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...questioning what has gone wrong with their army. Trained to fight, many feel only aversion for the slaughter of fellow countrymen, which their government has forced upon them in Chechnya. They say they dream of one thing: to hear the announcement that President Boris Yeltsin has resigned, Defense Minister Pavel Grachev has been fired, and the new head of state has started negotiations to end the war and bring the troops home. But our men continue to follow orders, shooting and dying, and hope the day will come when the military will never again have to be called...
...will he conclude that he has been led into the debacle by those same uniformed loyalists? If so, he will be looking for scapegoats. He may have begun the search last week in the Defense Ministry, which is led by his old comrade General Pavel Grachev. Yeltsin met with Prime Minister Chernomyrdin and parliamentary leaders who had just been added to the top-level Russian Security Council. Afterward, upper-house leader Vladimir Shumeiko reported that they had decided to yank control of the armed forces general staff out of the Defense Ministry and place it directly under the President. This...
From that initial miscalculation, the Chechnya expedition became a long journey of blunders and contradictions. The advice of military and intelligence chiefs close to Yeltsin, beginning with Defense Minister Pavel Grachev, was foolishly optimistic. In the early stages, Grachev, an arrogant airborne commander, boasted that a regiment of paratroops could clean up Chechnya in two hours. Perhaps believing his own sloganeering, he ordered the army into action with only a slapdash plan and hastily assembled forces. According to some reports, no experienced general would take command of the operation...
...Chechnya. "The country is in crisis," said one, reformer Boris Fyodorov, joining a unanimous call for a special commission to probe the war. Still, the Deputies rejected a limit on President BorisYeltsin's power to run the military offensive, and -- in a slap at widely criticized Defense Minister Pavel Grachev -- ordered the army's general staff to report directly to Yeltsin...
...from his former allies among the democratic political parties. He is talking tough these days, and when he drops out of sight, he leaves things in the hands of a small group of loyal aides and a Security Council, dominated by the "power ministers," such men as Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and Interior Minister Victor Yerin. Some veteran Moscow watchers are reminded of the last year of the Mikhail Gorbachev era, when the father of glasnost and perestroika tried to crack down on independence-minded Lithuania. Others watch Yeltsin take the lead, then fade, and recall Leonid Brezhnev's lingering...