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On August 24, 1991, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, guards patrolled the Kremlin as usual, and as they passed Akhromeyev's office, he found the door hidden.
Pushing open the door to look—the marshal was leaning quietly by the window, with a rope around his neck, looking like he had been dead for a long time, and on the table were five suicide notes written on sticky notes.
Many people are distressed by the suicide of the marshal, but some people do not understand that since ancient times, every country has inevitably gone from prosperity to decline, and the arrival of a new country may not be a good thing.
Akhromeyev was the people of the Soviet Union and a soldier of the Soviet Union, and he had participated in the struggle of the Soviets and witnessed the glory of the Soviets, so he was even more unable to accept that it had come to an end.
He could not let go of the despair of watching his homeland sink into the quagmire, and only death could express his grief and indignation.
Ordinary people may not be able to understand the feelings of the military, nor can they empathize with the sadness of witnessing the disintegration of the country.
Today we will take a look at why the Big Brother of the Soviet Union disintegrated. What kind of struggle did old Marshal Akhromeyev go through? What is the content of the 5 suicide notes?
Akhromeyev dedicated a life
Born in 1923 to an ordinary family in Tambov, Akhromeyev left home at the age of 17 to join the Red Army and participate in the Second World War between Germany and the Soviet Union.
Through these battles, Akhromeyev gradually grew from a warrior to a junior officer.
From the moment he joined the army, Akhromeyev had no intention of living comfortably, nor had he ever thought of finding a job in a safe place, such as the logistics department, and his goal was to go to the front.
Even as an officer, Akhromeyev could have commanded in safety and did not have to go to the battlefield, but he believed that he had to be with the soldiers at all times, and only in this way could he gain the respect and trust of everyone.
With this belief in mind, in 1942 Akhromeyev joined the United Communist Party, which had the highest death rate, in Leningrad.
Akhromeyev remembers vividly that 1.5 million people were killed when the Germans besieged Leningrad.
There were 32 men who fought with Akhromeyev, and only two survived.
It was extremely cold weather, and the outdoor temperature was nearly minus 50 ° C, which can be said to be dripping water into ice.
The Germans besieged for 18 months, and in those 18 months, Akhromeyev did not once enter his room to rest and warm up.
No matter what day or night he was outside, what was warm, he almost forgot. It seems that every day is doing three things non-stop, starving, freezing, and fighting.
The war afflicted Akhromeyev and made Akhromeyev.
It was because of this bravery and fearlessness that Akhromeyev rose all the way to the position of division commander.
But he continued to train, completing his training in mechanized units in 1952, graduating from the General Staff Military Academy in 1967 and rising to the rank of Chief of the General Staff of the Army Group.
Akhromeyev's promotion was staggering, basically every five years, and in 1975, at the age of 52, Akhromeyev was promoted to general and served in the high command.
In 1979, Akhromeyev made plans to invade Afghanistan, and on December 25 of the same year, the Soviet Union successfully occupied Afghanistan, and the Afghan regime fell.
In 1983 Akhromeyev was promoted to marshal of the Soviet Union.
Akhromeyev's rank is getting higher and higher, but his heart is getting more and more uneasy, it seems that a storm is coming, but this warrior who has fought on the battlefield is not afraid, he is waiting.
When Akhromeyev saw the country in turmoil, especially the anti-military movement launched by the "democrats" led by Yeltsin, he firmly stated his position and publicly accused Yeltsin of his actions.
Ahromeyev's revolution for many years, the idea of socialism is deeply rooted, he feels that socialism is the result of the hard struggle of the working people for 70 years, and it is by no means a fluttering sentence of Yeltsin.
He actively opposed the behavior of Yeltsin and others, and also said that he would not stand idly by on the matter.
He could not understand, nor could he accept, that Hitler's so many armies had failed to overthrow the Soviet Union, but now because the rulers insisted on going their own way, they would deny everyone's hard work.
On August 19, 1991, Akhromeyev united with some military representatives to stage a coup d'état, but it lasted only three days.
Seeing that the Soviet Union was powerless, Akhromeyev resolutely chose to commit suicide.
On August 22, 1991, Akhromeyev committed suicide in his office, leaving behind 5 suicide notes.
Akhromeyev's body was found in the early hours of August 22, with a look of despair on his face and obvious rope marks on his neck, and nothing else.
His whole life was devoted to the motherland, and the fall of the motherland meant the end of his life, and in one of the suicide notes without a recipient, he wrote:
"I can't live any longer, I've fought to the last moment of my life, the country is now torn apart, society is morally depraved, and sooner or later someone will be responsible for the split of the Soviet Union."
In Akhromeyev's heart, the motherland is above all else, and the family is always placed in second place, for which he deeply apologizes and leaves a letter to his family:
Encourage your family to support each other, live well, and don't be seen as a joke by others;
A suicide note was left to a friend to take care of his family and help bury his body.
A suicide note without a recipient, but full of frustration at the loss of the USSR, not knowing who Akhromeyev wanted to leave;
In the fourth suicide note, the marshal remembered the 50 roubles he owed in the canteen and did not forget to entrust his friends to help repay it.
In his last suicide note, Akhromeyev wrote in a self-deprecating tone: "I was a terrible expert in choosing how to commit suicide, the first time the rope broke, the suicide failed, and I tried again." ”
The wife looked at her husband lying in the cold coffin, read the suicide note left by her husband, she kissed her husband's forehead with tears in her eyes, she did not expect that her husband did not die in the battlefield, but died at the hands of her own people.
Relatives and friends buried Marshal Akhromeyev with a sad mood, but they did not think that in a few days, someone actually dug up the grave and stole the marshal's military medal, which shows the chaos of social order at that time.
The cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union
On December 25, 1991, the red flag slowly fell from the Kremlin, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the world's first socialist state came to an end.
Now more than 30 years later, the collapse of the Soviet Union has been the last century, many people in the future are full of curiosity about it, why did the Soviet Union disintegrate at that time? What kind of relationship did the Soviet Union and China have? Why do we call the SOVIET Union Big Brother?
The full name of the USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which consisted of 15 socialist republics with equal rights.
The main members at that time were the Russian Federation, Ukraine and other countries, and within the Union, the rights of countries were equal.
Pushing forward, these fifteen small countries were actually a common power , Tsarist Russia.
Russia was torn apart into fifteen small states, each in its own right, but the establishment of the Soviet Union brought them back together.
At its peak, the Soviet Union could be described as a "Red Empire" that became a rival to the United States.
At that time, one-sixth of the world was Soviet, and it had abundant resources, and relying on oil alone made it reach the peak of the world in the 70s.
The military is not inferior to the United States, the army is the world's largest, the population is the world's third, the navy is second in the world; missiles and nuclear weapons are enough to destroy the earth countless times.
But why did such a powerful Soviet Union fall to the point of disintegration? We can analyze them one by one.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was partly due to the outbreak of the economic crisis, and since the beginning of the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, the entire country had to bear heavy military costs.
In the 1980s, the consequences of these economic overburdens became increasingly severe.
By February 1991, the fiscal deficit had reached 300 billion rubles, inflation was unprecedented, and the Soviet economy was on the verge of paralysis.
Even more frightening was the change in soviet thinking, as a result of the economic downturn, people stopped believing in past history and began to oppose Marxism.
Especially after Brezhnev came to power, a privileged class with him as the core soon formed, and the phenomenon of corruption and theft was serious, and even the phenomenon of appropriating state property for himself appeared, and the productive forces stagnated.
According to some experts, the number of privileged classes in the Soviet Union reached as many as half or six hundred thousand at that time, and almost all the wealth of the Soviet Union was in the hands of these privileged people, and the wind of corruption was already gradually eroding the Soviet Union.
Akhromeyev once publicly attacked the denigration of the Navy and Army by Academicians Arbatov and Renov, saying:
"Our soldiers are all from workers and farmers, we don't have any so-called privileges, we need to pay for the food we eat, the houses we live in need to pay rent, and everything we do is open and transparent."
After Gorbachev came to power, Akhromeyev thought the situation would improve because of a series of reforms carried out by Gorbachev.
The first is economic reform.
However, because Gorbachev did not have the determination of a brave man to break his wrist, these reforms were not carried out thoroughly, and many supporting measures were missing.
Gorbachev still followed the traditional heavy industry model of the past, the economy did not effectively recover, the people's living standards fell seriously, and his reforms also touched the interests of the "privileged class" and aroused their strong dissatisfaction.
The decline in the standard of living of the people, the corruption of the bureaucracy, and the collusion between officials greatly reduced the confidence of the Soviet people, who began not to believe in history and no longer believed in socialism.
In fact, the change in popular thinking did not happen overnight, and in 1956 Khrushchev made a secret report at the 20th Congress of the CPSU and even criticized Stalin.
As soon as this remark came out, it caused an uproar and sowed the seeds of doubt, and many people began to deny history, to deny Stalin, and even to deny socialism.
After Gorbachev came to power in 1985, he made a lot of criticism of Stalin, which eventually escalated into opposition to Marxist ideas, coupled with his advocacy of democratization and pluralism.
Under this kind of thinking, the idea of opposing socialism once spread.
The Soviet Union had been so strong that the older generation was reluctant to disintegrate, with 76.4 percent of the referendum opposed, especially among the military.
They have experienced too much smoke and won the victory, how can they easily disintegrate? The coup d'état led by Akhromeyev is the best illustration.
However, at that time, many Western countries intervened with malicious intentions for political purposes, and they encouraged and instigated the Soviet people to support Gorbachev's new ideas.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev also resigned.
As a former member of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation was reborn after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and a Russian leader once said that people should regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, otherwise they have no conscience, but if anyone wants to overthrow the present and return to the Soviet Union, it can only mean that he has no brain.
This is enough to show one thing: the Soviet Union embarked on the road to disintegration is an inevitable trend, its development direction has deviated from the original track, the people take food as the sky, if the people can not even guarantee the basic livelihood, how can they have confidence in society?
What happened to the Allied powers after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia inherited part of the inheritance, but because the Soviet Union was in too much debt, Russia also had serious inflation and the people's lives were miserable.
In order to revive the economy, the state can only choose to sell some factories that cannot be operated at a low price.
However, instead of solving Russia's financial problems, this has allowed a small number of people to grasp the wealth, and the loss of national wealth is very serious.
After decades of hard work, Russia has regained its world influence, but it is still not the same as the former Soviet Union.
Ukraine now has a reputation as the granary of Europe, with relatively developed industry and agriculture, but heavy industry still dominates.
Belarus has an area of just over 200,000 square meters, but the manufacturing and metallurgical industries are relatively developed, as are agriculture and animal husbandry, and are currently among the best in the world.
Turkmenistan is an internationally recognized neutral country, with natural gas reserves ranking fifth in the world, natural gas is the main pillar industry of Turkmenistan, and it is now developing quite well.
For example, Kyrgyzstan, Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Moldova and other countries, whether it is per capita area or per capita income is not high.
Why is the Soviet Union called Big Brother by the mainland?
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was a superpower on an equal footing with the United States, while New China had just experienced war, and many countries chose to isolate the newborn China.
Only the Soviet Union gave us great help, especially at the beginning of the founding of New China.
When New China was first founded, many capitalist countries hoped to kill us in the cradle, but the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with China 2 days after the founding ceremony, which was undoubtedly a strong support.
Whether it was the Marxist enlightenment at the time of the October Revolution, the resistance to aggression during the War of Resistance Against Japan, or the industrial construction after the founding of New China, the Soviet Union was both a man and a force, and also produced technology and equipment to bring China on the right track.
Based on all the above, it is not too much to call the Soviet Union a big brother.
What was China's attitude after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
When the Soviet Union announced its disintegration, the country was full of lamentations, such a powerful giant had fallen, and it was the big brother of the Soviet Union who led us all the way to the road of socialism!
It is undeniable that the Soviet Union and China have always provided us with a lot of help at the beginning of the founding of New China, and Sino-Soviet relations have always remained friendly.
Therefore, the Soviet Union announced the disintegration, China has a lot of feelings, but there is nothing to do, we belong to the socialist countries like the Soviet Union.
Considering the overall situation, the collapse of the Soviet Union was not beneficial to the mainland, and the camp of socialist countries lacked such a pillar and the strength to balance the United States.
On an emotional level, the Soviet Union has helped us a lot, and if it were not for the help of the Soviet Union, China's industrial start would have been a long time in the evening, and we are grateful for the help of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union is a thing of the past, and its disintegration is a constant reminder of the challenges we face and the pitfalls that need to be avoided.
People say that Akhromeyev's suicide was a real tragedy because his death reflected the turmoil of that era.
But it is undeniable that Akhromeyev was a real warrior, and at the moment of the rise and fall of the country, he did not stand idly by, he tried, tried, wanted to save the Soviet Union, wanted to resolve the contradiction between faith and reality, but ultimately failed.
When it was learned that it was irretrievable, all the disappointments condensed into despair, which eventually led to the great marshal strangling himself with hemp rope.
Those 5 suicide notes were his best notes on his life.
Akhromeyev's life was devoted to Marxist-Leninist thought, and his patriotism is worth learning and pondering for each and every one of us.