Soviet Union 1991

Second update

Before Marshal Ogarkov launched this all-round upgrade and transformation plan, the Ministry of Defense began to restore some projects that were temporarily interrupted in 1991 due to political reforms. Defense Minister Yazov and Marshal Valennikov, who is also the Deputy Defense Minister, are working to restore some or indispensable projects.

That is the project to restore the sniper school course training. This is the conclusion drawn by Marshal Valennikov after summarizing the number of casualties of Soviet soldiers in the Chechen War. Although the Soviet Union achieved a repressive victory with the coordination of infantry and tanks, the air support of Su-25 attack aircraft and Mi-24 armed helicopters, the Soviet army still suffered unnecessary casualties, mainly reflected in the snipers of the Chechen rebels.

When the Soviet army withdrew from Chechnya, it left 533 SVD snipers there. Some Chechen militants and their supporters began to arm themselves and launched a real sniper war with the Soviet army with SVD snipers. The vast majority of Soviet casualties in the war came from Chechen snipers who were released from the ruins.

"At that time, although there were some top marksmen who used SVD in the Soviet army, there were not enough real snipers available. Our actions relied only on snipers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB special operations team. Although these snipers were well trained, they were used to fighting with tactics similar to S.W.A.T. They were also not good at personal camouflage and fighting in mountainous areas and rural areas on the edge of cities. They had not received training in counter-sniping and avoiding artillery fire. Therefore, the army must restore the sniper school and train new military snipers."

"We must not only restore A real sniper training school. It would be best if there were shooting competitions open to all officers and soldiers. The sniper course focuses on shooting training, tactical training and map reading, and finally a month-long live-fire exercise in the mountains near Bamt, Chechnya. The Chechen mountains are the most complex terrain and are very suitable for Soviet sniper training. "

Marshal Varennikov's attention will not always be on heavy weapons such as main battle tanks and armored vehicles. The individual combat mode that reduces the casualty rate of soldiers and improves the survivability of soldiers in the battlefield environment is also one of his focuses.

According to what Marshal Varennikov emphasized before, they are not gray animals, but the great Soviet Red Army.

"I agree with Marshal Varennikov. The Soviet army has not yet been perfected in many aspects. Snipers are just one of them. The Ministry of Defense will also support you."

Yazov sighed. He had heard before that Marshal Ogarkov, who was sent by the Ministry of Defense, was secretly received by Yanaev. It seems that this marshal who always wants to make some big news is trying to instill his Soviet army upgrade plan into the general secretary. Unlike the other party's drastic reforms, Yazov is better at patching up certain aspects. Snipers are just one example.

The actions of the army can never be hidden from Yanaev's eyes. The words of Marshal Varennikov and Comrade Yazov soon reached Yanaev's ears. Although Yanaev was still carefully reading the Soviet army's armament upgrade report presented by Marshal Ogarkov, Yanaev was more interested in Marshal Varennikov's proposal. It was not only to restart the project, but also an excellent way to promote the new image of the Soviet army.

In Yanayev's hands, military-themed movies are always an excellent way to promote the image of the army, so Yanayev, who is well aware of this, will never miss any opportunity.

The Soviet Propaganda Department has recently been vigorously promoting the image of the army in the new era, and it is obvious that snipers will be a very good entry point for the subject. So Yanayev specially called Surkov from the White House in Moscow to the General Secretary's office.

"Well? Want the Soviet Propaganda Department and Moscow Film Studio to jointly shoot a movie? Or a movie about snipers." Surkov, who rushed over in a hurry, was stunned for a moment. Such a trivial matter should not require Yanayev's personal instructions.

Then he figured it out again. The reason why General Secretary Yanayev cared about such trivial matters was actually from the overall situation of the army's image promotion, and wanted to promote the image of the army.

"Yes, a movie about snipers during World War II." Yanayev said. In fact, there are many classic films about romanticism in World War II shot in Moscow, but they were rejected by the mainstream art dominated by the West. In terms of artistry, the Slavic people who are good at tragedy and romance are not necessarily worse than Hollywood.

"For example, our legendary sniper during World War II, Comrade Vasily Chaisev, can be the subject of our filming and promotion. With the restoration of the sniper school, this will be a very good military propaganda advertisement. It will attract more young blood to join our troops." Yanayev said.

Using movies to promote the army is the inspiration Yanayev got from the Americans. Just as the United States likes to use various means in movies to show the powerful strength of the army, the Soviet army should also use this method to promote its unique military culture, so as to attract more young people to join the army to defend the country.

"But the script and filming may take much longer than expected." Surkov pointed out the most critical problem, "and how to solve the problem of funding at that time."

"Because military propaganda is a long-term project, there is no need to worry about this problem, and you don't have to worry about the funding issue. I will coordinate with the Ministry of National Defense to solve this problem. As for the script, Moscow Film Studio will receive a copy soon. And this movie should reflect the shining points of human nature and the momentum of the Soviet Red Army in those days." Yanaev said that in fact, the film about Vasily shot by the United States later could indeed become a very good military propaganda film, of course, only after removing all the black Soviet shots, such as replacing the supervision team behind the soldiers with the Red Army political commissar who charged with the soldiers, and the shot of insufficient ammunition.

Americans are always good at subtly showing the plot of black Soviet Union in the film, and filming the great Patriotic Red Army into gray animals in the imperial Russian era.

"Huh?" Listening to Yanaev's series of responses that there is no need to worry, Surkov asked puzzledly, "Has General Secretary Yanaev already arranged it?"

"Yes." Yanaev answered very affirmatively, "and the name of this movie is "Enemy at the Gates." (To be continued.)