Lieutenant Colonel Oleg SKIRA, Editor of the Department of Culture and Science Today I want to talk about culture. No, not about those old-fashioned feuds in the theater and cinema environment, not about the struggle for power in the Ministry of Culture and the Bolshoi, not about refined bohemians. I want to talk about military culture. And, may the heads of clubs and Officers ' Houses forgive me, we will talk about the general culture of a man in uniform. It is no secret that today the army environment does not have a spiritualizing influence on a young man who has put on a military uniform. We will not go into the jungle of the economic and social causes of this phenomenon and find out why the "slightly drunk and blue-shaven, smelling of" Martini "and" Chartreuse "Hussar, who knew everything from Bach to Feuerbach "turned out to be a modern" slightly shaved... " etc. officer. And even if this joke is already many years old, but I must say, the trend is quite stable. I will never forget how a two-year-old officer who arrived from the reserve came to our division in the Far East. A former radio journalist and now a platoon commander was terribly surprised: "Guys, you know, in the army they swear so much, officers drink, sergeants are engaged in physical violence ." Less than a month later, he appeared on the horizon again. As he staggered down the editorial corridor, he bumped into a soldier printer who got in his way, and as a result, he almost dropped a briefcase filled with a fair amount of alcohol. The three-story mat that followed forced our proofreader-typist, who had seen a lot in her life, to look up from her work. We were numb from the transformation... Unfortunately, such "mutations" in the army can be observed a great many. And then we start to grieve about the decline in the prestige of the officer service! Yes, you can find a lot of reasons that explain the low cultural level of military personnel: from the lack of footcloths in the warehouse to po ... Читать далее