The return of General

Last Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union, retired in 1994, 78 year-old Vladimir Lobov, back on active duty with the rank of General of the Army, listens Shoigu at the College of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation ...





For it was clear whom it:
At 38, he became a general, and some time later - Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. His name stands beside such renowned generals as BM Shaposhnikov, KA Meretskov AM Vasilevsky, GK Zhukov, who at different times led the think tank of the Armed Forces of the USSR - the General Staff.
In mid-1981, VN Lobov was ordered to - to prepare the troops for the army maneuvers "West-81". They participated latest troop structure, equipment and armament: hundreds of planes and helicopters, about 1,000 guns, 2,000 tanks, thousands of BMP, and the whole machinery and manpower actually shot really advancing actually conducted reconnaissance, really he was buried, and actually He went on the offensive. The attack was carried out in armored combat formations under their shells breaks. The maneuvers lasted about 10 days. The share of the commander and his comrades fell real combat command and control and fire. These maneuvers were present leadership of the country and the Ministry of Defense, all the military leaders of the Warsaw Treaty. Thus, VN Lobov honorably fulfilled the task set by the Minister of Defense of the USSR.
Over the course of the maneuvers "West-81" seen NATO countries. And they are perfectly aware: the might of the Soviet Armed Forces, hardly anyone can resist.
Practitioner tank wedges, before which there was a problem two weeks to reach the shores of the Atlantic. The general, whose appearance in the leadership of the Armed Forces is comparable in scale to the appointment of Comrade Molotov Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Return to the Russian Defense Ministry military chief of the USSR such a rank, the ideology and practice of Soviet military schools, means only one thing - Russia is really seriously preparing for a full-scale war, and this is the last hint of the West that in the case of an irreversible succession of events we can go for the dismemberment of Ukraine in the Dnieper, and the dismemberment of Europe on the English Channel.



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