After the referendum and the annexation of Crimea to Russia, the liberal-bourgeois press, on the orders of its leaders, launched a new wave of organized ideological attacks on Russian and Soviet spiritual values, on the USSR's achievements in the struggle for peace and rendering assistance to all progressive forces on the planet. Lies and ignorance are their main weapons for fooling Russian youth.
Last week, Moskovsky Komsomolets published an article about the Crimean 165 training center for training foreign military personnel. Posted by Michael Lvovski. In it, he reports that supposedly in this training center in the 1960-1970s, 15 thousand "saboteurs" were trained for foreign countries. Which is an outright lie.
I worked at this training center in those years and took part in the training of partisans and junior commanders for the national liberation movements in southern Africa and the Middle East. In addition, I have published a series of essays about the Crimean training center in Voenny Obozreniye and an article in the magazine Asia and Africa Today (December 2013), in addition to scientific articles, a monograph, a collection of documents in English in the 1980s in Soviet journals on the history of national liberation movements and international relations in southern Africa.
The article of "Komsomol member" Michael Lvovski struck me with the author's complete ignorance of the history of the national liberation movements of the 20th century and the lack of the minimum diligence necessary to collect materials, which, in addition to my essays, there is a whole sea on the Internet. He could find in them more truthful and interesting facts than those that he cites in his article.
Our "Komsomolets" did not condescend to check at least the names and surnames of the officers about whom he writes. Colonel Antipov Alexander Ivanovich, head of the Cycle of social disciplines, he calls for some reason Alexei.
Further, he cites the opinion of some of the officers of the center. He posts a photograph of Major Kinchevsky, the commander of a cadet company. For some reason, he calls himself "the commandant of the training center." However, with me, and I served in this center from 1966 to 1977 with a break, such a position did not exist. I knew Major Kinchevsky well. He had a secondary military education. Before retiring, he worked as a teacher in the Fire Training Cycle for several years. He diligently taught cadets to hit moving and stationary targets in the daytime and at night.
By the way, he was the first, back in the 90s, to become famous for having told in the Crimean press about his participation in the training of "terrorists" for Africa. What surprised me, because during my service in the army I had never heard such opinions either from him or from other Soviet officers, even in private friendly conversations. There was one more "writer" from the former translators of 165 UC, who in his memoirs collected all sorts of nasty things about the center, its officers and African cadets. I described in detail about him and his ideas in one of my essays, published in Voennoye Obozreniye about a year ago.
Lively journalists from the yellow bourgeois-liberal press picked up this tale about "terrorists" and began to write disgusting stories about the 165 training center.
Our "Komsomolets" went further than the company commander - he found in our center not even "terrorists", but 15 thousand "saboteurs." I haven't seen one.
He also writes that the USSR allegedly exported socialist ideas to Africa. However, this was far from the case. Fighters against European colonialism, imperialism, racism, apartheid all over the world relied on the socialist countries, which supported their national liberation movements. This is common knowledge.
After liberation from colonial dependence, some of them chose the non-capitalist path of development. At the same time, support for national liberation movements was encouraged by resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity.
Our "Komsomol" agitator tells a story that cadets were shot for a Soviet watch on their wrist. It is not true. Many of them also bought Soviet sewing machines, clothes and much more and were not afraid to take all this to their beggars, robbed by the colonialists of the country. They returned home through developing countries. The customs offices in these countries knew who and why had visited the USSR. Fighters for national independence were ruthlessly shot by colonialists, racists and fascists of all stripes of the past and present, when they were taken prisoner during battles with or without watches.
At the beginning of his article, our "Komsomol" agitator proves that the 165 training center was allegedly "top secret." This is a shameless lie. Residents of Perevalnoye, Simferopol, collective farmers, factory workers, schoolchildren met with Africans during their excursions across the Crimea. Check out the photos in my essays.
"Komsomolets" sarcastically writes about the leaders of the national liberation movements. Meanwhile, those who lived to see victory became presidents in their liberated countries after gaining independence. So, Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), one of the most famous activists in the fight against the apartheid regime, after 27 years spent in South African prisons, was elected President of South Africa (1994-1999) and won the Nobel Peace Prize (1993). Today he is revered as a fighter for human rights in all countries of the world.
A number of graduates from the 165 training center became generals and ministers in their countries after they won independence.
I wrote the shortest comments on Michael L'voski's article. Those who wish to familiarize themselves with this topic in more detail can read my articles and essays, already published in electronic editions in 2013.
Please note that I wrote my essays before the liberation of Crimea. Today there are Russian military units in Perevalnoye. Perhaps their commanders will be interested in the history of 165 TCs and, over time, will create a museum dedicated to the history of the enormous international assistance provided by the USSR, Crimean officers and translators to the fighters for freedom and independence of southern Africa and the Middle East in Soviet times.
Author: Gorbunov Yu. I., participant of hostilities (Egypt, October 1962 - December 1965 and March 1968 - August 1971;) translator and teacher of 165 educational centers in Crimea, retired major, candidate of historical sciences, ex-associate professor of the Taurida National University named after … IN AND. Vernadsky; major works - (in co-authorship) "Namibia: Problems of Achieving Independence" (M., 1983), (compiled by the collection of documents) "Namibia:" A Struggle for Independence "(M., 1988); articles on international relations and the armed struggle of the peoples of South Africa for national independence
