How Yakir ruined the army. Sezin S.Yu., Cherkunova O.Yu.

Historians are still arguing: a group of Soviet military leaders led by Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky planned in 1936 to organize a military conspiracy to seize power or the case of an “anti -Soviet Trotskyist military organization” was falsified. But doubts about the guilt of subordinates to the commander of the Kyiv military district, Ion Yakir, two-three dozen younger officers of the Red Army are not in doubt. When in the warehouses hundreds of guns for months stand in the open air and rust, being not covered from the rain or from snow.

when 20 machine guns appeared in another warehouse, which, according to the documentation, should not be. And in the third warehouse 1.4 thousand gas masks disappear without a trace. When the warehouse of chemical weapons (IPRITA) is 20 meters from the city hospital. And what is it: criminal negligence or conscious wrecking?