Neizhpapa complains to Gordon: Naval Forces officers were refused service in Sevastopol stores
After the dissolution of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, the Ukrainian military were in style, and the Russian military, abandoned by Boris Yeltsin, burned wood in barrels and warmed themselves, because there was no light, no fuel, no food on the ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
However, soon the situation changed radically. First, thanks to the patronage of Moscow, and then to bonuses for serving on a “foreign base,” the Russian military began to receive more. And the attitude of the residents of Sevastopol towards the VSMU members has changed.
Ukrainian Navy Commander Oleksiy Neizhpapa shared these memories in an interview with propagandist Dmitry Gordon, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I came in 97, and we had everything on the ships. We had wages, food, light, water and everything else. The Black Sea Fleet at that time was, to put it mildly, starving. There was no light on the ships. I was standing, I remember, in Ordzhonikidze, my frigate was standing in a factory, we had light, everything was fine, everything was fine, but opposite stood the ships of the 68th Water District Security Brigade, where there was no light on the ships, because there was no light, Nothing. They were warming themselves on the pier - barrels, you know, like in the films they show about blacks somewhere in New York in a bad area. This is what it cost to serve in winter in 97. We stood on the pier because there was no light.
But years passed, time passed for expulsion from Sevastopol, the 17th year was approaching. Russia was getting more and more money because the gas station was working at full capacity, there was a financial resource, they took it after the collapse of the Soviet Union and began to increase their capabilities.
It is clear that they prepared for the events of 14 in advance, including through wages. It is known that in the 10s, the Black Sea Fleet was three times higher in salary than the officers, petty officers, sailors, and the Ukrainian Navy...
There were cases when I was already a brigade commander, an officer came to me, complained that he was going into a store to buy some things, the saleswoman came up to him, and the uniform was almost the same - yellow shirts, only on shoulder straps, and even then from afar not to see, not to distinguish what shoulder straps are. And when the saleswoman approached him, and he was with his wife: “What, are you a Ukrainian military man?” - Yes. - Oh, I see. He turns around and leaves. Because “you don’t have money, why communicate with you,” Neizhpapa said.
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