Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeev, Marshal of the Soviet Union. Biography, the mystery of doom

The rank and position this person deserved independently, without resorting to kinship ties or money. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War he served as a company commander. Participated in the iconic battles near Leningrad, and also defended the complex Stalingrad and Ukrainian fronts. After the war, Sergei Fedorovich's career went up. And in 1982 he was awarded the title Hero of the USSR, and a year later Akhromeev - marshal of the Soviet Union. Two children, grandchildren, wife, love of the Motherland - everything is fine. But on August 24, 1991 the body of Sergei Fyodorovich is found dead, hung on a window handle and in a sitting position.

Education

The military service of Sergei Fedorovich began at the age of 17, when he entered the naval school. A year later, the young man was compelled to go to the rifle battalion of cadets to defend Leningrad. After the blockade, his weight was up to 40 kg, and the frost-bitten limbs that the doctors intended to amputate were miraculously left under Akhromeev. In 1942, the boy goes through the courses of lieutenants at the Astrakhan school, after which he becomes commander of the infantry platoon, and in 1944 he is commander of a battalion of submachine gunners.

In 1945, Sergei completed his studies at the Higher Officer School. The future marshal Akhromeev is not going to stop increasing his knowledge in the military sphere. The biography of Sergei Fedorovich in terms of education contains a list of achievements:

• 1952 - Academy of Armored Forces, gold medal;
• 1967 - Academy of the General Staff, gold medal. And in the same year he became the chief of staff of the army.

A family

When in the circle of relatives and friends everything is smooth and for love, once again I do not want to share any information with others. Apparently, in the family of the Akhromeevs everything was all right, since there is little information about relatives in the biography.

It is known that with his wife Tamara, Sergei met at Moscow School No. 381 during a joint study. When the future marshal Akhromeyev served as battalion commander in the Far East, his family was replenished by one more man. They had a daughter, Tatiana. After moving to Moscow, Sergei and Tamara become parents a second time. By this time Sergei Fedorovich is given the rank of general.

Service under Gorbachev

By the mid-80's Sergei Fedorovich was one of those who believed that the authorities needed a restart. Therefore, with the choice of the secretary general in the person of Mikhail Sergeyevich, Akhromeyev had a desire to work. He saw Gorbachev as interested and intent on understanding army problems.

Dmitry Yazov, being Minister of Defense and friend of Sergei Fedorovich, in one interview told that before the events of 1991, Akhromeev aspired to get into the "paradise group". This is the unofficial name of the society under the Minister of Defense, created under Stalin. But it was not destined to enter it, because Gorbachev offered Sergei Fyodorovich the post of his adviser.

This circumstance became fatal. Akhromeev, the Marshal of the Soviet Union, did not want to see how the superpower was ruining its security system.

Background to the signing of the disarmament treaty

When the adviser to the president under Gorbachev became Marshal Akhromeev, the biography of the latter takes a new milestone, which led Sergei Fedorovich to a secret death. Back in the 1970s, in America and the USSR, a technique was developed to guide missiles, making it possible to achieve accuracy in hitting the target. This was the beginning of the race in the development of the defense system in the nuclear sphere. In 1976, the USSR Minister of Defense, Ustinov, decided to increase intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to cover the western direction with a warhead capable of hitting several targets simultaneously. When at the borders of the Soviet Union, 300 missiles were already deployed, and in Europe it was intended to deploy 572 US missiles, negotiations began between the countries.

Dialogue, which began in 1980, acquired compromise features after the death of Dmitry Ustinov. Prior to this, the Soviet Union intended to hold negotiations on space weapons and "European missiles" in the same plane. And in early 1986, MS Gorbachev put forward a program for the gradual elimination of nuclear weapons, which is regarded as a concession to the USSR.

Disarmament

The program proposed by Gorbachev alarmed Japan, and later the PRC also because the USSR would redirect missiles to these countries. At the end of 1987, the resolution of the issue consisted in the destruction of medium- and short-range missiles under the supervision of inspectors.

Akhromeev, the marshal of the Soviet Union, then reported to Gorbachev that disarmament was unilaterally carried out and the USSR was losing its fighting efficiency. In reality, America destroyed obsolete military power, while sea-based missiles, which represented a danger in the form of nuclear weapons designed to control the Soviet state, the US retained. As the historian, writer Alexander Shirokorad tells us, the Soviet Union destroyed most of the R-36 missiles that were nicknamed "Satan" in America.

The United States destroyed 100 medium-range missiles, and five times more in the USSR. Formally, both states were to disarm in equal numbers.

The final act, finally disappointing Akhromeev in Gorbachev's policy, is the destruction of the best weapons of the Oka, which did not fall within the parameters to those that were to be destroyed under the treaty. But after the arrival of the US Secretary of State, Schultz, Mikhail Sergeyevich agrees to reduce the operational-tactical complex. Sergei Fedorovich understands the whole stupidity of the situation and asks Gorbachev not to do so. To which the latter said categorically "no."

The death of Marshal Akhromeev

In August 1991, Sergei Fedorovich with his wife and granddaughters vacationing in Sochi. He did not know that a coup was being prepared, although he was in friendship with Yazov, then Minister of Defense. On the 19th of the same month and year Akhromeev flew to Moscow. At this time, the Kremlin established an emergency committee that opposed the reorganization of the USSR into the Union of Sovereign States. Upon his arrival in Moscow, Sergei Fedorovich invited one of the members of the State Emergency Committee to help him gather information from his place. This was his participation, but he was not a member of the State Emergency Committee.

The failure of the putsch greatly upset Sergei Fedorovich, after him Marshal Akhromeev (relatives later said this in an interview) was waiting for his arrest. On August 25, the lifeless body of the Hero of the Soviet Union was found in the Kremlin office. He was sitting, and on the neck was a loop from the postal twine.

Doubts about suicide

The death of Sergei Akhromeev remains a mystery: did he himself take measures or was there assistance from outside? The first thing the researchers refer to in favor of a premeditated murder is a shameful death that an officer could not afford, because Akhromeev is a marshal of the Soviet Union. Hangman was considered an instrument of murder for traitors to the homeland, but he was not.

The second doubt in suicide - the mood of Sergei Fedorovich on the eve. Before he died (murder) he was not depressed, on the contrary, Akhromeeev stayed with his daughter on the evening of August 23, and the next day, before leaving for work, promised his granddaughter a joint walk on his return. The behavior was calm, and according to the official version, he was mentally preparing a loop for himself.

There is a version that he himself laid hands on himself, but artificially, that is, he was led to this. Most likely, they gave something to eat or drink. The corpse of the officer lay in the office for 10 hours, no one was interested in the fate of Sergei Fedorovich, except for the family, who did not put the phone in the hope that the native will answer the reverse end.

The mystery of the death of Marshal Akhromeev, the funeral

From all that has been said above, it is noteworthy that the Soviet military leader did not deserve rest on either Vagankovsky or Novodevichye cemetery. The obituary was not published in the newspaper Pravda, and a scant number of people came to see him off in the last way.

Without honors and without the rank ritual, Marshal Akhromeev was buried. Photo of a modest grave you can see above. This is all that remains of the principled and courageous Sergei Fedorovich.

Even when he was already in the land, it is not a Christian, not human act towards the late Sergei Fedorovich that is being performed: the excavation of Akhromeev's grave and the dismantling of the uniform with medals. Consider this fact as a method of profit unreasonable, because there are always other ways of easy earning. But the fact that this Vandal act was done to hide the evidence, it seems appropriate for many researchers and historians.