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...Russian town of Budyonnovsk last June and then vanished into Chechnya's mountains. Yeltsin has been ill, and his popularity rating is low. The political medicine he needs is an image of strong leadership, so he unleashed furious force on Pervomaiskoye. Last week's operation, says General Boris Gromov, who commanded Soviet forces in Afghanistan and is now a member of parliament, was intended "to destroy militants rather than release hostages." That was not the method of the Turkish government, which negotiated with the Chechens who hijacked a ferry at the port of Trabzon. All hostages were released unharmed...
...contemplated that possibility, he was also scrambling to deal with the political and economic fallout from his unpopular and ill-advised campaign. Despite official denials, three Deputy Defense Ministers who had been openly critical of the Chechen war were reported to have been ousted by Yeltsin, including General Boris Gromov, the popular Afghan war veteran widely viewed as a strong contender for the post of Defense Minister. Yeltsin also sought to project the image that he was in command. ``I am in strict control of the Russian security structures, and I learn about the situation in Chechnya every...
Grachev has been feuding with some of the army's top commanders and is trying to fire three of his deputy ministers, including General Boris Gromov, a popular hero of the war in Afghanistan. Gromov in turn has called on Grachev to resign. Such moves, like the plan to shift command of the army to the President, have been left hanging for now. But if Yeltsin is still in the market for scapegoats, that whole group of squabbling generals might fill the bill...
Several senior Russian commanders went public with warnings against an invasion of Chechnya. Deputy Defense Minister Boris Gromov, the last commander of Soviet troops in Afghanistan, said on television: "It will be a bloodbath, another Afghanistan." The Russian press reported that 11 generals, including the commander of the ground forces, wrote to parliament questioning whether the troops could "accomplish their tasks under present conditions...
...state of emergency and postpone elections for 10 years or so. There is a great possibility of a military coup in the next six months, and again, the Jews will have a say in it. One of the candidates for the head of the military regime is General Boris Gromov, a hero of the war in Afghanistan. His second wife is Jewish. When his first wife, who was Russian, died, this woman was brought to his attention through certain ((Jewish)) circles...