It has been almost two months since the Russian army entered Ukraine, and the original quick battle has become a protracted war, and the tactical level of performance is not as good as that of the Soviet Red Army.
Russia, a fighting nation, was devastated by the collapse of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. Although, after Putin the Great took control of Russia, he worked hard to govern the country and the spirit of the country was restored. However, since the Chechen War, the performance of the previous wars can be seen that the current Russian army is completely incomparable with the Soviet Red Army of that year.
Why the Soviet Red Army was able to fight and why it dared to fight at that time had to recognize the political commissar responsibility system of the Soviet Red Army. It is not so easy to be a pioneer, and only political instructors or experienced Communists in the Red Army can do this, and then others will follow them.
People always need role models.
The political commissar is a very special existence in the army, compared with the political commissar in the Chinese film and television drama army, the political commissar of the Soviet Red Army belongs to the existence of the anti-heaven level. As the highest-ranking leader in a team, the political commissar and civilian positions of the Soviet Army are basically not related, and they will always be the ones who charge at the front.
The most crucial to the selection and evaluation of political commissars of the Soviet Red Army is combat ability, and on the basis of strong combat ability, they can do a good job in ideological work. Every commissar of the Soviet Army was promoted from among the officers of the combat unit, which directly led to the death rate of the Commissar of the Red Army in World War II exceeding 80%.
The famous Soviet war photographer М Alpett once took such a photo, the political commissar of the 220th Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division of the 18th Army, Alexei Yemumenko, was the first to jump out of the bunker, holding aloft a TT-33 pistol to beckon the soldiers to charge after him, and only a few minutes later the commissar, who was less than 30 years old, collapsed in a hail of bullets.
On the Soviet-German battlefield of World War II, the German army never needed to persuade or interrogate the captured Political Commissar of the Soviet Red Army, as long as it was determined that it was the Political Commissar, it was directly shot.
In the Soviet-German battlefield, the Germans stormed the Positions of the Red Army under the cover of self-propelled artillery, and soon penetrated into the defense depth of a Certain Regiment of the Soviet Army. A group of fighters, under the command of Captain Kuznetsov's battalion commander, launched an attack, and the position was quickly occupied by the Germans, and a large number of Germans with submachine guns directly attacked the regimental command post.
Colonel Semyon Vladimirovich, the newly appointed regimental commander, was a little flustered, and he was no longer able to effectively command his battalions. He had to ask his regimental commissar Gruzjev:
"What do we do now?"
The regimental commissar was surprised: "What to do?" Fight! ”
"But we are now the Light Rod Commander!"
"But there is nothing wrong with our communication!' The Goddess of War's will help us! ”
Gluztyev ignored the frustrated Yepivanov and turned to the artillery observer who was holding on to the bunker: "Contact your commander immediately, we need urgent support!" ”
Just a few minutes later, katyusha rockets began to roar!
What is a Communist, the only privilege of a Communist at the front is to charge forward!
What the political commissar does, taking the lead is to give the political commissar the greatest honor!
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian army, which was bent on moving closer to the West, abolished the post of political commissar and dismissed the political work system in the Soviet army. After Putin came to power, in order to reshape the firm belief of the Russian army in the war, since 2000, the Russian army has tried to carry out military ideological and moral and patriotic education through the Orthodox Church, in an attempt to control the political ideology of the military by the church. At present, there are about 1,000 accompanying priests in the Russian army, and all units above the regimental level have full-time attaché priests, replacing the political commissars of the former Soviet military era with Orthodox priests.
Full-time clergy in the military are also subject to military training, the difference being that they do not have a rank and are civilian. When the troops needed it, they threw themselves into the battlefield, listening to the confessions and prayers of the living soldiers, and overdoing for the soldiers who died in battle.
Looking at the history of the development of the mainland's army building, it can be said that the greatest role of the political commissar is to ensure the revolutionary nature of this army. Troops without supervision are prone to deterioration. Any army, if the political commissar and communists take the lead in sparing their lives, then the result can only be that the state surrenders to others.
In his speech in Taiwan in January 1950, Chiang Ching-kuo reflected on the political work of the Kuomintang: ... After Fu Zuoyi's defection, he once returned to Baotou, when he got off the train, he saw our comrades wept, but we knew that his heart was fluctuating, when he sent a telegram to ask General Xu Yongchang to go, the Communist Party had no one to monitor him, it was easy for him to turn back, but Fu Zuoyi did not have the courage to turn back in the end. Why? It is because there is no party in the army for a long time, and if the party forces control him, his fate may change. Zhang Zhizhong invested in the Communist Party, also because there was no party organization to manage him. Commander Chen Chunlin was not bad either, and if he had the support of the party spiritually, he would not have signed against the government in Sichuan. The situation of Luo Guangwen's rebellion is also roughly similar. Speaking of the deaths of Generals Huang Botao and Qiu Qingquan, how heroic their deaths were, but also how tragic they were. When they were dying, there were only a few guards standing by their side, and if there was a party organization in their troops at that time, and there were loyal party members who supported them, in the end there would never be a single person left, dying alone. The lesson of many facts in the past is that we must never despise the Party, and to really say it: the Party is our life, and our life is also the Party.
No one is a natural saint, and troops without constant spiritual and ideological construction are the most dangerous. The key role of the political commissar is to vigorously grasp the ideological construction work of the troops, after all, it is difficult to restrain those who master violence. If Sun Wukong did not have the continuous baptism of the Dharma, just by tightening the mantra, then how many lives Tang Monk had would not be enough to lose. The purpose of ideological construction is to build our army into a healthy and positive ideological force and a just army that is beneficial to the party, the state, and the people.
The effective ideological construction work of the political commissar can improve morale, after all, the army is not a school, and there is no need for a good baby. The army is to go to the battlefield, that is to kill people, to fight with people to the death. If you go up to the battlefield and stay in the trench and pee your pants, you will not only die quickly, but also affect your comrades- It is impossible to change a soldier in the crotch of a diaper with a few military rules alone, and morale is needed at this time. With high morale, it is not a matter of blocking the barrel of a gun to blow up a bunker.
Whether in wartime or peacetime, the ideological and political education of political commissars must also prevent the degeneration of the troops. Subordinates of the army must be absolutely subordinate to their superiors and no doubt or hesitation is allowed. The Party's command of guns is an immutable principle of our army. Political and ideological construction must start from the grass-roots level, and the branches must be built on the company level, starting from the lowest level to prevent degeneration.
The political commissar is also a military commander, Chinese the People's Liberation Army is actually the regimental commander responsible for fighting, and the political commissar is responsible for telling the soldiers what they are fighting for! Only a revolutionary army armed with Mao Zedong Thought can be invincible!
If there is a war, the call will come, the battle will be fought, and the battle will be won!