Abandoned women. Stories of the wives of Soviet commanders who were left behind by the Wehrmacht. About ppzh and fighting friends

There were many women in the troops at the front. There were a lot of them in medical institutions, in the signal troops, a certain number in road units and rear services. Along with men, they endured all the hardships of military campaign life, but it was more difficult for them, primarily because of their physiological characteristics; It was not always possible for them to even retire in order to perform their natural functions, and they involuntarily had to sacrifice their natural modesty.
A woman at war is big topic, not adequately covered in our literature. Most women performed their official duties honestly; but besides these duties, men, especially bosses, demanded from them intimate relationships, and it was difficult to refuse this, since not only the position, but also life itself depended on the boss. Already in the first weeks of the war, many commanders at the front acquired mistresses, who were called PPZh (field mobile wives). I was amazed when in the summer of 1941, having reported to the division commander Shvetsov, whom I respected, I saw in his dugout completely a young girl who lived with him. Commissar Shabalov, Chief of Staff Frolov, regiment commanders and other commanders had similar girls. They said that girls in the front-line areas were mobilized for these purposes. The main supplier of PPZH to our division was the doctor Mordovin, and he himself lived with the paramedic of the engineer battalion, somewhat separated from our friendly team. The women themselves, for the most part, looked at it simply: today I live, tomorrow they will kill me, and if I get pregnant or become infected, they will send me to the rear.
There were also pleasant exceptions. So in the divisional field bakery, young Natasha served as a medical instructor, beautiful girl from intelligent family. Despite the men's harassment, she remained adamant. She enjoyed great respect and love in the division.
As a result of front-line connections, many families broke up; after the war, many bosses brought young wives with them, and the old ones were given their resignations.

In the spring of 1942, instead of Shvetsov, who was appointed corps commander, our division was commanded by Zavadovsky, a rude, unrestrained man who allowed assault on his subordinates. Previously, he commanded a cavalry division. He treated rear workers with great prejudice, and we very much regretted Shvetsov’s departure.
In June, at the end of the one-year candidate period, I was accepted as a member of the CPSU (b). At the end of June 1942, an order was received for my appointment as an epizootologist in the Veterinary Department of the 49th Army. I was sorry to part with my friends at the front, with my familiar surroundings and to leave the division in which I had served for more than three years, and, although this was a promotion, on July 1, without much desire, I left for my place of new service.
The army logistics department was located twenty-five kilometers east of Yukhnov. Here in the forest, in a large dugout, the Veterinary Department of the Army was located, along with other rear services, headed by military veterinarian 1st rank Borovkov. The very next day I left for the divisions and units that are part of the 49th Army.
My wandering life began. Where on a passing car, where on horseback, where on foot from division to division, from regiment to regiment, from veterinary hospital to veterinary hospital, I traveled around this meager, war-torn Kaluga land. The 49th Army, which included four divisions (18th Guards, 42nd, 194th and 217th Rifle Divisions), occupied a forty-kilometer-wide defense along the front line. In addition to combat units, the army had many units and communications, sapper and logistics units, where there were horses and veterinary personnel. The army and evacuation veterinary hospitals were directly subordinate to the Veterinary Department. All these units and institutions were located in the rear area of ​​the army, forty kilometers deep, and all my work consisted of endless wanderings, examining horses and providing assistance to the workers of the veterinary service subordinate to me.
In our sector of the Western Front that summer there were local battles, and it was relatively calm. Mine main blow the Germans struck in the south. Having broken through the front and defeated our troops, they occupied all of Ukraine, Kuban, North Caucasus and went to the passes of the Bolshoi Caucasian ridge and to the Volga in the Stalingrad area.
With the onset of autumn cold weather, the Army Logistics Directorate moved to the nearby village of Boytsovo, where the veterinary department occupied a small, rather squalid house. By this time I had become quite accustomed to the situation in the army rear. The veterinary department team was small and friendly. The head of the department, Borovkov, was an old campaigner, somewhat fussy, with a slight stutter, and was a handsome and cultured person. I knew the therapist Shchelev from the Dretunsky camp, where he was a divisional veterinarian 5th rifle division in Polotsk. He was a modest, silent, good-natured man, and I developed friendly relations with him. Senior Assistant Chief Mushnikov - a Russified Georgian, a merry fellow, an anecdote teller - was the soul of our team; he could find an approach to everyone and knew how to get along well in life. The assistant to the head of the supply department was Shamin - a young, cheerful, sociable guy. The position of clerk was performed by a veterinary assistant, whose last name, unfortunately, I do not remember. In addition, there was a driver truck and soldiers for service.

The October holidays passed, of course, not without drinking, since the veterinary department could always get alcohol from veterinary supplies. Soon after the holiday, unexpected happiness befell me. Borovkov gave me leave for fifteen days; he had the right to do this, and we had our own stamp and travel documents. And so in mid-November I left for Novosibirsk.
I hitched a ride to Moscow with some political workers. Somewhere on the outskirts of the city I found Shchelev’s family, to whom I gave him a letter and a small parcel. Stayed overnight with them. What a joy it is to lie down in a clean bed, on a down pillow, and cover yourself with a warm blanket! In the morning, through the military commandant at the Yaroslavl station, I got a train ticket for the soft carriage assigned to me. The train to Novosibirsk took four days. I ate at large stations using coupons issued instead of rations. They fed meagerly some kind of gruel and lean porridge. The closer I got to Novosibirsk, the more impatience I became. It seemed that the train is coming too slow. My soul was yearning to go there, forward, to my beloved wife and son, whom I had not seen for a year and a half. And then this joyful day came, November 20, 1942.
A familiar city, a deep ravine in front of a military camp, a dim staircase leading to the third floor. How your heart beats, as if it wants to jump out of your chest. Hello, dear, beloved! Hello, my dear son! So I came from the war alive, unharmed, I came to see you, I brought an inescapable, unspent reserve of my love. Didn’t I deserve the joy of this meeting through the bitterness of a long separation, severe hardships, and dangerous wanderings along the roads of war?
They say that a barrel of honey can be spoiled by a fly in the ointment. And in this great happiness of my date there was a drop of bitterness. On one of these happy evenings, General Dobrovolsky, the head of the Novosibirsk Infantry School, where Olga worked, came to us, brought a bottle of alcohol, we drank and had a snack. He very soon became intoxicated, began to talk nonsense, and hinted at intimate intimacy with my wife. I said: “Comrade General, you are drunk. Please leave,” and put the unfinished bottle in the pocket of his overcoat. I regret that I didn’t push him drunk then and let him down the stairs. He not only insulted me, he insulted and humiliated my wife.
Blinded by love, I did not fully understand my offense then. I am slow-witted, I live in hindsight, and then I did not realize all this vulgar dirt that has stained our life. The next day, Zhenya, angry with his mother for something, said to her in his hearts:
- You should only kiss Dobrovolsky!
He was then thirteen years old, and for his inexperienced nature this was perhaps a deeper wound than for me. Was it not then that a crack of misunderstanding and alienation arose in the relationship between mother and son, which was reflected later? Of course, in those harsh days war, when there was a lot of hunger in the rear, in the struggle for her and her son’s life, for a cup of soup, for the right to take a sample in the cadet canteen, my wife could cheat on me. I could forgive her for this; but I cannot forgive the rudeness of this stupid general and his visit to me with a bottle of alcohol.
It’s strange that then I forgave her everything, but now it’s impossible for me to do it. About a quarter of a century has passed since that time, I remember this, and it hurts me.
These five flew by quickly happy days, and now we have to get ready to go to the front again. On the evening of November 25, Olya took me to the station. languid, long road with a half-empty stomach, cold and deserted Moscow, Kyiv station, Myatlevo - our supply station, and there it’s just a stone’s throw from our village. Nothing happened here during my absence. And again the front-line suffering began - wandering along snow-covered roads, spending the night in dugouts of the front line under the roar of artillery cannonade.

The crew of the boat minesweeper of the Volga Flotilla (from left to right): Red Navy men A. Shchebalina, V. Chapova, foreman 2nd class T. Kupriyanova, Red Navy men V. Ukhova, A. Tarasova. 1943 Photo courtesy of the author

On the role of women in the Great Patriotic War We published most often laudatory, and since 1990, denigrating materials. In any case, I personally have not come across a single competent and objective study. Although for the most part our women soldiers honestly fulfilled their military duty. But men from great commanders to journalists and party functionaries intensively compromised them. But it is very easy to discredit even the best soldier or commander by attributing undeserved successes.

A WOMAN ON A SHIP IS NOT ALWAYS UNHAPPY

From an early age I have been offended when, in anniversary photographs of Black Sea sailors, the first row is occupied by respectable ladies. Alas, there have never been women on the crews of ships of the Black Sea Fleet. But in the Caspian and Volga everything was different. In 1941, 67 women were accepted into the Kaspflot teams, in 1942 - 44, and in 1943 - 129. These were mainly the wives of sailors and people from families of sailors. Difficulties for them sea ​​life were not news, and they boldly went to work as sailors, stokers and machinists. In Kaspflot during the war, Slovokhotova and Rapoport rose to the post of assistant captain, Savitskaya, Koloday, Izmailova and Kozlova became Komsomol navigators.

Most women served in the Reidtanker. During 1942–1943, the shipping company accepted 260 women into its ships as rank and file and 85 women into command positions.

But hundreds of photos of rear Black Sea ladies were published, but I didn’t see sailors from the Caspian Sea. In the Volga military flotilla there were minesweeper boats, the crews of which consisted only of women. Many hundreds of women served on transport ships of the river flotillas of the North from Pechora to Kolyma and Indigirka. But for some reason almost no one writes about them.

According to the order of the People's Commissariat of Defense No. 0099 of October 8, 1941, three women's air regiments were formed: the 586th fighter on the Yak-1, the 587th bomber on the Pe-2 (since 1943 - the 125th Guards) and the 588th night light bomber on the U-2 (on February 8, 1943, transformed into the 46th Guards Taman Regiment).

Needless to say, poorly fighting units never became guards units.

Nevertheless, in 2005, a book appeared in which a certain “sweet couple” claimed that orders in the 46th Guards Regiment were “given through bed.”

The best answer can be the number of combat missions carried out by female pilots of the 46th Regiment who received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union: Senior Lieutenant R.E. Aronova – 960; senior lieutenant E.A. Zhigulenko – 968; senior lieutenant N.F. Meklina – 980; senior lieutenant E.V. Ryabova – 890; senior lieutenant N.F. Sebrova - 1004 flights. For comparison: three times the heroes Kozhedub and Pokryshkin made 330 and 650 sorties, respectively. Of course, fighter pilots have their own specifics. But, in my opinion, female pilots who have completed 800–1000 combat missions deserve even greater awards.

But about whom were numerous obscene ditties sung in the rear and at the front? The answer is simple - about the so-called PPZH, that is, field wives.

LOST TEAM FACE

PPZh in 1941–1945 became the norm in the Red Army. I foresee the indignation of the “leavened patriots” - this is, they say, slander! Well, let’s remember September 1941. The enemy is rushing towards Moscow and Leningrad, and the commander of the Leningrad Front, Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, is very concerned about the spread of PPV.

"Top secret.

Order to the troops of the Leningrad Front No. 0055

At headquarters and on command posts commanders of divisions and regiments there are many women under the guise of serving, seconded, etc. A number of commanders, having lost the face of the communists, simply cohabitate...

I order:

It is under the responsibility of the Military Councils of the armies, commanders and commissars of individual units to remove all women from headquarters and command posts by 09/23/41. A limited number of typists will be left only in agreement with the Special Department.”

It is curious that Comrade Zhukov himself in the fall of 1941 had a PPZh - Lydia Vladimirovna Zakharova ( military rank– senior lieutenant, position – Zhukov’s personal nurse). Throughout the war she relentlessly followed him. Zhukov awarded her the rank of senior lieutenant, although the nurse was not entitled to an officer rank. She was awarded 10 military orders, including the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Red Star.

However, Zhukov’s actions did not fall under his orders. It was precisely stated there who was entitled to have PPV and who was not. The order spoke about the command posts of division commanders and below. Consequently, commanders of corps, armies and fronts were not prohibited by order from having PPZh.

But did PPZh appear in the Red Army in 1941? The answer is no.

HISTORICAL HERITAGE

Almost all famous commanders of the Middle Ages and Modern times had one or more PPZh. The same Peter the Great had several dozen of them.

The most famous PPZh early XIX century became Maria Valevskaya, the wife of the 70-year-old chamberlain Anestasiy Valevsky.

Most historians are sure that on January 17, 1807, Polish magnates literally slipped 21-year-old Maria to Emperor Napoleon. The affair, with long interruptions, lasted until June 28, 1815.

Napoleon did not hide his PPV, and in the army she was openly called the “Polish wife of the emperor.” Nevertheless, the lords' hopes were not justified; Marysya had no influence on Napoleon's politics or military plans.

Well, while Napoleon was amusing himself with the chamberlain Marysia, his future enemy Kutuzov was amusing himself in Bucharest with the 14-year-old noblewoman Alexandra (Luxandra) Guliano. Of course, Mikhailo Illarionovich did not know that in 2003 the wise Duma members would increase the “age of consent” from 14 to 16 years. I note that the father of the beautiful Alexandra, the Wallachian boyar Konstantin Filipesko, was clearly no slouch. Since 1806, there was a war between Russia and Turkey, and the boyar slipped his 11-year-old daughter to the corps commander, General Mikhail Miloradovich. The brave little Russian became interested in Alexandra and even promised to marry.

On this occasion, General Bagration on December 29, 1809 dashed off a slander to the Minister of War Arakcheev: “... He shouted and wrote - I will give an example to everyone to serve and obey, etc., in fact it turned out that he did not want to part with Mamzel Filipesko, in whom he ears in love. His love is God bless him, let him have fun, but her father is our first enemy, and he plays the first role in all of Wallachia... Our friend is madly in love, and there is no way to get along with him.”

Apparently the letter had an effect required action, and in April 1810 Miloradovich was thrown out of active army and was sent to serve as governor in Kyiv. Well, 13-year-old Luxandra was urgently married to the boyar Nicolae Guliano.

On April 1, 1811, Kutuzov arrived in Bucharest and took command of the Danube Army. The gentlemen boyars took advantage of the opportunity and introduced Mikhail Illarionovich to Luxandra. Nicolae Guliano, of course, did not object.

As an eyewitness, a Frenchman in the Russian service Langeron, wrote: “Kutuzov really liked her, and he, knowing Wallachian customs well, ordered her husband to bring her to him, which he did. The next day, Kutuzov introduced his beloved to us and introduced her to society.”

Luxandra started something like a sovereign court under the commander-in-chief, organized balls and parties. And her husband began supplying the Russian army with fodder. Well, the Russian troops, thanks to the competent command of Kutuzov, crushed the Turks, as they say, “on foreign territory and with little loss of life.” On October 25, 1811, 12 thousand Turks, dying of hunger, surrendered on the banks of the Danube near Ruschuk; 2 thousand human and 8 thousand horse corpses were found in the Turkish camp.

Napoleon's diplomats tried their best to force the Sultan to continue the war. But hunger and, let’s not lie, huge bribes given by Kutuzov Turkish pashas, played their role. On May 16, 1812, Türkiye ratified the Treaty of Bucharest. According to this agreement, Russia included the area between the Prut and Dniester rivers, that is, Bessarabia with the fortresses of Khotin, Bendery, Akkerman, Kilia and Izmail.

Thus, Kutuzov inflicted the first defeat on Napoleon five weeks before crossing the Berezina Great Army, lying on the couch with 14-year-old Luxandra.

CIVIL HEROINES

Larisa Reisner. Photo from 1920

All heroes had PPZh Civil War, including Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Vasily Chapaev, etc. The three most famous to us are the three PPJs, which have been included in dozens of books, films and performances.

So, in the TV series “His Excellency’s Adjutant”, released in 1969, a friend Soviet intelligence officer Koltsova (played by Yuri Solomin) was brought out by Tanya Shchukina (Tatyana Ivanitskaya). Moreover, their relationship was purely platonic.

In fact, the commander of the Volunteer Army, Lieutenant General Mai-Maevsky, and his gallant adjutant Pavel Makarov had the Zhmudsky sisters from the family of a wealthy Kharkov businessman as their PPZ. After spending time with the sisters, the drunken general and adjutant often drove to the front line in a car and roused the soldiers into a psychic attack. Always successful and always without a single scratch.

Later, the Zhmudsky sisters left for Belgium, and from there to the USA. Wrangel expelled Mai-Maevsky from the army, and sent Makarov to jail. The brave adjutant fled. Until mid-November 1920, he was a partisan in the army of A. Mokrousov in the Crimean Mountains. Well, 20 years later he was doing the same thing under the command of the same Mokrousov, but not against Baron Wrangel, but against Colonel General Manstein.

In the 1930s–1960s, two dozen films and performances were released in the USSR, where the main character there was a female commissar in a leather jacket and with a Mauser. Alas, her prototype Larisa Reisner preferred the most expensive fur coats, dresses and diamond jewelry, and an elegant Browning to a Mauser.

In 1916, 21-year-old Larisa began a whirlwind romance with the poet Gumilev. Well, in August 1918 in Sviyazhsk she became the mistress of Trotsky himself. Lev Davydovich publicly called her “the Valkyrie of the revolution with the appearance of an ancient goddess.” Larisa and Lev corresponded at least until 1922.

Leaving Sviyazhsk, Trotsky handed Larisa over to Fyodor Raskolnikov, whom he made commander of the Volga Flotilla. Larisa went to serve in the political department of the flotilla and occupied the cabin of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna on the royal river yacht “Mezhen”.

On the Mezheni, Reisner escorted the flotilla to Astrakhan, and then Reisner, according to the plan, was supposed to go along the Caspian Sea to Petrovsk on the Kursk transport, together with the political council of the Volga-Caspian Flotilla subordinate to her. But Lyalya loved the exotic and decided to go on the destroyer “Deyatelny”. The commander of the destroyer Isakov was summoned to the Reisner mansion, to whom Lyalya capriciously declared: “That’s it, captain! I decided to go to Petrovsk with you on the destroyer!”

However, the midshipman resolutely refused for a very good reason: “There is one point in the latrine of the officer’s compartment.” So Lyala had to go to Petrovsk on the Kursk.

In June 1920, Trotsky appointed Raskolnikov commander of the Baltic Fleet. From Astrakhan to Petrograd it takes two days by train. But Fedya and Lyalya traveled for a whole month to Yaroslavl on the yacht “Mezhen”.

In Kronstadt, Lyalya took several positions in the political department of the Baltic Fleet. Reisner's toilets were not just beautiful, but defiantly luxurious. When famine reigned in Petrograd in 1919, one of Larisa’s acquaintances met her “twenty-two years old, perfumed and dressed up, coquettishly calling herself “komorsi” - the commander naval forces. The fur coat is blue, the dress is lilac, the kid glove smells of Guerlain’s “Folle Aroma.”

At the New Year's ball at the House of Arts in 1921, Reisner appeared in a super original ball gown. It turned out that the outfit was made according to the drawings of Leon Bakst for the ballet “Carnival” to the music of Schumann. On the instructions of Larisa Mikhailovna, the dress was confiscated from the costume departments of the Mariinsky Theater.

The poet Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky recalled that when he came to Larisa Reisner in the apartment of the former naval minister Grigorovich, which she occupied, he was amazed by the abundance of objects and utensils - carpets, paintings, exotic fabrics, bronze Buddhas, majolica dishes, English books, bottles with French perfume.

The political department of the Baltic Fleet ordered the creation of a theater named after Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov abandoned all official affairs and began promoting Trotsky’s ideas in the navy, and in every possible way discredited the party leaders who were opponents of Lev Davydovich. Larisa and her father, Professor Mikhail Reisner, actively helped him in this.

As a result, the Revolutionary Military Council had to remove Fedya and Lyalya from Kronstadt. And on time. A few days later, the Kronstadt rebellion began, to the emergence of which Raskolnikov and Reisner made a significant contribution.

Well, the third PPJ who entered literature and cinema was Nina Nechvolodova. At the end of 1919, the 20-year-old “junker Nechvolodov” became an orderly of the white general Yakov Slashchev. In March 1920, the Reds tried to break into Crimea through Perekop. On March 22, Lieutenant General Slashchev led 300 cadets of the Konstantinovsky School on the Chongarsky Bridge in a psychic attack. Next to the general was “cadet Nechvolodov.” The cadets went on the attack in tight formation, in step with the orchestra. Nechvolodov was wounded, but did not leave the line. The Reds fled.

Jealous of Slashchev's successes, Wrangel kicked him out of the army. At the end of November 1921, Slashchev and Nina returned to the USSR. The general was appointed to command the Shot course, and Nina led the theater created during the course. Through the theater, Nechvolodova met Mikhail Bulgakov and his wife.

In 1925, the Red Cinema association made the film Wrangel. In it, Slashchev was a consultant, and together with Nina they played themselves in the film. On January 11, 1929, Slashchev was killed in his apartment by the Trotskyist Lazar Kollenberg.

How it turned out further fate Nina, unknown. In any case, I found out that in 1937 it was released Feature Film“Youth”, which tells about the events of 1920 in Crimea. The author of the film's script was Nina Nechvolodova.

Well, in 1970 the film “Running” was released, based on the work of Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov was unable to embody the features of Slashchev in one image and presented him in two generals - a graduate of the General Staff Academy Khludov and the desperate grunt and drunkard General Chernota. Well, Nina Nechvolodova became the prototype of Lyuska, camping wife General Blackness.

NO PUNISHMENT FOLLOWED

Since June 1941, PPZH have become the norm for the majority of Red Army command personnel. After the war, approximately half of the generals and marshals returned from the PPZH to their legal spouses, such as Marshal Malinovsky from Raisa Galperina, Marshal Rokossovsky from Galina Talanova, Marshal Zhukov from Lydia Zakharova, etc. Well, the other half of the commanders entered into a legal marriage with the PPZh. Thus, Marshal Katukov married Ekaterina Lebedeva, General Batov married Nina, whom he called Vasilko (for unknown reasons, her maiden name does not appear in numerous materials dedicated to her and the general).

However, even the abandoned PPZh did not remain unprofitable. Many illegitimate children received the surnames of famous commanders. The chest of all PPZh, without exception, was decorated with an iconostasis of orders and medals. For some reason, father commanders most often gave their mistresses the Order of the Red Star. Maybe because the name of the order rhymed well with another word in ditties?

Any secretary of the provincial regional party committee, after a call from Moscow from the marshal or even his adjutant, was in a hurry to allocate an apartment to the former PPZh. All illegitimate children of generals and marshals made brilliant careers.

None of the top military commanders were punished for their connection with one or even several PPZh. Let us recall once again Zhukov’s order, in which punishment was to be carried out up to and including the division commander. The story of complaints against Marshal Rokossovsky, who abused his connections with ladies, is widely known, not only with the “sparrow” Galina Talanova, but also with many others, including the artist Valentina Serova. When asked what to do with the marshal, Stalin replied: “We will envy Comrade Rokossovsky.”

As far as I know, of all the PPZh, only two mistresses of Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov were unlucky. The first PPZh - military doctor Agnessa Podmazenko - became pregnant and in January 1942 was sent to the rear. There she gave birth to a son, Andrei, but soon received a 5-year sentence “for having an affair with a traitor to the Motherland.” It's interesting that legal spouse Anna Mikhailovna Vlasova received 8 years “on the horns”!

The second PPZh - cook Maria Voronova - was captured along with Vlasov. The Germans sent her to a concentration camp. Maria fled from there and tried to contact Vlasov, but he was already flirting with Agenheld Bindenberg, the sister of Himmler’s adjutant.

As we can see, the PPVs have centuries-old history, and, naturally, the question arises: is it necessary to fight them? Why can an engineer or businessman live in civilian life for decades? civil marriage and punch anyone in the face who gets into his personal life? But an officer cannot live in a service apartment with common-law wife in a military camp, and any boss who has at least a dozen mistresses has the right to demand that the officer “legalize his relationship.”

Is legal marriage always good for the officer and for the combat effectiveness of the unit? A typical example: in mid-November 1990, the 57th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was redeployed to Norilsk from the Besovets airfield near Petrozavodsk. This flight “caused protests and appeals to the authorities and the media by wives of military personnel.” And in 2014, the reluctance of pilots to redeploy to circumpolar airfields was primarily due to the opinion of their wives.

The fighter regiment consists of only 30 pilots. The state will not become poorer if pilots in Tiksi and Belushaya Guba receive double pay and a year or two of service. In a military camp near the airfield, it is worth placing fifty young female military personnel (radar operators, electrical engineers, signalmen, canteen staff, etc.). Rhetorical question: can a qualified pilot serve for three years at this airfield without the Bolshoi Theater and “cackling hens”?

Well, as for favoritism and corruption in the army, then legal wives always give a head start to the PPJ. So, in my opinion, both categories of officers' wives should have equal rights, and their status should be determined by the officer himself and no one else. Moreover, the activities of both should not reduce the combat effectiveness of the military unit. No one is allowed to start a nightly scandal over socks thrown on the floor or a conversation with the barmaid to a missile officer taking up combat duty, or an interceptor pilot on the eve of a flight.

Well, all the awards of legal wives and PPZh or their appointment to economic positions related to the distribution material assets, should compared to ordinary women be checked three times by all authorities.