the summer of 1992 in Moldova, recently became an independent country, the events took place, which even today, after more than two decades, prefer not to remember.Just how large scale acquired this little-known war except for the inhabitants of Transnistria, remember unless Odessans who have seen the consequences of the massacre and the local television channels (the footage then never repeated), and personally, watching refugees from Tiraspol and Bender massively come to thesuddenly became a border town.As in war, they traveled in freight cars.
soon learned the name of the hero, decisively to end this slaughter.According to eyewitnesses, General Lebed covered by artillery fire Moldovan troops to force the manufacture of the Dniester, and then threatened to enter with their paratroopers to Chisinau and bring order.
Marines rarely occupy senior military posts.They do not teach strategies, with "winged infantry" - the decision of tactical problems.At the turn of the last decades of the Soviet Union Landing Forces have started to apply for the resolution of ethnic conflicts.General Lebed commanded the dispersal of the rally in Tbilisi in April 1989, when 18 of its members were killed.After he ridiculed the attempt to give these acts of protest exceptionally peaceful, ask a simple question about the sports training of the old woman, who could not catch paratrooper, to the fore.
Veteran Afghanistan, holder of four medals, he really stood out among the "parquet generals."Masculine appearance combined with aphoristic manner of controversy and gloomy, but good sense of humor, that someone mistakenly thought a soldier rude.The ability to express the essence of the situation vividly and clear disregard for the norms of political correctness, was the one feature that distinguishes General Alexander Lebed.
Thus for foreign candor concealed reasonable care, manifested in 1991, during the events of the August coup, and two years later, when tanks shot the building of the Supreme Council.Then it was easy to be among the "stranglers of freedom," "princes," and put his career on the bold cross.No, General Lebed refused to obey orders, but also the special initiatives, so typical of his character, did not show.
But in 1996, when all the Kremlin leadership withdrew from solving the Chechen problem, he signed an agreement with the leaders of the militants, who first realized many as a betrayal.In fact, like a true soldier, General Lebed knew that winning the methods, what the war was, it was impossible to achieve, needed a respite to make the right decisions.
Of course, such a colorful figure could not escape the attention of the then political strategists.Hoping to tame the military charismatic, popular in the army and the people, the then arbiters of the country made him a tempting offer, the essence of which was to divert votes from some presidential candidates.General Lebed agreed.
political career brought him to the governor's chair in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.And in the process in sight desire Boris Berezovsky keep their interests, financing the campaign of "black cash".However, expectations are not quite fulfilled.
Swan was not very successful leader.Manage edge was more difficult than the Airborne Regiment.The fight against criminal authority Bykov ended tactical victory, but the overall economic success of the region's poor.
Death of General Lebed in a plane crash caused a wide public resonance.Most Russian citizens refused to believe her accident.Many thought that eliminated a very real contender for the presidency, which brought the country to the present order in the military.
facts rather refute this opinion.
