Colonel Baranets Victor: biography, activities and interesting facts

Colonel Viktor Baranets was widely known for his publications and military presentations. He went through the Afghan war, worked as a military columnist in Pravda, served in the General Staff of the Defense Ministry, so this writer and publicist has enough experience and knowledge. There is something to share with the younger generation.

Biographical information

Colonel Baranets is a native of Barvenkovo (Ukraine, Kharkiv region). Date of birth - 10.11.1946.

In 1965 he became a cadet in the training tank regiment. Until 1970, he studied journalism at the Lviv Higher Military-Political School. Until 1978 - in the editorial department of the Military Political Academy.

The places of his service were: Ukraine, the Far East, Germany (Western Group of Forces).

Having a specialty as a military journalist, he served in the Far Eastern newspapers that went to divisions and districts. In Germany, he was transferred to the rank of major to work in the newspaper "Soviet Army".

In 1983, he was transferred to Moscow in a military journal. In the "Communist of the Armed Forces" he was first a correspondent, then - head of the department, later took the post of Deputy General Secretary.

Since the end of 1986, Baranets was sent by a military correspondent on a business trip to Afghanistan. About fighting in this country, he wrote several reports and books.

Since May 1991 he took the post of chief's assistant in the Main Political Administration of the SA and the Navy of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. A few months later, the August events happened.

Memories of the putsch

Colonel Baranets so reminisces about the days of the Emergency Committee. He had in mind a comparison with the White Guard officer of the revolutionary period, who was expecting the arrival of the Bolsheviks. Also I had to tear off the sign that was attached to the doors of his office.

Then, according to Barants, the General Directorate of the Armed Forces (Glavupr) was declared one of the main defenders of the communist idea, and therefore rumors spread about the arrests of his employees.

At night, in front of the furnace for burning documents, a fifty-meter line from the staff of the Department was built.

Colonel Baranets still remembers one of the letters he burned. In it, some ensign complained to Glavupra's leadership that after the death of his wife in a traffic accident he had three children left, and he did not pay a fiduciary allowance. A letter was imposed on the letter. In it, Barantsu was instructed to clarify and report on the results.

Baranets, standing in line with a bundle of similar letters, could not understand the reason for his and his colleagues to be included in the lists for arrest.

Work in the Nineties

After the putsch, Colonel Baranets - a man whose life is not conceived in isolation from the army, continued to work as a military observer. For the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" he prepared a series of reports from the zone of hot spots (Chechnya, Dagestan).

Since 1996, General of the Army Rodionov I. N. was appointed to the post of Minister of Defense, soon Colonel Viktor Nikolayevich Baranets became his press secretary.

About this difficult period for the Russian army in his memoirs, Baranets says that delays in paying salaries to servicemen reached six months. The preparation of officers' wives in the garrisons of soup with a quinoa was not an unusual occurrence.

With bitterness he tells how once in the General Staff he was given a "salary" in the form of a loaf of bread and six cans of sprat.

In the premises where the officers were working on the possible use of nuclear weapons, there was the smell of borscht, which was cooked right in the office. The authorities were completely deaf to the problems of the army.

In 1997, Rodionov was dismissed from his post as minister, Baranets also resigned from the General Staff.

The reviewer in the "Komsomolskaya Pravda"

After taking the position of military observer for Komsomolskaya Pravda in 1998, Baranets began to prepare publications on military analysts, military-patriotic upbringing, the progress of military reform, the problems of corruption in the army, the social protection of the military, the resolution of housing issues, and so on.

After Komsomolskaya Pravda had its own radio station, he became the lead author of the program "The Military Revue of Colonel Barants", a little later the "Audiobook of Viktor Barants" appeared.

These broadcasts began to raise the same questions as in the newspaper. Leaders re-read and discussed letters from servicemen, their wives, and made recommendations on how to solve the emerging military problems.

Colonel Baranets: "A man with a gun"

In November 2007, there appeared a blog called "The Man with a Gun", led by Baranets.

It repeatedly raised the topic of criticism of the presidential team about the failure to fulfill obligations under the program for the allocation of housing to servicemen after their dismissal, the facts of untimely payment of monetary allowances were noted.

On December 15, 2011, a direct line was held with the President of the Russian Federation, Putin. On it, Baranets raised the issue of failure to fulfill government promises to provide officers with housing by the end of 2010, who were dismissed from the Armed Forces at the end of the contract. He also asked why the Prime Minister is afraid to deprive his posts of those ministers who have shown themselves incapable of establishing work on the assigned plot.

At the end of the meeting, Putin assessed the "officer's courage and directness" of Barantz. The head of state expressed his praise in his address about the care of the army, saying that without such truth one can not do without.

Putin's entourage

In early 2012, Barants was taken as a trustee to Putin's team, for the period of the election campaign. The publicist showed himself very actively.

Repeatedly participated in the debates organized by the media, supporting the side of Putin. Dedicated a lot of airtime in the program "Military Review of Colonel Barants."

On March 1, 2012, he published in the Red Star an agitation article dedicated to the presidential election campaign, in which he argued for the need to elect VV Putin as the leader of the state, since he has the most extensive experience in governing the country, compared to other candidates .

After Putin's election in 2012 to the post of president of Russia, trusted persons who took part in the election campaign expressed their gratitude. Among others, Colonel Baranets was also noted. "Man with a gun" - a blog in which the publicist has devoted a lot of time to analyzing the merits of the candidates for the presidency.

Later, on the part of the writer-publicist was also given an assessment of Putin's activities at the presidential post.

For example, in the "Military Revue of Colonel Barants" the time of appointment to the post of Minister of Defense Shoigu was assessed as "the best personnel decision of the president."

Achievements

The Russian Journalistic Union Viktor Barants has been awarded the Golden Pen of Russia Prize. The Moscow Union of Journalists and the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union, he also marked several awards.

He has the "Dignity" award to them. A. Borovik.

He published several literary works, where the army behind the scenes life in modern history is dispassionately revealed.

On 18.07.2012, the presidential decree on the introduction of Viktor Barants to the Council of Public Television of Russia was issued .

He is a member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Defense, as well as a similar structure created by the Military Industrial Commission of Russia.

Baranets is also a member of the Presidium of the "Officers of Russia" (All-Russian Public Organization).

About private life

Baranets Viktor Nikolaevich has a family.

His son, who was named Denis, holds the position of vice-president at Gazprombank. It is responsible for supervising projects for the reform of housing and communal services.

The residence of Danila's grandson (born in 1999) is Monaco. There he left about six years ago with his mother. He goes to college, goes to church choir.