In early March 2014, the world was shocked by the rapid seizure of Crimea by the "little green men" of the Russian special forces. Putin's global fans cheered, chanting "Ula!
My Emperor! But in fact, long before everyone was shocked, the "Emperor" himself was already frightened. Why? Because Putin did not have such a plan, but because of a hero who was regarded as "**" by Chechnya, he occupied Crimea alone and forcibly handed it over to Putin.
This hero organized another 3,000 pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine and defeated an army of 60,000 **. He then marched west, seemingly ready to help Putin annex half of Ukraine.
When the world seems to be in good shape, Putin is determined to recall this mysterious hero, and from then on he will be imprisoned on Russian soil. This scene is unimaginable even for the screenwriter with the biggest brain in the world, but this year's netizens are fortunate to witness all this.
Under the Russian version of the "Twelve Gold Medals", people feel sad for this hero, who is nicknamed "the Russian version of Yue Fei", and at the same time also jokingly refers to Putin as "Pugou".
So, who is this mysterious hero? How did he win the Crimea and create chaos in Udong? What other legends does he have? What about his life now?
Let's get to know this Igor Strelkov (Staman), who was born in 1970. He was born in the "copy-and-paste" building of the Khrushchev era.
The Strelkovs have been Soviet warriors for generations, and there are countless medals that are enough to make body armor. At the age of 17, he entered the Soviet Military Academy, but alas, he did not meet the good times.
The Soviet Union fell into serious chaos in the late 1980s, and Gorbachev's "new thinking" led to ideological turmoil, which, combined with economic imbalances, made life difficult for the people.
Faced with the overgrown weeds on the training ground of the military academy, the soldiers reselling military supplies, and the withdrawal of the Soviet army with nowhere to replace, the red giant Soviet Union was on the verge of life and death. At this moment, a retro idea began to grow in Soviet society, and people were nostalgic for the Tsarist period, hoping to regain the glory of the empire.
The retro faction has become the only political force in Russia that can compete with Putin's Shiravik clique. Influenced by the retro style, the Soviet military academies began to promote the New White Army movement, and they remembered the old Tsarist Russian army that fought the Red Army to the end after the October Revolution.
The fact that the Red Army units were nostalgic for the White Army reflected how slackly the Soviet Union's ideological and political work was at that time. And Staxia was a fervent supporter of the New White Army movement, who dreamed of restoring Russia to its former glory by force, and unlike those who only said but did nothing, he did what he said.
In 1992, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, after graduating, he joined the civil war in Moldova without hesitation, and his Russian volunteer army played an important role in supporting the unilaterally declared independent "German Left Republic".
Today, Moldova still does not have full control over the "German-Left Republic", a former special zone that has embarked on the path of armed secession because of nostalgia for the Soviet Union.
Having accumulated the first barrel of combat experience, Sta immediately threw himself into the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, firmly siding with the "Slavic brothers" Serbia, which was also a continuation of the traditions of the old Tsarist Russia.
After the upgrade, Si Daxia returned to his homeland, just in time for the first Chechen war, and Russia, which was in urgent need of experienced veterans, hit it off with him, and Si Daxia finally joined the official army and began his first battle for the country.
In the Bosnian War, Sta led his comrades to successfully cope with challenges many times with his wisdom and courage. However, in the first Chechen war, the performance of the Russian army was a big disappointment.
However, the Staxia gained extensive experience in guerrilla warfare and urban street warfare in previous battles, which played a crucial role in the Chechen War. He led the team to successfully carry out many missions behind enemy lines, becoming one of the few bright spots of the Russian army.
Unfortunately, just as St. was about to show his strength, Yeltsin was forced to withdraw his troops due to domestic pressure. But fortunately, after Putin came to power, he vowed to fight *** Staxia was able to put on the battlefield again.
Today, he is the commander of the FSB special forces, which specialize in operations in the core areas of extremist activity in Chechnya.
Igor Korolev, a name that stood out in two Chechen wars. With great fighting skills and unmatched determination, he managed to survive the fierce battle.
This fighting talent, even his enemies gave the highest rating. Although the Chechen terrorists regarded themselves as terrorists, they regarded Korolev as an even more terrifying existence than them, so they nicknamed him "Igor the Terrorist".
Korolev's fighting talent was not only fully demonstrated in Japanese cartoons, but even real life people gave him high praise. Another figure who enjoyed the same "honor" in Japan was the beautiful prosecutor of Crimea.
Their names have all become symbols of fighting courage and determination.
Surprisingly, this great warrior not only possessed excellent combat talents, but also showed excellent literary talents in addition to battles, writing many non-fiction works about the battlefield, including prose, poetry, and even children's stories that are loved by children.
After the end of the Second Chechen War, Russia's Federal Security Service had the foresight to keep Staxia at its headquarters, where he was mainly responsible for Ukraine and the Caucasus.
Staxia, his life trajectory is very different from that of ordinary people. When his career was in full swing, he chose to leave his job, upholding the belief of a "patriot of freedom".
But after leaving his post, he did not sit idle, but joined the "Camp Lafèv", a retro civilian paramilitary organization. Here, they not only conduct military training, but also love cosplay.
Despite the seeming calm of the situation around Russia, they are always on alert and ready to respond to possible challenges.
This is a group of military enthusiasts who wear the costumes of the old Tsarist Russians and recreate a battle in history as a way to satisfy their military enthusiasm and tactical practice.
In addition to this, Si Daxia also often makes guest appearances on TV stations, making professional comments on current politics and the military, and his number of fans on the Internet is also very large.
However, his career as an "Internet celebrity" did not satisfy him, and he had greater ambitions. Historically, Ukraine has been subjugated to Tsarist Russia since 1654, when Khrushchev annexed Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the merger of Russia and Ukraine.
However, 60 years later, this great gift set off a shocking bomb.
At the beginning of 2014, pro-Western forces in Ukraine incited by Europe and the United States launched a "color revolution" that overthrew the pro-Russian Yanukovych**. In Soviet times, everyone shared one country, so no one dared to talk about the Crimea.
After the collapse of the USSR, although there were some friendly relations, this issue remained unresolved. But now, it is clear that Ukraine is going to separate itself from Russia, and this can no longer be ignored!
As a "hardcore" supporter of the "retro faction", Staxia has been closely following the situation in Ukraine, and now, he has decided to take action. He organized a "volunteer army" of more than 100 people to the Crimean peninsula in the hope of regaining their lost homeland.
It was a surreal thing, but Staxia and his team were determined.
Stat single-handedly accomplished the feat of recovering Crimea. He single-handedly found the local ** and told them that he was a receiver sent by Putin, and the ** immediately agreed to surrender after hearing this.
Next, he went directly to the barracks of the Ukrainian army and told the commander that as long as everyone surrendered, the military salaries owed by Ukraine would be made up by Russia. As soon as the soldiers heard that they were being paid, they were so excited that they immediately surrendered.
At the time, Putin did not plan to take back Crimea, but Staxia succeeded in the task and made things irreparable. So, in early March, a detachment of Russian "little green men" rushed to reinforcements, and at the end of March, through a "referendum", Crimea was successfully annexed to Russia.
For the sake of Crimea, Stat Xia shoehorned over, and as a result, oil prices plummeted, and the West sanctioned Russia, and even LOL players and "E-sports Scarlett" did not escape this catastrophe, which shows that this Crimea has a lot of influence on Putin.
When Putin was panicking, "Esports Scarlett" headed for eastern Ukraine (eastern Ukraine region) with more than 50 of his subordinates. The operation seems to have an official Russian background.
Now that he has torn his face with the West, Putin decided to give it a go. At the beginning of April, "Esports Scarlett" arrived in the Donbass region, where he quickly took over the powerful local department and assumed the role of "Minister of Defense" in Donetsk.
Then, he managed to defeat the besieging Ukrainian ** army.
In July, Ukraine** sent 60,000 soldiers, mainly Nazis"Azov battalion"with"Donbass battalion"As a vanguard, the pro-Russian forces led by Staxia were encircled.
At that time, there were only more than 3,000 people under Staxia, and most of them had families. However, Si Daxia, who has won the essence of guerrilla warfare, successfully broke through the encirclement with his team and heavy equipment.
Then, he adopted the strategy of "encircling the point to send reinforcements", and successively inflicted heavy losses on the Ukrainian army in the movement war. In the process of transferring, Staxia moved a small table to register and recruit new recruits at any time.
Soon after, his ranks grew to 10,000 people, and the formation reached twenty battalions. At the same time, with the support of five battalions sent by Russia, Sta Xia completely defeated the Ukrainian ** army, and this battle was called the "Great Victory in Ukraine".
In that year, when the great hero was the Minister of Defense, there was a tragedy in which Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in the eastern part of the country, resulting in the death of 298 people. In November 2014, a Dutch court tried Sta in absentia.
Under the leadership of Staxia, the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in eastern Ukraine have effectively become independent. However, when he planned to "smash the Yellow Dragon", there was an accident: although Lao Ji was ambushed and swallowed Crimea, Western sanctions caught Putin off guard, and the annexation of the two eastern regions of Ukraine was far faster than planned, and Russia needed time to digest these results.
If Stat had obtained some more loot at this time, it is estimated that Putin would have "indigestion", and he was not fully prepared to deal with Western sanctions at that time.
Therefore, Putin personally ordered the recall of the staxia to Moscow. On August 14, 2014, Stat was ordered to return to Moscow. This encounter reminded Chinese netizens of the story of the "Twelve Gold Medals", so everyone compared Putin to Zhao Gou, and Si Daxia was called "the Russian version of Yue Fei".
After returning to China, Si Daxia was not allowed to take another half step out of the country, and in desperation, Si Daxia returned to the role of a TV guest and an Internet celebrity military blogger.
In the Russian-Ukrainian war, despite the unsatisfactory performance of the Russian army, Sta has never had a chance to re-emerge. The reason lies in the political game. In the past, Russian political forces were divided into three factions: the powerful sectoral bloc led by Putin, the liberals, and the retro faction.
Due to the strong sanctions of the West, the liberals, who are the "licking dogs" of Europe and the United States, no longer have a chance. However, the retro faction, those who make it their mission to restore the "glory of the empire", has risen to the occasion, with close to 30% approval in Russia.
However, these people are firm and politically inflexible in their stance on the West. Although the powerful sectoral bloc has the upper hand in Russia's internal affairs, it is still relatively calm and unwilling to make a complete break with the West.
Therefore, Putin is worried that if the performance of the Russian army continues to be poor in the Russian-Ukrainian war, the god of war may come out again, which may lead to a surge in the domestic support of the retro faction.
Despite the ongoing war, there are still some unknown possibilities. After the bombing of the Crimean bridge, Putin seemed to see the West's determination to crush him, so Russia began a carpet missile attack.
At this critical moment, the social media account of Sta Xia (a well-known military commentator) suddenly stopped updating, leaving people speculating about his whereabouts.
However, his wife posted a recent photo of them on social **, and the big man in ** was wearing a military uniform, and it seemed that he had gone out of the mountain again. Although his position is only that of a battalion-sized unit, not a chief officer, it seems to indicate that Putin still has reservations about him.
I'm looking forward to him coming back and I really hope he gets out safely this time.