There are many famous generals in the history of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet army is also a very special team. Before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet army remained stable and did not mutiny or even participate in anti-Soviet movements. This is a blessing for the 15 member states and is also related to the Soviet military system.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a major event, this event was both an opportunity to save the Soviet Union and an event to accelerate the disintegration of the Soviet Union, that is, the "8.19 Incident" of the Soviet Union. After the incident, it was close to success, but the organizers of the event were scattered, and no one was the main backbone, which eventually led to the failure of the event. After the failure of the "8.19 incident" in the Soviet Union, one person involved in the coup d'état committed suicide and others were arrested. But there was also a person who did not participate in the incident who also committed suicide suddenly, which did not attract attention at the time, but this person was a person who turned the situation around and could see the fate of the Soviet Union, that is, the former chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union, Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeyev. Before the incident, Akhromeyev had retired, but he was still serving as a Soviet military adviser, which was actually a fictitious position, and he could no longer lead the Soviet army. So what kind of person is Akhromeyev, and why is he said to be predictive? Let's get to know the Soviet general.
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Akhromeyev was a general who fought in the Soviet-German war, experienced brutal struggles, and was a general who came out of the battlefield. Akhromeyev joined the Red Army at the age of 17, and in the defense of Leningrad, he was a company commander and a junior officer with a very high mortality rate, and he would lose his life at any time.
According to Akhromeyev, he led the Soviet army to be surrounded by the Germans for 18 months, and he still held his position at minus fifty degrees celsius in the winter. Later, he said that the war was too cruel at that time, and he had been in a state of war and did not have enough to eat. There were many generals in the Soviet-German war, and Akhromeyev, as a junior officer, no one expected him to take charge of the Soviet army later.
After World War II, Akhromeyev was appointed battalion commander and rose through the ranks of division commander in the Soviet Army. In the 1960s, Akhromeyev became commander of army group, and during brezhnev's time, Akhromeyev was promoted to the rank of general and entered the highest echelons of the Soviet army as the first deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Union. He then drew up a battle plan for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
According to the records, after the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, like the US invasion of Afghanistan after that, the early stage was very smooth, and the later stage fell into a quagmire. At that time, Akhromeyev also had a long-term strategy, he believed that after the Soviet army took Afghanistan, it could directly attack Pakistan, and then the Soviet Union could directly obtain the outlet of the Indian Ocean.
It has to be said that Akhromeyev had a long-term strategic vision, because at that time the United States was caught in the Vietnam War and could not take care of Pakistan, while India and the Soviet Union would not interfere. If the Soviet strategy is successful, it has to be said that Akhromeyev is a hero. Because when Russia rose in history, it was a process of constantly searching for access to the sea, and after the Indian Ocean outlet was obtained, the Soviet Union was able to radiate the Middle East and Africa and achieve the strategic goals of the Soviet Union.
Although Akhromeyev had a long-term strategic vision, the Soviet top brass did not have such a vision. This strategy was not implemented until the Soviets retreated from Afghanistan after the Soviets fell into the War in Afghanistan.
When Gorbachev came to power, Akhromeyev was promoted to chief of the Soviet general staff, the highest position in his life.
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When Akhromeyev was chief of staff of the Soviet army, it was the time when Gorbachev implemented the reforms, and at that time, Gosch's "new thinking" made Akhromeyev not understand, and he became an opponent of Gorbachev in the Soviet army.
For example, when Gorbachev thought that the production of Soviet military equipment should be reduced, Akhromeyev immediately objected, and he asked Gorbachev: "Did you let the Soviet army go to the battlefield with bare hands during the war?" A sentence left Gorbachev speechless, but it also made Gorbachev want to replace him.
In 1988, Gorbachev began purging those who did not support his reforms, and on the basis of age, he put together a large list of 150 people, all of whom were high-ranking Soviet politicians, some of whom were ordered to retire or exchanged for pension jobs, and Ahromeyev was one of these 150 people. Some say that this was Gorbachev's means of purging dissidents, and there was no one who prevented the collapse of the Soviet Union from then on.
Although Akhromeyev retired, he has always been concerned about the situation in the Soviet Union, and he is very worried about the current situation in the Soviet Union, because there were too many anti-Soviet people at that time, many of the opposition were anti-Soviet elements, but Gorbachev regarded them as guests, Akhromeyev was very angry, and he even directly scolded the pro-democracy-controlled "Spark" magazine and scolded them for creating hatred between the military and the people. He even wrote articles directly in Soviet newspapers scolding the opposition, believing that they were wrong to slander Soviet generals. Because at that time some people thought that Soviet generals were engaged in privileges, and there were villas. But Akhromeyev believed that the Soviet general's villa had to be paid for, and that the Soviet army, as the cornerstone of maintaining stability in the Soviet Union, deserved this treatment.
Akhromeyev was also disgusted with Yeltsin, who was dissatisfied with the stubborn retired general and blamed Akhromeyev. Akhromeyev was not polite, he accused Yeltsin to his face, do not disrespect the Soviet Constitution, the Soviet Union is the result of 70 years of struggle, such as daring to disintegrate the Soviet Union, the army is not polite to Yeltsin.
Perhaps it was Akhromeyev's words that awakened Yeltsin, which led to his collusion with the Soviet army Grachev and saving his life.
As for what came out to the outside world, Akhromeyev's intention to shoot Yeltsin did not exist. Only later in the "8.19 Incident" he was not weak to yeltsin in the Soviet army, and believed that Yeltsin should be captured.
Akhromeyev was already aware of the United States' desire to subvert the Soviet Union, and Rice, who was a White House intern at the time, asked Akhromeyev whether there were as many spies in the Soviet Union as there were in the United States. Akhromeyev gave a humorous response to the United States by citing his theory of building a large number of tanks. Akhromeyev did not know that this woman would become secretary of state in the future.
In 1991, at the Soviet Union commemoration of the Great Patriotic War, Akhromeyev told reporters that the Soviet Union was about the same as in 1941. In fact, this sentence points out that when the Soviet Union reached a moment of crisis, he had a premonition that the Soviet Union was about to disintegrate.
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After the outbreak of the "8.19" incident, although Akhromeyev was not involved, he preferred the "Emergency Committee", hoping that the coup would be successful and that Gorbachev and Yeltsin could be arrested and sentenced.
However, after the incident, the emergency committee did not succeed, and was soon arrested for violating the law, and Akhromeyev was very sad, he thought that the Soviet Union had no chance, and he decided to commit suicide.
On August 22, 1991, Akhromeyev committed suicide after writing his last words. His last words at the time had shown that the Soviet Union was about to collapse, and that no measures had been taken to stop it, and he believed that one day someone would be responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Akhromeyev's funeral was also bleak, with only a few veterans attending. Even more infuriating is the fact that his cemetery was subsequently destroyed and had to be buried again.
Akhromeyev was a soviet general with a lot of feelings, he had a premonition of the collapse of the Soviet Union, but he was powerless to save it, so he had to kill himself to tell the world. I wonder if Putin can remember the general now?
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