Ex-KGB intelligence officer about Putin: never served in intelligence, below average abilities. The most famous "officer" of the Soviet Union never served in the army

On January 16, Vasily Lanovoy turns 75 years old. On this day, numerous fans of the actor congratulate and thank him for the images included in the golden collection of world cinema. From the many films with Lanovoy’s participation, it is impossible to choose the best.

Vasily Semenovich himself says about himself this way: “I am a theater artist who acts in films. I have been infected with the love of cinema since childhood. And, it seems, for the rest of my life. It’s like my first love. And theater is my home, without which I cannot imagine my existence."

In his native Vakhtangov Theater, where the artist served for more than 50 years, they gave him a special gift for his anniversary: ​​the new chief director Rimas Tuminas staged the play “Last Moons” for Lanovoy. And, as Komsomolskaya Pravda notes, this greatly pleased the hero of the day.

On his anniversary, Vasily Lanovoy not only accepts gifts, but also gives them himself. He recently presented his friends and fans with a personalized photo album that reflected the artist’s work in the Vakhtangov Theater, in cinema, on radio and television.

In the album you can find photographs of Vasily Semenovich's parents, his childhood photographs, his first works on stage and in cinema, photographs of his friends and colleagues. It also contains rich factual material: all the artist’s performances, all his films are given.

As the artist herself says, he has no reason to complain about fate. “Fate has given me several wonderful roles, wonderful directors, partner-actors. And what literature: “Anna Karenina”, “War and Peace”, “Lyubov Yarovaya”, “ Scarlet Sails", "I'm going into a thunderstorm", "How the steel was tempered"," Vasily Semenovich told the TV channel "Culture".

However, one can hardly call Lanovoy a darling of fate. On this occasion, director Sergei Bondarchuk said: “Vasily Lanovoy’s difficult path into art can serve as an example of perseverance, which was ultimately crowned with success.”

How steel was hardened

Wartime childhood, years of hardship and hard work - all this was in Lanovoy’s life and ultimately made him the way millions know him - strong man with enormous talent and spiritual peace.

It is no coincidence that while still studying at the Shchukin Theater School, it was Lanovoy who got the main role in the film “Pavel Korchagin” directed by Alov and Naumov.

Despite the enormous efforts of both the actor and the filmmakers, critics did not immediately accept this work, accusing Lanovoy of excessive naturalism and deliberately emphasizing the hopelessness of the hero’s fate. However, the controversy surrounding the image of Korchagin ceased after Pravda published an article entitled “The Formation of a Young Actor.”

First love

Shortly before filming the film, Lanovoy met Tatyana Samoilova at a theater school. Actress Tatyana Samoilova says: “I remember he came up to me and asked: “Whose are you?” I answered: “Mom’s, dad’s.” “Last name?” - “Samoilova.” - “Are you Samoilov’s daughter?” - “Yes.” - “Let’s get acquainted, my name is Lanovoy.” He made a strange impression on me: something insidious, beautiful face, exhausted look. I fell in love with him. He became my first love and first man."

Lanovoy and Samoilova began dating. And then Tatyana ended up in the hospital, she had to undergo surgery. Lanovoy ran to her every day and one day he said: “I want you to be my wife!” However, Tatyana did not take the proposal seriously. When, after some time, Lanovoy repeated it again, she could not refuse. Soon the lovers went to the registry office, having barely passed the summer exam.

After graduating from college, Lanovoy entered the Vakhtangov Theater. However, at first he was unable to realize himself in the theater - the director did not like the artist’s Ukrainian dialect. But the actor was lucky to go to the cinema.

While working in the theater, Lanovoy received an offer to play main role in the film adaptation of Alexander Green's novel "Scarlet Sails". The role of Captain Gray in one of the first films of Russian cinema, which marked a passion for romantic films, became a turning point for the actor. After this, offers from directors began to come even more often: on average, once a year a new film featuring the actor was released.

The life of Lanovoy and Samoilova was spent in constant travel and filming, which gradually undermined the young family from within. Over time, the couple came to the idea of ​​breaking up. “We both cried when we parted, but I believed that it would be better for both of us,” says Tatyana Evgenievna.

However, the divorce did not end the creative union of Samoilova and Lanovoy. Together they starred in the film "Anna Karenina". Many then noted that they managed to play love amazingly in the film.

"There is such a profession - to defend the Motherland"

Thanks to the 1971 film “Officers,” Lanovoy gained the fame of “the most important officer” of the country.

This picture would have gone unnoticed (the film was released in the summer, during the “low season”), if not for the wife of the USSR Minister of Defense, Marshal Andrei Grechko. She liked the film so much that she advised her husband to watch it, and he watched the film at Brezhnev’s dacha.

As a result, the Secretary General ordered Goskino to hold a second premiere of the film in the fall, when vacationers return to the capital. The second premiere of the film took place in September. As a result, the film attracted more than 53 million viewers and took first place at the box office in 1971, and for the next 5 years the film confidently held 6th place. According to a survey by the magazine "Soviet Screen", Vasily Lanovoi, who never served in the army, was named for his role as an officer best actor 1971.

Later, the actor said that the fateful role of Barabbas was not easy for him. “I refused the role of Barabbas several times. I couldn’t understand my hero. He is brave, handsome and has been in love with one woman all his life - the wife of his friend. And the situation is such that we can’t count on reciprocity. But then they started telling me from all sides repeat: Barabbas is a romantic, play romantic!" And I agreed,” the actor later recalled.

Later, Lanovoy played in the most famous films of that time: “17 Moments of Spring”, “Ogareva, 6”, “Days of the Turbins”, “Lyubov Yarovaya”, notes Channel One. But his best role he jokingly calls it “that small episode in which his nameless hero - “relaxing on the beach” - utters just one phrase: “They are swimming beautifully... That group in striped swimsuits” (from the film “Striped Flight”).”

It is no secret that half of the women in the Soviet Union were in love with Vasily Lanovoy, but the actor gave his heart to Irina Kupchenko. The Lanov family has two sons. None of them followed in their parents' footsteps. The eldest, Sergei, deals with finances, and junior Alexander recently graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University.

Vasily Semenovich passes on his skills to beginning artists at the department artistic word at the Shchukin Theater School. Once he obeyed the instructions of his teacher: “If you want to stay young, go teach.”

On his birthday, the artist received an award “for his great contribution to the development of domestic theatrical and cinematic art and many years of social activity.”

The material was prepared by the editors of rian.ru based on information from RIA Novosti open sources

Reading a bunch of similar topics on this (and other) forums, and clearly seeing two sides - those who served and their sympathizers (relatives) and those who did not, I have long concluded that the majority of those who served in the army in the current, zero years, not quite full-fledged people. The reasons are banal, they lie on the surface, not particularly different from the reasons why in the old days vocational school students enjoyed the reputation of not being the best class of society.

This material is not intended to be an insult or a defense of anyone or anything. This is just my understanding of the situation in the country, my view on typical mistakes the vast majority of young guys. Perhaps the material will be useful to someone and help them draw certain conclusions. Any additions and criticism are welcome!

Let's start with the fact that everyone who joins the army with the goal of shaping himself, repaying his debt to his homeland, gaining development, strengthening his character, as a rule, does not think with his own head, does not try to understand how society works, where all the flows come from and where they go. He just heard somewhere from someone that the army will help a lot in life, and that means serving enough to become a man.
As a result, we get thousands of questions: “Where can a guy go to work immediately after the army?” with the same type of answers: “into the secret police or the mentor for ordinary positions.” Only a few come to their senses and continue to develop the army field.

Thesis No. 1 - more than half of the soldiers conscript service- these are people without education who were unable to continue their education after school. They don’t know where or who they can get a job, they don’t know how to do anything and don’t want to do anything. Therefore, the only way out for them is to go to the army. We will also include among them those who did not complete their studies and were expelled from educational institutions. Closing our row are still educated people who were raked after graduation or who did not find a job and a meaning for which it is not worth joining the army. There are cases when parents themselves send their sons to the army, just so as not to feed them for a year and not pay utilities.
Thus, the army becomes a lifesaver for the crowd of idlers who find good reason their worthlessness (in the eyes of relatives and friends) by joining the army, but simply, they are taking a one-year head start before entering the surrounding reality, where their military ID can only be wiped clean.

I deliberately do not include in this category those who specifically joined the army for the sake of specific purpose! If a person has chosen a military career or he needs service for promotion, or for some personal goals, to prove to himself what he is worth, etc. I am all for and support these people! But there are very few of them, about a tenth of the total number of conscript soldiers.

IN Soviet times a guy who did not serve was considered unhealthy and inferior. In modern times, a guy who joined the army only to lose a year is strange. And all this is coupled with a colossal level of tyranny and excesses at the local level - they may not hire a person who has not served in a private office, while the civil services are still full of people who have not served legally"Although there is no fundamental difference between a simple mower and a medical mower: neither of them served.

Now society is divided into 2 categories: those who have served and those who have retired. Why are those who served so aggressive towards those who did not serve? “I didn’t serve, I’m not a man,” say the serving women. This is anger that is vented by remembering their humiliations in the service. This is a Russian principle - “Let my cow die, as long as my neighbor doesn’t have two!”

Public approval is a separate category - a bunch of stupid people begin to condemn those who do not serve. Conscription is an antisocial act, but the people approve of it. This is all simply explained - the Russian person is a slave, he needs constant humiliation and insults. Serfdom, collectivization, Stalin's purges and totalitarianism over the centuries created a new type of person - homo sovetikus - who thinks like an oak tree and psychologically needs to be infringed. It is this desire to receive a dose of humiliation that draws people to stand in lines at social security services, clinics, Sberbank, the Russian post office and drives crowds into the army. For society, spending time in prison or joining the army is in the order of things, a school of life. They have no personal victories, so they rejoice at the dubious victories of the country and the Olympics.

And now I want to make the main throw:

During the time someone was in the army, I earned as much money as many of the servicemen would not earn in a decade, received an education and took a high-ranking position in a serious organization, developed physical fitness to a level higher than what can be obtained in the army in ordinary units.
Why don't I want to join the army? Because no one there cares who I was in civilian life. A bunch of flawed people, incapable of anything other than subordination and serving hours, choose the army as their own life path, where their worthlessness will be claimed.

I don't need an army. I have a higher responsibility than many commanders. I am disciplined and responsible. I am responsible for my words, show punctuality and military restraint. And without any hesitation I will punch the tyrant commander in the face, who will insult and cover me with a three-story obscenity for nothing, for educational purposes, when there is no problem.

In general, as a conclusion. The army has completely discredited itself and is completely unnecessary. In modern times, it is a “sink” for people who have not realized themselves in civilian life, and simply bad people who are used to scratching their fists and using their physical strength. This same swamp is guarded by “goblins” - relatives who sympathize with their stupid sons serving in the army, and people who have served and who have not found themselves in civilian life. If you want to become normal person– have clear conscience and heart, think with your own head, look for opportunities where others see only problems, do not engage in stupid imitation, do not listen to your enemies and trust only yourself!

Military service is a stable marker of masculinity, giving rise to a huge number of gender stereotypes. Although many are still convinced that “if you haven’t served, you’re not a man,” the very idea of ​​compulsory service for all men has definitely lost its weight.

This is a very emotional topic for everyone. Russian men. There are those who regret that they were not able to serve. Those who succeed talk about what would have happened if they had not joined the army. And there are those who rejoice in the fact of their “worthlessness”. The historical context gives significance to this topic. The Soviet Union was either at war or preparing for it. Civil, Great Patriotic War, cold war, endless search internal enemies and constant struggle. A huge amount of money was spent on the arms race. Soviet ideology raised men who wanted to be warriors of the victorious Red Army, which single-handedly dealt with the Nazis. People of the older generation still remember the heroes of Soviet war cinema and consider them models of masculinity. However, with the announcement of the glasnost policy, it turned out that there were many problems in the Soviet army. The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers exposed the crimes that were happening there, spoke about the many victims and hazing.

After the Great Patriotic War we also had Chechen and Afghan war, but we want to forget them. Today we are proud of only one. With the collapse of the USSR, it turned out that we are not the greatest country in the world; in the 90s we experienced an ideological crisis. But with Vladimir Putin coming to power, we again found new enemies. The young politician promised to deal with the terrorists and restored hope to a country yearning for militarism. Today we are fighting for spirituality, “defending” Crimea, still looking for an internal enemy and blaming other countries for our troubles.

IN Soviet years the state guaranteed jobs and provided military personnel with high social status. Soviet army was a social elevator, and in an ideological sense, a place where boys were made into men. In an environment of market competition, the conscript army turns into an obstacle to a career and a waste of time. There is no longer anything in common national economy that needs to be protected. In capitalism there is generally little in common, more personal. The owners of this personal property can hire security guards and pay them a decent salary, this is fairer. And it is also difficult to be a good soldier who believes in some ideas when everyone knows what is happening in the government of the country.

Young men, full of strength and ambition, are sent to an unknown location for a year and forced to perform various (sometimes rather meaningless) tasks. It's almost a prison.

In Russia there are a lot of contradictions related to the topic of the army. For example, Defender of the Fatherland Day, on which it is customary to congratulate all men, even those who did not serve in the army and are very far from defending the country. The fathers of today's teenagers, who proudly talk about their service when it comes to their children's future service, immediately change their tone and talk about the army as a place to be avoided. First we hear stories about hazing as a means of discipline, and then complaints about the high degree of violence in society. Everyone says that the country needs a strong army, but no one is going to serve in it.

Men want to be protectors because it gives them power. But no one will sacrifice own time and freedom. Of course, if war comes, everyone will take part in it. Refusal to defend the homeland in a situation of real danger threatens with a serious loss of image. However, in war, many things undermine traditional gender ideas, because women also participate in it. In Great Patriotic War More than a million women took part, many real heroines, but how many of them have we heard about?

From an anthropological point of view, the image of the male protector has existed for centuries. This image divides society into the strong and the weak, into those who protect and those who need protection. It is assumed that the one who protects is stronger, and therefore can command others. A man takes everything under his control, but at the same time he must be gallant, loving, ready to sacrifice himself for the sake of the country, family and his woman. Another contradiction that we cannot cope with.

There is a way out! We can cancel compulsory service in the army and replace it with a contract service, which will free a huge number of men from the humiliating “should”. Or, conversely, you can follow the example of Israel and make service compulsory for everyone. Russia is still a country with a high degree of gender inequality, and absolutely everyone suffers from this. And militarism breeds cruelty and calls into question the price human life, which should not happen in the 21st century.

They say: a man always owes something to someone. Or obliged. Wife, children, cat. Bank. So be it, wherever you go. But each of us chooses these “debts” ourselves. And when we turn sixteen, Motherland modestly reminds us that the future man owes her first of all.

Federal Law No. 53. Fear and horror of any boy at all times. In the period from 18 to 27 years old, twice a year a pandemonium called “conscription” hangs over every young man. It is carried out by the most powerful body - the military registration and enlistment office. With one single goal... or more than one? Well, firstly, the medical definition of fitness category (of course, everyone is healthy, fit and very necessary!). And secondly, the army will make a man out of you, they said. By peeling potatoes, washing footcloths, squaring pillows, etc... insert the word here!

And now we come to the topic of discussion. “If you didn’t serve, you’re not a man.” I never understood this position. Perhaps my opinion is biased, but still... Is this statement true?

I didn't serve. And he never hid it from anyone. I am not sick or crippled. Absolutely healthy person, even a little sporty. But I didn’t want to join the army. That's why I mowed down. According to the law, but deliberately avoided meeting with the military registration and enlistment office. At first I received a higher education, then there were a couple of years of postgraduate work. In general, there were about six months left until I turned 27, during which the military registration and enlistment office so zealously wanted to take me away, as if without my presence there the country’s defense capability would collapse forever.

By this time I already had a stable job. I had my first old car. And in my personal life, something was also planned. And here it is on you - you are subject to conscription! Attention, question: why? Why do I need to go there, I don’t know where? Let me remind you, I’m almost 27, I’m an accomplished person with higher education. I can do it and earn money. I guarantee that I will never (of my own free will) put on a uniform or shoulder straps. I will not try to get a job in the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB. And I won’t go into government service. I don’t need to lose one year to “youth in boots.”

Someone will say, I was scared, that’s all - not a man! Not at all! I was not at all afraid of “hazing”, “regulations” and other army gadgets. Without them, the army is not an army. What frightened me was rather the prospect of becoming dull this year. Life according to orders, they said - I did it. What do they say there: a soldier is not supposed to think? I met such characters within the walls of the military registration and enlistment office. Among the five of them, the intelligence level does not reach two hundred. Classical performers, they don’t know the word “think”.

My father gave the army most of his adult life. Urgency, training, service. Military garrisons, business trips. I saw the underside of this life as I grew up. And even then I didn’t want to live like that. They ordered - he flew. Where can you go if the regiment is transferred to another place? But my father consciously chose how to earn a living, with what kind of work. He didn't force me or persuade me. He said: if you need it in the future, serve. If you think it’s not, “mow.” But, you know, I won’t help. Although he promised not to turn it in to the military registration and enlistment office if something happened.

Let me give you an example. An acquaintance lives nearby, a retired colonel. A warrior to the core, even in retirement. Pugacheva sang about such people. Well, almost like that. And his wife would be happy to have such a guy at her side. Not so! He drinks vodka by the liter and almost kicks his wife. He can't stand his children. And everyone is silent: the main income is his. If they leave, they will die of hunger. She chose the man herself. Real!

Here, it would seem, like an adult, who has been in the army all his life, has received awards. And suddenly this. What is the reason? You know, it’s definitely not about whether someone served or not. The army will not add some kind of masculinity. It might knock some crap out of my head. But whether it will leave behind something worthwhile is a big question.

It all depends on the person. For example, I have a beloved girl, whom I will never even raise a finger to. I have a car and an apartment. There is a very responsible job. I take my salary home, and not to a bar, club and other establishments. Because that's the kind of person I am. I'm a man. And I'm glad I didn't serve.