The revived remnant

Kobrin → Outstanding persons → Alexey Mikhaylovich Martynov

If the "sunk into oblivion" Prussian king Frederick II, his jealous imitator the emperor Paul I together with their imitator general Arakcheev, having risen from ashes, could be transferred to a central square of the Soviet state, then would stand with delight at the sight of a ceremony of changing of the guard at Lenin's Mausoleum. Still! By successors of nice revolutionary Red Army it is servilely copied so delightful to their heart "гензефусс" that in a literal translation from German means "a goose step". The mankind is obliged by the invention of this comical type of movement to the famous admirer of a baculine mushtra Frederick II. About evident application of "genzefuss" in the Russian army the known picture of the artist A. Benois "Vakhtparad at Paul I" remembers. But it was when the shagistika and a ruzhistika" at which school textbooks lawfully scoff prospered notorious ". Nevertheless subsequently "гензефусс" it was cancelled and replaced with a normal ceremonial step.

When and on whose initiative this dense nonsense in our army reality revived? Yes not only the post No. 1 cultivates a goose step. It makes an integral part of ceremonial of solemn state burials. Let's remember broadcastings per television of magnificent trains of a funeral of Brezhnev, Suslov, Chernenko when the accompanying gun carriage with a coffin an honourable dress diligently "prints a step" extremely extended sock. Even some armies of the Warsaw Pact, especially GDR, did not unsuccessful attempts to adopt our experience.

It is remarkable that as far as possible attach to similar senseless ceremonial our change – pioneers. Who did not admire krasnogalstuchny children in garrison caps and with automatic machines breasts, copying a post No. 1 and extremely extending legs when changing a guard of honor at uncountable eternal flames?

Sane citizens of the Country of Councils ask a question long ago: there will be how long a hardened absurd unworthy our army brought to the level of the act of the state value?
28.03.90



 



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