This person deserved the title and position on his own, without recourse to family ties or money. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he served as a company commander. He participated in the iconic battles near Leningrad, and also defended the difficult Stalingrad and Ukrainian fronts. After the war, the career of Sergei Fedorovich went up. And in 1982 he was awarded the title of Hero of the USSR, and a year later Akhromeev - Marshal of the Soviet Union. Two children, grandchildren, wife, love for the Motherland - everything is fine. But on August 24, 1991, the body of Sergei Fedorovich was found dead, hung on a window handle and in a sitting position.
Education
Sergey Fedorovich's military service began at the age of 17, when he entered the naval school. A year later, the young man was forced to go as part of a rifle battalion of cadets to defend Leningrad. After the blockade, his weight was up to 40 kg, andfrostbitten limbs, which the doctors intended to amputate, miraculously remained with Akhromeev. In 1942, the guy takes lieutenant courses at the Astrakhan school, after which he becomes the commander of a rifle platoon, and in 1944 he is the commander of a battalion of submachine gunners.
In 1945, Sergei completed his studies at the Higher Officer School. The future Marshal Akhromeev is not going to stop raising his knowledge in the military sphere. The biography of Sergei Fedorovich in terms of education contains the following list of achievements:
- 1952 - Academy of Armored Forces, gold medal;
- 1967 - General Staff Academy, gold medal. And in the same year he became the chief of staff of the army.
Family
When everything is smooth and out of love in the circle of relatives and friends, once again I don’t want to share any information with others. Apparently, everything was fine in the Akhromeev family, since there is little information about relatives in the biography.
It is known that Sergei met his wife Tamara at Moscow School No. 381 during joint studies. When the future Marshal Akhromeev served as a battalion commander in the Far East, his family was replenished with one more person. They had a daughter, Tatyana. Having moved to Moscow, Sergey and Tamara become parents for the second time. By this time, Sergei Fedorovich was given the rank of general.
Service under Gorbachev
By the mid-80s, Sergei Fedorovich was one of those who believed that the authorities neededreboot. Therefore, with the choice of the Secretary General in the person of Mikhail Sergeevich, Akhromeev had a desire to work. He saw Gorbachev's interest and intention to understand the army's problems.
Dmitry Yazov, being the Minister of Defense and a friend of Sergei Fedorovich, said in one interview that before the events of 1991, Akhromeev sought to get into the "paradise group". This is the unspoken name of the society under the Minister of Defense, created under Stalin. But it was not destined to enter it, since Gorbachev offered Sergei Fedorovich the position of his adviser.
This circumstance became fatal. Akhromeev, Marshal of the Soviet Union, did not want to see the superpower destroy its security system.
Background to the signing of the disarmament treaty
When Marshal Akhromeev became presidential adviser under Gorbachev, the latter's biography takes a new milestone, which led Sergei Fedorovich to a secret death. Back in the 1970s, in America and the USSR, missile guidance technology was created, which made it possible to achieve accuracy in hitting the target. This was the beginning of a race in the development of a nuclear defense system. In 1976, USSR Minister of Defense Ustinov made decisions on building up intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to cover the western direction with a warhead capable of hitting several targets simultaneously. When 300 missiles were already deployed on the borders of the Soviet Union, and 572 American missiles were supposed to be deployed in Europe, negotiations began between the countries.
The dialogue that began in 1980 acquired compromise features after the death of D. F. Ustinov. Prior to this, the Soviet Union intended to conduct negotiations on space weapons and "Euro-missiles" on the same plane. And in early 1986, M. S. Gorbachev put forward a program for the gradual elimination of nuclear weapons, which is seen as a concession to the USSR.
Disarmament
The program proposed by Gorbachev alarmed Japan, and later the PRC, with the fact that the USSR would redirect missiles to these countries. At the end of 1987, the resolution of the issue consisted in the destruction of medium and short-range missiles under the supervision of specialist inspectors.
Akhromeev - Marshal of the Soviet Union - then reported to Gorbachev that disarmament was taking place unilaterally and the USSR was losing its combat capability. In reality, America was destroying obsolete military power, while the sea-based missiles, which posed a danger in the form of nuclear weapons intended to control the Soviet country, the United States retained. According to historian and writer Alexander Shirokorad, the Soviet Union destroyed most of the R-36 missiles, which in America were nicknamed "Satan".
The US destroyed 100 medium-range missiles, while the USSR destroyed five times as many. And formally, both states were supposed to disarm in equal numbers.
The final act that finally disappointed Akhromeev in Gorbachev's policy was the destruction of the best weapons of the Oka, which did not fit in parameters with those that were subject to destruction under the agreement. But after arrivingUS Secretary of State Shultz Mikhail Sergeevich agrees to reduce the operational-tactical complex. Sergei Fedorovich understands the stupidity of the situation and asks Gorbachev not to do this. To which the latter said a categorical “no.”
Death of Marshal Akhromeev
In August 1991, Sergei Fedorovich with his wife and granddaughters rested in Sochi. He did not know that a coup d'etat was being prepared, although he was on friendly terms with Yazov, the then Minister of Defense. On the 19th of the same month and year, Akhromeev flew to Moscow. At that time, an emergency committee was being created under the Kremlin, which opposed the reorganization of the USSR into the Union of Sovereign States. Upon arrival in Moscow, Sergei Fedorovich offered one of the members of the State Emergency Committee his assistance in collecting information from the field. This was his participation, but he was not a member of the State Emergency Committee.
The failure of the putsch greatly upset Sergei Fedorovich, after which Marshal Akhromeev (relatives later spoke about this in an interview) was waiting for his arrest. On August 25, the lifeless body of the Hero of the Soviet Union was found in the Kremlin office. He was sitting with a loop of postal twine around his neck.
Doubts about suicide
The death of Sergei Akhromeev remains a mystery: did he take action on his own or was there outside help? The first thing researchers refer to in favor of premeditated murder is a shameful death that an officer could not afford, because Akhromeev is a marshal of the Soviet Union. The gallows was considered a murder weapon for traitors, but he was not.
Seconddoubt about suicide - the mood of Sergei Fedorovich the day before. Before his death (murder), he was not oppressed, on the contrary, Akhromeev visited his daughter on the evening of August 23, and the next day, before leaving for work, he promised his granddaughter a joint walk upon his return. The behavior was calm, and according to the official version, he was already mentally preparing a loop for himself.
There is a version that he killed himself, but artificially, that is, he was brought to this. Most likely, they gave something to eat or drink. The officer's corpse lay in the office for 10 hours, no one was interested in the fate of Sergei Fedorovich, except for the family, who did not hang up the phone in the hope that a loved one would answer on the other end.
The mystery of the death of Marshal Akhromeev, funeral
From all of the above, it is noteworthy that the Soviet military leader did not deserve to rest either at the Vagankovsky or Novodevichy cemetery. The obituary was not published in the Pravda newspaper, and a meager number of people came to see him off on his last journey.
Marshal Akhromeev was buried without honors and without the proper rank ritual. You can see a photo of a modest grave above. This is all that remains of the principled and courageous Sergei Fedorovich.
Even when he was already in the ground, not a Christian, not a human act is being performed in relation to the late Sergei Fedorovich: excavation of the grave of Akhromeev and removal of the uniform with medals. It is unreasonable to consider this fact as a way of making money, because there are always othereasy way to make money. But the fact that this act of vandalism was committed to hide evidence seems appropriate to many researchers and historians.
