History 22/03/20 Why Brezhnev was guarded by submarine
the Guards believed Brezhnev’s “risky” person. Over the years of his reign, he could have died more than once. And the fact of his life and political longevity of the Secretary General owes his security chief, Alexander Ryabenko. He left memoirs shed light on life “dear Leonid Ilyich” and the work of his bodyguards.
Of the drivers in the bodyguards
the First meeting of Leonid Brezhnev and his future chief bodyguard Alexander Ryabenko took place in 1938, when the last settled by the driver of one of the employees of the Dnipropetrovsk regional Committee of the CPSU. As you might guess, it was the future Secretary General. The war separated Ryabenko and Brezhnev, to seemingly their way in the future never crossed — a big social Gulf between captain and major General.
But when he returned after the war in the party, Brezhnev himself was ordered to track down his former driver. Alexander found through General Hrushevsky, who served for a time as assistant. Already in the late forties Ryabenko became the head of security of the first Secretary of Dnipropetrovsk regional Committee of the party, and from Ukraine followed Brezhnev in Moldavia and then in Moscow. There he and his boss took part in the arrest of Beria, and helped Khrushchev come to power and keep it, and in 1964, Brezhnev supported already given them the coup and displacement of Nikita Khrushchev.
“risky”, the Secretary General
For many, the arrival of Brezhnev to power, it seemed temporary. But Leonid Brezhnev showed himself a far-sighted and intelligent politician. However, the political judgment certainly did not extend to personal life that brought Ryabenko a lot of trouble. According to Fedor Razzakov in the book “Behind whose back the President is hiding?”, Brezhnev often Scorcher driving and a few times I was literally on the verge of death. But none of the dangerous situations GEthe NSEC was not injured.
Assistant Ryabenko Vladimir Medvedev talked about the incident with Leonid Brezhnev on the hunt. He shot a wild boar from the tower and headed to the trophy. When the carcass was only a few steps, a wild boar suddenly came to himself, got up and rushed to Brezhnev. All, including the guards, was taken aback from imminent injury Secretary General was saved by the Keeper, had time to react and shoot twice at the beast. Frightened by the noise, the wounded boar ran into the woods.
Armed scuba divers submariners
Not without trouble, and in yet another hobby, General Secretary swimming. While vacationing in the Crimea, he could sit for hours and never get out of the sea. Although floated the Secretary General is very good, for Ryabenko and Medvedev it was always a stressful situation. Moreover, a vivid example of unacceptable carelessness was the disappearance of the Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt in 1967, which brought a wave while swimming. Therefore, Brezhnev in his heats and was always accompanied by Medvedev with another guard boat with divers-divers and an armed guard on the boat, where in addition to the divers was the doctor-Reanimator.
However, despite the enhanced security measures, the punctures still happen. Once Brezhnev got into a strong current, and along with his bodyguards carried far from the shore. Fortunately all ended well: the men managed to get ashore, however, far from the protected area, and returned to the country on foot. And once, on a carefully protected area of the garden came a strange woman. She managed to get there under cover of darkness, after spending half the night in water. However, no malice in it she was not – she wanted through the General Secretary to procure the apartment, which they could not get the local officials. Brezhnev swimmer talked with the apartment helped.
Yaroslav Gorbunov
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