot the Polish captured officers near Katyn. By the way, the materials compromising the authorities, collected by Viktor Ilyukhin, disappeared somewhere after his mysterious death. And after the death of General Rokhlin, the materials he had collected on the “uranium deal” with the United States, which he had prepared for presentation to the State Duma and the Federation Council, somehow “strangely” disappeared from his house. Some strange regularity is present both in the "accident" with Rokhlin and in the circumstances of Ilyukhin's death, isn't it?
Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin, according to Wikipedia.ru, was the youngest of three children in the family of a participant in the Great Patriotic War, political exile Yakov Lvovich Rokhlin. In 1948, 8 months after the birth of his son, Yakov Lvovich was arrested and, apparently, disappeared in the Gulag. Mother, Ksenia Ivanovna Rokhlina (nee Goncharova), raised three children alone.
After 10 years, the Rokhlin family moved to Tashkent. There Rokhlin went to school, and after graduating from it, he worked at an aircraft factory, then he was drafted into the army. In 1970 he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School, like all subsequent educational institutions, with honors. Then he served in the group of Soviet troops in Germany. Entered the Academy. Frunze, after graduation he served in the Arctic, as well as in the Leningrad, Turkestan, Transcaucasian military districts.
In 1982-1984 served in Afghanistan, was wounded twice (the last time in October 1984), after which he was evacuated to Tashkent. He was the commander of the 860th motorized rifle regiment. In April 1983, he was removed from his post for an unsuccessful, in the opinion of the command, military operation and was appointed deputy commander. Less than a year later, he was reinstated. Then he commanded a regiment, a division. Graduated with honors from the Academy General Staff in 1993. Since June 1993 - commander of the Volgograd 8th Guards Army Corps and head of the Volgograd garrison.
From December 1, 1994 to February 1995, he headed the 8th Guards Corps in Chechnya. Under his leadership, a number of districts of Grozny were seized, including the presidential palace. From the title of Hero of Russia assigned to him, as already mentioned, he refused.
On September 3, 1995, at the II Congress of the Our Home - Russia movement, Lev Rokhlin took third place on the NDR list. In December 1995, he was elected to the State Duma of the second convocation on the federal list of the electoral movement Our Home is Russia. In January 1996, he became a member of the Our Home - Russia faction. He was elected chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee. On September 9, 1997, he left the Our Home is Russia movement, and at the end of September he left the NDR faction.
After that, in September 1997, the general created the Movement in support of the army, defense industry and military science. 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.
Lev Rokhlin was probably the most active opposition leader in 1997-1998. The Russian Reporter magazine even claimed, citing colleagues and friends of Rokhlin, that the general was plotting to overthrow President Boris Yeltsin and establish a military dictatorship. On May 20, 1998, Rokhlin was removed from the post of chairman of the Defense Committee, and not only pro-government factions, but also the Communist Party faction voted for his removal.
By that time, Rokhlin and his inner circle were under total surveillance and listening. “This is beyond any doubt,” the former commander of the Airborne Forces, General Vladislav Achalov, told the Russian Reporter, an interview with which the publication recorded just a few weeks before his unexpected (again “unexpected”!) death. Lev Rokhlin really was preparing a military coup, according to the publication. Lieutenant General and State Duma deputy Lev Rokhlin developed in 1997-1998. such violent opposition activity that it frightened both the Kremlin and other oppositionists. “We will sweep away these Rokhlins!” - threw in the hearts of Boris Yeltsin, says the publication.
However, not all those who knew Rokhlin well believe that the general was preparing a military coup. General Nikolai Bezborodov believes that “it is unlikely that the officers of the corps (which was previously commanded by Rokhlin. - Note .. The officers were brought up in obedience to the authorities. The army was brought to such a state that the officers committed suicide because they could not feed their families. But go out with weapons against the authorities, to carry out a classic military coup... It's impossible." "I think that Rokhlin needed his native corps more for self-awareness than for an armed uprising. As a politician, Rokhlin was a naive person who did not believe that politics is a dirty business," continues Bezborodov - I think he simply represented the social processes in the country.
Be that as it may, even if Rokhlin was preparing a military coup, the authorities had quite legitimate ways to stop his "subversive" activities. Take at least arrest. But Rokhlin was "shot" by his wife in his own house with his own award pistol...
The general's supporters, who were interviewed by the Russian Reporter, are sure that this is the Kremlin's revenge and an attempt to prevent army demonstrations. Vladislav Achalov directly calls the murder political and says that after the death of Rokhlin, charred corpses were found in the forest: this is how “the liquidators, or those people who participated in this operation, were liquidated.”
Rokhlin's adviser at the time, Pyotr Khomyakov, testifies to the same thing: “The guards were bribed. Three assassins hid in the attic. They killed the general and left the dacha. Then they themselves were liquidated right there, in a forest plantation located 800 meters away. The bodies were doused with gasoline and set on fire. It was 29 degrees outside. Then, in all seriousness, they said that the corpses lay there for two weeks ... A version for idiots!
In his last years, Lev Rokhlin conducted active political propaganda, urging Yeltsin to voluntarily resign from his post. But the president did not plan to leave his chair at all, despite his own colossal unpopularity among the people. The coalition was preparing a plan to impeach Yeltsin, as described by V. Ilyukhin, an employee of the Security Committee.
Rokhlin had many like-minded people. According to General Lebed, media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky allegedly offered the deputy money to organize an assassination attempt on the president. Lev Yakovlevich refused. He believed too much that any decision can be reached in an honest and legal way. Shortly before the death of the general, ominous words were heard in his address: “We will sweep all these Rokhlins out of the way!”
Then this murder happened. It was supposed to end the campaign against Yeltsin. Further accusations and pressure on the general's wife to make her take the blame only confirms that the Kremlin was involved in the murder of the deputy. Tamara Rokhlin herself did not admit her guilt.
At the same time, she does not believe that the state services ("Yeltsin's people") could have removed her husband. Explains what happened banal theft. Allegedly, the general's guards or people associated with them stole money from the deceased, which was prepared to finance the anti-presidential campaign.
